Ninth House Audiobook By Leigh Bardugo cover art

Ninth House

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Ninth House

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang, Michael David Axtell
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $24.74

Buy for $24.74

From the author of Shadow and Bone, now a hit NETFLIX series.

The smash New York Times bestseller from Leigh Bardugo, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

"The best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people.... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King

"Bardugo’s latest is a must-listen, introducing a haunting, Yale-based occult world populated with gloriously complicated characters.... A win-win-win, honestly." —Paste, best audiobooks of 2019

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most prestigious universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her?

Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. Their eight windowless “tombs” are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street’s biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

Accolades & Awards

Goodreads Choice Award
2019
#BookTok
#BookTok Epic Goodreads Choice Award Paranormal & Urban Magic Scary Supernatural Fantasy Paranormal Horror Fiction Thriller & Suspense Exciting Occult Fiction

Critic reviews

"Ninth House is the best fantasy novel I’ve read in years, because it’s about real people. Bardugo’s imaginative reach is brilliant, and this story—full of shocks and twists—is impossible to put down." - Stephen King

"Ninth House is one of the best fantasy novels I’ve read in years. This book is brilliant, funny, raw and utterly magnificent — it's a portal to a world you’ll never want to leave." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians

"Ninth House is the best thing I’ve read in a long time. There’s so much magic here that you'll begin to feel it seeping into the room around you as you read, and characters so real you ’ll practically hear their voices in your ear. Leigh Bardugo has written a book so delicious, so twisty, and so immersive I wouldn’t blame you for taking the day off to finish it." - Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Get in Trouble.

"Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House rocked my world. I could not get enough of sinewy, ghost-haunted Alex Stern, a heroine for the ages. With a bruised heart and bleeding knuckles, she risks death and damnation — again and again — for the people she cares about. I was cheering her on the whole way: from the first brilliant sentence of this book to the last. More, please, Ms. Bardugo." - Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2

"In this mesmerizing novel, Leigh Bardugo introduces us to Alex, a high-school dropout who gets a free ride to Yale because of a unique talent. Bardugo's New Haven is plausible and frightening, and I was one rapt reader." - Charlaine Harris, bestselling author of the True Blood series

"With an aura of both enchantment and authenticity, Bardugo's compulsively readable novel leaves a portal ajar for equally dazzling sequels." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Atmospheric...Part mystery, part story of a young woman finding purpose in a dark world." - Booklist (starred review)

"Genuinely terrific....The worldbuilding is rock solid, the plot is propulsive, and readers will be clamoring for a sequel as soon as they read the last page." - Library Journal (starred review)

"Excellent....Bardugo gives [her protagonist] a thoroughly engaging mix of rough edge, courage and cynicism." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Featured Article: The Best Audiobooks to Uncover the Magical World of the Occult


The word "occult" is used in books and movies to conjure up dark, scary subjects, but it's about much more than horror. Occultism is defined by supernatural beliefs and practices, such as magic, mysticism, and spirituality. Basically, the occult refers to happenings that are beyond the range of everyday experience and logical explanation or fall outside the scope of religion and science. We’ve curated a list of audiobooks to satisfy all levels of curiosity.

Featured Article The Best Audiobooks to Uncover the Magical World of the Occult

Continue the series
Hell Bent Audiobook By Leigh Bardugo cover art
Hell Bent By: Leigh Bardugo
Intricate Worldbuilding • Unexpected Twists • Excellent Narration • Complex Protagonist • Atmospheric Setting

Highly rated for:

All stars
Most relevant
My favorite supernatural reading is, paradoxically, stuff that hews closest to real life. So I’d say this series is a bit more like Harry Potter’s world or Charlaine Harris’s Sookie series than, say, The Magicians—which hauls the reader off into a complete fantasy world. I like feeling of real life being lit up, like awesome things are just around the corner, rather than feeling like I escaped completely. Being given a scholarship to Yale when you’re a poor outsider IS a kind of magic, and this novel shows it to be awe-full and even dangerous. Wonderful characters, a fine story arc leave me looking for the next in the series. And the readers were perfect!

Excellent magical world building

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The beginning was really hard to get into but once you get past it it's worth it. I'm also so glad that Lauren was chosen to read this book.

Performance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What a compelling story full of intrigue, sometimes sinister secret societies, and gripping magic! I was hooked on the story from the moment I was dropped into this world with Alex and company, wondering what had brought us to the hutch with an injured young woman hiding out. I loved every twist and unfolding of plot, the prickly characters who grew into beloved ones, as the smooth operators took on a loathsome quality that had me reeling and wondering just who I could trust as the story grew. The strings that unraveled as the layers of story were unfurled never fully revealed the truth until the very end. It kept me guessing and gasping, and I loved every second.

Wow, couldn't break away!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I loved having the two narrators and I'm looking forward to Book 2 of this series. I'd been in a book rut for a while and this brought me back, so thank you so much Leigh, Lauren, and Michael!

Absolutely riveting!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I’m not really a fan of fantasy and magic etc. but this book was surprisingly entertaining and very well done. The writing was excellent the plotline was outstanding and always interesting and surprising and complex and the voice talent was stupendous. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mystery or suspense. Particularly those readers who enjoy a very strong female central character

Surprisingly good!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews