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The Prydain Chronicles are hilarious and delightful and whimsical and the narrator does excellent work with all the characters.
I also really enjoyed the audiobooks of the Greenbone Saga—the narrator has such a good, commanding voice and always kept me engaged. Whoever did the Rook & Rose trilogy also knocked it out of the park, imo.
I’m also fond of the Kushiel’s Dart ones, but Anne Flosnik is a polarizing narrator, so ymmv.
But my absolute favorite is Moira Quirk’s narration of The Locked Tomb. She’s so funny and expressive and manages to give a lot of characters distinct voices and mannerisms. It took me a little while to get on board with Gideon the Ninth because it’s all a little confusing at first, but she easily kept me interested until I got genuinely hooked on the plot.
The Prydain Chronicles! That was one of the first fantasy series I ever read when I was in elementary school. I loved it, along with The Chronicles of Narnia series.
I liked The Prydain Chronicles so much that I reread multiple times, which was super rare for me to do at that age, but I don't think I've read it since then. I will definitely have to check out the audiobook. I didn't realize there was a version.
I really like the Rosamund Pike narrated Wheel of Time books. People really like the original productions as well I believe but I haven’t listened.
I also really like the audiobooks of the Raven Boys series by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton. It’s a YA series but it’s not annoying. It is a unique story that turns some genre tropes and expectations on their heads. Stiefvater has a lot of faith in her readers.
I’ve also seen people mention the audiobook version of Project Hail Mary is really well done.
Guidall is amazing. He also read Dark Tower series as well as several of Steven Pressfield’s works. His Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney is pretty good too
Project Hail Mary, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and the Red Rising series, both single narrator and dramatized version has all been really pleasant and engaging. If you choose Red Rising, I'd recommend the single narration by Reynolds as a starting point.
Also heard great things about First Law audiobook. I've read it and can highly recommend the story
You hit most of my recommendations with Project Hail Mary, DCC, and First Law. I'm going to piggyback here to recommend The Dresden Files - James Marsters does a fantastic job narrating.
Depends if you enjoy audiobooks or dramatized audiobooks.
But there are some audiobooks that stand out for me. Good series and good narrators.
First Law books. Steve Parcey great narrator. He can realy bring out the grit and cussing of the world out. Has great accents too. The books are great too. Its more character focused story about a bunch of shitty characters in a shittier world. They all have their charm!
Shadow of the leviathan. Great fantasy Sherlock Holmes story line. Narrator can surprisingly bring out a real great old womans voice. One who is crazy on top.
Bobiverse and Project Hail Mary. Great narrator for the sereis and stand alone. Just wanted to mention him seperatly.
Just finisehd one Discworld book by penguin production. While it has one narrator. In some books there is double narration where a single narrator voices one or 2 specific characters.
Dungeon Crawler Carl. By far the best narrator up to date. The only one were i generally thought was originaly multible speakers. Such a range in different voices. Even female ones. Great story too.
I can go into what the books are a bit more if you like.
Or recommend you dramatized audiobooks if you like them.
Adrian Tchaikovsky narrates a lot of his books and I personally think he does a really great job. My most recent audios were Service Model and One Day All This Will Be Yours and I enjoyed them both.
I have a couple that I keep returnining to.
Simon Vance narrates the Temeraire series, starting with His Majesty's Dragon and I hear his voice when I read the books.
2 different narrators handle the Wilde and Chase novels from Andy McDermott, both solid. The books are more like action movies in your head than anything I've ever read and I love, love, love the audio versions.
Love Simon Vance! Picked up Temeraire recently but had to put it down, I'll have to get back to it. He does a great job on the Lightbringer and Dune books.
Dungeon Crawler Carl has a fantastic audiobook adaptation. If you didn't know beforehand, you'd never realize it's one person narrating because they have a unique voice for every character.
