Best Kelly Link Audiobooks

The best Kelly Link audiobooks — 5 titles ranked by listening experience across Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Literature & Fiction, averaging 3.58 ABR stars.

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Kelly Link occupies a strange and singular corner of contemporary fiction — her work dissolves genre boundaries so completely that calling it fantasy or horror or literary fiction feels beside the point. Stories from White Cat, Black Dog drift between fairy tale logic and domestic realism with an eerie, dreamlike confidence, never quite explaining themselves and never needing to. Her prose is precise and strange in equal measure: each sentence lands cleanly, but the accumulated effect is deeply unsettling. The Book of Love shows her expanding that sensibility into longer form without losing the uncanny compression that makes her short fiction so memorable. Link is essential reading for anyone who finds conventional genre fiction too tidy — readers who want their stories to leave a residue of unease long after the last page.

Kelly Link's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute, narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini (3.8 ABR stars). Performed by narrators including George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini, January LaVoy, Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Marc Vietor, and more. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

Where to Start with Kelly Link

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    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute cover

    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute

    by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu

    Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini

    3.80 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (182)
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    Celebrating Bradbury's legacy, this collection features stories by Gaiman, Hill, and others, with an impressive cast including George Takei and Neil Gaiman himself reading these homages.

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    The Book of Love

    by Kelly Link

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    3.49 ABR Score (11.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.49 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.77 Audible (186)
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    Three teenagers wake beneath their high school after dying, facing supernatural mysteries and varieties of love in Link's magical realist tale of friendship and family bonds.

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    Zombies: The Recent Dead cover

    Zombies: The Recent Dead

    by Paula Guran, Steve Duffy, Max Brooks, Nik Houser, Andy Duncan, David J. Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Alice Sola Kim, Gary A. Braunbeck, Francesca Lia Block, Tobias S. Buckell, David Wellington, Tim Waggoner, Kit Reed, Brian Keene, Kelly Link, Gary McMahon, Scott Edelman, Kevin Veale, Michael Marshall Smith, Tim Lebbon, David Prill

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, Bahni Turpin, Marc Vietor

    3.29 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (939) ★ 3.4 Audible (268)
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    From voodoo thralls to viral victims, this massive anthology proves zombies are monumentally mutable monsters, with multiple narrators handling each imaginative interpretation.

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    White Cat, Black Dog: Stories cover

    White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

    by Kelly Link, Shaun Tan

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, Kristen Sieh, Ish Klein, Tanya Cubric, Patton Oswalt

    3.75 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.79 Goodreads (7.7K) ★ 4.06 Audible (66)
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    Seven narrators tackle Link's fairy tale reimaginings, where Hansel and Gretel run a restaurant and Bluebeard's story unfolds through dating apps.

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    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

    Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

    by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

    Narrated by Kristin James, Matt Godfrey

    3.59 ABR Score (436 ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (431) ★ 4 Audible (5)
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    From haunted houses to mysterious green stones, this collection explores darkness in everyday places through stories by Peter Straub, Kelly Link, and other masters of the genre.

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.

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