Fantasy audiobooks

The Stranger Times

By: C. K. McDonnell

Narrated by: Brendan McDonald

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work!

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . .

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is... Read more

Gods of Jade and Shadow

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read... Read more

The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2021

By: Veronica Roth & John Joseph Adams

Narrated by: Veronica Roth

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.

This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to... Read more

Summoned to the Wilds

By: A. K. Caggiano

Narrated by: Ellen Quay & Seth Podowitz

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Ammalie Avington, Baroness of Faebarrow, has discovered the truth, and it should not come as a surprise: the blood mage who threatened, spellbound, and abducted her intends to bring ruin to the realm—the very one she is sworn to serve. It's just a terribly inconvenient fact to learn because, well . . . he's rather cute. But it's not safe to... Read more

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

By: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork.Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a... Read more

Toto

By: A. J. Hackwith

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The true hero of The Wizard of Oz takes center stage in this brilliant, delightfully snarky reimagining from the author of The Library of the Unwritten.

I was mostly a Good Dog until they sold me out to animal control, okay?

But if it’s a choice between Oz, with its creepy little singing dudes, and being behind bars in gray old Kansas, I’ll choose... Read more

Midnight Tides

By: Steven Erikson

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 31 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“The series has clearly established itself as the most significant work of epic fantasy since Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.” —SF SiteAfter decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth. There is peace, but it has been exacted at a terrible price: a... Read more

Season of Storms

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he was the guardian of Ciri, the child of destiny, Geralt of Rivia was a legendary swordsman. Join the Witcher as he undertakes a deadly mission in this stand-alone adventure set in the Andrzej Sapkowki’s groundbreaking epic fantasy world that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.

Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, one... Read more

Reaper's Gale

By: Steven Erikson

Length: 43 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“The kind of epic narrative that will have you scrambling for more.” —Stephen R. DonaldsonAll is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, while the Letherii secret police conduct a campaign of terror against their... Read more

Fair Game

By: Patricia Briggs

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, New York Times bestselling author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion- brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make... Read more

To Kill a Shadow

By: Katherine Quinn

Narrated by: Moira Quirk & Gideon Emery

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It’s only when he sees her—a young woman with wild, amber eyes who’s as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves—that he feels the... Read more

The Last Policeman

By: Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As Seen on Today with Hoda & Jenna“A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.” —Alexandra Alter, The New York TimesWinner of the 2013 Edgar® Award for Best Paperback Original! What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1... Read more

Devil of the Deep

By: Falencia Jean-Francois

Narrated by: Star Williams

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Nnenna Delahaye, a fearsome pirate captain with a particular taste for Fleet ships, lives according to no law except her own until she discovers a most unusual treasure in the belly of her most recent Fleet capture: a young girl. Against her better judgment (and the wishes of her first mate), she takes the girl on as a passenger. When Nnenna... Read more

Red Sister

By: Mark Lawrence

Narrated by: Heather O'Neill

Length: 19 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy comes the first in a brilliant, breakout new fantasy series. A searing novel set in a brand new world, this series follows a young girl who enters a convent where girls are selected to train in religion, combat, or magic. Nona is selected to learn combat, and finds herself at... Read more

Last Argument of Kings

By: Joe Abercrombie

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 27 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel in the First Law Trilogy by New York Times bestseller Joe Abercrombie.

Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him -- but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy: it's time... Read more

Greystone Secrets #1: The Strangers

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix takes readers on a thrilling adventure filled with mysteries and plot twists aplenty in this absorbing series about family and friendships. Perfect for fans of A Wrinkle in Time and The City of Ember!What makes you you?The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the... Read more

The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

By: India Holton

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

"So riotously clever it almost defies description...an alchemy of romantic elements held in perfect harmony."—NPR

Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols.

Beth Pickering is on the... Read more

Captive in the Underworld

By: Lianyu Tan

Narrated by: Eva Caine

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark lesbian romance retelling of the Hades/Persephone abduction story, set in mythological ancient Greece.In the land of the dead, Queen Hades’ word is law. Hades gets what she wants—always—and what she wants is a certain goddess of the springtime.Innocent Persephone chafes beneath her mother’s hawkish gaze and mercurial temper. Demeter has... Read more

Sir Callie and the Dragon's Roost

By: Esme Symes-Smith

Narrated by: Dani Martineck & Esme Symes-Smith

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The battle is won, but the war is far from over. In this thrilling sequel, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight fights for the heart of their kingdom in a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches.

Thanks to Callie and their friends, Helston seems to be changing for the better: Boys are allowed to explore their... Read more

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under... Read more

Drumindor

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

HE PLANNED TO OBLITERATE AN ENTIRE CITY. HE THOUGHT NO ONE COULD STAND IN HIS WAY. BUT HE HADN'T HEARD OF RIYRIA.When a master-craftsmen dwarf is fired, he threatens retaliation. The rogues-for-hire known as Riyria are commissioned to find and stop him. Traveling to the paradise resort of Tur Del Fur, the two are granted a lavish allowance that,... Read more

Academ's Fury

By: Jim Butcher

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 20 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Furies of Calderon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher introduced readers to a world where the forces of nature take physical form. But now, it is human nature that threatens to throw the realm into chaos…

For centuries, the people of Alera have harnessed the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal—to... Read more

Neverwhere

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

National BestsellerSelected as one of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All TimeThe #1 New York Times bestselling author’s wildly successful first novel featuring his new Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he... Read more

Blood of Hercules

By: Jasmine Mas

Narrated by: Meg Sylvan, Teddy Hamilton, Aiden Snow & Trista...

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The overnight viral sensation everyone is talking about, Blood of Hercules, is a sarcastically funny, dark fantasy romance reimagining of Hercules from bestselling author Jasmine Mas.

I’m just a girl. And it turns out, I’m Hercules.

I’m struggling to survive in a Titan infested world where Spartans, immortals from twelve royal families who have... Read more