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Earthsea audiobooks in order

Short books of quiet, precise fantasy. The later three were written decades after the first and deliberately argue with them.

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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le GuinNarrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (A Wizard of Earthsea, The Farthest Shore), Aysha Kala (The Tombs of Atuan), Jenny Sterlin (Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea) and Samuel Roukin (The Other Wind) · 6 books, including a short-story collectionPhoto: Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University; restored by Adam Cuerden · CC BY-SA 2.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons

Which order should you listen in?

Publication order. The gap between The Farthest Shore and Tehanu is eighteen years and the change in tone is intentional — that is the point, not a decline.

Earthsea in publication order

  1. 1A Wizard of EarthseaA Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
  2. 2The Tombs of AtuanThe Tombs of Atuan (1971)
  3. 3The Farthest ShoreThe Farthest Shore (1972)
  4. 4TehanuTehanu (1990)
  5. 5Tales from EarthseaTales from Earthsea (2001)
  6. 6The Other WindThe Other Wind (2001)

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