Best Kim Mai Guest Audiobooks
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
- New to Kim Mai Guest? Start here → One of Us Is Lying
- What fans keep coming back to → Cloud Atlas
- Short listen, big payoff → Fresh Ink
- Highest rated by listeners → Wildwood Dancing
Best Kim Mai Guest Audiobooks
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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 - 2
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 - 3
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 2004Seven 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 2018Multiple 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 - 6
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 2020A 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