Top Ten Tuesday | Top Ten Audiobook Narrators

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Audiobook Narrators

I love audiobooks, guys. LOVE THEM. Listen to them every day. They get me back and forth to work, and they often make me wish my commute was longer so that I could listen some more. Nothing can make–or ruin–an audiobook faster than the narrator. I, personally, don’t like cast narrated books. They’re too confusing for me to follow. So my favorite audiobooks are single narrators, or different narrators for different chapter POVs, and if I can snag a book narrated by one of these folks? I will legit download books they’ve narrated just because it’s them. I’ve downloaded books I’ve never heard of before just because of the narrator. If you’re new to audiobooks, I can’t recommend these narrators enough. But be prepared to spend some quality time with them; they don’t really narrate short books. Oops!

PS. These examples are just a small handful of each narrator’s work (with the possible exception of Steve West, who is amazing but who also narrated a few self-help books, I believe). Search Audible for all the things!

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Narrates: Harry Potter, The Night Circus6_2

Narrates: The Scorpio Races (with Fiona Hardingham), An Ember in the Ashes5_2 Narrates: The Raven Cycle4_2 Narrates: Gentlemen Bastards series, literally tons of other books10_2 Narrates: Leviathan series3_2 Narrates: Mistborn series2_2 Narrates: Kingkiller Chronicle, Doll Bones1_2 Narrates: Outlander series, The Mists of Avalon9_2 Narrates: Daughter of Smoke and Bone series8_2

Narrates: Throne of Glass series

Comments

  1. Your graphics for this post are cute! And the only narrators I’m familiar with are Will Patton and Elizabeth Evans, both of whom did such fantastic jobs with the series you’ve mentioned 🙂 I’ll have to check out the others!