Best Gideon Emery Audiobooks
Gideon Emery has made himself the definitive voice of British supernatural spy fiction — narrating all fourteen of Charles Stross's Laundry Files novels and fourteen entries in Simon R. Green's Secret Histories series. That's not a coincidence; his clipped, dry British delivery is perfectly calibrated for stories where bureaucratic tedium and Lovecraftian horror share the same sentence. His performance in The Atrocity Archives captures Stross's sardonic humor without winking at it, letting the absurdity land naturally. Emery's range extends well beyond genre fiction — he handles Danielle Steel and Paul Collier with equal composure — but listeners who find him through the Laundry Files tend to stay for the long haul. If you like your narrators understated, precise, and capable of making civil service jargon sound genuinely sinister, Emery is exactly your narrator.
Where to Start with Gideon Emery
- New to Gideon Emery? Start here → The Duchess
- What fans keep coming back to → The Atrocity Archives
- Short listen, big payoff → Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis
- Highest rated by listeners → The Nightmare Stacks
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Jennifer Morgue
Best Gideon Emery Audiobooks
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The Nightmare Stacks
Laundry Files • Book 7
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.42 ABR Score (7.9K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.65 Audible (1.1K)14h 54m listening time • Released 2016 - 2
The Duchess
by Danielle Steel
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.28 ABR Score (15.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (13.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (2.2K)10h 4m listening time • Released 2017 - 3
The Delirium Brief
Laundry Files • Book 8
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.22 ABR Score (6.8K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.65 Audible (926)13h 47m listening time • Released 2017 - 4
The Apocalypse Codex
Laundry Files • Book 4
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.21 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (11.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)11h 54m listening time • Released 2012 - 5
The Rhesus Chart
Laundry Files • Book 5
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.19 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.2K)13h 19m listening time • Released 2014 - 6
Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis
by Warwick Davis, George Lucas
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.17 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (969) ★ 4.79 Audible (448)8h 20m listening time • Released 2011 - 7
The Fuller Memorandum
Laundry Files • Book 3
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.15 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (12.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.4K)10h 48m listening time • Released 2011 - 8
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
by John Carlin
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.08 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.73 Audible (104)9h 12m listening time • Released 2012 - 9
Casino Infernale
Secret Histories • Book 7
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.02 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.55 Audible (354)14h 10m listening time • Released 2013 - 10
The Jennifer Morgue
Laundry Files • Book 2
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.02 ABR Score (16.5K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.4K)13h 45m listening time • Released 2010 - 11
For Heaven's Eyes Only
Secret Histories • Book 5
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 4.00 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.52 Audible (429)13h 33m listening time • Released 2011 - 12
Season of Skulls
Laundry Files • Book 12
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.99 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.56 Audible (114)12h 36m listening time • Released 2023 - 13
Moonbreaker
Secret Histories • Book 11
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.99 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (924) ★ 4.61 Audible (251)10h 58m listening time • Released 2017 - 14
A Conventional Boy
Laundry Files • Book 13
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.99 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (114)7h 41m listening time • Released 2025 - 15
Quantum of Nightmares
The New Management • Book 2
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.97 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (289)13h 36m listening time • Released 2022 - 16
Night Fall
Secret Histories • Book 12
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.96 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (907) ★ 4.5 Audible (278)17h 45m listening time • Released 2018 - 17
Property of a Lady Faire
Secret Histories • Book 8
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.96 ABR Score (2.3K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (336) - 18
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
Laundry Files • Book 14
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.95 ABR Score (691 ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (625) ★ 4.56 Audible (66)10h 57m listening time • Released 2026 - 19
Live and Let Drood
Secret Histories • Book 6
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.95 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.45 Audible (400)12h 53m listening time • Released 2012 - 20
From Hell with Love
Secret Histories • Book 4
Narrated by Gideon Emery
★ 3.95 ABR Score (4.6K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 4.42 Audible (520)12h 1m listening time • Released 2010