Top 5 Audiobook Narrators Who Deserve a Cut of the Royalties

The voices that turned a commute into the best part of the day and made you sit in the parked car until the chapter ended.

1. 1

   Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir, read by Ray Porter

   Porter's Rocky voice is so good the audiobook might beat the novel itself, and that's coming from someone who loved the novel.

2. 2

   Born a Crime — Trevor Noah

   Nobody else could read this one: he switches languages, accents and comic timing so smoothly it plays like a private stand-up special about his childhood.

3. 3

   Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders, read by a 166-person cast

   Nick Offerman, David Sedaris and a whole crowd of ghosts turn a hard-to-follow novel into the best radio play you never knew you needed.

4. 4

   Harry Potter Series — J.K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale

   Dale gave hundreds of characters their own voices, and a whole generation still hears his Hagrid when they reread the books on paper.

5. 5

   Bossypants — Tina Fey

   Reading it on paper means missing half the jokes, because so many of them depend on Fey's deadpan delivery.