Neil Gaiman, a fictional world builder and one of Earth’s gems, was born on November 10, 1960. Gaiman was born in Hampshire, England, and his passion for reading began at a young age when he composed his first poem at the age of three.
His parents would often pat him down before social gatherings to ensure he wasn’t hiding any books. It stands to reason, then, that his love affair with libraries began at such a young age.
Gaiman began his career as a critic, penning over 700 book and film reviews for numerous publications. When waiting for a train in 1984, Gaiman came across Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing Number 25 on a newsstand shelf. What he read was a new approach to comics that rekindled his passion for the medium and the art form.
The Sandman, a classic series that won several Eisner and Harvey Awards, debuted in 1989.
Let’s Find Out What Neil Gaiman has to Offer in his famous Audiobooks?
There is a period in a famous author’s career where an audiobook blogger must attempt to rank the author’s best narrations. Neil Gaiman will undoubtedly be overjoyed that his day has finally arrived.
Neil Gaiman’s fantastic worlds are a joy on audio, and audiences are particularly fortunate to be able to hear his work in this format. Not only do we have so many options in so many genres, but we frequently get several audio copies of a single novel. And Gaiman is an expert reader of his own work—once you’ve heard his complex interpretation, you’ll be able to hear his accent in your mind if you read his phrases.
But where do you begin with Gaiman, whose works vary very much in style and approach while being so close to their author’s essence?
Best Neil Gaiman Audiobooks Of All Time
- InterWorld
This trilogy, co-written with Michael Reaves, leans toward the younger end of the YA spectrum, but it appeals to readers of all ages. It’s a gateway tale with more science fiction elements than you’d expect from Gaiman, thanks to Reaves and, in the second and third books, his daughter, Mallory Reaves.
Joey Harker, a high school student, gets confused one day—so lost, in reality, that he ends up in another world, where he must collaborate with other iterations of himself to save the multiverse.
Best About This Audiobook
When Newbery Medalist Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves partnered, the bestselling YA novel InterWorld was born.
Joey Harker learns that his planet is just one of a trillion alternate piles of earth in InterWorld. Any of these worlds is governed by sorcery. Some are governed by theory. Everything is at war.
An enjoyable audiobook, but it doesn’t give you a good sense of Gaiman’s writing style.
- Coraline
‘A little while after they moved into the house, Coraline discovered the door.
When Coraline walks across a door to find a house unusually similar (just better) to her own, things seem wonderful.
She is overjoyed with her discovery until the Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there indefinitely. Coraline must rely on all of her resources and bravery to return to her own family and life.
There are a mother and a dad, but they want her to stay and be their little daughter. You want to change it and you don’t let it go.
If she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life, Coralina will have to fight with her wit and courage.
Best About This Audiobook
The best-selling New York Times, Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, the Coraline, the Newbery Medal winner.
A girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) explores her new home, discovering a secret entrance behind which lies an alternate world that closely reflects her own but is much better.
- Neverwhere: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation
There is another London beneath the streets of London. An underground maze of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A place that isn’t anywhere… Richard Mayhew is catapulted from his ordinary life into the strange world of London Below by an act of kindness.
There, he meets the Earl of Earl’s Court, endures a life-threatening ordeal at the hands of the Black Friars, confronts the Great Beast of London, and meets an Angel, Islington.
Preceded by the spooky Door and her companions, the Marquis de Carabas and the chauffeur Hunter, Richard embarks on an extraordinary journey to escape the fiendish assassins Croup and Vandemar and discover who ordered them to murder her family – all while attempting to return to his old life in London Above.
This captivating dramatization, adapted for radio by the award-winning Dirk Maggs, features a stellar cast that includes David Harewood, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Anthony Head, and David Schofield.
Best About This Audiobook
The story, which was first created as a BBC drama in Neverwhere, Gaiman’s twoth novel. This novel takes place largely in London – the pipes under the city surface in “London Below.” Never is Gaiman’s fans regarded as his strongest and most mysterious novel with the best villagers to boot.
- The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction
An exceptional collection of 52 works of picked fiction by multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James.
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world’s most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers.
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an introduction to Gaiman’s work and a literary treasure chest that Gaiman fans old and new will return to again and again.
Best About This Audiobook
This captivating audiobook contains selections from each of Gaiman’s five novels for adults—Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—as well as nearly fifty of his short stories.
- Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Don’t Panic is an in-depth study of Douglas Adams’ literary sensation The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – from its origins as a UK radio series to its extension into a wildly influential book trilogy and onto incarnations in numerous media including stage, albums, film, video games, and even, um, tea towels.
Don’t Panic was the first novel published by globally bestselling author Neil Gaiman, who began his writing career as a freelance journalist in his native England. With a new introduction penned and read by Neil Gaiman and spoken by legendary actor Simon Jones – “Arthur Dent” himself.
Going on a long trip, the randomness of nature and the absence of sense in looking for answers to life’s questions are among the topics explored. I assume that the author, Douglas Adams, is attempting to express to the reader that looking for answers to life’s mysteries is a waste of time.
Best About This Audiobook
For the first time ever, it’s available as an audiobook! Don’t Panic is the ultimate chronicle of all things Hitchhiker! Read by Simon Jones, the real “Arthur Dent,” and published by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
- Norse Mythology
In building the fantastical worlds of his novels, Neil Gaiman has long been influenced by ancient myths. Now he returns to the source, delivering a bravura performance of the great northern stories.
