"These are terrific books by great authors that I handpicked from the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), matched up with just the right narrators and personally produced. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do."
—Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman talks about the audiobooks he produced

On <i>The Fall of the Kings</i>
  • On The Fall of the Kings
  • By Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
"Multi-voiced scenes set like jewels in the gold of Ellen Kushner’s own narration"
On <i>Dimension of Miracles</i>
  • On Dimension of Miracles
  • By Robert Sheckley
"Not just a suave, sensible, sane narrator, but [his] peculiar accents and incarnations"
On <i>Jurgen</i>
  • On Jurgen
  • By James Branch Cabell
"An admired but semi-obscure author of literary satiric fantasy"
On <i>The High Place</i>
  • On The High Place
  • By James Branch Cabell
"The story of Sleeping Beauty when told as a cautionary – yet somehow rollicking – fairy tale"
On <i>Figures of Earth</i>
  • On Figures of Earth
  • By James Branch Cabell
"Capable of making the dirtiest of dirty jokes with a straight face"
On <i>The Privilege of the Sword</i>
  • On The Privilege of the Sword
  • By Ellen Kushner
"Casting Felicia Day is a coup for me – incredibly satisfying as an audiobook producer"
On <i>The Drowning Girl</i>
  • On The Drowning Girl
  • By Caitlin R. Kiernan
"Someone who [can] catalog the sharp-detailed Imp's carefully observed daily life"
On <i>White Apples</i>
  • On White Apples
  • By Jonathan Carroll
"That's a tall order for any narrator"
On <i>Dr. Eszterhazy</i>
  • On Dr. Eszterhazy
  • By Avram Davidson
"If you love fantasy, alternate worlds, or just love stories well-told, that's who Avram Davidson is"
On <i>Viriconium</i>
  • On Viriconium
  • By M. John Harrison
"A punk-sensibility London in a post-apocalyptic future"
On <i>Anita</i>
  • On Anita
  • By Keith Roberts
"An almost forgotten novel by one of the finest UK writers"
On <i>Swordspoint</i>
  • On Swordspoint
  • By Ellen Kushner
"A fairy tale of sorts, but a fairy tale for grown-ups"
On <i>The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break</i>
  • On The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
  • By Steven Sherrill
"In Steve Sherrill's fiction, the Minotaur is alive and relatively well"
On <i>The Land of Laughs</i>
  • On The Land of Laughs
  • By Jonathan Carroll
"Edoardo Ballerini conveys a certain wistfulness and vulnerability underneath Abbey's grumpiness"
On <i>Pavane</i>
  • On Pavane
  • By Keith Roberts
"It was the first time a short story made me cry"
On <i>Light</i>
  • On Light
  • By M. John Harrison
"It's a dark book, but there's a lot of light in here too"
On <i>You Must Go and Win</i>
  • On You Must Go and Win
  • By Alina Simone
"Alina Simone uses her life as material to tell stories that are funny, heartwarming, [and] tragic"

  • On The Fall of the Kings
  • "Multi-voiced scenes set like jewels in the gold of Ellen Kushner’s own narration"
  • On Dimension of Miracles
  • "Not just a suave, sensible, sane narrator, but [his] peculiar accents and incarnations"
  • On Jurgen
  • "An admired but semi-obscure author of literary satiric fantasy"
  • On The High Place
  • "The story of Sleeping Beauty when told as a cautionary – yet somehow rollicking – fairy tale"
  • On Figures of Earth
  • "Capable of making the dirtiest of dirty jokes with a straight face"
  • On The Privilege of the Sword
  • "Casting Felicia Day is a coup for me – incredibly satisfying as an audiobook producer"
  • On The Drowning Girl
  • "Someone who [can] catalog the sharp-detailed Imp's carefully observed daily life"
  • On White Apples
  • "That's a tall order for any narrator"
  • On Dr. Eszterhazy
  • "If you love fantasy, alternate worlds, or just love stories well-told, that's who Avram Davidson is"
  • On Viriconium
  • "A punk-sensibility London in a post-apocalyptic future"
  • On Anita
  • "An almost forgotten novel by one of the finest UK writers"
  • On Swordspoint
  • "A fairy tale of sorts, but a fairy tale for grown-ups"
  • On The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
  • "In Steve Sherrill's fiction, the Minotaur is alive and relatively well"
  • On The Land of Laughs
  • "Edoardo Ballerini conveys a certain wistfulness and vulnerability underneath Abbey's grumpiness"
  • On Pavane
  • "It was the first time a short story made me cry"
  • On Light
  • "It's a dark book, but there's a lot of light in here too"
  • On You Must Go and Win
  • "Alina Simone uses her life as material to tell stories that are funny, heartwarming, [and] tragic"
  • The Fall of the Kings audiobook cover art

