Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh is a stage and screen actor who has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared on British television and in the major motion picture Invictus. She's narrated more than 100 audiobooks, most notably Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, and The Power by Naomi Alderman. She's also voiced Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, for which the debut volume won the honor of being named The Guardian’s Best Audiobook of the Year.

John Lee

John Lee is known for narrating some epic books: Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge novels, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. He has won multiple Audie and Earphones Awards, was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, and is also an actor and producer. With more than 500 audiobooks under his belt, he has masterfully performed everything from epic fantasy to fascinating nonfiction.

Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson is an actress you may recognize from films such as Emma, Bend It Like Beckham, and Mona Lisa Smile. She's also the narrator of more than 100 audiobooks, from Jane Austen classics to contemporary best sellers such as Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things. She's also a BBC drama voice actor who has been nominated for BAFTA awards four times, received the Laurence Olivier Award, and was honored with a CBE for her contribution to the arts.

Chukwudi Iwuji

Chukwudi Iwuji has only a few audiobook credits to his name, but has already distinguished himself as an excellent narrator. The British-Nigerian actor has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as in film, radio, and television. He narrated Chigozie Obioma's novels The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorites, And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile, and I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, and Liz Welch.

Simon Prebble

Simon Prebble has worked as a stage and screen actor, a television game show host and a voice-over actor—and is now a prolific audiobook narrator. He's narrated classics such as 1984 by George Orwell, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, as well as contemporary works by Charles Todd, Dick Francis, and Peter Robinson. He's recorded more than 900 audiobooks, and has been nominated or has received nearly every audiobook award there is—Audies, Earphones, Golden Voice, and Best Narrator of the Year.

Cathleen McCarron

Cathleen McCarron is a voice coach with the Royal Shakespeare Company, so you know she has what it takes to be an incredible narrator. In addition to her theater work, she's narrated more than 50 audiobooks, most notably Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, which earned her a nomination to the 2018 British Book Award for Best Audiobook, an Audie Award, an Earphones Award, and the Silver Award in the Radio Indies Group’s UK Audio Production Awards 2017. She's also narrated books by Philippa Gregory and many novels by Scottish crime writer Denise Mina.

Moira Quirk

Moira Quirk is an actor, comedian, and voice-over artist who has extensive experience in TV and animation, and got her start with full-cast audiobooks before turning to solo narrations. Since her breakout performance, she has recorded more than 80 audiobooks and won multiple Audie and Earphones awards. She has a broad range, and her titles include Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Gail Carriger's Finishing School and Custard Protocol series, and books by Audrey Coulthurst and Elizabeth Hoyt.

Tirzah Price is a writer and contributing editor at Book Riot.