Where to Start with Charles Stross
- Best entry point → Dead Lies Dreaming
- Best standalone → Glasshouse
- Start the Laundry Files series → The Atrocity Archives
- What fans keep coming back to → Accelerando
- Best narrator for Charles Stross → The Jennifer Morgue
- Highest rated by listeners → The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files #7)
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The Nightmare Stacks
Laundry Files • Book 7
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.42 ABR Score (7.9K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.65 Audible (1.1K)14h 54m listening time • Released 2016 - 2
The Delirium Brief
Laundry Files • Book 8
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.22 ABR Score (6.8K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.65 Audible (926)13h 47m listening time • Released 2017 - 3
The Apocalypse Codex
Laundry Files • Book 4
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.21 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (11.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)11h 54m listening time • Released 2012 - 4
The Rhesus Chart
Laundry Files • Book 5
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.19 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.2K)13h 19m listening time • Released 2014 - 5
The Fuller Memorandum
Laundry Files • Book 3
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.15 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (12.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.4K)10h 48m listening time • Released 2011 - 6
The Jennifer Morgue
Laundry Files • Book 2
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.02 ABR Score (16.5K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.4K)13h 45m listening time • Released 2010 - 7
Season of Skulls
Laundry Files • Book 12
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.99 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.56 Audible (114)12h 36m listening time • Released 2023 - 8
A Conventional Boy
Laundry Files • Book 13
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.99 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (114)7h 41m listening time • Released 2025 - 9
Quantum of Nightmares
The New Management • Book 2
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.97 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (289)13h 36m listening time • Released 2022 - 10
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
Laundry Files • Book 14
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.95 ABR Score (691 ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (625) ★ 4.56 Audible (66)10h 57m listening time • Released 2026 - 11
Iron Sunrise
Eschaton • Book 2
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.90 ABR Score (9.8K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (9.4K) ★ 4.3 Audible (358)15h 23m listening time • Released 2009 - 12
Dead Lies Dreaming
The New Management • Book 1
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.89 ABR Score (3.9K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 4.38 Audible (421)11h 20m listening time • Released 2020 - 13
Escape from Yokai Land
Laundry Files #6.5 • Book 7
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.88 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.44 Audible (219)1h 57m listening time • Released 2022 - 14
The Atrocity Archives
Laundry Files • Book 1
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.86 ABR Score (30.4K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.18 Audible (2.9K)10h 56m listening time • Released 2010 - 15
Glasshouse
Narrated by Kevin R. Free
★ 3.78 ABR Score (12.1K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (11.7K) ★ 4.14 Audible (389)13h 34m listening time • Released 2011 - 16
Singularity Sky
Eschaton • Book 1
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.76 ABR Score (16.7K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (16.1K) ★ 4.11 Audible (567)13h 2m listening time • Released 2009George Guidall's measured, intricate narration perfectly anchors Stross's mind-bending hard sci-fi debut—he makes the impossible physics and political intrigue genuinely gripping rather than exhausting.
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Halting State
Halting State • Book 1
Narrated by Robert Ian MacKenzie
★ 3.69 ABR Score (12.9K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (12.5K) ★ 4.02 Audible (387)13h 27m listening time • Released 2010 - 18
Accelerando
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.68 ABR Score (23.2K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (22.4K) ★ 3.95 Audible (748)16h 30m listening time • Released 2014George Guidall's measured, crystalline delivery transforms a dizzyingly complex singularity narrative into something deeply human—he makes you care about three generations hurtling toward incomprehensibility.
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Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012
by Tor Books, Sylvia Day, Brandon Sanderson, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Lee Mandelo, Rachel Swirsky, Meghan McCarron, John Scalzi
Narrated by Luke Daniels, R.C. Bray, Amy McFadden, MacLeod Andrews, Kathleen Gati, Cassandra Campbell, Jill Redfield, Gideon Emery
★ 3.49 ABR Score (305 ratings)★ 3.32 Goodreads (104) ★ 3.76 Audible (201)10h 9m listening time • Released 2013
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