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About this list
When compiling our list of the best fantasy listening out there, we immediately came up against the age-old question: Is this fantasy or science fiction? The distinction is not as clear as you may think. Dragons, elves, and wizards are definitely fantasy, but what about wizards that also fly space ships? (Looking at you, Star Wars.) For the sake of fantasy purity, the top 100 fantasy listens include the best audio works in all manner of fantasy subgenres, including urban fantasy, high fantasy, sword and sorcery, LitRPG, young adult, classics, and paranormal. You'll find journeys to new realms, wintry castles, warring warrens, traveling circuses, and even heaven and hell. All with the best narration that human imagination can muster.-
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The Grace of Kings
- The Dandelion Dynasty
- By: Ken Liu
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
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Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites....
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meh
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The Grace of Kings
- The Dandelion Dynasty
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Series: Dandelion Dynasty, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-07-15
- Language: English
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Children of Blood and Bone
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared....
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ended abruptly. Feel like missing some story
- By Brandon Musser
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Children of Blood and Bone
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Legacy of Orïsha, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
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Caraval
- By: Stephanie Garber
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Welcome, welcome to Caraval - Stephanie Garber's sweeping tale of two sisters who escape their ruthless father when they enter the dangerous intrigue of a legendary game....
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A Dazzling Debut
- By Katie - Audible
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Caraval
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Series: Caraval, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-31-17
- Language: English
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City of Bones
- The Mortal Instruments
- By: Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Mae Whitman
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder
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HOW did I miss THIS??!!??!!
- By Jerry
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City of Bones
- The Mortal Instruments
- Narrated by: Mae Whitman
- Series: The Mortal Instruments, Book 1
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-15-14
- Language: English
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The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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For five grand a month and a million-dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn't care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year. But they didn't tell him about the pixies....
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Great story - perfect narration
- By Diana
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The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Series: The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-20-21
- Language: English
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An Ember in the Ashes
- By: Sabaa Tahir
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom....
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Pretty decent
- By Chuck
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An Ember in the Ashes
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
- Series: An Ember in the Ashes, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-28-15
- Language: English
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- By: Laini Taylor
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
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Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky....
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Lush writing & fabulous narration
- By Sarah
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-27-11
- Language: English
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Eragon
- Inheritance, Book 1
- By: Christopher Paolini
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed....
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Heard the Audio, Bought the Print
- By Kev
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Eragon
- Inheritance, Book 1
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Series: The Inheritance Cycle, Book 1
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-16-03
- Language: English
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Twilight
- The Twilight Saga, Book 1
- By: Stephenie Meyer
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear....
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bloodsucking but not literature
- By Annette
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Twilight
- The Twilight Saga, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin
- Series: The Twilight Saga, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-05-05
- Language: English
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The Changeling
- A Novel
- By: Victor LaValle
- Narrated by: Victor LaValle
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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When Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word improbabilia....
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When Papa was away at a book sale...
- By Bridget C.
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The Changeling
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Victor LaValle
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-13-17
- Language: English
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The Midnight Library
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality....
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Love it! Book of regrets
- By Roy White
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The Midnight Library
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-29-20
- Language: English
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Ruby Red
- Ruby Red Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who takes a sudden spin to a different era....
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I don't know why this is marked as childrens book.
- By jennifer white
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Ruby Red
- Ruby Red Trilogy, Book 1
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Series: Ruby Red, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 11-02-11
- Language: English
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Blood of Elves
- By: Andrzej Sapkowski
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Watch for the signs! What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the Blood of Elves....
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A great start to a Promising Series
- By Joe Chad
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Blood of Elves
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: The Witcher, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-02-15
- Language: English
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Howl's Moving Castle
- By: Diana Wynne Jones
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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On a rare venture out from her step-mother's hat shop, Sophie attracts the attention of a witch, who casts a terrible spell transforming the young girl into an old crone....
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Stays with you for days
- By Tyng
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Howl's Moving Castle
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Series: Howl's Castle, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-14-08
- Language: English
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Gardens of the Moon
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1
- By: Steven Erikson
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 26 hrs and 3 mins
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The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers....
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Steven Erikson is a King among story tellers
- By howard
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Gardens of the Moon
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Series: Malazan Book of the Fallen Series, Book 1
- Length: 26 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 10-02-12
- Language: English
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Impact Winter
- By: Travis Beacham
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun....
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Great cast
- By Mackenzie
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Impact Winter
- Narrated by: full cast
- Series: Impact Winter, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 02-17-22
- Language: English
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The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years....
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Heartfelt and enchanting.
- By Moe
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The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.....
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A thrilling adventure with a wonderful cast
- By Caleb Lancaster
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Dracula [Audible Edition]
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 02-20-12
- Language: English
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The Lightning Thief
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
- By: Rick Riordan
- Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again....
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Amazing!
- By FLocnbrz12
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The Lightning Thief
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
- Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 07-01-05
- Language: English
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Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Probationary constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. In the aftermath of a puzzling murder, he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost....
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Nothing Like Harry Potter - which is just fine!
- By Magpie
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Midnight Riot
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Series: Rivers of London Series, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-28-12
- Language: English
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