Audiobooks narrated by Stephen Fry
Probably the most recognisable voice in British audiobooks. Warm, unhurried, and very good at holding a large cast apart without ever sounding like he is doing voices. His Harry Potter is the UK edition; Americans grew up with Jim Dale instead, and people are partisan about it. His Wodehouse is sold as two very long collections rather than as the individual volumes, so do not go looking for a Fry recording of one particular Jeeves novel.
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Best known for
- Harry Potter (UK editions)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- Heroes
- Odyssey
- P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Series Stephen Fry reads in full
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling · 7 books · read throughout by Stephen Fry. Straightforward — publication order is chronological order.
- 1
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) - 2
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) - 3
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) - 4
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) - 5
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) - 6
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) - 7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
Full Harry Potter listening order →
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 9 books · read throughout by Stephen Fry. Publication order below. In practice the collections can be listened to in any order — only A Study in Scarlet (the meeting) and The Final Problem / The Empty House really need their place.
- 1
A Study in Scarlet (1887) - 2
The Sign of the Four (1890) - 3
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) - 4
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) - 5
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) - 6
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) - 7
The Valley of Fear (1915) - 8
His Last Bow (1917) - 9
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
Full Sherlock Holmes listening order →
Series Stephen Fry appears in
We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Stephen Fry’s recordings, and we hold one narrator credit per series rather than per volume. We would rather say so than guess which titles are which.
Jeeves and Wooster in orderP.G. Wodehouse · 15 books · Varies by volume — Jonathan Cecil, Nicolas Coster, Ian Carmichael and others, with abridged Martin Jarvis editions
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in orderDouglas Adams · 6 books · Stephen Fry (book one), Martin Freeman (books two to five) and Simon Jones (And Another Thing...)
Where Stephen Fry is one of the choices
Books sold as more than one recording, with Stephen Fry among the options. Each page says which one to buy and why.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ.K. Rowling · 2 recordings · our pick
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · 4 recordings · our pick
Authors Stephen Fry reads
J.K. Rowling1 series on this site
Arthur Conan Doyle1 series on this site- P.G. Wodehouse1 series on this site
- Douglas Adams1 series on this site
Portraits — J.K. Rowling: Photo: Daniel Ogren · CC BY 2.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Who else reads these
Narrators who work on the same series — useful when a series is split between readers and you want to know whose voice you are getting.
- Bill NighyLove Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean, Living
- Hugh LaurieHouse, Blackadder, The Night Manager
- Derek JacobiI, Claudius, Cadfael, Gladiator
- Martin FreemanThe Office, Sherlock, The Hobbit
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