I really enjoyed the narration of Ralph Lister in Shogun, trying to pick one that hasn’t already been mentioned. My all time favorites are DCC, Project Hail Mary, anything by Joe Abercrombie narrated by Steven Pacey, and the Expanse series, but most of those have already been listed.
I like anything Michael and Kate do, so if you haven’t read wheel of time, that’s a good one to do. There are a few warts - some characters get their names pronounced several different ways over the course of the series - but they’re mostly reflective of a huge body of content being recorded over decades as the books released.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and the discworld series. But not the new recording. The old ones narrated by Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs. Any Star Wars book narrated by Marc Thompson. Those fancy pants audio versions of Red Rising. Fully cast with fancy effects.
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The Prydain Chronicles are hilarious and delightful and whimsical and the narrator does excellent work with all the characters.
I also really enjoyed the audiobooks of the Greenbone Saga—the narrator has such a good, commanding voice and always kept me engaged. Whoever did the Rook & Rose trilogy also knocked it out of the park, imo.
I’m also fond of the Kushiel’s Dart ones, but Anne Flosnik is a polarizing narrator, so ymmv.
But my absolute favorite is Moira Quirk’s narration of The Locked Tomb. She’s so funny and expressive and manages to give a lot of characters distinct voices and mannerisms. It took me a little while to get on board with Gideon the Ninth because it’s all a little confusing at first, but she easily kept me interested until I got genuinely hooked on the plot.
The Prydain Chronicles! That was one of the first fantasy series I ever read when I was in elementary school. I loved it, along with The Chronicles of Narnia series.
I liked The Prydain Chronicles so much that I reread multiple times, which was super rare for me to do at that age, but I don't think I've read it since then. I will definitely have to check out the audiobook. I didn't realize there was a version.
I really like the Rosamund Pike narrated Wheel of Time books. People really like the original productions as well I believe but I haven’t listened.
I also really like the audiobooks of the Raven Boys series by Maggie Stiefvater, read by Will Patton. It’s a YA series but it’s not annoying. It is a unique story that turns some genre tropes and expectations on their heads. Stiefvater has a lot of faith in her readers.
I’ve also seen people mention the audiobook version of Project Hail Mary is really well done.
Did Pike do the whole series or did it end off when the show got canceled?
As far as I know she only did the first four but I don’t know what the release schedule was like so there could be more coming?
The original production is my favourite audiobook series (though it took one book to accept the narrators)
The Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis.
Anything read by George Guidall or Simon Vance.
Guidall has read several of John Bellairs' books. His Don Quixote is a masterpiece.
Vance has read Peake's Gormenghast books, Harrison's Viriconium books, and Barker's Imajica.
(Among many others, for both.)
Guidall is amazing. He also read Dark Tower series as well as several of Steven Pressfield’s works. His Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney is pretty good too
I think Vance also did Tigana as well. Some real classics in his list.
The Dresden Files are narrated by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Project Hail Mary, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and the Red Rising series, both single narrator and dramatized version has all been really pleasant and engaging. If you choose Red Rising, I'd recommend the single narration by Reynolds as a starting point.
Also heard great things about First Law audiobook. I've read it and can highly recommend the story
You hit most of my recommendations with Project Hail Mary, DCC, and First Law. I'm going to piggyback here to recommend The Dresden Files - James Marsters does a fantastic job narrating.
Agree on all accounts. I’d also add the Black Tongue Thief. Absolutely hilariously narrated, plus there’s singing!
I didn’t like the First Law books (don’t come for me plz) but the narration is indeed top shelf. Glokta in particular is a standout character voice.
Depends if you enjoy audiobooks or dramatized audiobooks.
But there are some audiobooks that stand out for me. Good series and good narrators.
I can go into what the books are a bit more if you like.
Or recommend you dramatized audiobooks if you like them.
Shadow of the leviathan - sounds incredibly similar to 'the tainted cup'. Is it the same book?
Edit - did not know it was the series name! TIL.
Its the series name. Tainted cup is just the first book.
