Great Listens

There are a lot of great audiobooks out there, so I am helping you narrow it down to some of the best readers. The first group is fiction, mysteries, and science fiction/fantasy. The second group is nonfiction and biographies/memoirs. Who are your favorite readers?

Jim Dale

The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone                 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets             

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban            

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire                    

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince                

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows                  

J AD FIC ROWLING and YP AD FIC ROWLING

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern                  

AD FIC MORGENST

 

Jayne Entwistle

Flavia de Luce Series by Alan Bradley

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie              

The Weed that String’s the Hangman’s Bag          

A Red Herring Without Mustard                         

I am Half-Sick of Shadows                                

AD MYS BRADLEY

Stephen Fry

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams            

AD SF ADAMS

Neil Gaiman  (reads some of his own books)

AD SF GAIMAN 

Neverwhere                                                          

Stardust                                                                   

George Guidall

John Wells Series by Alex Berenson

The Ghost War                                                                                   

The Silent Man                                               

The Midnight House                                         

The Secret Soldier                                           

The Shadow Patrol                                          

AD FIC BERENSON

Gunslinger by Stephen King                               

AD FIC KING

Katherine Kellgren

Austenland by Shannon Hale                                      
AD FIC HALE

The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund        

AD MYS PATTERSO

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance

---Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem by Seth Grahame-Smith           

AD FIC GRAHAMES 

Lorelei King

Charley Davidson Series by Darynda Jones

First Grave on the Right                                    

Second Grave on the Left                                 

AD MYS JONES

Lizzy and Diesel Series by Janet Evanovich

Wicked Appetite                                             

Wicked Business                                             

AD MYS EVANOVICH

James Marsters

The Dresden Files Series by Jim Butcher

Death Masks (#5)                                           

Blood Rites                                                    

Dead Beat                                                     

Proven Guilty                                                  

White Night                                                    

Small Favor                                                    

Turn Coat                                                      

Changes                                                        

AD SF BUTCHER

Will Patton

Hackberry Holland Series by James Lee Burke

Lay Down My Sword and Shield                         

Rain Gods                                                      

Feast Day of Fools                                          

AD MYS BURKE

Kate Reading

Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher

Furies of Calderon                                           

Academ’s Fury                                                         

Cursor’s Fury                                                  

Captain’s Fury                                                

Princep’s Fury                                                 

First Lord’s Fury                                              

AD SF BUTCHER

The Host by Stephanie Meyer                                     

AD SF MEYER

Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

The Eye of the World                                                

The Great Hunt                                               

The Dragon Reborn                                         

The Shadow Rising                                          

Lord of Chaos (#6)                                         

A Crown of Swords                                          

The Path of Daggers                                       

Knife of Dreams (#11)                                     

The Gathering Storm                                        

Towers of Midnight                                          

AD SF JORDAN

Barbara Rosenblat

Away by Amy Bloom                                                

AD FIC BLOOM

Simon Vance

The Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo                        

The Girl Who Played With Fire                          

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest               

AD FIC LARSSON

 

Non-Fiction and Biographies

Julie Andrews (written and read by)

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years                    

AD 791.4028092 ANDREWS

Tony Danza (written and read by) 

I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: 

My Year as a Rookie Teach at Northeast High

AD 371.10092 DANZA                                           

Tina Fey (written and read by)

Bossypants                                                    

AD 792.7028092 FEY

Michael J. Fox (written and read by)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: 

Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

AD 791.43028092                                                 

Malcolm Gladwell (written and read by)

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures           

AD 814.6 GLADWELL

Elizabeth Gilbert (written and read by)

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything 

Across Italy, India, and Indonesia:

AD B GILBERT                                                                                            

Edward Herrmann

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption 

by Laura Hillenbrand

AD B ZAMPERIN                                                      

Stephen Hoye

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin 

by Erik Larson 

AD 943.086 LARSON                                            

Diane Keaton (written and read by)

Then Again                                                    

AD 791.43082092 KEATON

Steve Martin (written and read by)

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life                       

AD 792.7028092 MARTIN

David Sedaris (written and read by)

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim           

Live for Your Listening Pleasure                         

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

AD 814.54 SEDARIS                     

Gary Sinise

Travels with Charley in Search of America 

by John Steinbeck              

AD 917.3 STEINBEC                                               

Patti Smith (written and read by)

Just Kids                                                        

AD 782.42166092 SMITH

Betty White (written and read by)

If You Ask Me: (And Of Course You Won’t)                   

AD 791.45028092 WHITE