    • The Fall of the Kings

    • By: Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman
    • Narrated by: Ellen Kushner, Nick Sullivan, Neil Gaiman, Simon Jones, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Richard Ferrone, Tim Jerome
    • Series: Riverside, Book 3
    • Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "If you are new to the world of Riverside, I hope the richness of The Fall of the Kings will surprise and delight you, with multi-voiced scenes set like jewels in the gold of Ellen Kushner’s own narration. And the fans of previous novels will recognize the show-stealing voices of Katherine Kellgren, Simon Jones, Nick Sullivan, along with a strong supporting cast. I myself had a cameo role in The Privilege of the Sword, and enjoyed it so much that I campaigned for a larger role in The Fall of the Kings…and I got it!"

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  • Dimension of Miracles audiobook cover art

    • Dimension of Miracles

    • By: Robert Sheckley
    • Narrated by: John Hodgman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,358 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "The challenge for me with a book this funny, this strange, this perceptive was to try and find a narrator who was as iconic, somebody who could deliver the goods, somebody who could give you a book like this as it deserved to be given. And the first, and the last, and actually the only person to come to mind was John Hodgman. So I asked John, and he said yes! And he did it; he pulled it off. Listening to John – not just the suave, sensible, sane narrator of this book, but all the peculiar accents and incarnations that he is forced to adopt through here – he does it delightfully, he does it brilliantly, he's really, really funny."

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  • Jurgen audiobook cover art

    • Jurgen

    • By: James Branch Cabell
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "When I heard Robert Blumenfeld reading, I knew we had found the perfect narrator, and I’d like to think the opinionated, critical and controversial author of Jurgen would think so too. Jurgen may be the most famous of James Branch Cabell’s books: It was certainly the one that put him on the map, when, in January 1920, the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice took his publisher to court for violating New York’s anti-obscenity law. Suddenly, Cabell went from an admired but semi-obscure author of literary satiric fantasy in historical novels, to the guy everyone was reading because he was banned."

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  • The High Place audiobook cover art

    • The High Place

    • By: James Branch Cabell
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "The High Place is what happens to the story of Sleeping Beauty when told as a cautionary – yet somehow rollicking – fairy tale. Our hero – if 'hero' we may call a man who’s just murdered each of his four wives – is the elegant and aristocratic Florian de Puysange. Florian is everyone’s dream of an amoral protagonist, all elegance and flourish, witty and urbane, a complete cad who acts on every pleasure it occurs to him to desire and he gets away with it. UNTIL it all comes due. I know that without Cabell’s work – and perhaps this book in particular – I wouldn’t be the same writer I am today, and I’m sure this holds true for many of my colleagues."

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  • Figures of Earth audiobook cover art

    • Figures of Earth

    • A Comedy of Appearances
    • By: James Branch Cabell
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "After a first round of very strong but not quite perfect auditions, I told the actors that 'the most important thing with Cabell is being able to deadpan a joke. These books are written by a Virginia gentleman who is capable of making the dirtiest of dirty jokes with a straight face, and who is writing high fantasy and poetry, too.' We needed someone who could get all of that in. Robert Blumenfeld captured the accent and wit of a man who corresponded with H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and in his lifetime counted Mark Twain among his fans.\"

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  • The Privilege of the Sword audiobook cover art

    • The Privilege of the Sword

    • By: Ellen Kushner
    • Narrated by: Ellen Kushner, Barbara Rosenblat, Felicia Day, Joe Hurley, Katherine Kellgren, Nick Sullivan, Neil Gaiman
    • Series: Riverside, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 800 ratings
    • In Neil's words: The Privilege of the Sword is read by author Ellen Kushner and other luminaries you may recognize. Casting Felicia Day is a coup for me - incredibly satisfying as an audiobook producer, not just because Felicia's an incredibly talented actress, but also because the quality of her performance matches the voice Ellen Kushner hears when she thinks of Lady Katherine. And that's equally true for the other voice actors: Katherine Kellgren, Nick Sullivan, Joe Hurley, and Barbara Rosenblat."

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  • The Drowning Girl audiobook cover art

    • The Drowning Girl

    • By: Caitlin R. Kiernan
    • Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "It's really important for me to find the voice that comes closest to the voice in the author's head. For this book, that turned out to be Suzy Jackson – someone who sounded young, but not naive; someone who could catalog the sharp-detailed Imp's carefully observed daily life, but also convey the blurred edges of her reality."

