The audiobook for George Saunders’ new novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, used an unprecedented 166 narrators—many of them celebrities—to tell an unconventional story of Abraham Lincoln morning his young son. (Mary Burkey interviewed Saunders and his production team to learn how it all came together.)
But audiobooks narrated by a single celebrity narrators aren’t at all uncommon. To follow are some outstanding examples, each of which received a starred Booklist review, linked below.
Armada, by By Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton
The Eloise Audio Collection, by Kay Thompson, narrated by Bernadette Peters
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee, narrated by Reese Witherspoon
Heartburn, by Nora Ephron, narrated by Meryl Streep
Matilda, by Roald Dahl, narrated by Kate Winslet
Moonraker, by Ian Fleming, narrated by Bill Nighy
The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, narrated by Bryan Cranston (author and narrator of A Life in Parts, which also gets a )
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek