Best Alex Jennings Audiobooks
Alex Jennings is the narrator you want when a book demands genuine literary weight. A celebrated stage and screen actor — best known to many as Prince Charles in The Crown — Jennings brings a classical British precision to everything he touches, paired with a warmth that keeps it from feeling stiff. His reading of Pride and Prejudice is definitive, his Crime and Punishment genuinely haunting. But his most impressive achievement may be The Chronicles of Narnia, where he voices Lewis's entire world with a quiet wonder that works equally well for children and adults rediscovering the books. At 107 titles spanning Austen, Dickens, le Carré, and even Britney Spears, his range is almost absurd — yet he never sounds like he's slumming. If you love literary fiction, classic novels, or British authors in particular, Jennings is your narrator.
Where to Start with Alex Jennings
- New to Alex Jennings? Start here → Pride and Prejudice
- What fans keep coming back to → Crime and Punishment
- Short listen, big payoff → The Chronicles Of Narnia : The Magician's Nephew, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle
- Highest rated by listeners → The Chronicles of Narnia: Complete Audio Collection
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Camel Club
107 audiobooks in collection
★ 3.83 avg ABR rating
Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Biography & Memoir, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Self-Help
Best Alex Jennings Audiobooks
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Complete Audio Collection
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order) #1–7 • Book 1
by C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam, Patrick Stewart
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam, Patrick Stewart
★ 4.65 ABR Score (731.2K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (712.6K) ★ 4.84 Audible (18.6K)33h 45m listening time • Released 2019 - 2
The Chronicles Of Narnia : The Magician's Nephew, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle
The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order) #1–7 • Book 3
by C.S. Lewis
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.48 ABR Score (719.0K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (712.9K) ★ 4.7 Audible (6.1K)4h 39m listening time • Released 2005 - 3
The Gods of War
Emperor • Book 4
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.40 ABR Score (17.6K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (17.6K)6h 6m listening time • Released 2011 - 4
The Death of Kings
Emperor • Book 2
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.38 ABR Score (21.9K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (21.9K)5h 57m listening time • Released 2011 - 5
Cometh the Hour
The Clifton Chronicles • Book 6
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.36 ABR Score (39.6K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (36.7K) ★ 4.59 Audible (2.9K)13h 4m listening time • Released 2016 - 6
The Sins of the Father
The Clifton Chronicles • Book 2
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Emilia Fox
★ 4.36 ABR Score (67.7K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (67.7K)10h 7m listening time • Released 2024 - 7
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Jenny Agutter
★ 4.34 ABR Score (135.2K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (133.4K) ★ 4.64 Audible (1.8K)16h 25m listening time • Released 2015 - 8
The Camel Club
The Camel Club • Book 1
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.34 ABR Score (98.8K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (98.8K)5h 38m listening time • Released 2024 - 9
The Whole Truth: Shaw and Katie James 1
A. Shaw • Book 1
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.30 ABR Score (43.4K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (43.4K)5h 37m listening time • Released 2024 - 10
A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.26 ABR Score (38.0K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (38.0K)4h 38m listening time • Released 2025 - 11
What a Carve Up!
