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Some of my favorite narrators are Jim Dale from the Harry Potter series.

Marguarite Gavin from The Hollows series by Kim Harrison.

Davina Porter from the Outlander series.

Brendan Fraser from Dragon rider.

Ohhhh Audry, yes, Brendan Fraser did an AWESOME job with Inkspell. I will have to get Dragon rider just to listen to him again!!

It was great, you could tell the characters apart and he was funny.

I don't know why, but I LOVE books read by black narrators, especially men. Their voices are more rich or something. I'll try to find some of the names of narrators I've liked a lot. Also, I'm open to recommendations :)

OK, this is "listener me" commenting (not "narrator me"). I have absolute narration crushes on Robin Sachs and Bianca Amato at the moment. But I am a complete sucker for British accents, so that might be part of it. Listened to The Thirteenth Tale recently and it was exceptional.

Bianca Amato does an excellent job with the Thirtheenth Tale and it is a marvelous story. She also narrates Dragon's Keep which I recommend to any fantasy buffs and Saturn's Children for the scifi types who like something a little strange.

Love Amanda Ronconi who reads the Molly Harper Jane Jameson books as well as the other Harper books. She is awesome and brings the words to life in a laugh out loud kind of way! I might have a listening crush on her! I am looking to get the other books she has narrated.

other favorites:
Holter Graham who reads Patricia Briggs Alpha & Omega Series
Lorelei King who reads Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series
Eileen Stevens who reads Victoria Laurie's Ghost Hunter series

Also, love the Hollows series with Marguarite Gavin

Victoria Laurie
Molly Harper
Patricia Briggs

I am listening to Dragon Rider right now and Brendan Fraser is awesome, just as I expected. Its a great story and he is doing a beautiful job with the different voices and so on. Awesome. I will listen to any book he narrates.

I like Marguarite Gavin as well. Other narrators I like are:

Jim Frangione who reads J.R.Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood
Jennifer Van Dyck who reads Maria V. Snyder's Glass series
Raymond Todd who reads Lyn Flewelling's Nightrunner series.

And my new favorite narrator Justine Eyre who reads Ultraviolet by R.J.Anderson

I am definitely liking Barbara Curuso who narrates the Anne of Green Gables Series. She is wonderful. Very pleasant voice to listen to. Its soothing and full of emotion. Just lovely.

Lena wrote: "I don't know why, but I LOVE books read by black narrators, especially men. Their voices are more rich or something. I'll try to find some of the names of narrators I've liked a lot. Also, I'm open..."

Do you know if James Earl Jones has ever done any narrating? I love his voice. It is just so powerful.

I checked Audible. The only books they show James Earl Jones as narrating are The Bible and a few kids books. Narrating must not be something he does much of, which is a shame. I agree, his voice is powerful.

Crap. But I do have to admit that I fell in love with the Lion King, the first one, cause of his voice. And although he isn't black has Liam Nielson(sp?) ever done any narrating? Like for some of the Narnia books? Love his voice too.

The only thing Audible shows for Liam is . Just because Audible doesn't have anything else doesn't mean there isn't any others out there. As a matter of fact, I just typed it in google & amazon.com shows he narrated The Polar Express. It must just be available in CD format.

Thanks Nikki. Will have to look into these. Looks like audio reads can really grow on me. And save me some time to with reading stuff myself.

I am so excited to hear that Cherale. :) Its a great format.

I bet James Earl Jones doing the bible is amazing. His voice really lends itself to such a powerful read.

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So true Jennifer. But I leave the religious stuff to my dad. He can go on for days at a time about that sort of thing.

I've been a audible listener since 2006, I have lots of favorites.
1. Katherine Kellgren is outstanding on LA Meyer's Bloody Jack series.
2. James Marsters on the Dresden Files
3. Nick Podehl on the KingKiller Series
4. Neil Gaiman
5. Davina Porter
6. Susan Bennett on Bite Me by Christopher Moore
7. David Aaron Barker on Odd Thomas
Reliables: John Lee, Scott Brick, Dick Hill, Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Gabra Zackman...

Casey wrote: "I've been a audible listener since 2006, I have lots of favorites.
1. Katherine Kellgren is outstanding on LA Meyer's Bloody Jack series.
2. James Marsters on the Dresden Files
3. Nick Podehl on ..."

We have such different tastes!.

I can tolerate John Lee, Simon Vance, and Gabra Zackman, but I'll probably try to avoid audiobooks narrated by Dick Hill and Neil Gaiman in the future ( if possible ).

Kate Reading is a favorite of mine.

Some more recent favorites of mine are:

Lloyd James, who narrated Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion.

Michael Kramer, who narrates a number of fantasy books including Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series.

Michael Page, who narrates a ton of audiobooks including The Lies of Locke Lamora, The Paid Companion, and The Three Musketeers.

