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 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 CommonsWhich 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.
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Earthsea in publication order
- 1
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)Sold as several recordings: which to buy - 2
The Tombs of Atuan (1971)Read by Aysha Kala · 5h 41m unabridged - 3
The Farthest Shore (1972)Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith · 8h 9m unabridged - 4
Tehanu (1990)Read by Jenny Sterlin · 8h 33m unabridged - 5
Tales from Earthsea (2001)Read by Jenny Sterlin · 12h 13m unabridged - 6
The Other Wind (2001)Read by Samuel Roukin · 8h 22m unabridged
Which recording should you buy?
One book in this series is sold as more than one recording. Each comparison says which to buy and why: