Audiobooks Like Fairy Tale

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If you loved Fairy Tale by Stephen King, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Seth Numrich's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Fairy Tale

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    The Wind Through the Keyhole

    The Dark Tower #4.5 • Book 8

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King

    4.17 BLT Score (103.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (94.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (9.0K)
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    Wolves of the Calla

    The Dark Tower • Book 5

    by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.47 BLT Score (221.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (203.6K) ★ 4.7 Audible (17.5K)
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    George Guidall's performance transforms King's most ambitious Dark Tower installment into pure immersion—his voice captures every shade of dread and desperation across 26 hours that feel essential rather than excessive.

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    The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.43 BLT Score (692.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (668.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (24.1K)
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    George Guidall's weathered drawl transforms King's western-noir odyssey into pure atmospheric immersion—every dusty town and moral standoff lands harder when delivered by a voice born for moral ambiguity.

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    The Green Mile

    The Green Mile #1-6

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.73 BLT Score (383.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (368.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (14.4K)
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    The Dark Tower I-III Boxed Set

    The Dark Tower #1-3 • Book 3

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.63 BLT Score (34.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (8.6K) ★ 4.84 Audible (25.5K)
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    Song of Susannah

    The Dark Tower • Book 6

    by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.32 BLT Score (192.7K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (177.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (15.5K)
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    George Guidall's performance elevates this sprawling, time-jumping installment into something genuinely haunting—his voice work for Susannah's possession is genuinely unsettling, and he nails the tonal shifts between worlds.

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    The Drawing of the Three

    The Dark Tower • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.22 BLT Score (333.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (293.2K) ★ 4.33 Audible (40.7K)
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    George Guidall's performance transforms King's genre-bending sequel into something almost operatic—each character gets a distinct voice that makes the collision between fantasy and 1980s New York feel genuinely disorienting and alive.

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    The Talisman

    The Talisman • Book 1

    by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.17 BLT Score (160.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (143.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (17.1K)
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    The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.77 BLT Score (668.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (667.9K) ★ 3.97 Audible (429)
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    King's most ambitious series begins here — a lone gunslinger pursues a man in black across a post-apocalyptic desert in a genre-bending western-fantasy that grows into something immense.

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    A Court of Mist and Fury

    A Court of Thorns and Roses • Book 2

    by Sarah J. Maas

    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda

    4.89 BLT Score (3.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.63 Goodreads (3.3M) ★ 4.85 Audible (60.1K)
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    Jennifer Ikeda's narration transforms this dark fantasy sequel into something genuinely unputdownable—her voice work captures both the vulnerability and lethal power that makes this book such a phenomenon.

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