Best Emily Woo Zeller Audiobooks
Emily Woo Zeller has built a reputation as one of the more versatile ensemble narrators working today, which makes her a natural fit for sprawling multi-author anthologies like From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back — a collection that demands a narrator who can shift tone, register, and character across dozens of stories without losing the thread. Her voice is clear and precise, with a warmth that keeps even dense or emotionally heavy material from feeling cold. She's equally at home in the genre-hopping chaos of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 and the grounded crime fiction of Crime Hits Home. Listeners who gravitate toward short fiction anthologies — a format where narrator fatigue is a real risk — will find Zeller unusually reliable. She doesn't showboat, but she never disappears either. That balance is rarer than it sounds.
Where to Start with Emily Woo Zeller
- New to Emily Woo Zeller? Start here → King of Wrath
- What fans keep coming back to → The Poppy War
- Short listen, big payoff → Space Force
- Highest rated by listeners → The Dragon Republic
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Bone Shard Daughter
Best Emily Woo Zeller Audiobooks
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The Dragon Republic
The Poppy War • Book 2
by R.F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.29 ABR Score (231.2K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (228.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (2.7K)23h 46m listening time • Released 2019 - 2
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.20 ABR Score (163.6K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (154.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (9.4K)10h 11m listening time • Released 2016 - 3
King of Wrath
Kings of Sin • Book 1
by Ana Huang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Jacob Morgan
★ 4.17 ABR Score (653.8K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (653.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (101)12h 5m listening time • Released 2023 - 4
The Bride Test
The Kiss Quotient • Book 2
by Helen Hoang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.12 ABR Score (188.5K ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (183.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (4.7K)Zeller's narration captures both Esme's Vietnamese-accented English and Khai's guarded interior life with real tenderness. A swoony, big-hearted romance.
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The Bone Shard Emperor
The Drowning Empire • Book 2
by Andrea Stewart
Narrated by Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.10 ABR Score (15.9K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (15.4K) ★ 4.59 Audible (446)17h 31m listening time • Released 2021 - 6
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Narrated by Cynthia Farrell, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.02 ABR Score (352.9K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (348.1K) ★ 4.33 Audible (4.7K)4h 16m listening time • Released 2019 - 7
The Poppy War
The Poppy War • Book 1
by R. F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 4.02 ABR Score (507.1K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (501.7K) ★ 4.21 Audible (5.4K)19h 27m listening time • Released 2018Emily Woo Zeller's narration captures the rage and devastation of this brutal military fantasy with devastating precision. A 19-hour immersion into magic, war, and moral collapse that doesn't look away.
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The Bone Shard Daughter
The Drowning Empire • Book 1
by Andrea Stewart
Narrated by Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.97 ABR Score (38.1K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (37.1K) ★ 4.38 Audible (1.1K)13h 44m listening time • Released 2020 - 9
Spirits Abroad
by Zen Cho
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.94 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (23)12h 49m listening time • Released 2021Emily Woo Zeller's narration brings these Malaysian-inflected ghost stories to vivid life, shifting effortlessly between the mundane and uncanny to capture Zen Cho's sharp, funny voice. Each story lands harder on audio than on the page.
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From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 2
by Elizabeth Schaefer, Mark Oshiro, Rob Hart, Michael Moreci, Mike Chen, Beth Revis, Zoraida Córdova, Kiersten White, Lilliam Rivera, Mackenzi Lee, Amy Ratcliffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Emily Skrutskie, Tracy Deonn, C.B. Lee, Karen Strong, Delilah S. Dawson, Lydia Kang, Adam Christopher, Cavan Scott, R.F. Kuang, Tom Angleberger, S.A. Chakraborty, Seth Dickinson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Hank Green, Michael Kogge, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Anne Toole, Austin Walker, Martha Wells, Django Wexler, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub, Katie Cook, Sarwat Chadda
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dion Graham, Jon Hamm, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sam Witwer, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.93 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.6K)17h 59m listening time • Released 2020Forty writers and an all-star cast of narrators (including Jon Hamm and Sam Witwer) transform Empire into a anthology of revelation, making you hear the galaxy's most pivotal moments through entirely new eyes.