The Winshaw Legacy • Book 1
by Jonathan Coe
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Jeff Rawle
★ 4.25 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (13.3K)3h 51m listening time • Released 2005 - 12
Simple Genius: King and Maxwell
Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 3
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.23 ABR Score (49.4K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (49.4K)5h 8m listening time • Released 2024 - 13
Best Kept Secret
The Clifton Chronicles • Book 3
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.20 ABR Score (55.3K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (52.2K) ★ 4.44 Audible (3.1K)11h 15m listening time • Released 2013 - 14
Hornet Flight
by Ken Follett
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.19 ABR Score (29.4K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (29.4K)4h 30m listening time • Released 2024 - 15
Silver on the Tree
The Dark Is Rising • Book 5
by Susan Cooper
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.19 ABR Score (36.9K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (36.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (587)9h 26m listening time • Released 2003 - 16
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dramatised)
George Smiley • Book 5
Narrated by Simon Russell Beale, Anna Chancellor, Alex Jennings, Kenneth Cranham, Bill Paterson
★ 4.17 ABR Score (107.2K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (107.0K) ★ 4.4 Audible (158)2h 50m listening time • Released 2010 - 17
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.15 ABR Score (4.9M ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (4.9M) ★ 3.5 Audible (2)4h 49m listening time • Released 2011 - 18
Greenwitch
The Dark Is Rising • Book 3
by Susan Cooper, Unknown Author
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.14 ABR Score (33.0K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (32.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (716)4h 23m listening time • Released 2007 - 19
The Dark Is Rising
The Dark Is Rising • Book 2
by Susan Cooper
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.13 ABR Score (62.5K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (61.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (1.3K)8h 42m listening time • Released 2003 - 20
Mightier Than the Sword
The Clifton Chronicles • Book 5
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.12 ABR Score (37.1K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (36.9K) ★ 4.55 Audible (170)12h 55m listening time • Released 2015
All Alex Jennings Audiobooks (107)
Literature & Fiction (51)
The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
★4.11 10h 7m
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
★4.04 16h 25m
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
★4.05 4h 38m
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
★4.11 3h 51m
Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
★4.04 11h 15m
Mightier Than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer
★4.19 12h 55m
Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer
★4.13 11h 39m
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
★4.25 3h 9m
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
★4.29 5h 15m
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
★4.06
The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and at Last by Edward St. Aubyn
★4.06 5h 43m
This Was a Man by Jeffrey Archer
★4.34 12h 47m
Nicholas Nickleby by Anne de Graaf, Charles Dickens
★3.91 34h 42m
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
★3.88 5h 43m
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
★4.08 3h 45m
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Richard Gaughan
★4.09 2h 58m
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
★3.95 16h 23m
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
★3.78 17h 13m
The Complete Barchester Chronicles by Martyn Wade, Anthony Trollope, Juliet Aubrey, Simon Russell Beale, Brenda Blethyn, Jilly Bond, Selina Cadell, John Carlisle, David Collings, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding, Julia Ford, Clive Francis, Jamie Glover, David Haig, Douglas Hodge, David Horovitch, Peter Howell, Alex Jennings, Rosemary Leach, Gabrielle Lloyd, Alec McCowan, Leo McKern, Anna Massey, Stephen Moore, Richard Vernon, Derek Waring
★4.21 18h 46m
Love, etc. by Julian Barnes
★3.71 6h 42m
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn
★3.78 13h 47m
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes
★3.71 7h 55m
Waterland by Graham Swift
★3.89 12h 57m
From Shakespeare - With Love: The Best of the Sonnets by William Shakespeare, David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Alex Jennings, Roy McMillan, Tom Mison, Anne-Marie Piazza, Hugh Ross, Benjamin Soames, David Timson, Trevor White, Maxine Peake, Stella Gonet, Bertie Carvel, Gunnar Cauthery, Jonathan Keeble
★4.10 1h 15m
Love's Labor's Lost: The Arkangel Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
2h 26m
The Sweet Shop Owner by Graham Swift
★3.61 7h 28m
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
★3.91 13h 10m
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
★3.50 6h 8m
The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Early Years by Charles Dickens, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Bill Nighy, Julia McKenzie, Pam Ferris, Phil Daniels, Robert Glenister, Sandi Toksvig, Tim McInnerny
★4.47 35h 7m
Ever After by Graham Swift
★3.56 9h 20m
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
★3.69 3h 30m
Selected Works Of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling
★3.55 7h 57m
Flaubert's parrot / A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters by Julian Barnes
★3.65 10h 54m
The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection by Noel Coward
11h 55m
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
★3.56 13h 5m
The Somerset Maugham BBC Radio Collection by W. Somerset Maugham, Patrick Allen, Douglas Blackwell, Louise Brealey, David Calder, Anthony Daniels, Megan Dodds, Nicholas Farrell, Philip French, Julian Glover, Hannah Gordon, Garard Green, Wendy Hiller, Alex Jennings, Cara Kelly, John Light, Janet Maw, Ronald Pickup, Nicholas Le Prevost, Peter Rumney, Owen Scott, Sarah Smart, Sian Thomas
★4.33 15h 4m
Dombey and son / by Charles Dickens
★4.12 4h 36m
The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Allam, Joseph Arkley, Nicholas Boulton, Jonathan Forbes, John Gray, Paul Hilton, Boris Isarov, Alex Jennings, Barnaby Kay, Gary Lilburn, Roy Marsden, Clive Merrison, Jim Norton, Ronald Pickup, Paul Rhys, David Suchet, Jane Whittenshaw, Lia Williams, Rowan Williams
★4.42 17h 28m
Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
★3.32 9h 42m
Anton Chekhov: 6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions by Anton Chekhov
12h 28m
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
★3.29 5h 18m
Our Mutual Friend (Woman's Hour Drama) by Charles Dickens, Alex Jennings, Pauline Quirke
4h 32m
Stories from Shakespeare 2 by David Timson, William Shakespeare
★3.42 3h 36m
Twelve Post-War Tales by Graham Swift
★3.54 6h 19m
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
★3.35 8h 9m
That's Mine, This Is Yours by Peter Souter
★2.33
Poems to Make You Cry by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson
★3.33 1h 47m
The Alexander Pushkin BBC Radio Collection by Alexander Pushkin, Alex Jennings
★4.50 11h 49m
Electric Ink by Alistair Beaton, Tom Mitchelson, Alex Jennings, Ben Willbond, John Sessions
★3.00 5h 35m
Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies: 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions including The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and more by Aphra Behn, Celia Imrie, Sian Thomas, Alex Jennings, Sheila Hancock, Frances Barber, Indira Varma, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Josie Lawrence, Adjoa Andoh, Hugh Bonneville, Kris Marshall, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Eyre, Full Cast, Susanna Centivre, William Congreve, Delarivier Manley, John Vanburgh, George Farquhar
19h 6m
Somerville and Ross: The Real Charlotte, The Silver Fox & The Experiences of an Irish RM by Edith Somerville, Martin Ross
6h 27m
Fantasy (18)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Complete Audio Collection by C.S. Lewis, Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam, Patrick Stewart
★4.28 33h 45m
★4.28 4h 39m
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper
★4.11 9h 26m
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper, Unknown Author
★4.00 4h 23m
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
★4.04 8h 42m
The Edge Chronicles 2: The Winter Knights: Second Book of Quint by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.22 3h 11m
The Edge Chronicles 7 by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.22 3h 18m
Midnight Over Sanctaphrax by Paul Stewart
★4.24 3h 28m
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
4h 40m
The Curse of the Gloamglozer by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.13 3h 28m
Stormchaser by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.19 3h 20m
Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection by Terry Pratchett, Martin Jarvis, Sheila Hancock, Anton Lesser, Alex Jennings, Philip Jackson, Mark Heap
★4.10 13h 13m
Clash of the Sky Galleons by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.23 3h 16m
