Where to Start with Chuck Wendig
- Best entry point → The Book of Accidents
- Best standalone → Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
- Start the Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View series → Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
- What fans keep coming back to → Three Slices
- Highest rated by listeners → Blightborn (The Heartland Trilogy #2)
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Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
by Jonathan Maberry, George A. Romero, Brian Keene, Carrie Ryan, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Isaac Marion, Jay Bonansinga, Joe R. Lansdale, John Skipp, Max Brallier, Mike Carey, Mira Grant, Neal Shusterman, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Ryan Brown, John A. Russo, Craig E. Engler, Chuck Wendig, Brendan Shusterman
Narrated by full cast
★ 4.15 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (1.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (2.5K)11h 53m listening time • Released 2017 - 2
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 1
by Elizabeth Schaefer, Ben Acker, Jonathan Davis, Tom Angleberger, Janina Gavankar, Ben Blacker, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Christie Golden, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Pierce Brown, Ashley Eckstein, Carol Monda, Mur Lafferty, Marc Thompson, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel José Older, Ian Doescher, Daniel M. Lavery, Madeleine Roux, Gary D. Schmidt, Matt Fraction, Cavan Scott, Sabaa Tahir, Kieron Gillen, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Christopher, Rae Carson, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Paul Dini, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Paul S. Kemp, Elizabeth Wein, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, Charles Soule, Wil Wheaton, Renée Ahdieh
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson
★ 4.07 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (15.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.2K)15h 3m listening time • Released 2017 - 3
The Book of Accidents
by Chuck Wendig
Narrated by Xe Sands, George Newbern
★ 3.91 ABR Score (30.7K ratings)★ 3.71 Goodreads (29.5K) ★ 4.19 Audible (1.3K)16h 49m listening time • Released 2021 - 4
Blightborn
The Heartland Trilogy • Book 2
by Chuck Wendig
Narrated by Nick Podehl
★ 3.79 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.31 Audible (96)12h 46m listening time • Released 2014Nick Podehl's performance elevates Wendig's dystopian rebellion into something visceral and urgent—his voice captures both the grinding desperation of the hunted and the moral weight of impossible choices. Book two deepens the stakes and the world in ways that justify the series commitment.
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Canines & Cocktails
The Iron Druid Chronicles #9.4 • Book 4
by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson, Chuck Wendig
Narrated by Luke Daniels, Shana Pennington-Baird, Adam Verner
★ 3.76 ABR Score (553 ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (458) ★ 4.2 Audible (95)7h 55m listening time • Released 2024 - 6
Three Slices
The Iron Druid Chronicles #7.5 - A Prelude to War • Book 7
by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson, Chuck Wendig, Alex Wyndham, Julia Whelan
Narrated by Luke Daniels
★ 3.74 ABR Score (6.8K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (4.5K) ★ 4.15 Audible (2.2K)6h 7m listening time • Released 2015Luke Daniels' performances across three distinct novellas prove he's the best genre narrator working—shifting seamlessly between Hearne's mythology, Dawson's dark carnival horror, and Wendig's grimdark storytelling without losing momentum.
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