Best Neil Gaiman Audiobooks

The best audiobooks by Neil Gaiman — 19 titles spanning Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, averaging 4.10 ABR stars.

Neil Gaiman's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is The Sandman: Act I, narrated by Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen (4.48 ABR stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Neil Gaiman

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    The Sandman: Act I cover

    The Sandman: Act I

    Sandman Audible Original • Book 1

    by Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, James McAvoy, Andy Serkis, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Michael Sheen, Arthur Darvill, Miriam Margolyes

    Narrated by Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen

    4.48 ABR Score (78.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (24.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (53.1K)
    11h 2m listening time • Released 2020
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    Coraline

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.43 ABR Score (798.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (788.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.8K)
    3h 35m listening time • Released 2003
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    The Graveyard Book cover

    The Graveyard Book

    by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.42 ABR Score (585.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (567.6K) ★ 4.64 Audible (18.0K)
    7h 43m listening time • Released 2008
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    American Gods

    American Gods • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Full Cast

    4.42 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (994.5K) ★ 4.58 Audible (63.0K)
    19h 39m listening time • Released 2011
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    Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust(Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust) cover

    Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust(Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust)

    by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.36 ABR Score (495.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (483.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (11.6K)
    6h 23m listening time • Released 2006
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    Good Omens

    by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Arthur Darvill, Chris Nelson, David Tennant, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Gabrielle Glaister, Josh Hopkins, Katherine Kingsley, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lemn Sissay, Lorelei King, Louis Davison, Matt Reeves, Michael Sheen

    4.33 ABR Score (830.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (830.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (206)
    12h 14m listening time • Released 2022
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    Neverwhere

    London Below • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.33 ABR Score (605.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (563.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (41.8K)
    13h 48m listening time • Released 2017
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    The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction cover

    The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction

    by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry, Leon Nixon

    4.32 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.73 Audible (802)
    27h 2m listening time • Released 2020

    Hearing Gaiman read his own work alongside master narrators like George Guidall and Lenny Henry transforms 52 stories into a masterclass in tone and voice—each tale lands exactly as intended.

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    Anansi Boys

    American Gods • Book 2

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Lenny Henry

    4.30 ABR Score (251.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (230.1K) ★ 4.56 Audible (21.8K)
    10h 5m listening time • Released 2005
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    The Ocean at the End of the Lane cover

    The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.22 ABR Score (685.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (660.0K) ★ 4.45 Audible (24.9K)
    6h 22m listening time • Released 2013
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    Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders cover

    Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

    American Gods #1.1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    4.05 ABR Score (75.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (72.0K) ★ 4.44 Audible (3.5K)
    10h 47m listening time • Released 2006
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    American Gods. TV Tie-In

    American Gods • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.05 ABR Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (994.4K) ★ 4.23 Audible (10.7K)
    20h 51m listening time • Released 2003

    George Guidall's gravelly baritone transforms Gaiman's sprawling mythic road trip into something hypnotic—he doesn't just narrate, he conjures a whole haunted America into existence around you.

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    The Sleeper and the Spindle cover

    The Sleeper and the Spindle

    by Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt, Lara Pulver, Niamh Walsh, Adjoa Andoh, Peter Forbes, John Sessions, Michael Maloney, Sean Baker, Jane Collingwood, Clare Corbett, Allan Corduner, Katherine Kingsley

    3.99 ABR Score (55.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (54.3K) ★ 4.46 Audible (1.1K)
    1h 5m listening time • Released 2015
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    Lovecraft's Monsters cover

    Lovecraft's Monsters

    by Ellen Datlow, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale

    Narrated by Bernard Clark

    3.94 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.69 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.32 Audible (1.6K)
    15h 12m listening time • Released 2015
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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

    by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine

    Narrated by Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik

    3.88 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 3.96 Audible (736)
    21h 21m listening time • Released 2010
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    Greatest Hits

    by Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Khaw, J. Michael Straczynski

    Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, Tim Lounibos, Scott Brick, Steven Jay Cohen, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Dion Graham, Edoardo Ballerini, Stefan Rudnicki, Angelo Di Loreto, Luis Moreno

    3.82 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (29)
    17h 35m listening time • Released 2024

    A masterclass in short-form sci-fi storytelling where Ellison's unhinged brilliance gets the ensemble treatment it deserves. Multiple narrators make each twisted tale land harder.

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    Zombies: More Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Kathleen Tierney, Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Carrie Ryan, Matthew Johnson

    Narrated by Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin

    3.64 ABR Score (342 ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (212) ★ 4.08 Audible (130)
    20h 14m listening time • Released 2014
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    Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

    Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer

    by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher

    Narrated by Phil Gigante, Michael Page, Susan Duerden, Julia Whelan

    3.57 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.76 Audible (190)
    19h 39m listening time • Released 2011
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    Zombies: The Recent Dead cover

    Zombies: The Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Marc Vietor

    3.34 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (939) ★ 3.4 Audible (268)
    20h 3m listening time • Released 2011

    Multiple narrators bring real texture to these zombie stories, each voice matched to the tale's mood. From Neil Gaiman to Joe Lansdale, it's a masterclass in how short fiction anthology audio can outpace reading.

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