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  • White Apples audiobook cover art

    • White Apples

    • By: Jonathan Carroll
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "Victor Bevine manages to convey three aspects of Vincent's personality: the womanizing hedonist he was in life, the now-dead fellow trying to control his rising panic who realizes his one-night-stand knows today is his mother's birthday, and, ultimately, the loving, heroic, family man who undertakes a bit task for the sake of his unborn son and – incidentally – the rest of humanity. That's a tall order for any narrator."

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  • The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy audiobook cover art

    • The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy

    • By: Avram Davidson
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "This is the first place all the Eszterhazy stories have been collected together, including 'The Odd, Old Bird,' which was not part of the print edition. If you love fantasy, if you love alternate worlds, or if you just love stories well-told, that's who Avram Davidson is – someone who knows a great deal more than you do and is damned if both of you aren't going to have a great time in Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania."

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  • Anita audiobook cover art

    • Anita

    • By: Keith Roberts
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 523 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "Anita is an almost forgotten novel by one of the finest UK writers. It works on two levels. The stories are a product of the 1960s – they come out of a swinging world and a 'Georgy Girl' time, and Keith Roberts, then a young art director, has captured that feel. At the same time, it's about a teenage witch being brought up her Granny. He writes about her falling in love, getting her heart broken, about change and growing up and compromise, about what magic is and how you can lose it sometimes and how you can get it back."

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  • Swordspoint audiobook cover art

    • Swordspoint

    • A Melodrama of Manners
    • By: Ellen Kushner
    • Narrated by: Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones
    • Series: Riverside, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 1,316 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "Swordspoint is a fairy tale of sorts, but a fairy tale for grown-ups, as if Jane Austen wrote fantasy. It’s an imaginary world where the characters are real people: a Vanity Fair of aristocrats, rogues, orphans, and heroes; a book where the best swordsman in the land can make more money dueling at private parties than he can as a knight-errant. Several key scenes are dramatized and in those soundscapes you'll hear the cadences of the marketplace, the music of the drawing rooms and, of course, the ring of steel drawn from scabbard."

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  • The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel audiobook cover art

    • The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel

    • By: Steven Sherrill
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,152 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "In Steve Sherrill's fiction, the Minotaur is alive and relatively well, working as a short-order cook at a greasy spoon in North Carolina called Grub's Rib. The novel covers two weeks in M's life, from his home at the Lucky-U trailer park - where he repairs cars in his spare time – and back to Grub's Rib, where M has a crush on an epileptic waitress named Kelly. After we heard Holter Graham's audition for the book, Steve had this to say: 'Holter's handling of the Minotaur's grunt was PERFECT. Exactly what I heard in my head."

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  • The Land of Laughs audiobook cover art

    • The Land of Laughs

    • By: Jonathan Carroll
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 437 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "I chose The Land of Laughs because I love Jonathan Carroll's books and want to bring them to as wide an audience as possible. In this book, we learn about the fragile balance for some people between fiction and reality, and the dangers of retreating into a beloved book. I suspected the character of Thomas Abbey would be both a challenge and an opportunity for the right narrator. Edoardo Ballerini conveys a certain wistfulness and vulnerability underneath Abbey's grumpiness. He is a perfect guide for this journey."

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  • Pavane audiobook cover art

    • Pavane

    • By: Keith Roberts
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "There's a general consensus that Pavane is one of the great alternate history novels. I read one story from Pavane when I was nine, in an English science fiction monthly magazine and it scarred me. It was the first time a short story made me cry. It was Keith Roberts' masterpiece: profound and still remarkable. I love the way the narrator, Steven Crossley, subtly but definitely distinguishes each storyteller from the others, so that the unified whole really is more than the sum of its parts."

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  • You Must Go and Win: Essays audiobook cover art

    • You Must Go and Win: Essays

    • By: Alina Simone
    • Narrated by: Alina Simone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Neil's words: "Alina Simone uses her life as material to tell stories that are funny, heartwarming, tragic, often all at the same time. Her subjects, whether music, religion, Russia, or family, are conjured and dissected with warm humor and sharp eyes. Probably it's a really good thing she never became an international rock star: she wouldn't have written this if she had. As far as casting a narrator, well, this one was easy. Alina Simone is a singer-songwriter, and a writer, and a traveler. This is her first audiobook, and she reads it as well as she writes."

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