I have recently listened to the All the dust that falls. It was by far one of my favourite narrations and a great series also. I'am looking for audiobooks of similar combination of narration quality with enjoyable story also. So far my top tier are:
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Jeff Hays
Beware of Chicken - Travis Baldree
All the dust that falls - Phil Thron
Books i thought were good(not great), but had great narration:
Cradle - Travis Baldree
Wandering Inn - Andrea Parsneau
Jakes Magickal Market - Travis Baldree
Any reccomendations please?
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My personal favourite is 12 Miles Below by u/MarkArrows narrated by Scott Aiello.
Scott does a super good job!
Scott went out of his way to get my email from Aethon in order to send me a fan message.
We had a spider-man meme moment since I was a huge fan of his too and buy every audiobook he makes to see what he's come up with bahahaha
Man, I love this series. The story is great, and the narration is awesome.
Player manager!
Seconded
The Perfect Run written by Maxime J. Durand and narrated by Eric Michael Summerer. Just the perfect delivery for the way the books are written, highly recommend.
I agree the trilogy is so good.
Some narrators just suit a book so, so well and this is one of those cases. Perfect marriage of story and narrator.
I'm offended by the lack of mentioning Nick Podehl.
Yeah, that man can do some many different voices with excellent retention.
The sheer amount of characters that get thrown at you in later books of Dotf, and that man still manages to give most of them an unique voice.
Mage Tank has a great story and an excellent narrator. Daniel Wisniewski is the narrator.
The Calamitous Bob by Hays Good Guys and Bad Guys by Neil Hellegers
Iam waiting for Calamitious bob to have more books out, but have high hopes for it. Will check the good/bad guys.
The Beers and Beards series is a lot of fun and has top notch narration. The story is pretty light hearted and enjoyable and has a ton of interesting beer trivia.
While not litrpg The Murderbot Diaries is one of my all time favorite audiobooks. The narration versions; I haven't listened to the dramatized versions.
I will never forgive Christian for ratio-ing me on my own damn books.
Chrysalis, Jeff Hays again and it's really funny
It seems obvious to me tk recommend HWFWM. Heath Miller is incredible and has a great range. I absolutely recommend him.
If you dont like Jason then whatever, but I love the guy and Heath brings him to life for me.
It's kind of his thing!
The reviews made me think i would struggle with Jason, but maybe i should give it a try as there has to be a reason the series are so popular and well received by many.
I thought I'd hate Jason based on all the comments.
I love him.
This was my experience too haha
Currently on Book 5.
It's worth listening to. Especially since the author continues to get better as the series goes on. You have to remember that he has been writing it for years, and he does get much better as time goes on. Not only that, but Heath really works out the characters. I don't want to be weird when I say it, but any beautiful and powerful woman in the story is very well spoken by him.
Also it has some of the best world building period. Out of all fantasy IMO. Not just that but the magic system feels extremely diverse and yet its dynamic enough to keep me interested. Everyone likes to imagine what they would have as their essence combination and how they would go about awakening abilities and stuff. There are full discord channels dedicated to theoretical essence combos and its utterly addicting.
This 10000000000%
Ok because you like Travis Baldree I highly recommend Legends and Lattes. He wrote it, he narrates it. It’s a cosy fantasy about an Orc who doesn’t want to fight anymore but just open a coffee shop.
Heath Miller is an amazing narrator and he does the series Heretical Fishing. It’s about a guy who is sent to a world where no one fishes or eats fish and all he wants to do is eat. There is magic and sentient animals. It’s great.
Azarinth Healer was mentioned about and it is a good series as well.
The Spells, Swords and Stealth series by Drew Hayes is excellent - both story and narrator.
Some other series I LOVED that don’t necessarily fit into LitRPG - the Villains Code series by Drew Hayes is fantastic. I really enjoy the Demon Accord series by John Conroe as well
Just finishing Cradle, how would you compare Primal Hunter or Legends and Lattes?
I loved both but they are very different. Primal Hunter is the typical litRPG - main character getting stronger, stats levels. Legends and Lattes is more a cozy, low stakes, character driven story. I loved both but for vastly different reasons. So I guess it depends on what feel you want for your next read
Player manager series is excellent and the narrator is truly top notch.
Dreamers throne!! Michael Kramer put literal life into the character - it’s exactly the voice you envision when you think about garret.
Honorary mentions: aven shore- demonic devourer, those intense emotional scenes are sooo powerful I really felt it. Kurt bonnam - black market, if you want a domineering confident voice that melts me 😋🤷♀️
I like Nikola Hamilton narration on the “Soldiers life” series
You might like Soulhome. It’s also Travis Baldree, and a fun story probably closest to cradle of all the ones you listed.
They mostly do harem stuff but Lewis Alexander, and Rozelyn Rader are both really good.
Todd Haberkorn in D.D. Webb's Only Villains Do That series. Three books so far. Haberkorn does a fantastic job narrating the cynical and pessimistic MC and the rest of the characters as well.
This is a great series that doesn't get enough li e, in my opinion.
My favourite series is Azarinth Healer. I've never listened to it, only read it.
But Andrea Parsneau is the narrator.
Just started it so on the first book, love hearing Andrea, there's so many stat readouts though and they take forever, not a big problem if you can skim read them but pretty annoying on audible. Also characters keep winking idk why but it's annoying me now lol 😭 still enjoying it though
Yeah it's stat heavy that's the main reason I don't want to listen to it lol.
Reading it though, chef's kiss.
Phil Thron is an unknown/new guy but you named the other big 3. I've started the Roomba series but haven't gotten that far in it and the narration didn't strike me as particularly great but also didn't strike me as bad at all either. I need to listen to that whole book, but I keep putting it on the back burner because it's neat and interesting that it's a vacuum but also I'm not really emotionally invested in a vacuum so I found it hard to get into.
There are other good performances, but I can't think of any standouts off the top of my head that aren't the big three you mentioned.