![]() ![]() Then there’s John Turturro, who has been in such acclaimed movies as O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Big Lebowski. As for Alan Alda? He’s a six-time Emmy and Golden Globe award-winner, who’s been in basically every great TV show ever. And if that’s not enough, one of them happens to be the voice of Max Brooks himself, the author of World War Z’s author.īrooks has written for Saturday Night Live and acted in the Batman movies. And not just any four, but a cast of four star-studded voices. This audiobook doesn’t have just one narrator, it has four. Okay, okay, World War Z audiobook, we see you. Adjoa Andoh, a seasoned actress with Shakespearean pedigree, pulls it off with divine dignity. Leckie tells the story in the second person, adopting the voice of the Raven addressing Eolo. Finally the Lease’s aide, Eolo, steps out of the shadows to find him. What’s more, the Raven’s Lease - the human chosen to sacrifice himself for the kingdom, in exchange for the god’s protection - is suddenly nowhere to be found. But now, the god’s powers seem to be waning - invaders mass at the borders, flouting patron deities of their own. ![]() The kingdom of Iraden has long flourished under the protection of a deity called the Raven, who presides over a nation of worshippers from the Raven Tower. Unlike the sword-slashing brand of epic fantasy, The Raven Tower is a novel of bureaucracy, populated by shrewd thinkers who move cautiously through the tangled snarl of their political world, where the gods are as vulnerable, and as imperfect, as the men who serve them. Known for her rich, sprawling space operas, Ann Leckie proves herself to be a master fantasist with this foray into the realm of gods and magic. Will Claire ever be able to find her way back to her own time? And if she does find a way to return back to her home and her husband… will she want to? Back in time, she ends up meeting James Fraser, a gallant highlander. She and her husband are enjoying a second honeymoon when Claire finds herself transported to 1743 Scotland - all because she happened to touch an ancient stone ruin. In the first installment of Diana Gabaldon’s series, we might series heroine Claire Randall, who has just returned from World War II where she served as a combat nurse. Finally, it’s also an audiobook narrated by Davina Porter - a master of accents and dialects who’s narrated such classics as Madame Bovary. It’s even given the town of Inverness a boom of tourism. It not only took the literary world by storm (flying its way up to the top of the New York Times bestseller list), it’s also taken the world of television by storm with an award-winning series. ![]() It’s an ongoing series with 9 books so far. It’s a fantasy romance and a historical romance. And as far as narrators go, Vikas Adams shines, tackling the fiery Bethesda and the eternally chill Julius with equal aplomb. Rachel Aaron’s delightful urban fantasy never takes itself too seriously, interweaving threads of dystopian fantasy and science fiction into her dragon-centered plot. He’s got one month to prove himself worthy of his true draconian shape - or make peace with living the rest of his life sans scales. So she traps him in human form and sends him to fend for himself in the Detroit Free Zone, a rough-and-tumble metropolis in magical Michigan. The imposing Heartstriker matriarch - a real tiger mom, if you can call a dragon that - wants her youngest son to toughen up and stop being such a nice dragon. But to his mother, Bethesda, this wallflower-ish attitude is less life-hack, more character flaw. His solution is to lay low, keeping well of his predatorial cousins’ ways. As the runt of the powerful Heartstriker Clan, Julius tends to get picked on by his more menacing relatives. We (marginally) prefer Jim Dale’s version ourselves, but if you’d like to try both out, here’s Steven Fry’s audiobook. That said, there are two definitive narrations of Harry Potter and it’s a bit of an ongoing debate over who offers the better one: Jim Dale or Steven Fry. ![]() The Harry Potter audiobooks serve up their own feast of the imagination, re-building the wonder with which you first read the books and re-immersing you into the phenomenon that is the wizarding world. As wild as that is, that’s not the only revelation lying in store for Harry when he learns by owl post that he’s a wizard - and is about to be whisked off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for seven years’ worth of adventure, intrigue, danger, and lasting friendships. Harry Potter is an ordinary boy of 11, except for one tiny detail: he defeated the Dark Lord of the wizarding world when he was only a baby. Any fantastical list would be incomplete without the perennial favorite of adults and children alike: Harry Potter! You’re probably already familiar with this magical delight of a franchise, but let’s go through a quick rundown of the series, for old time’s sake. ![]()
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