Fantasy audiobooks
The Ruin of Kings
By: Jenn Lyons
Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Soneela Nankani & Vikas Adam
Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians
Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy audiobook about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire.
When destiny... Read more
Priest of Bones
By: Peter McLean
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind
The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody... Read more
Senlin Ascends
By: Josiah Bancroft
Narrated by: John Banks
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.
"One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on... Read more
Three Dark Crowns
By: Kendare Blake
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller * New York Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2016 * Kirkus Best Book of the YearFans of acclaimed author Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood will devour Three Dark Crowns, the first book in a dark and inventive fantasy series about three sisters who must fight to the death to... Read more
View audiobookWake of Vultures
By: Lila Bowen
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author
Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy... Read more
Good Omens
By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Full Cast, Mark Heap & Peter Serafinowicz
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel.
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….
Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies... Read more
Styxx
By: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 31 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The most highly-anticipated novel in the Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter series since Acheron is here—the unforgettable story of Styxx, Acheron's twin brother and one of the most powerful beings on earth
Just when you thought doomsday was over . . .
Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute... Read more
The Stars Are Dying
By: Chloe C. Peñaranda
Narrated by: Corvin King & Jacci Prior
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The Serpent & the Wings of Night meets Shadow and Bone in a seductive, star-crossed, dark romantic fantasy loosely inspired by the Greek myths of Astraea.
"The brightest star needs the darkest night."
Astraea is a prisoner of her own mind, the past sliding from her grasp like water. But she knows she must escape the tyrannical king who holds... Read more
The Last Dragon on Mars
By: Scott Reintgen
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A boy living on Mars unexpectedly becomes a dragon rider in this first book in the sci-fi and fantasy mash-up The Dragonships series, sure to delight fans of Skandar and Eragon.
Keep your eyes down and your feet moving, or this planet will rust you.
That’s what Lunar Jones tells the other kids at the relocation clinic. All of them were born on... Read more
The Naming Song
By: Jedediah Berry
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 16 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.
“The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of language, and breathes that magic onto every page.” —Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author
There's nothing more dangerous than an unnamed thing
When the words went away, the world changed.
All... Read more
Evil in Me
By: Brom
Narrated by: Shahjehan Khan & Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This program contains original music. The title track, "Evil in Me," is performed by The Maxines and written by Brom and AJ Grey of The Maxines.
Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock 'n' roll, where one woman must get the world singing in order to save her soul.
Aspiring musician Ruby Tucker has... Read more
The Lies We Conjure
By: Sarah Henning
Narrated by: Barrett Leddy & Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Knives Out meets The Inheritance Games with magic in this standalone supernatural thriller by Sarah Henning: thirteen witches, a locked-room murder, and two non-magical sisters trapped in a deadly whodunit.
Ruby and her sister, Wren, are normal, middle-class Colorado high school students working a summer job at the local Renaissance Fest to... Read more
The West Passage
By: Jared Pechaček
Narrated by: Steve West
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to slow decay, drowning in the debris of generations. All this and more awaits you within The West Passage, a delightfully mysterious and intriguingly weird medieval fantasy unlike anything you've read before.
“The West Passage is a dangerous book of... Read more
The Spice Gate
By: Prashanth Srivatsa
Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Delve into this debut fantasy and journey through the Spice Gates as Amir, a young man born with the ability to travel between the eight kingdoms, unravels the power that keeps the world in balance, perfect for readers of Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty, S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy, and Andrea Stewart’s The Drowning Empire.The weight of... Read more
View audiobookThe Darkness Within Us
By: Tricia Levenseller
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Few audiobooks warrant turning off all distractions, closing one's eyes, and simply listening to the story unfold. Narrator Caitlin Davies creates just that experience as she passionately guides listeners through this gripping story of ambition, love, and desire." —AudioFile on The Shadows Between Us
The Darkness Within Us is a wickedly... Read more
The Night Ends with Fire
By: K. X. Song
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping fantasy adventure inspired by the legend of Mulan follows a young woman determined to choose her own destiny—even if that means going against everyone she loves.
The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell... Read more
Filthy Rich Fae
By: Geneva Lee
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie & Aiden Snow
Length: 14 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"You made a bargain . . .
Your soul for his—and now, you are mine."
Cate Holloway knows the unspoken rule of New Orleans: avoid the powerful Gage crime family at all costs. Of course, that was before her brother got caught in their chaos. Now Cate has no choice but to confront the dark and forbidding prince of New Orleans himself . . . and beg for... Read more
Lady of Steel and Straw
By: Erica Ivy Rodgers
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours
Abridged: No
Star-crossed lovers grapple with forbidden attraction and a growing army of ghostly dead in this swashbuckling YA fantasy debut.
After ten years of exile, following regicide in the House of Tristain, an alarming royal edict is delivered to the immortal scarecrow Guardians who once defended the crown: surrender themselves to the church of the... Read more
The God and the Gumiho
By: Sophie Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Intae Kim
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.
“Enchanting fantasy . . . With an intoxicating mix of action, mystery, and deliciously angsty romance, this reads like the most... Read more
Evocation
By: S.T. Gibson
Narrated by: Oscar Reyes
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of B&N's best books of 2022 A Dowry of Blood, comes a spellbinding and vibrant new series.
The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov.
As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father's death and rapidly... Read more
When Among Crows
By: Veronica Roth
Narrated by: Helen Laser, James Fouhey & Tim Campbell
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.
We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.
Pain is Dymitr’s calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who... Read more
The Brides of High Hill
By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.
"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune
"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen
The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful... Read more
King of Dead Things
By: Nevin Holness
Narrated by: Troy Glasgow
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Legendborn, Neil Gaiman, and Leigh Bardugo, this “electrifying” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) urban young adult fantasy steeped in Afro-Carribbean folklore follows two Black teens searching for a powerful artifact in the hidden magical side of London.
Raising the dead is easy. Living is harder.
Eli doesn’t know who he is or who he... Read more
A Prayer for Vengeance
By: Leanne Schwartz
Narrated by: Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours
Abridged: No
An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer—a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.
Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and... Read more