Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the them
e is Favorite Audiobook Narrators (or, if you don’t listen to audiobooks, name people—celebrities or otherwise—who might make you reconsider.) I have decided to go with celebrity audiobook narrators, but I am trying to not choose examples where they are reading their own autobiography. Not that there is anything wrong with that, and it might make a good topic another day, but not today.
Richard Armitage - It's no coincidence that I have started with RA. I mean...that voice equals aural bliss. I have listened to a number of books narrated by him. My absolute favourites are his narrations of Georgette Heyers books including Venetia and a couple of others. Might be time to listen to those again.
Emma Thompson - In my Audible library I have the Turn of the Screw. The introduction is narrated by Richard Armitage but the rest of the book is narrated by Emma Thompson.
Joanne Froggatt - Best known for her role in Downton Abbey, Joanna Froggatt narrated The Clockmakers Daughter
Stephen Fry - Fry narrates a lot of his own books, but for the purposes of this post I am interested in his narration of the Harry Potter books.
Dan Stevens - Stevens has narrated a number of books. It was only as I was writing this post that I realised that he has narrated a couple of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's book. I see one of those audiobooks in my future.
Wil Wheaton - Best known for his role on Star Trek, Wheaton narrated both Ready Player One and The Martian which I recently enjoyed.
Kathy Bates - I listened to her narrate an abridged version of A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley years ago. I didn't love it but it does count for the purposes of this post.
Bill Nighy - The last couple of years I have listened to Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. The main narration is by reading Sian Clifford, Death is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz and the footnotes by Bill Nighy.
Tony Robinson - The earlier version of Hogfather was narrated by Tony Robinson. I love watching his TV shows from Time Team to his shows about London, about trains, about anything really.
Phillipa Soo -If we talk about more modern stories, the I am going to mention The Stand In by Philippa Soo. I first heard of Philippa Soo when she starred in Hamilton.
Have you listened to any of these celebrities read audiobooks? Or other?
I love BIll Nighy's acting. I will have to check out the audiobooks he has narrated.
ReplyDeleteHe has a very distinct voice for sure Bonnie!
DeleteYou have some good ones listed. I love the sound of Stephen Fry's voice, soothing.
ReplyDeleteHe's a good narrator for sure! And I love that he narrates his own books!
DeleteRichard Armitage narrated a lovely Christmas story called The Christmas Hirelings. I've listened to it a couple of times and am thinking of making it a Christmas tradition.
ReplyDeleteI've listened to Derek Jacobi narrations of Frankenstein and some of the Sherlock Holmes books. He does a masterful job.
I enjoyed Sissy Spacek's narration of To Kill a Mocking bird.
I know I've probably heard books narrated by other celebrities, but I can't think of them now.
Just thought of another one. :-) Bronson Pinchot did a marvelous job narrating The Gilded Age and City of Tranquil Light.
DeleteI am going to look out for the Hirelings! Thanks for mentioning it!
DeleteWil Wheaton! I forgot about he narrates. I love when he does.
ReplyDeleteThe Martian was so good!
DeleteSo many great picks! I have a few audiobooks narrated by Phillipa Soo on my TBR and I can't wait to read them :) I also love Stephen Fry's narration and I can imagine Emma Thompson and Kathy Bates would be fantastic narrators cos I love their voices can listen to them speak all day (especially Thompson)!
ReplyDeleteI could listen to Emma Thompson for sure!
DeleteI'm not much into celebrities, but I have enjoyed the few memoirs I've listened to that are narrated by their authors. THE ANSWER IS... by Alex Trebek comes to mind. My husband and I are listening to SURRENDER by Bono right now and it's fun to hear his voice narrating and singing throughout.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
I do like listening to people narrate their own books. You get their pronunciation and emphasis! I highly recommend Stanley Tucci narrating his foodie memoir. So good!
DeleteI have not listened to any of these narrators. However, this is the second time Richard Armitage has came up! I am not seeing a lot of the same narrators on people's lists, which is pretty amazing!
ReplyDeleteRichard Armitage = aural bliss!
DeleteI knew Richard would be top of this list!
ReplyDeleteI am a bit predictable I think.
DeleteStephen Fry seems to be getting fairly unanimous praise as an audiobook narrator this week!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/top-ten-tuesday-417/
He is a good narrator for sure!
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