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 ABR Score (103.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (94.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (9.0K)
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    Roland tells young Jake a story-within-a-story about his early days as a gunslinger investigating shape-changing monsters in a plague-stricken town. King's own narration adds authentic Western flavor to this Dark Tower interquel.

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    Wolves of the Calla

    The Dark Tower • Book 5

    by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.47 ABR Score (221.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (203.6K) ★ 4.7 Audible (17.5K)
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    Roland's gunslinger skills are needed when the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis faces the Wolves—masked riders who steal half of every set of twins.

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    The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.43 ABR Score (692.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (668.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (24.1K)
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    Roland pursues the Man in Black across a dying desert wasteland, beginning his quest for the mysterious Dark Tower in King's genre-blending epic.

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    The Green Mile

    The Green Mile #1-6

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.73 ABR Score (383.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (368.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (14.4K)
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    Paul Edgecombe supervises death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, where a massive black man convicted of child murder may actually possess miraculous healing powers. Frank Muller's narration brings profound depth to King's meditation on justice, mercy, and unexplained gifts.

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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 ABR Score (34.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (8.6K) ★ 4.84 Audible (25.5K)
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    Roland's relentless pursuit of the Man in Black across a dying world launches King's epic fantasy series. Frank Muller's iconic narration helped define these characters for an entire generation of listeners.

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    Song of Susannah

    The Dark Tower • Book 6

    by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.32 ABR Score (192.7K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (177.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (15.5K)
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    Susannah's body hosts the demon Mia as she travels to 1999 New York to birth Roland's nemesis, while the ka-tet faces their most personal catastrophe yet.

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    The Drawing of the Three

    The Dark Tower • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.22 ABR Score (333.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (293.2K) ★ 4.33 Audible (40.7K)
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    Roland the gunslinger encounters mysterious doors that open into different people's minds in 1980s New York. George Guidall navigates the complex perspective shifts as Roland enters Eddie's drug deal and Odetta's fractured psyche, building his ka-tet.

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    The Talisman

    The Talisman • Book 1

    by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.17 ABR Score (160.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (143.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (17.1K)
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    Twelve-year-old Jack travels between our world and a dark parallel dimension to find a magical talisman that can save his dying mother in this ambitious King-Straub collaboration.

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    The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.77 ABR Score (668.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (667.9K) ★ 3.97 Audible (429)
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    Roland's pursuit of the Man in Black across a dying western-fantasy wasteland kicks off King's epic saga. George Guidall captures the gunslinger's weathered determination perfectly.

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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 ABR Score (3.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.63 Goodreads (3.3M) ★ 4.85 Audible (60.1K)
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    Feyre's trauma from Under the Mountain collides with new powers and political intrigue in the Night Court. Jennifer Ikeda captures both Feyre's vulnerability and growing strength in this darker sequel.

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