Most Popular Fantasy Audiobooks

A Game of Thrones

A Song of Ice and Fire • Book 1

by George R.R. Martin

Narrated by Roy Dotrice

Martin reinvented epic fantasy by killing his darlings — a brutal, politically intricate world where nobility gets you killed and moral ambiguity reigns.

Eragon

Inheritance Cycle • Book 1

by Christopher Paolini

Narrated by Gerard Doyle

Written by a 15-year-old and it shows — in the best possible way: raw, dragon-riding adventure with genuine world-building ambition and a narrator who brings it to life.

The Name of the Wind

The Kingkiller Chronicle • Book 1

by Patrick Rothfuss

Narrated by Nick Podehl

Rothfuss's debut is arguably the most beautifully written fantasy of the 21st century — the story of a legend telling the truth about his own myth.

Mistborn: The Final Empire

Mistborn • Book 1

by Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by Michael Kramer

The best entry point into Sanderson — a heist story set in a world where the Dark Lord won, with one of the cleverest magic systems ever devised.

The Princess Bride

by William Goldman

Narrated by Rob Reiner

Goldman's fairy tale parody is pure wit and warmth — a story about a story, featuring true love, revenge, and a swamp called the Fire Swamp.

Good Omens

by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Narrated by Full cast incl. Michael Sheen, David Tennant

Pratchett and Gaiman's comedy about the end of the world is one of the funniest books ever written — an angel and demon team up to prevent Armageddon.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Chronicles of Narnia

by C.S. Lewis

Narrated by Maurice Denham, Full Cast

Lewis's complete seven-book series — endlessly re-readable allegorical fantasy that rewards adult listeners as much as the children who first fell in love with it.

The Way of Kings

The Stormlight Archive • Book 1

by Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by Kate Reading, Michael Kramer

Sanderson's most ambitious work — a 45-hour epic with one of the most intricately designed magic systems in fantasy, and characters whose growth pays off magnificently.

The Gunslinger

The Dark Tower • Book 1

by Stephen King

Narrated by George Guidall

King's most ambitious series begins here — a lone gunslinger pursues a man in black across a post-apocalyptic desert in a genre-bending western-fantasy that grows into something immense.

The Eye of the World

The Wheel of Time • Book 1

by Robert Jordan

Narrated by Kate Reading, Michael Kramer

Jordan's doorstop epic that launched a 14-book saga — vast, immersive world-building with a classic hero's journey that deepens into something far more complex.

Words of Radiance

The Stormlight Archive • Book 2

by Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by Michael Kramer, Kate Reading

The second Stormlight Archive book surpasses the first — the magic system, the characters, and the worldbuilding all deepen into one of epic fantasy's greatest achievements.

Graceling

Graceling Realm • Book 1

by Kristin Cashore

Narrated by Xanthe Elbrick

Cashore's debut features one of YA fantasy's most compelling heroines — a woman whose 'grace' is killing, struggling to define herself beyond what she was made to be.

Howl's Moving Castle

Howl's Moving Castle • Book 1

by Diana Wynne Jones

Narrated by Jenny Sterlin

Jones's whimsical classic is the inspiration for Miyazaki's film — but richer, funnier, and with a heroine whose curse of old age is the best premise in YA fantasy.

The Color of Magic

Discworld • Book 1

by Terry Pratchett

Narrated by Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

Pratchett's Discworld begins here — a flat world on the back of four elephants on a turtle, sending up every fantasy trope with genius comic timing.

Assassin's Apprentice

Farseer Trilogy • Book 1

by Robin Hobb

Narrated by Paul Boehmer

Robin Hobb's heartbreaking series opener introduces Fitz, a royal bastard trained as an assassin — intimate, character-driven fantasy at its most emotionally devastating.

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Gentleman Bastard • Book 1

by Scott Lynch

Narrated by Michael Page

Ocean's Eleven in a fantasy Venice — Lynch's debut is dazzlingly inventive, wickedly funny, and features one of the great anti-hero protagonists in modern fantasy.

The Silmarillion

Middle-earth

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by Martin Shaw

Not a novel but the mythology of Middle-earth — dense, biblical, and deeply rewarding for anyone who wants to understand the world Tolkien spent his life building.

The Blade Itself

The First Law • Book 1

by Joe Abercrombie

Narrated by Steven Pacey

Abercrombie's grimdark debut is a deliberate subversion of fantasy tropes — morally compromised heroes, no clean victories, and some of the sharpest dialogue in the genre.

Warbreaker

Warbreaker • Book 1

by Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

A standalone Sanderson that showcases his best qualities — two princesses, a reluctant god, and a magic system based on color and breath that's as elegant as it gets.

Wizard's First Rule

Sword of Truth • Book 1

by Terry Goodkind

Narrated by Sam Tsoutsouvas

Goodkind's sprawling debut launched the Sword of Truth series — big, operatic fantasy with a hero who learns that the most dangerous weapon is the truth.

The Neverending Story

by Michael Ende

Narrated by Not available on Audible US

Ende's German fantasy classic is a book about the power of stories themselves — layers of meta-fiction wrapped in a genuinely magical adventure.

Sabriel

Old Kingdom • Book 1

by Garth Nix

Narrated by Tim Curry

Nix's Old Kingdom series opener is a YA classic that reads brilliantly as an adult — a necromancer who binds the dead, and Tim Curry's narration is unforgettable.

The Mists of Avalon

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Narrated by Davina Porter

Bradley's Arthurian legend retold through the women — Morgaine, Gwenhwyfar, Viviane — a feminist reinterpretation that remains one of the genre's most powerful reimaginings.

His Dark Materials

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

Narrated by Ruth Wilson

Pullman's answer to Narnia is darker, more philosophical, and ultimately more daring — a trilogy about consciousness, free will, and the courage to question authority.

J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by Rob Inglis

The complete Tolkien — The Hobbit and the full Lord of the Rings trilogy — narrated by Rob Inglis in the most celebrated fantasy performance on audio.