Audiobooks narrated by Steven Pacey

Regularly named the best narrator in fantasy, and it is not a controversial opinion. Abercrombie writes viewpoint characters with very distinct interior voices and Pacey gives each of them one.

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2 series · 3 books

Best known for

• The First Law series
• Sharp Ends
• The Devils

Series Steven Pacey reads in full

The Age of Madness

Joe Abercrombie · 3 books · read throughout by Steven Pacey. Read The First Law trilogy first, and ideally the three standalones after it — the children of the original cast are the leads here and a great deal lands harder if you know their parents. Then these three in order.

1. 1A Little Hatred (2019)
2. 2The Trouble with Peace (2020)
3. 3The Wisdom of Crowds (2021)

Full The Age of Madness listening order →

Series Steven Pacey appears in

We do not list individual books for these: each is either shared between narrators or includes titles that are not in Steven Pacey’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.

• The First Law in orderJoe Abercrombie · 7 books · Steven Pacey, with Joe Abercrombie credited alongside him on Sharp Ends

Authors Steven Pacey reads

• Joe Abercrombie2 series on this site

Portraits — Joe Abercrombie: Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

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