Best Ursula K. Le Guin Audiobooks

The best audiobooks by Ursula K. Le Guin — 10 titles spanning Sci-Fi, Fantasy, averaging 3.92 ABR stars.

Ursula K. Le Guin's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, narrated by Don Leslie (4.23 ABR stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Ursula K. Le Guin

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    The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

    The Hainish Cycle • Book 6

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by Don Leslie

    4.23 ABR Score (158.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (153.9K) ★ 4.39 Audible (4.1K)
    13h 25m listening time • Released 2010
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    The Lathe of Heaven

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.12 ABR Score (93.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (90.1K) ★ 4.36 Audible (3.1K)
    6h 48m listening time • Released 2016

    George Guidall's measured, unsettling narration transforms Le Guin's philosophical nightmare into pure dread—his voice makes you feel George's helplessness as reality fractures around him, one dream at a time.

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    The Word for World Is Forest

    The Hainish Cycle • Book 5

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by John Skelley

    4.05 ABR Score (45.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (112)
    4h 44m listening time • Released 2024
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    Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions

    The Hainish Cycle #1-3 • Book 1

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan

    4.00 ABR Score (5.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (88)
    16h 38m listening time • Released 2024
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    A Wizard of Earthsea

    The Earthsea Quartet • Book 1

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by Rob Inglis

    4.00 ABR Score (372.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (364.6K) ★ 4.26 Audible (8.0K)
    7h 17m listening time • Released 2009

    Le Guin's slender masterpiece follows a boy learning that his greatest enemy is himself — minimalist, mythic, and as profound as any fantasy ever written.

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    The Left Hand of Darkness

    The Hainish Cycle • Book 4

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.95 ABR Score (230.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (224.6K) ★ 4.08 Audible (5.9K)
    9h 39m listening time • Released 2016

    Le Guin's genre-defining masterwork about a genderless society is both a riveting political thriller and a landmark of humanist science fiction.

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    The Telling

    The Hainish Cycle • Book 8

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

    3.92 ABR Score (9.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (9.3K) ★ 4.84 Audible (32)
    8h 31m listening time • Released 2024
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    The Wind's Twelve Quarters

    The Wind's Twelve Quarters #1-2

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Narrated by Amy Landon, Grover Gardner, Will Watt

    3.88 ABR Score (8.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (8.0K) ★ 4.21 Audible (160)
    11h 10m listening time • Released 2021

    Le Guin's short story collection is a masterclass in speculative storytelling, and the three narrators bring distinct voices to each tale without losing the underlying philosophical depth that makes her work timeless.

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    The Best of Fantasy 2001

    by Robert Silverberg, Greg van Eeckhout, Rosemary Edghill, Lawrence Miles, Poul Anderson, Robert Thurston, Brian A. Hopkins, Jack O'Connell, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, M.E. Wills

    Narrated by Jason Cole, Terry Fishman, Gabrielle de Cuir, William Windom, Scott Brick, Catherine Asaro, Iris Bahr, M.E. Willis, Ursula K. LeGuin, Stefan Rudnicki

    3.64 ABR Score (16 ratings)
    ★ 3.31 Goodreads (13) ★ 3.33 Audible (3)
    10h 26m listening time • Released 2019

    A stellar ensemble cast elevates this genre-spanning 2001 collection where Le Guin and Anderson sit alongside emerging voices, each narrator perfectly matched to their story's voice and mood.

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    The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century

    by Martin H. Greenberg, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, David Brin, John W. Campbell Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl, Eric Frank Russell, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Alexander Siddig, Melissa Manchester

    Narrated by David Ackroyd, Wil Wheaton

    3.44 ABR Score (636 ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (165) ★ 3.73 Audible (471)
    6h 28m listening time • Released 1999

    Wil Wheaton and David Ackroyd elevate these classic stories into a master class in audio performance, with each narrator bringing distinct voices that make the genre's most inventive ideas actually land emotionally.

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