Susan Duerden, who's narration of The Rook by Daniel O'Malley was superb.

I love Victor Slezak, he is a wonderful narrator.
He is the one who narrates for Sandra Brown books.

I also listened to A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson.
She narrates her own books and honestly at first I was unsure, but ended up very pleased.

I am unsure of who narrated Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand but he was absolutely phenomenal..
It is my all time 5-star read.

Peter Kenny is my absolute favorite narrator, he does a lot of the Culture books by Iain M. Banks.

Recorded Books has excellent readers, such as George Guidall, Patrick Tull, and Barbara Rosenblatt ( I could listen to her reading the phone book). Authors reading their own works are rarely good, their job is writing, not reading.

I agree that Jim Dale was outstanding in Harry Potter, he is also wonderful in The Night Circus. And I recently enjoyed The Lies of Locke Lamora which Gavin mentioned above. Some listeners didn't like his style with the many accents, but I thought it was terrific!

is my favorite, I'm not very experienced in this audiobooks world, but still I like his narration.

Gavin wrote: "Casey wrote: "I've been a audible listener since 2006, I have lots of favorites.
1. Katherine Kellgren is outstanding on LA Meyer's Bloody Jack series.
2. James Marsters on the Dresden Files
3. N..."

I LOVE The Curse of Chalion. It's the only book I've listened to more than once.

Casey wrote: "I LOVE The Curse of Chalion. It's the only book I've listened to more than once. "

I've been an Audible member since 2007 and I don't think I have listened to a single audiobook twice.

The Curse of Chalion would most certainly be one of my top picks for a re-listen though. It's a great book and Lloyd James's performance is one of the best I've heard so far.

On the strength of Curse of Chalion I bought the rest of Lois McMaster Bujold's fantasy audiobooks. I figured it would be a safe bet as the narrators for the other books are Bernadette Dunne, Kate Reading, and Marguerite Gavin. All of whom I have enjoyed listening to in the past

Definitely George Guidall. From Night by Elie Wiesel to Stephen King's Dark Tower Books. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck), The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara) - I started sobbing at one point and I'm not sure I would have just by reading the book. I both listen and read books but I find I prefer to listen when GG is the reader!

I could listen to John Lee read anything.

Scott Brick is hit/miss for me. Sometimes he's great, sometimes he's my nightmare. I loved him in The Lions Game, I loathed him in The Lion (he went with a "Gumshoe" sound on The Lion, which was awful).

Humphrey Bower (The Power of One) takes a little warming up, but I enjoy him.

Katherine Kellgren (Blackout/All Clear) is a fantastic narrator.

Avery Brooks has a voice like warm butterscotch (Roots).

Narrator for Unbroken was Edward Herrmann. :)

The Ladies who narrated The Help were fantastic: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell

Charles Kahlenberg did Made to Stick (non fiction) and was fantastic. He needs to do more.

John Slattery wasn't bad.

Roy Dotrice starts a little rough with Game of Thrones and has a couple hiccups on Arya's (or was it Sansa's) voice, but was otherwise terrific.

I just finished the audio of The Kitchen House and the narration by Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin, was excellent.

C wrote: "I could listen to John Lee read anything.

Scott Brick is hit/miss for me. Sometimes he's great, sometimes he's my nightmare. I loved him in The Lions Game, I loathed him in The Lion (he went with..."

I do not mean to pry, but as you enjoy both John Lee and Roy Dotrice. I'm curious as to which version of A Feast for Crows you listened too.

I listened to the John Lee version. To start with I found the change from Dotrice to Lee a bit jarring, but by the end of the book I was hoping they would stick with John Lee for the rest of the series. I love Dotrice but think the Lee deals with female voices much better.

Robin wrote: "I recently enjoyed The Lies of Locke Lamora which Gavin mentioned above. Some listeners didn't like his style with the many accents, but I thought it was terrific! "

The biggest issue those I have spoken with had with Michael Pages's narration of The Lies of Locke Lamora was not his use of multiple accents but that they believed his voice was too cultured for the story. They believed someone with a more gritty voice would have captured the personality's of Locke and company better.

Not me of course, I love Page as a narrator and have even bought a few audiobooks just because they are narrated by him!.

C wrote: "I could listen to John Lee read anything.

My favorite audiobook so far has been The Pillars of the Earth. I credit his narration with a considerable part of my love for this book. I have more of Ken Follett's books waiting in the wings so that I can hear John Lee read more! :)

Tom Stechschulte, is my hands down favorite right now. His narration of Ken Kesey, Larry Brown, Robert McCammon & Pat Conroy titles have brought the books to life for me. The voice inflections he uses to denote various characters in a story are subtle, yet distinct, and thorough enjoyable. I have started adding titles by unfamiliar authors to my "to read" shelf if he is listed as the narrator.

