In 2009, Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book, a prestigious prize given to “the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.” The American Library Association, the organization that bestows the award, called The Graveyard Book a “delicious mix of murder, fantasy, humor and human longing,” and cited its “magical, haunting prose.” You can savor that prose by watching the playlist of videos embedded above. During the book tour for The Graveyard Book, Gaiman read a different chapter at every stop, and his publisher, HarperCollins, recorded the readings and made them available online. If you have roughly eight hours of free time, you can watch the reading from start to finish.
We have more Gaiman readings in our collection of Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories. You can also find the reading on our list 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free.
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Brilliant, thank you. And such a coincidence – my copy of The Graveyard Book arrived in the post today!
this is a really good book