Best Drew Hayes Audiobooks

The best Drew Hayes audiobooks — 8 titles ranked by listening experience across Fantasy, averaging 4.38 ABR stars.

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Drew Hayes has carved out a niche that almost no one else occupies: comedic urban fantasy that works precisely because it plays everything completely straight. Fred, the Vampire Accountant is the pitch-perfect execution of that premise — a mild-mannered CPA who becomes a vampire and remains, stubbornly, a mild-mannered CPA. Starting with The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant and continuing through entries like Undeath and Taxes and Bloody Acquisitions, Hayes mines the collision between supernatural drama and mundane professional life for jokes that never get old. His prose is breezy and confident, his world-building just detailed enough to feel real without slowing down the fun. Readers who want their fantasy laced with dry wit, likable protagonists, and plots that actually go somewhere will find Hayes consistently delivers — book after book, pun-laden title after pun-laden title.

Drew Hayes's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is Undeath and Taxes : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant), narrated by Kirby Heyborne (4.47 ABR stars). Performed by Kirby Heyborne, Alejandro Ruiz, Amanda Forstrom, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Chris Stinson, Christopher Walker, Dawn Ursula, Eva Wilhelm, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Cody Roberts, full cast, Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

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    Undeath and Taxes : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 2

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.47 ABR Score (13.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (8.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (4.7K)
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    Bloody Acquisitions : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 3 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 3

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (10.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (4.2K)
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    The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant (Dramatized Adaptation)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 1

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (10.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Audible (10.0K)
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    The Fangs of Freelance (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 4

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.51 ABR Score (9.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.76 Audible (3.6K)
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    Deadly Assessments : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 5

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 5

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (3.3K)
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    Undeading Bells : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 6

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 6

    by Drew Hayes

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (7.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 4.78 Audible (2.8K)
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    Posthumous Education : Fred, the Vampire Accountant 8 (Fred, the Vampire Accountant)

    Fred, the Vampire Accountant • Book 8

    by Drew Hayes, Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Stinson, Cody Roberts, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Amanda Forstrom, Carolyn Kashner, Eva Wilhelm, Dawn Ursula, Christopher Walker, Alejandro Ruiz

    Narrated by Alejandro Ruiz, Amanda Forstrom, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Chris Stinson, Christopher Walker, Dawn Ursula, Eva Wilhelm, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Cody Roberts, full cast

    ★ 4.25 ABR Score (3.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (3.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (77)
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    Vampire accountant Fred owes a favor to fey royalty and expects danger—instead, he's asked to teach at a supernatural university where the real threat is academic politics.

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    Shingles Audio Collection

    Shingles Audio Collections • Book 1

    by Authors and Dragons, Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly, Robert Bevan, Rick Gualtieri, John G. Hartness, Drew Hayes, Steve Wetherell

    Narrated by Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly

    ★ 3.92 ABR Score (119 ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (101) ★ 4.33 Audible (18)
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    Cassandra Myles and Cal Wembly bring distinct energy to six horror comedy stories featuring young protagonists Sarah and Tommy. Their performances capture both the absurd humor and genuine scares.

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How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

Rankings update periodically as new ratings come in and new titles are added to the collection.

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