Fantasy audiobooks

The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: David Horovitch

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
 
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased.... Read more

Heroes of the Valley

By: Jonathan Stroud

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Halli Sveinsson has grown up in the House of Svein, hearing the legends of the heroes as all his forefathers did. Theirs is a peaceful society, where the violence of the past has been outlawed and disputes are settled by the Council.

But young Halli has never quite seemed to fit in with the others. For starters, he is neither handsome nor tall,... Read more

A Taste for Red

By: Lewis Harris

Narrated by: Jaclyn Gaines

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you prefer the taste of red foods?
Do you sleep under your bed?
Do you read people’s thoughts?
Do you think you’re a vampire?

Svetlana Grimm does. And it’s making her transition to sixth grade at Sunny Hill Middle School even more difficult. Things get interesting, though, when Svetlana’s beautiful science teacher, Ms. Larch, begins reading... Read more

Skellig

By: David Almond

Narrated by: David Almond

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

David Almond’s Printz Honor–winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders'... Read more

Man Made Boy

By: Jon Skovron

Narrated by: Jon Skovron

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can be a real monster.
 
Sixteen-year-old Boy’s never left home.  When you’re the son of Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride, it’s tough to go out in public, unless you want to draw the attention of a torch-wielding mob.  And since Boy and his family live in a secret enclave of monsters hidden under Times Square, it’s important they... Read more

The Lost Sun

By: Tessa Gratton

Narrated by: Robbie Daymond

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

   Fans of Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Holly Black's The Curse Workers will embrace this richly drawn, Norse-mythology-infused alternate world: the United States of Asgard. Seventeen-year-old Soren Bearskin is trying to escape the past. His father, a famed warrior, lost himself to the battle-frenzy and killed thirteen innocent people. Soren... Read more

The Strange Maid

By: Tessa Gratton

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, and Maggie Stiefvater will embrace the richly drawn, Norse-influenced alternate world of the United States of Asgard, where cell phones, rock bands, and evangelical preachers coexist with dragon slaying, rune casting, and sword training in schools. Where the president runs the country alongside a council of... Read more

The Iron Trial

By: Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial.

Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail.

All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.

So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing.

Now... Read more

The Copper Gauntlet

By: Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Callum Hunt’s summer break isn’t like other kids’. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course, most kids aren’t heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall.
 
It’s not easy for Call . . . and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and... Read more

Waterfall

By: Lauren Kate

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the FALLEN series comes WATERFALL, a novel about love, betrayal, and epic consequences—a world-altering tale told by a girl whose tears have the power to raise the lost continent of Atlantis. This second novel in the Teardrop series is intensely romantic, with strong, hot main characters caught up... Read more

Grimoire of the Lamb: An Iron Druid Chronicles Novella

By: Kevin Hearne

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Iron Druid Chronicles comes a rollicking, all-new urban-fantasy adventure featuring Atticus O’Sullivan. Atticus has a history of messing with the gods, and in this eBook original novella, he’ll have to outfox a deity at her own deadly cat-and-mouse game.
 
When he’s not vanquishing villainous gods or dodging demons,... Read more

Staked

By: Kevin Hearne

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the eighth book in The Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan faces the clan of vampires who have been bent on destroying him—including Leif, his former best friend turned enemy.

When a Druid lives as long as Atticus does, he’s bound to run afoul of a few vampires—make that legions of... Read more

The Wolves of Midwinter

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The tale of The Wolf Gift continues . . .

In Anne Rice’s surprising and compelling best-selling novel, the first of her strange and mythic imagining of the world of wolfen powers (“I devoured these pages . . . As solid and engaging as anything she has written since her early Vampire Chronicles fiction”—Alan Cheuse, The Boston Globe; “A delectable... Read more

Raising Steam

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The new Discworld novel, the 40th in the series, sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town.

Change is afoot in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld's first steam engine has arrived, and once again Moist von Lipwig finds himself with a new and challenging job. Read more

The Quick

By: Lauren Owen

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE

For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
 
1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat.... Read more

The Elephant Vanishes

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple... Read more

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 26 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.

Now with a new introduction by the author.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada... Read more

The Boggart

By: Susan Cooper

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Centuries old and thousands of miles from home.

When Emily and Jess Volnik's family inherits a remote, crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit the Boggart--an invisible, mischievous spirit who's been playing tricks on residents of Castle Keep for generations. Then the Boggart is trapped in a rolltop desk and inadvertently shipped to the... Read more

The Mark of the Dragonfly

By: Jaleigh Johnson

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Frozen, The City of Ember, and The School of Good and Evil, the New York Times bestseller The Mark of the Dragonfly is a fast-paced adventure story about a mysterious girl and a fearless boy, set in a magical world that is both exciting and dangerous.
   Piper has never seen the Mark of the Dragonfly until she finds the girl amid the... Read more

Middle-School Cool

By: Maiya Williams

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

*Now available in paperback with a brand new title: Kaboom Academy!* 

“Graduates of Wayside School will fit right in at the decidedly unconventional Kaboom Academy.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
Forget everything you know about middle school while reading “this amusing and lighthearted story [that] pokes fun at traditional education, while celebrating... Read more

The Winner's Curse

By: Marie Rutkoski

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winning what you want may cost you everything you love
 
As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for... Read more

The Winner's Crime

By: Marie Rutkoski

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Following your heart can be a crime

A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement: that she agreed to marry the crown... Read more

Nightmares!

By: Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

Narrated by: Jason Segel

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller written and narrated by Jason Segel!

Jason Segel, multitalented actor, writer, and musician, teams up with New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Miller for the hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares!, the first audiobook in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face... Read more

Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic

By: Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

Narrated by: Jason Segel

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic is the sequel to the hilariously scary New York Times bestselling novel Nightmares! by multitalented actor Jason Segel and bestselling author Kirsten Miller. You thought the nightmares were over? You better keep the lights on!
 
Charlie Laird has a dream life.
 
1) He has a weirdo stepmom who runs an herbarium.
... Read more