Best Kim Mai Guest Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Kim Mai Guest — 7 titles spanning Mystery, Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Sci-Fi, averaging 3.82 ABR stars.

Kim Mai Guest brings clarity and emotional precision to a diverse catalog spanning YA mystery, literary fiction, and fantasy. Her narration of One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus crackles with teen-drama tension, while her reading of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas demonstrates the sophistication to handle one of the most structurally ambitious novels of the 21st century. Guest has a clear, versatile voice with a natural warmth that makes her equally convincing as a high schooler or a 19th-century narrator. She handles Juliet Marillier's Wildwood Dancing with delicate fairy-tale beauty and pivots to the genre-blending demands of anthology collections like The Book of Swords without losing a step. Her strength lies in making very different books each feel like they have found their ideal narrator. Listeners who appreciate narrators with range, intelligence, and an ability to match their delivery precisely to the material will enjoy Guest's work.

Where to Start with Kim Mai Guest

  1. 1
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    One of Us Is Lying

    One of Us Is Lying • Book 1

    by Karen M. McManus

    Narrated by Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus, Robbie Daymond

    4.30 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.47 Audible (8.2K)
    10h 43m listening time • Released 2017
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    Wildwood Dancing

    Wildwood • Book 1

    by Juliet Marillier, Unknown Author

    Narrated by Kim Mai Guest

    4.02 ABR Score (33.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (32.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (532)
    12h 53m listening time • Released 2009
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    Cloud Atlas cover

    Cloud Atlas

    by David Mitchell

    Narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, Richard Matthews, David Mitchell, Gabrielle Zevin

    4.01 ABR Score (276.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (269.8K) ★ 4.11 Audible (7.1K)
    19h 48m listening time • Released 2004

    Seven narrators make this nested-worlds epic feel like a conversation across centuries, each voice perfectly matched to its era and character. It's the rare audiobook where the medium doesn't just serve the story—it becomes essential to how you experience it.

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    Fresh Ink

    by Lamar Giles, Nicola Yoon, Malinda Lo, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Eric Gansworth, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Gene Luen Yang, Sharon G. Flake, Schuyler Bailar, Aminah Mae Safi

    Narrated by Guy Lockard, Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Aminah Mae Safi, Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Ron Butler, J. B. Adkins, Sara Farizan, Henry Levya, Donnabella Mortel, Schuyler Bailar, Various

    3.72 ABR Score (3.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (16)
    5h 4m listening time • Released 2018

    Multiple award-winning YA voices tackle identity, belonging, and resistance across formats—short stories, graphic work, and a never-before-printed Walter Dean Myers play—each narrator perfectly matched to their piece.

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    The Book of Swords

    Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz #7 - A Long, Cold Trail

    by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, Matthew Hughes, Kate Elliott, Walter Jon Williams, Daniel Abraham, C.J. Cherryh, Garth Nix, Ellen Kushner, Scott Lynch, Rich Larson, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Cecelia Holland, George R.R. Martin

    Narrated by John Lee, Katharine Lee McEwan, Kim Mai Guest, Elliot Hill, Richard Brewer, Nicholas Guy Smith, Kirby Heyborne, Julia Whelan, Mark Deakins, Steve West, Ralph Lister

    3.66 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.16 Audible (419)
    22h 13m listening time • Released 2017
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    The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

    Best American

    by John Joseph Adams

    Narrated by Diana Gabaldon, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jay Snyder, Scott Keiji Takeda, Sean Crisden, Polly Lee, Rebecca Lowman, Nicola Barber, Emily Woo Zeller, Bahni Turpin, Andre Blake, Andi Arndt, Priya Ayyar, Kim Mai Guest, Therese Plummer

    3.65 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (967) ★ 3.9 Audible (39)
    17h 45m listening time • Released 2020

    A stellar ensemble cast brings 17 hours of wildly varied SF/F to life—each narrator perfectly matched to their story, making this anthology feel less like a greatest-hits compilation and more like discovering your next favorite writer.

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    The Divorce Papers

    by Susan Rieger

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Kathe Mazur, Emily Rankin, Susan Denaker, Mark Bramhall, Fred Sanders, Mark Deakins, Kim Mai Guest, Marc Cashman, Kimberly Farr

    3.38 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.26 Goodreads (7.4K) ★ 3.54 Audible (145)
    13h 22m listening time • Released 2014

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