Gaiman fashions primeval tales into a novelistic cycle in Norse Mythology, which starts with the genesis of the mythical nine realms, delves into the adventures of the deities, dwarves, and giants, and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rise of a new time and people.
Gaiman faithfully reincarnates Odin, the greatest of the mighty, intelligent, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, exceedingly powerful but not the wisest of gods; and Loki, the son of a giant, a trickster, and unrivaled manipulator. The gods arise from Gaiman’s deft and witty writing, with their intensely competitive natures, susceptibility to being duped and duping others, and proclivity to let love fuel their acts, giving these long-forgotten myths new existence.
Best About This Audiobook
Believers used Norse mythology myths, like every other religion’s stories, to help structure and explain the cosmos. The gods are the characters of those stories—living, breathing beings that were an important part of life for the northern Germanic people.
Master storyteller Neil Gaiman delivers a sparkling version of the great Norse myths in this instant classic.
- Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Neil Gaiman, the multi-award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns to dazzle, captivate, torment, and thrill with this third audiobook of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before-published American Gods novel, “Black Dog,” written specifically for this volume.
Neil Gaiman pierces the curtain of truth in this recent collection to expose the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies underneath.
Trigger Warning contains previously released short fiction—stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story written for the iconic series’ fiftieth anniversary in 2013—as well as “Black Dog,” a new story that revisits the realm of American Gods that is exclusive to this set.
Best About This Audiobook
Gaiman, a sophisticated writer of unrivaled artistic talent, enchants us with his poetic alchemy, transporting us far into the world of fantasy, where the fantastical becomes tangible and the ordinary becomes incandescent. Trigger Warning is a treasure trove of delights that stimulate the mind, awaken the spirit, and shake the soul from one of today’s most special and influential literary artists, full of wonder and horror, surprises and amusements.
- The Sleeper and the Spindle: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization
A young queen in a distant mountain kingdom prepares for her wedding, certain that her destiny is sealed. But when three dwarves arrive with news of a sleeping sickness sweeping her realm, she realizes she can’t sit back and do anything. She survived her own deep, magical sleep as a child, so she must try to reverse this new disease and save her people.
She abandons her bridal gown in favor of armor and rides out to a castle in the middle of the sleeping lands.
There, she encounters a pretty princess who is fast sleeping and an elderly lady who is still awake. With no charming prince in mind, the queen wakes the princess in the usual manner – but this is not as it seems, and it will take more than a kiss to guarantee that everybody lives happily ever after…
Best About This Audiobook
A brand new BBC Radio version of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning fairytale, combining Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to enchanting effect.
In this enthralling fable of passion, death, faith, and fate, Penelope Wilton, Gwendoline Christie, Ralph Ineson, and Neil Gaiman himself the star.
This unabridged audiobook edition contains an expanded version of the story that aired on BBC Radio 4, as well as an exclusive introduction by Neil Gaiman.
- The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Neil Gaiman has long been admired for the keen intelligence and startling ingenuity that informs his bestselling novels. He is an inquisitive observer, insightful commentator, and assiduous craftsman. The View from the Cheap Seats collects more than sixty bits of his excellent nonfiction for the first time.
This cornucopia explores a wide range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to) authors past and present, music, storytelling, comics, bookshops, travel, fairy tales, America, inspiration, libraries, ghosts, and the title piece, which is both touching and self-deprecating, recounting the author’s experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards.
Best About This Audiobook
An enthralling series of nonfiction essays on a wide range of subjects, from art and artists to fantasies, myths, and memories, encountered in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s questioning, entertaining, and distinct style.
The View from the Cheap Seats is an insightful, incisive, witty, and wise exploration of the topics and subjects that matter most to Neil Gaiman, providing a look into the mind and heart of one of the most acclaimed, revered, and influential artists of our time.
- Full Throttle: Stories
The number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns with a grim and inventive series of 13 gripping short stories that highlight his ability to “push genre tropes to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review), performed by a spectacular multi-cast that includes Neil Gaiman.
Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in 13 endless tales of supernatural mystery in this masterful anthology of short fiction, including “In The Tall Grass,” one of two stories co-written with Stephen King and the inspiration for the horrifying Netflix feature film.
In “Faun,” a little door that leads to a realm of fairy-tale surprises becomes the blood-soaked stomping ground for a band of hunters. In “Late Returns,” a bereaved librarian gets behind the wheel of an old bookmobile to carry new books to the dead.
In “By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain,” two young friends find the remains of a plesiosaur at the water’s edge, causing them to face the inevitable reality of their own mortality…as well as other horrors lurking in the water’s shivery depths.
Best About This Audiobook
Full Throttle is a darkly conceived odyssey into the depths of the human psyche, including two previously unpublished stories and a pair of disturbing chillers. It mines our tormented secrets, latent flaws, and baser fears in a hypnotic and unsettling manner, demonstrating this extraordinary talent at his very best.
Final Verdict
Now that we have compiled the best narration audiobook from Neil Gaiman, it’s your turn to dwell on the love of listening.
All you have to do is pick your favorite pair of earphones and I suggest you take a dig at each of them. Each of his audiobooks has something more to offer.
Happy Listening!!!
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This article was written by 10audioz and published on Sunday, 8 August 2021. The last update was made on Tuesday, 25 January 2023.