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The Bone Shard War
The Drowning Empire • Book 3
by Andrea Stewart
Narrated by Natalie Naudus, Feodor Chin, Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.93 ABR Score (8.8K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (8.7K) ★ 4.44 Audible (133)19h 36m listening time • Released 2023 - 12
Space Force
Narrated by Jeffrey Kafer, Emily Woo Zeller, Machelle Williams
★ 3.87 ABR Score (5.0K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.31 Audible (3.7K)9h 33m listening time • Released 2019 - 13
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
by Ken Liu
Narrated by Ramón de Ocampo, Cindy Kay, Michael Kramer, Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu
★ 3.86 ABR Score (8.7K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (8.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (514)14h 51m listening time • Released 2020Liu's stories punch harder with a full ensemble cast bringing distinct voices to each tale, from near-future dystopias to intimate family dramas that hit you when you're not expecting it.
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The Bone Witch
The Bone Witch • Book 1
by Rin Chupeco
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Will Damron
★ 3.83 ABR Score (60.8K ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (51.6K) ★ 4.27 Audible (9.3K)12h 8m listening time • Released 2017 - 15
The Complete Poppy War Trilogy
The Poppy War • Book 1
by R. F. Kuang
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.82 ABR Score (4.6K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.06 Audible (2.0K)66h 29m listening time • Released 2023Emily Woo Zeller's performance elevates this brutal, shamanic military epic into something transcendent—her voice carries the weight of Rin's descent from soldier to god-touched weapon with devastating precision.
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Veniss Underground
by Jeff Vandermeer, Unknown Author
Narrated by Ron Butler, Scott Brick, Emily Woo Zeller, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.80 ABR Score (4.1K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 4.25 Audible (28)8h 34m listening time • Released 2023VanderMeer's trippy debut demands multiple narrators, and this ensemble cast nails the hallucinogenic intensity—each voice pulls you deeper into a city that's part noir, part nightmare, pure invention.
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Unfettered II: New Tales
Gunnie Rose #0.0 - The Gunnie
by Shawn Speakman, Naomi Novik, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Michael J. Sullivan, Janny Wurts, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Mark Lawrence, Seanan McGuire, Peter Orullian, Aidan Moher, Erin Lindsey, John A. Pitts, Anthony Ryan, Scott Sigler, Django Wexler, Rachel Caine, Sarah Beth Durst, David Farland, Terry Brooks
Narrated by Sarah Coomes, Michael Kramer, Emily Woo Zeller, Nick Podehl, Erin Mallon, Tim Gerard Reynolds
★ 3.78 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.25 Audible (340)20h 17m listening time • Released 2017 - 18
The Cartographers
by Peng Shepherd
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron Butler, Neil Hellegers, Jason Culp, Brittany Pressley
★ 3.74 ABR Score (82.2K ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (81.3K) ★ 3.84 Audible (913)14h 42m listening time • Released 2022 - 19
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
Best American
by John Joseph Adams
Narrated by Diana Gabaldon, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jay Snyder, Scott Keiji Takeda, Sean Crisden, Polly Lee, Rebecca Lowman, Nicola Barber, Emily Woo Zeller, Bahni Turpin, Andre Blake, Andi Arndt, Priya Ayyar, Kim Mai Guest, Therese Plummer
★ 3.65 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.71 Goodreads (967) ★ 3.9 Audible (39)17h 45m listening time • Released 2020A stellar ensemble cast brings 17 hours of wildly varied SF/F to life—each narrator perfectly matched to their story, making this anthology feel less like a greatest-hits compilation and more like discovering your next favorite writer.
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Ninefox Gambit
The Machineries of Empire • Book 1
by Yoon Ha Lee
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
★ 3.62 ABR Score (22.7K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (21.7K) ★ 3.92 Audible (1.1K)10h 52m listening time • Released 2016