James Bond audiobooks in order
Each Fleming book has its own reader on the UK store, in a set released together in 2025 — Richard Armitage starts it with Casino Royale. Worth knowing the books are considerably harder and less charming than any of the films.
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Which order should you listen in?
Publication order is the only sensible one — Fleming wrote them as a sequence and later books refer back. Note the films bear very little relation to the books beyond the titles, and the reading order will not match any viewing order you know.
On screen: Films, From 1962. Every series here that has been adapted for the screen →
James Bond in publication order
- 1
Casino Royale (1953)Read by Richard Armitage · 5h 44m unabridged - 2
Live and Let Die (1954)Read by Adjoa Andoh · 7h 48m unabridged - 3
Moonraker (1955)Read by Alex Kingston · 8h 14m unabridged - 4
Diamonds Are Forever (1956)Read by Pippa Bennett-Warner · 7h 4m unabridged - 5
From Russia with Love (1957)Read by Mark Gatiss · 8h 32m unabridged - 6
Dr. No (1958)Read by Jon Culshaw · 8h 27m unabridged - 7
Goldfinger (1959)Read by Adam Godley · 9h 21m unabridged - 8For Your Eyes Only (1960)Read by Johnny Flynn · 6h 29m unabridged
- 9
Thunderball (1961)Read by Robert Glenister · 8h 34m unabridged - 10
The Spy Who Loved Me (1962)Read by Genevieve Gaunt · 5h 32m unabridged - 11
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963)Read by Daniel Weyman · 8h 41m unabridged - 12
You Only Live Twice (1964)Read by Eleanor Matsuura · 7h 10m unabridged - 13
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965)Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith · 5h 22m unabridged - 14
Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)Read by Ben Willbond · 2h 44m unabridged
Who reads it
- Robert GlenisterThe Cormoran Strike series
- Kobna Holdbrook-SmithThe Rivers of London novels, Good Omens
- Daniel WeymanThe Roy Grace series, Dominion
- Jon CulshawGuards! Guards!, Feet of Clay
- Adjoa AndohGood Omens, The Ultimate Iliad & Odyssey
- Mark GatissDracula, From Russia with Love
- Richard ArmitageDavid Copperfield, Casino Royale