Make These 9 Fantasy Audiobooks Your Next Side Quest

Sometimes you need a little magic—an adventure into the strange and wonderful—to ignite that old feeling: the thrill of reading your favorite books for the first time. Excitement. Intrigue. Perhaps a smidge of obsession. And you don’t need your own magic-infused lineage, immortal entity, or werewolf pack to find that thrill (although, if you have any of those things, hit me up).

However, you do need the enchantment of Deborah Harkness’s The Black Bird Oracle, and tumbling into the new time-bending Keanu Reeves and China Miéville collaboration (The Book of Elsewhere) wouldn’t hurt. Add to your audiobook playlist a luminous spin on the King Arthur legend (The Bright Sword), and The Night Ends With Fire, an epic story that’s setting the fantasy world aflame. The audio editions of each of these titles (and a few more below) will have you feeling like you’re stepping through the wardrobe for the very first time…