Wait, Jeff Hayes also does Donut?!
Everyone. Also the AI.
I really liked Shadow of Leviathan’s narrator too
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, narrated by the incredible Kirsten Potter, who's voice is pure gold.
The reason I've gone through this book 6 or 7 times is due to the audiobook being so good.
What's it about?
It's a post-Apocalyptic story about a girl who loves comics and theatre, who joins a traveling theatre group of survivors.
It kinda sounds dumb when I type it out like that, but I promise it's an incredible story and book.
It sounds kinda dumb
Just get the audiobook and listen to it. You're welcome.
Adrian Tchaikovsky narrates a lot of his books and I personally think he does a really great job. My most recent audios were Service Model and One Day All This Will Be Yours and I enjoyed them both.
I'm listening to Service Model now. He has a great voice for it! Very impressed with him.
I have a couple that I keep returnining to.
Simon Vance narrates the Temeraire series, starting with His Majesty's Dragon and I hear his voice when I read the books.
2 different narrators handle the Wilde and Chase novels from Andy McDermott, both solid. The books are more like action movies in your head than anything I've ever read and I love, love, love the audio versions.
Love Simon Vance! Picked up Temeraire recently but had to put it down, I'll have to get back to it. He does a great job on the Lightbringer and Dune books.
The Pierce Brown Red Rising series of audiobooks are high level production and very dramatically read. Would recommend.
I liked that the Reds were Irish.
{Terry prattchett discworld}
All the First Law books.
Steelheart and Legion books.
The Raven Scholar.
Obligatory shoutout to the Old Kingdom books by Garth Nix, starting with Sabriel. Tim Curry narrates the original trilogy and does an amazing job!
Came here to recommend this too
Stephen King's It, narrated by Steven Weber
Watership Down, narrated by Peter Capaldi
The GraphicAudio version of Brandon Sanderson's Tress of the Emerald Sea was super entertaining.
Invisible Cities narrated by John Lee
ASOIAF narrates by Roy Dotrice
First Law narrated by Steven Pacey
Gilgamesh narrated by John Hanks
The Iliad narrated by Charlton Griffin
Labyrinths narrated by Dominic Keating
Prince of Nothing narrated by David Devries
The Witcher narrrated by Peter Kenny
Hyperion narrated by Simon Vance, Kevin Pariseu, Marc Vietor, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine, Allyson Johnson
Dungeon Crawler Carl has a fantastic audiobook adaptation. If you didn't know beforehand, you'd never realize it's one person narrating because they have a unique voice for every character.
I’m currently reading book 4 of the series, and I only just started reading book 1 on New Year’s Day.
At this rate I’ll be finished before the end of the month, and be jonesing for another dungeon fix… I think I may have to listen to the audiobooks.
Highly recommend the audio books. Increases the enjoyment so much, even if you've already read it.
I really enjoyed the narration of Ralph Lister in Shogun, trying to pick one that hasn’t already been mentioned. My all time favorites are DCC, Project Hail Mary, anything by Joe Abercrombie narrated by Steven Pacey, and the Expanse series, but most of those have already been listed.
Its get a lot of shit, but I loved it. The Black Prism series by Brent Weeks. Narrated by Simon Vance. One of the best in the biz.
DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL !!!
The Green Bone Saga !!!
Senlin Ascends!
He who fights with monsters!
I like anything Michael and Kate do, so if you haven’t read wheel of time, that’s a good one to do. There are a few warts - some characters get their names pronounced several different ways over the course of the series - but they’re mostly reflective of a huge body of content being recorded over decades as the books released.
Dungeon Crawler Carl and the discworld series. But not the new recording. The old ones narrated by Nigel Planer and Stephen Briggs. Any Star Wars book narrated by Marc Thompson. Those fancy pants audio versions of Red Rising. Fully cast with fancy effects.
I like almost anything John Lee does, so Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is my fantasy recommendation.