If there is one thing most listeners agree on, it’s that a great performance can elevate a story to new heights. Now through February 29, Audible’s Narrators Sale is shining a spotlight on the meant-to-be-heard talent behind our favorite listens, offering up deals on performances that never get old. Check out some of our editors' favorites below, and learn more about the stars behind the mic. Terms and conditions apply.**
Adjoa Andoh
In addition to portraying Lady Danbury on Netflix’s beloved Bridgerton series, Adjoa Andoh has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and narrated more than 100 audiobooks. Whether acting on stage, on screen, or directly from the page, her emotive work always deserves applause.
Ari Fliakos
From multigenerational family sagas to truffle-laden tales of true crime, Ari Fliakos delivers every performance with precision and spot-on humor, and is always a treat to listen to!
Bahni Turpin
Known for her fully realized renditions of characters that span a wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds, Turpin's unparalleled talents always shine, especially when she reads a work with a lot of heart, like The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
Cassandra Campbell
Cassandra Campbell believes that "a good audiobook narrator is somebody who can get out of the way and let the story be the primary thing." Her performances do just that, filling us with wanderlust while rooting us at home in a novel’s setting.
Edoardo Ballerini
Edoardo Ballerini’s voice is immediately recognizable, and at the same time his performances melt seamlessly into the stories he helps bring to life. He transforms from a tough-guy New Yorker to a charming Italian with ease, and he even makes the science of animal movement absolutely riveting.
George Guidall
There is no mystery why George Guidall remains one of the most prolific audiobook narrators, as his roughhewn and relatable style paired with his ability to untangle complex storylines for listeners has made him the perfect fit for several long-running series.
January LaVoy
From thrillers to nonfiction to sci-fi, January LaVoy expertly narrates a large variety of audiobooks, seamlessly switching between different accents and personalities in the span of a breath to embody each unique character.
Julia Whelan
The multihyphenate and Audie Award–winning Julia Whelan always delivers a masterful performance, making listeners swoon over her in the romance genre and beyond.
Ray Porter
A blazing star in the audio sci-fi sphere, Ray Porter’s out-of-this-world talents transport listeners to unimaginable heights time and time again.
Scott Brick
Known as the man with the “golden voice,” Scott Brick shines in all that he does with his measured and understated style, and always holds himself to a high standard for his listeners—so much so that after obsessing for years over a mispronounced proper name in one recording, he leapt at the chance to re-record it.
Simon Vance
One of the most prolific audiobook narrators of the past 20 years, Simon Vance has won Earphones Awards for more than 60 performances, in addition to multiple Audie Awards. The pied-piper quality of his performances keeps listeners enthralled over the long haul, no matter the type of story.
Thérèse Plummer
Despite being a veteran narrator of hundreds of audiobooks, Thérèse Plummer performs with a youthful enthusiasm that highlights the delight of discovery in her characters and makes it obvious that the stories she reads warm her own heart as much as the hearts of her listeners.
Vikas Adam
Not only is Vikas Adam a favorite among listeners, but writers love working with him too. For his narration of Quichotte, Salman Rushdie praised, “There's a place somewhere in between performance and reading that the reader has to find, and I think he's very, very skillful at that.”
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally best-selling author Salman Rushdie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
“Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming...a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium - a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.” (Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review)
Named One of The Best Books of The Year by Time and NPR
Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own.
Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the listener on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie's work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
Praise for Quichotte
“Brilliant...a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.” (Financial Times)
“Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism.... The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader - somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders.... This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.” (The Sunday Times)
“Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’ story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys.... This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.” (The Times, UK)
And the list goes on...
For more all-star veteran voices, immersive multicast listens, and celebrity narrations, explore all of the deals included in the Narrators Sale.
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