The Edge Chronicles 8: Vox: Second Book of Rook by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.15 3h 14m
The Edge Chronicles Standalone: The Lost Barkscrolls by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
★4.32 3h 23m
Tales of the Greek Heroes: Retold From the Ancient Authors by Roger Lancelyn Green, Alan Langford
★3.84 2h 52m
The Edge Chronicles: Freeglader by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
3h 19m
The Ogre of Oglefort by Eva Ibbotson
★3.75 3h 6m
Biography & Memoir (14)
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955) by Robert Lacey
★4.05 7h 23m
Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
★3.92 16h 29m
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears, Robert Lacey
★3.83 7h 16m
Harold Larwood by Duncan Hamilton
★4.48 11h 30m
Experience by Martin Amis
★3.90 14h 30m
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 2: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle, and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II (1956-1977) by Robert Lacey
★3.68 7h 6m
Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other by John Preston, Elton John
★4.37 8h 13m
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
★3.87 17h 15m
Inside Story by Martin Amis
★3.99 22h 58m
Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways by Sean Magee, Kirsty Young
★4.10 18h 10m
The Truth by Michael Palin
★3.50 8h 30m
Alexander: The Story of a Legendary Leader by David Wade, Alex Jennings, Barry Foster, Brian Cox, Geraldine James, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Michael Maloney, Simon Ward, Sam Crane, David March, Malcolm Sinclair, Keith Drinkel, Gary King, Barry Gordon, Philip Anthony, John Evitts, John Webb, James Telfer, David Thorpe, Patti Holloway, Oona Beeson, Teresa Gallagher, Rachel Atkins, Jill Graham, Diana Payan, John Moffat, Michael Onslow, John Rye, John Baddeley, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Charles Kay, Dominic Letts, Mark Straker, Jonathan Adams, Seán Barrett, Richard Pearce, Matthew Sim, John Hollis, Renu Setna, Glyn Dearman, Richard Lattimore, Wilfredo Acosta, Melvyn Bragg, Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis, Diana Spencer, Rachel Mairs
★4.20 5h 41m
Enough Said: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Alan Bennett
★4.58 16h 9m
The People's Princess by Shelagh Stephenson, Alex Jennings, Rebecca Saire, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Chris McHallem, Richard Howard, Mark Lambert, Jill Cardo, Nial Cusack
★3.67
Historical Fiction (9)
The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden
★4.33 6h 6m
The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden
★4.30 5h 57m
Cometh the Hour by Jeffrey Archer
★4.21 13h 4m
The Field of Swords by Conn Iggulden
★4.31
The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden
★4.20 5h 44m
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
★3.97 9h 58m
The War Magician: Based on an Extraordinary True Story by David Fisher
★4.14 15h 48m
A King's Speech: The BBC Radio Play (BBC Radio 4) by Mark Burgess
★3.71
★4.19 7h 13m
Thriller (7)
The Camel Club by David Baldacci
★4.07 5h 38m
The Whole Truth: Shaw and Katie James 1 by David Baldacci
★4.09 5h 37m
Simple Genius: King and Maxwell by David Baldacci
★4.01 5h 8m
Hornet Flight by Ken Follett
★4.01 4h 30m
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dramatised) by John le Carré
★4.06 2h 50m
The Comfort of Strangers (Vintage International) by Ian McEwan
★3.39 3h 48m
The Fury by Alex Michaelides
★3.36 8h 8m
Mystery (4)
No Night is Too Long by Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell
★3.78 11h 21m
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
★3.62 16h 41m
Magnolia Blossom: an Agatha Christie Short Story by Agatha Christie
★3.33
The Buckingham Palace Connection & More by Ted Willis, Michael Aldridge, Seán Barrett, Hugh Burden, Joyce Carey, Jeremy Clyde, Alaric Cotter, Nicholas Courtenay, Annette Crosbie, Alan Cuthbertson, David Daker, Anthony Daniels, Hugh Dickson, Maurice Denham, William Eedle, Adrian Egan, Deryck Guyler, Frances Jeater, Alex Jennings, Hilda Kriesman, Moir Lesley, Preston Lockwood, Miriam Margolyes, Trevor Martin, Geoffrey Matthews, Ian McShane, Mary Miller, Barbara Mitchell, Richard Pascoe, Elizabeth Proud, Andrew Sachs, Leslie Sands, Christopher Scoular, Cyril Shaps, Bob Shearman, Victor Spinetti, Henry Stamper, Lockwood West, Jo Manning Wilson, Mary Wimbush, Haydn Wood
★3.00 8h 59m
Sci-Fi (2)
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
★3.77 8h 57m
War in Deep Heaven: The Space Trilogy of C by Walter Hooper
17h 3m
Romance (1)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
★4.30 4h 49m
Self-Help (1)
The Spiritual Teachings of the Tao by Mark Forstater
★3.50 1h 55m