Best Paul Stewart Audiobooks

The best Paul Stewart audiobooks — 9 titles ranked by listening experience across Fantasy, averaging 3.94 ABR stars.

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Paul Stewart, writing in partnership with illustrator Chris Riddell, built one of children's fantasy's most fully realized invented worlds with The Edge Chronicles — a floating continent of sky pirates, leaguesman politics, and creatures unlike anything else in the genre. The worldbuilding is dense and tactile, layered with its own ecology, history, and factions that accumulate satisfyingly across the saga's three trilogies. Stormchaser and The Curse of the Gloamglozer showcase the series at its most adventurous, sending young protagonists across storm-wracked skies and into ancient, dangerous libraries. Stewart's prose is propulsive but never thin — there's always another strange detail, another faction with its own agenda, another reason the Edge feels genuinely alive. Readers who prize immersive secondary worlds with real stakes and gothic texture will find The Edge Chronicles deeply rewarding.

Paul Stewart's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is The Curse of the Gloamglozer, narrated by Alex Jennings (3.97 ABR stars). Performed by Alex Jennings. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

Where to Start with Paul Stewart

  1. 1
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    The Curse of the Gloamglozer

    The Edge Chronicles: The Quint Saga • Book 1

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.97 ABR Score (8.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.32 Audible (47)
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  2. 2
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    The Edge Chronicles 2: The Winter Knights: Second Book of Quint

    The Edge Chronicles: The Quint Saga • Book 2

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 4.03 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.83 Audible (30)
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  3. 3
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    The Edge Chronicles 7

    The Edge Chronicles: Rook Trilogy • Book 1

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (6.4K) ★ 4.63 Audible (19)
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  4. 4
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    The Edge Chronicles: Freeglader

    The Edge Chronicles (abridged) • Book 9

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.75 ABR Score (10 ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Audible (10)
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  5. 5
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    The Edge Chronicles 8: Vox: Second Book of Rook

    The Edge Chronicles: Rook Trilogy • Book 2

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.93 ABR Score (4.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.56 Audible (9)
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    Stormchaser

    The Edge Chronicles (chronological) • Book 5

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.96 ABR Score (10.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (10.1K) ★ 4.09 Audible (11)
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    Alex Jennings' narration transforms the Edge Chronicles' whimsical world into something genuinely epic, making this sky pirate saga worth the commitment.

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    Midnight Over Sanctaphrax

    The Edge Chronicles: The Twig Saga • Book 3

    by Paul Stewart

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.99 ABR Score (8.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (8.1K) ★ 4.86 Audible (7)
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    By book three, you're so deep in Stewart's world that catastrophe feels intimate. Jennings' narration is so assured it makes the impossible feel inevitable.

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    Clash of the Sky Galleons

    The Edge Chronicles: The Quint Saga • Book 3

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.93 ABR Score (4.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)
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    Alex Jennings' performance makes every sky-pirate duel crackle. A revenge tale that moves with such relentless momentum you can't put it down.

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    The Edge Chronicles Standalone: The Lost Barkscrolls

    The Edge Chronicles (chronological) #0, 6.5, 7.5 & 9.5

    by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.88 ABR Score (977 ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (973) ★ 4.5 Audible (4)
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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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