Best Carrie Vaughn Audiobooks
Carrie Vaughn has built a reputation as one of genre fiction's most versatile and dependable voices — equally at home in horror, fantasy, and the murky territory between them. She's a short fiction specialist in an era that undervalues the form, and her contributions to anthologies like Dangerous Women and Vampires: The Recent Undead show a writer who can establish character and tension fast, then leave you wanting more. The Naturalist Society shifts registers entirely — a Victorian-inflected secondary world where magic feels like a branch of natural philosophy, written with quiet elegance and intellectual warmth. Vaughn's prose is clean and unhurried; she trusts the reader and rarely overexplains. Readers who love urban fantasy with emotional grounding, or who want genre fiction that respects craft at the sentence level, will find her endlessly rewarding — especially if they give her short work the same attention they'd give a novel.
Where to Start with Carrie Vaughn
- Best entry point → Rogues
- Best standalone → Zombies: More Recent Dead
- Start the Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer series → Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
- What fans keep coming back to → Dangerous Women
- Highest rated by listeners → The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society Book 2) (The Naturalist Society #2)
Best Carrie Vaughn Audiobooks
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The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society Book 2)
The Naturalist Society • Book 2
Narrated by Barrie Kreinik
★ 3.94 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (31)More about this pick
Young scientist Ava Stanley navigates 1902's changing world while unlocking her scarce magical abilities during high-seas adventures. Barrie Kreinik expertly balances the period setting with international intrigue and emerging powers.
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Unfettered III: New Tales
The Chathrand Voyage #Thasha's cure for cabin fever • Book 3
by Shawn Speakman, Tad Williams, Naomi Novik, Megan Lindholm, John Gwynne, David Anthony Durham, Callie Bates, Jason Denzel, Carrie Vaughn, Deborah A. Wolf, Anna Stephens, Patrick Swenson, Ramon Terrell, Peter Orullian, Terry Brooks, Lev Grossman, Seanan McGuire, Delilah S. Dawson, Mark Lawrence, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan, Todd Lockwood, Cat Rambo, Robert V.S. Redick, Ken Scholes, Scott Sigler, Anna Smith Spark, Marc Turner
Narrated by Khristine Hvam, Natasha Soudek, Mark Bramhall, Michael Page, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Andrew Wincott, Luke Daniels, Brian Nishii
★ 3.84 ABR Score (779 ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (571) ★ 4.37 Audible (208)More about this pick
This charity anthology features stories from fantasy's biggest names, with multiple narrators bringing each author's unique voice to life.
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Rogues
Ancient World
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Joe Abercrombie, Gillian Flynn, Matthew Hughes, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Swanwick, David Ball, Carrie Vaughn, Scott Lynch, Bradley Denton, Cherie Priest, Daniel Abraham, Paul Cornell, Steven Saylor, Garth Nix, Walter Jon Williams, Phyllis Eisenstein, Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Patrick Rothfuss
Narrated by George R. R. Martin, Gwendoline Christie, Roy Dotrice, Ron Donachie, W. Morgan Sheppard, Janis Ian, Molly Quinn, Rupert Degas, Iain Glen, Various
★ 3.81 ABR Score (27.5K ratings)★ 3.87 Goodreads (24.6K) ★ 4.13 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
Twenty-one stories featuring morally ambiguous characters from fantasy and historical fiction masters. The varied cast including Gwendoline Christie and Iain Glen gives voice to antiheroes across multiple genres and time periods.
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Zombies: More Recent Dead
by Paula Guran, Mike Carey, Neil Gaiman, Kathleen Tierney, Stephen Graham Jones, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Carrie Ryan, Matthew Johnson
Narrated by Sean Pratt, Marguerite Gavin
★ 3.62 ABR Score (342 ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (212) ★ 4.08 Audible (130)More about this pick
Sean Pratt and Marguerite Gavin tackle stories from Neil Gaiman, Joe Lansdale, and other horror masters with appropriately varied approaches. Each narrator adapts their style to match the unique tone of different zombie tales.
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Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
Narrated by Phil Gigante, Michael Page, Susan Duerden, Julia Whelan
★ 3.57 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.76 Audible (190)More about this pick
Twenty fantasy authors explore doomed romance across magical realms. Four narrators tackle everything from Gaiman's dark fairy tales to Butcher's urban fantasy.
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Dangerous Women
The Dresden Files #13.1 - Bombshells
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Carrie Vaughn, Lev Gossman, Joe R. Lansdale, Megan Lindholm, Lawrence Block, Brandon Sanderson, Sharon Kay Penman, Lev Grossman, Nancy Kress, Diana Rowland, Diana Gabaldon, S.M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Pat Cadigan, Caroline Spector, Joe Abercrombie, Megan Abbott, Cecelia Holland, Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Melinda M. Snodgrass
Narrated by Scott Brick, Jonathan Frakes, Stana Katic, Inna Korobkina, Lee Meriwether, Claudia Black, Sophie Turner, Janis Ian, Iain Glen, Karen Dotrice, Various
★ 3.56 ABR Score (14.9K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (13.2K) ★ 4.02 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
Twenty-one authors contribute stories about deadly, complex female characters across genres from fantasy to noir, creating an anthology that celebrates dangerous femininity.
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Vampires: The Recent Undead
The Morganville Vampires: Extras #9 (Dead Man Stalking )
by Paula Guran, Albert E. Cowdrey, J.A. Konrath, Jeanne C. Stein, Karen Russell, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Newman, Mary Turzillo, Michael Marshall Smith, Nancy Kilpatrick, Nisi Shawl, Barbara Roden, Rachel Caine, Stephen Dedman, Susan Sizemore, Tanith Lee, Tanya Huff, Tina Rath, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Vaughn, Charlaine Harris, Charles de Lint, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Conrad Williams, Holly Black, John Langan
Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Jonathan Davis, Khristine Hvam, Suzanne Toren, Marc Vietor, Josh Hurley, Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.42 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (958) ★ 3.6 Audible (191)More about this pick
Twenty-six authors reimagine vampire mythology across every genre from romance to science fiction. Seven narrators tackle this massive anthology, each bringing distinct voices to the undead's modern evolution.