Books by Katherine Arden
“January LaVoy and Michael Crouch perform this historical novel with a supernatural twist. Laura is a nurse who has recently returned from a WWI battlefield to her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia; her brother, Freddie, has gone missing in the cold, wet trenches of Belgium. LaVoy’s and Crouch’s deeply moving and captivating performances work together to create a must-listen audiobook.” Read more...
“It gives us the history of Russia that we already know, and then it throws in Russian and Slavic folklore. The way it does this, it speaks to how someone in the time period may perhaps have viewed their reality – where this folklore was not something that was considered ‘folklore’, but was part of the natural world. The supernatural and natural world here remain blurred.” Read more...
The Best Historical Fantasy Books
P. Djèlí Clark, Novelist
Interviews where books by Katherine Arden were recommended
The Best Historical Fantasy Books, recommended by P. Djèlí Clark
Historical fantasy books intermingle real history with counterfactual and speculative elements. P. Djèlí Clark, historian and Nebula Award-winning novelist, talks us through his top five magical re-imaginings of past eras, taking us from fourteenth century Russia into the Washington D.C. of the Roaring Twenties.
The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Audiobooks of 2024, recommended by AudioFile Editors
If you’re looking for audiobooks that help books jump off the page, AudioFile magazine’s best of 2024 lists are a great place to start. Here’s their list of best audiobooks for 2024 in the science fiction and fantasy genres—from dark academia to a novel set in World War I.