A Feast For Crows was mentioned in an earlier post & I recall that it was also very well read so will look for more by that narrator.

John Glover was excellent narrating Night Shift by Stephen King

Mia Farrow was of course awesome narrating Rosemary's Baby. I was especially impressed at how she performed the character of Minnie Castevet.

The youthful quality of Anne Heche's voice was an asset to her narration of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Gavin wrote: "I'm curious as to which version of A Feast for Crows you listened too."

I listened to the first audiobook of Game of Thrones (Dotrice), then, all a glitter with new-fandom, ran out (ok, I logged into Amazon) and bought the box set (IS it a box set when it's an ebook?) and set about reading them! So I have not yet heard John Lee's version, but I bet it was excellent and I agree, he is a master at voices and I wouldn't doubt he outdoes Dotrice there. That said, I did love Dotrice's Tyrion so much I cringed watching the show, because while Peter Dinklage is fantastic, he is not THE Tyrion I came to love in the initial listen.

Sally - I enjoyed Pillars as well, but especially loved Lee's narration of Tai Pan. His rendition of the Tai Pan's voice was fantastic, and his rendition of May-May was hysterical...except I found myself walking around saying "oh that's good joss!" (though, it makes such a great joke since I'm also a big Joss Whedon fan..haha!). Lee is also fantastic with The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Muskateers. It's a happy thing when you find a narrator you love who has also narrated several books you're looking forward to hearing.

I'm now tempted to revisit George R.R. Martin in audiobook!

C wrote: "That said, I did love Dotrice's Tyrion so much I cringed watching the show, because while Peter Dinklage is fantastic, he is not THE Tyrion I came to love in the initial listen."

I liked Peter Dinklage as Tyrion, but have to agree the Dotrice version is even better.

E.B Stevens does a great job on Fablehaven.

I am just finishing reading the second Game of Thrones book and have only read them, not listened to them. You are making it sound like the third book might be a good idea to listen to, now that I have the characters in place! :)

I had to look these up because I never pay attention to the names of narrators when I listen to audiobooks. I definitely recognize the voices I've heard beforem, but I'm clueless about who reads them (I'm the same way with singers and actors -- can never remember anyone's names but I know them when I see or hear them).

My absolute favorite narrators are:

-> Jim Dale -- narrated the Harry Potter series. He is incredible -- I listened to six of the seven Harry Potter books on CD because I was hooked on Jim Dale as the narrator

-> Lynne Thigpen -- narrated The Parable of the Sower. You might remember her as the chief on that old show "Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego" -- love her voice.

-> Stefan Rudnicki -- has narrated a couple of books I've listend to, but I first heard him as the voice of Ender on the audiobook Ender's Game. I love his voice! Ender's Game is also one of my favorite audio books because it was the first one I listened to that had an ensemble cast with different narrators reading different parts -- awesome listening experience.

-> John Lee -- narrated Pillars of the Earth. He never made me hate him when he read for female characters!

Jah - I am the same way with the narrartors, singers and actors. lol I am so glad to have found a kindred spirit. :)

Jah wrote: "He never made me hate him when he read for female characters!"

lol I love that, and it's such an accurate litmus test for male narrators... and vice versa for female. Some gals trying to do a male voice make my skin crawl.

Just finished Hounded narrated by Luke Daniels and I Loved him!! Does a great job with the different voices. The lead character has a wolfhound that he is able to communicate with & his narration of the dog is hilarious!! I can't wait to continue with the series.

I really loved Justine Eyre reading the South African thriller Stolen Lives by Jassy Mackenzie. She did a fabulous job with the different accents, although I can't be sure how authentic her version of the South African accent actually is. I've had very little exposure.

What I absolutely can't stand is when narrators use far too much pathos, trying to make even a bathroom stop exciting. Well, of course there might be a serial killer waiting there, but even then it can get quite annoying.

I really like Michael Kramer. I've listened to him narrate a bunch of Robert Jordan Wheel of Time books, plus Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. He does excellent character voices and keeps his general narration monotone enough so as not to heavily sway your interpretations but never gets robotic.

My absolute favourite narrator is Jayne Entwistle who has narrated the Flavia deLuce series The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie et al. You can almost see her facial expressions just by listening to her voice.

So far, no one's mentioned Barbara Rosenblat, who (along with George Guidall) was THE ubiquitous narrator when I started listening to audio books (in about 2001). She's marvelous in the Amelia Peabody series--some of those have about 20 characters, with various international accents.

You've given me some new ideas here--thanks!

I LOVE Lorelei King who reads the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich! Her voices for each character are spot on...and I can hear her even when I read the books!

Tim Curry is great in some of the Lemony Snicket books

Lorelei King is great. She narrates the Charley Davidson series as well.

Rupert Degas in
The Name of the Wind
and Steven Pacey in the The Bartimaeus Trilogy Boxed Set <3