• The Graveyard Book

  • By: Neil Gaiman
  • Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
  • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (17,594 ratings)

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By: Neil Gaiman
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The original audiobook edition of the acclaimed novel, read by the author!

The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel ever to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.

Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?

Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association's "Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book", a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year.

©2008 Neil Gaiman (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers
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Critic reviews

  • Hugo Award, Best Novel, 2009
  • Newbery Medal winner, 2009

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Highly recommend

Great read and listen! Everyone needs a Silas! I won't look at a graveyard the same any longer

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Delightful Adventure

This book felt reminiscent of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Many adventures of a young boy finding his way in the world.

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Wonderful

Not just a children’s story. I’m way beyond that age (I may or may not qualify for the senior discount) and I loved this story. Highly recommend it.

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wildly immersive

Neil Gaiman's voice is so soothing and he switches character voices so effortlessly. amazing author/narrator

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I know it was written for a younger audience but..

my husband and I loved it! It was our second listen and I'm sure we will listen again in a few years. Highly recommend.

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please read this book!

my favorite Neil Gaiman book! also love that he narrates it. definitely a annual reread/listen!

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Another Gaiman masterpiece

Quite simply, a wonderful experience. I cannot praise Gaiman enough for his beautiful prose and thoughtful narration. I don't normally listen to books that the author is narrating but Gaiman should be in the Mount Rushmore of narrators. The book it self should not be dismissed as a "children's" book as it is a wonderful fantasy for all ages. I'm going through the Gaiman library and this one rates as one of the best so far. Even got a small lump in my throat at the end. Can't recommend enough.

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Short and Wonderful

I am a fan of Mr. Gaiman’s. His books, “American Gods,” “Anansi Boys,” and “Stardust” were already in my library, the first two in both hardback and in audio formats. I’d come to trust him to deliver a good story. That promise is kept in “The Graveyard Book.”

I suspect Neil was a lonely child. His relationship with the natural world, both realistic and detailed, and magical and shimmering with promise, bespeaks early wandering days in woods and fields. That is the background of this book. He creates a natural world, cloaked in darkness and shadow, but warm and welcoming and nurturing. He writes a world where the night is velvet dark and can be drawn around you like a cloak.

This is not how this story begins, however. In stark contrast, we start the book in the company of the pristinely sharpened, efficiently bloodied knife near the completion of its task of leaving a family home lifeless. In sharp contrast (my apologies), the darling family baby, a wanderer wakened by oddly muffled sounds, takes to wandering. Up and out of his crib, down the stairs on his diaper-padded bottom, pacifier in mouth, and out the open front door. If you’ve ever had a wanderer, you know this is an entirely likely scenario. If you have not, believe me, it is very realistic.

And so begins a tale of good and evil, of deep magic, ancient rituals and traditions brought to enchant our lives with wonder and pondering. The baby, adopted by the ghosts of the nearby graveyard, grows up “Nobody Owens,” aka “Bod.”

Through him we experience the love of dedicated ghostly parents, the wisdom of an ancient vampire guardian. Bod has a village of ghosts for playmates and tutors, a sassy witch as a first crush, and a werewolf as a detested babysitter/heroine.
Through him, we learn to appreciate the magic in our own world. Outside of him, we learn to be sharply aware of the name “Jack.”

Gaiman’s writing is a joy both to read and to listen to. He makes an excellent reader of his own books. The warmth in his voice is evidence of his warm regard for his characters. His delight in describing his natural world shows his delight in the world around him. He gives his characters consistently varied voices and dialects, so they are easily identified. His sense of the dramatic pause is pristine.

I am not alone in my admiration for this work. It has won Neil a raft of awards, spent startlingly long amounts of time on bestseller lists, and been glowingly reviewed by all the big names. For me, it has become the book I listen to when nothing else will do. It cheers me up, stands me on my feet, strengthens my resolve, and makes me feel like a literary genius just for enjoying it. I hope it does the same for you.



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Marvelously, Chillingly Charming

I adore this book, from beginning to end. I am always only sad to hear it end. I want more, Neil Gaiman!

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Next level pleasure

If there’s one thing more enjoyable than Gaiman’s stories, that one thing is Gaiman’s stories read by Neil himself.

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