"My latest book, The Devils, takes place in a magic-infested medieval Europe under constant threat of elf invasion, and follows a set of monsters employed by the 10-year-old pope to solve problems the righteous are not equipped to tackle. Here are some audiobooks and podcasts that its rogues' gallery of cursed and broken antiheroes might enjoy. —Joe Abercrombie, author of The Devils
Balthazar Sham Ivam Draxi finds himself convicted of necromancy, so, though he hails from medieval Africa, I feel he’d find much to enjoy in Tamsyn Muir’s crazy, hilarious, and even occasionally moving tale of an ill-fated competition between necromancers in a crumbling science-fictional palace.
World-weary immortal templar knight Jakob of Thorn has seen a lot of years pass, so he’d likely appreciate the entirety of human history placed under the microscope with unfailing charm and wit by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
Thief and liar Alex is forced to cross Europe playing the part of a princess—she’d no doubt get a cathartic kick out of Sapkowski’s (better known for The Witcher series) weird and wonderful tale of philandering charlatan Reynevan, pursued across an alternative Eastern Europe plunged into the chaos of the Hussite wars.
Viking werewolf Vigga Ullasdottr, prone to blood-soaked rampages, would no doubt enjoy the rip-roaring saga of Red Orm. Vivid, authentic, packed with action and fatalistic humor. No one should go a-viking without it.
Invisible elf Sunny would no doubt enjoy Lev Grossman’s modern retelling of the King Arthur myth, in which a crew of misfits and outsiders seek to find themselves ... and King Arthur.
Joe Abercrombie is a bestselling, award winning British author known for The First Law Trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings.
