GraphicAudio and their full-cast audiobooks

Listening to audiobooks, you must know some very good narrators. Some just make characters come alive; you might have also listened to narrators giving different voices to characters. Today, I am going to tell you about one such option: full-cast audiobooks.

You might have heard audio dramas by old radio stations; BBC used to do them a lot, with music and various casts. But sometimes they can be short and very abridged.

There are also ‘full-cast audiobooks,’ which can be unabridged or abridged. But abridged version do cover the entire book, dropping a few lines with/for sound effects and dropping stuff like he/she said, because their are multiple voice actors.
Some of the popular ones on Audible:

• Dune
• His Dark Materials
• American Gods
• The Sandman

GraphicAudio

And there is one such studio that only produces dramatized adaptations of audiobooks - GraphicAudio. You can tell from their tagline, “A Movie in Your Mind,” what they are about.
You get many voice actors and sound effects like movies. Now, don’t get confused by the word “movie.” They can be unabridged or abridged, and just like other full-cast audiobooks, you almost get the whole book even in the abridged version.

If you are a fantasy fan, you will get a treat with their vast number of books under: fantasy, sci-fi, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, action/adventure, western, and other genres.
They also have some comic book adaptations like Archie’s, The Boys, and Hellboy.

Recommendations

Now, I am going to tell you about their notable/popular books, and they do have some famous authors.

Remember, many books are in parts, so check for other parts. Sometimes, you can also get all parts in a set.

(Click on any book to get the Amazon/Audible link)

Brandon Sanderson (Cosmere)

1. Elantris

• Elantris - or Part 1, Part 2, Pat 3
• 1.5 The Hope of Elantris
• The Emperor’s Soul

2. Mistborn (not on audible)

• The Final Empire
• The Well Of Ascension
• The Hero Of Ages
• 3.5 The Eleventh Metal

Mistborn Era 2 (Wax and Wayne Books)

• The Alloy Of Law
• 4.5 Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania
• Shadows Of Self
• The Bands Of Mourning
• 6.5 Secret History
• The Lost Metal

3. Warbreaker - or Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

4. The Stormlight Archive (not on audible)

• The Way Of Kings
• Words Of Radiance
• 2.5 Edgedancer
• Oathbringer
• Rhythm of War

5. Secret Projects

• Tress of the Emerald Sea
• The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Pre-order)
• Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Pre-order)

6. Alcatraz

Michael J. Sullivan (Books of Elan)

1. The Riyria Revelations

• Theft of Swords
  • The Crown Conspiracy
  • Avempartha
• Rise of Empire
  • Nyphron Rising
  • The Emerald Storm
• Heir of Novron
  • Wintertide
  • Percepliquis

2. The Riyria Chronicles

• The Crown Tower
• The Rose and the Thorn
• The Death of Dulgath
• The Disappearance of Winter’s Daughter

3. Legends of the First Empire

• Age of Myth
• Age of Swords
• Age Of War
• Age Of Legend
• Age Of Death
• Age Of Empyre

Sarah J. Maas -

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR)

• A Court of Thorns and Roses, Part 2
• A Court of Mist and Fury, Part 2
• A Court of Wings and Ruin, Part 2, Part 3
• 3.5 A Court of Frost and Starlight
• A Court of Silver Flames, Part 2

2. Crescent City

• House of Earth and Blood, Part 2
• House of Sky and Breath, Part 2
• House of Flame and Shadow (Pre-order)

Rebecca Yarros - The Empyrean

• Fourth Wing, Part 2
• Iron Flame, Part 2

Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries

• All Systems Red
• Artificial Condition
• Rogue Protocol
• Exit Strategy
• Network Effect
• Fugitive Telemetry
• System Collapse

Pierce Brown - Red Rising Saga

• Red Rising, Part 2
• Golden Son, Part 2
• Morning Star, Part 2
• Iron Gold (Pre-order)

Peter V. Brett - Demon Cycle

• The Warded Man - or Part 1, Part 2
• 1.5 Brayan’s Gold
• 1.6 The Great Bazaar
• Desert Spear
• The Daylight War
• 3.5 Messenger’s Legacy
• The Skull Throne, Part 2, Part 3
• The Core, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• 5.5 Barren

Brent Weeks -

1. The Night Angel Trilogy

• The Way of Shadows - or Part 1, Part 2
• Shadow’s Edge
• Beyond the Shadows - or Part 1, Part 2

2. Lightbringer Saga

• The Black Prism
• The Blinding Knife
• The Broken Eye
• The Blood Mirror
• The Burning White

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Blood and Ash

• From Blood and Ash, Part 2
• A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Pre-order)

Also check,

Zodiac Academy - by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti

R.A. Salvatore’s -

• The DemonWars Saga (The Demon Awakens)
• Saga of the First King (The Highwayman)
  
  

Night Huntress (Halfway to the Grave) - by Jeaniene Frost

Mercy Thompson (Moon Called) - by Patricia Briggs

Ilona Andrews’s -

• Kate Daniels (Magic Bites)
• Innkeeper Chronicles (Clean Sweep)
  
  

Deathlands (Pilgrimage to Hell) - by James Axler

The First Mountain Man Series - by William W. Johnstone

(sometines GraphicAudio is available as ‘Audio CD’, so do check what are you getting)
If you are searching for GraphicAudio book and can’t find it, sometimes using keyword ‘Dramatized’ helps.

Here, you might have noticed that some of the new books are missing. Due to the full-cast production, GraphicAudio does lag behind in releases.

I have also provided the reading order for Mistborn, Elantris, Stormlight Archive (Cosmere); Demon Cycle, Riyria Books (Books of Elan), and others.

If you haven’t, you should definitely try full-cast audiobooks. There are some hits and misses, but if you like them, a whole new world will open for you.