Audiobooks Like The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman reads his own work with the unhurried gravity of a storyteller who knows exactly how long to hold a silence — the eight-hour runtime feels shaped rather than paced, and his voice shifts just enough between characters to distinguish them without becoming a performance. Nine of the ten picks are also by Gaiman and narrated by him, so this is less a list of similar books and more an invitation to spend more time in the particular atmosphere only he creates when he reads aloud.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Graveyard Book

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    Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust(Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust) cover

    Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust(Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust)

    by Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (495.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (483.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (11.6K)
    6h 23m listening time • Released 2006
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    The Ocean at the End of the Lane cover

    The Ocean at the End of the Lane

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.22 ABR Score (685.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (660.0K) ★ 4.45 Audible (24.9K)
    6h 22m listening time • Released 2013
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  3. 3
    The Sandman: Act I cover

    The Sandman: Act I

    Sandman Audible Original • Book 1

    by Dirk Maggs, Neil Gaiman, Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, James McAvoy, Andy Serkis, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Michael Sheen, Arthur Darvill, Miriam Margolyes

    Narrated by Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen

    ★ 4.48 ABR Score (78.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (24.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (53.1K)
    11h 2m listening time • Released 2020
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  4. 4
    Coraline cover

    Coraline

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.43 ABR Score (798.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (788.4K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.8K)
    3h 35m listening time • Released 2003
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  5. 5
    Neverwhere cover

    Neverwhere

    London Below • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (605.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (563.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (41.8K)
    13h 48m listening time • Released 2017
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    Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders cover

    Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

    American Gods #1.1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Neil Gaiman

    ★ 4.05 ABR Score (75.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (72.0K) ★ 4.44 Audible (3.5K)
    10h 47m listening time • Released 2006
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    American Gods cover

    American Gods

    American Gods • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Full Cast

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (994.5K) ★ 4.58 Audible (63.0K)
    19h 39m listening time • Released 2011
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    Good Omens cover

    Good Omens

    by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Arthur Darvill, Chris Nelson, David Tennant, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Gabrielle Glaister, Josh Hopkins, Katherine Kingsley, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lemn Sissay, Lorelei King, Louis Davison, Matt Reeves, Michael Sheen

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (830.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (830.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (206)
    12h 14m listening time • Released 2022
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    Anansi Boys cover

    Anansi Boys

    American Gods • Book 2

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Lenny Henry

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (251.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (230.1K) ★ 4.56 Audible (21.8K)
    10h 5m listening time • Released 2005
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    American Gods. TV Tie-In cover

    American Gods. TV Tie-In

    American Gods • Book 1

    by Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.05 ABR Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (994.4K) ★ 4.23 Audible (10.7K)
    20h 51m listening time • Released 2003

    George Guidall's gravelly baritone transforms Gaiman's sprawling mythic road trip into something hypnotic—he doesn't just narrate, he conjures a whole haunted America into existence around you.

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