The Graveyard Book

Nobody Owens, called Bod, was raised by the ghosts and supernatural inhabitants of an old graveyard after his family was murdered when he was an infant. Now a young man, he has been educated by the dead and protected by a guardian who belongs to neither world, but the living danger that killed his family has not given up on finishing what it started. Neil Gaiman's story of a boy growing up in a graveyard is simultaneously a coming-of-age novel, a ghost story, and a meditation on what the living owe the dead.

Gaiman narrates his own novel, and the result is one of the most celebrated audiobook performances of the past two decades, earning the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year. His voice gives Bod's world the precise quality of warmth and shadow that the text creates on the page, and his performance of the graveyard's many inhabitants, from the Victorian ghost Mrs. Owens to the centuries-old Silas, is richly differentiated. Gaiman understands his own material at a level no other narrator could achieve.