Christa Lewis
Audiobook Narrator
an evocative voice
for the human journey
350+ audiobook narrations
🏆SOVAS Voice Arts® Winner (2019)
Audie Award® Finalist (2018, 2020)
SOVAS Voice Arts® Nominee (2017, 2018, 2020)
🏆10x AudioFile Earphones Award Winner (9x Narration, 1x Directing)
Non-Fiction
Historical non-fiction asks for emotional depth, factual precision and, often, linguistic accuracy. I approach difficult history with neutrality and empathy — from Sarah Helm’s Ravensbrück to Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast and Amy Reading’s The World She Edited.
Floating Coast
by Bathsheba Demuth
I cannot think of another recent work that is both path breaking environmental history and breathtaking work of literature. The research is deep and the argument persuasive.
The writing is luminous. This is the best work of history I've read in years.
— Audible Listener
Ravensbrück
by Sarah Helm
The narration is some of the best I have ever heard. The care and respect with which Christa Lewis reads these 32+ hours makes it so much more than a performance, and yet, from a performance standpoint, hers is impeccable. So many dialects, each perfectly intoned, each made a distinct, individual character- what a memorial to the Ravensbrück women she has helped create here.
I'm very grateful to both author and narrator.
— Audible Listener
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The World She Edited
by Amy Reading
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
One can hear Lewis savoring the insider details… Lewis does her full justice.
— AudioFile Magazine
Young Adult (YA)
Wolf By Wolf
by Ryan Graudin
— An Amazon Best Book of the Year
— A Huffington Post Top Ten YA Book of the Year
Lewis's reading is as compelling as the fast-paced writing and the lyrical imagery. Lewis transitions easily between accents and emotional tones that color and define characters, situations, and time periods.
— AudioFile Magazine
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Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
by Nita Tyndall
Loved this book. It was read well and you really get drawn into the characters and the anxiety surrounding the situation. Plan on getting a physical copy and will definitely read again.
— Audible Listener
Arrows of the Queen
by Mercedes Lackey
I read this book years ago. Listening to it on audible made it just as magical. The narrator is wonderful and I was drawn into the story again immediately.
— Audible Listener
Young adult fiction can move from alternate history to epic fantasy in a breath.
I’m drawn to stories of young people finding courage, identity and their place in the world — whether the setting is war-torn Europe, a magic-bound kingdom or something stranger.
International Thrillers &
Fiction in
Translation
Children of the Dead
by Elfriede Jelinek
Scrupulously rendered for the first time in English by Gitta Honegger, The Children of the Dead takes listeners on a mind-bending ride through time, space, and memory.
Concocted from experimental theater, splatter film, Gothic literature, philosophy, religion, and more, Jelinek's phantasmagorical masterwork is a fierce confrontation with our fraught legacies in the name of the innocent dead.
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
by Yoko Tawada
Rivka Galchen says that in Tawada, “language and perception are always central, problematic and vivid.”
“Yoko Tawada’s Magnificent Strangeness”
— The New Yorker
... and I could not agree more. This narration was an exuberant exploration into the wilds of an untamed imagination - challenging and compelling.
As a bilingual English–German narrator, I bring native-level fluency to international thrillers and translated European literature.
From Marlen Haushofer’s Killing Stella to Elfriede Jelinek’s Children of the Dead, my focus is performance first — with linguistic accuracy and cultural nuance intact.
Killing Stella
by Marlen Haushofer
The Book: A masterwork of Austrian literature.
— The New York Times
The Performance: The metaphors and accusations come fast and land hard in this stunning, brilliant feminist noir.
— Audible Listener
Philosophy
Memoir & the
Human Journey
Thrive Socially with Adult ADHD by Dr. Shawn Horn
An essential, expert-led guide to navigating the social complexities of the neurodivergent mind. Dr. Shawn Horn provides a transformative roadmap for overcoming shame and building authentic connection, delivered with incisive clarity and professional warmth.
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Learning from the Germans
by Susan Neiman
Required reading for humans. Deeply moving, necessary and accessible wisdom in the incessant pursuit of a truly humane humanity.
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Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
A thunderous standing ovation to the narrator who seems to speak without need for pause for 33 hours with arresting, gentle, lulling tones. It's a masterful accomplishment to pour through so many painful and scandalous true-life tales with such delicacy.
— Audible Reviewer
I believe we weave our lives from the stories we tell ourselves and the stories others tell about us- they coalesce into a "narrative " of the human experience.
Be it biography or science, I always try to bridge the gap between academic specificity and heart-centered storytelling.
Cozy Mystery
& Thrillers
Mystery, cozy mystery and thrillers are my jam — from M.L. Longworth’s sun-soaked Provençal mysteries to Amy Vansant’s Shee McQueen adventures and Lisa Jackson’s Paranoid. I love character-driven suspense that can be playful, propulsive or very dark.
The Girl Who Wants
by Amy Vansant
Good narration and the story keeps you interested. I’d recommend! Don’t know what happens til the end.
— Audible Listener
The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
by M.L. Longworth
Beautiful writing and narration. Multi-dimensional character development intertwined with the plot and cultural nuances.
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Paranoid
by Lisa Jackson
A suspenseful thriller... It was difficult to stop listening to this book; it caught my attention and kept me eager to hear more. The narration was excellent, which added to an already gripping mystery of lies and murder. Highly recommend.
— Audible Listener
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SciFi Fantasy &
Magical Realism
The Dragon Prince
by Melanie Rawn
Christa Lewis’s performance brings alive all the emotions and life force of every scene in this tale. The characters live in the pages—you cry and laugh with them. I recommend this to everyone who loves immersive, world-building epic fantasy.
— Audible Listener
The Divide
by Jeremy Robinson
Another home run. Such great characters! Christa Lewis's performance truly transported me to another time and place. I recommend this to everyone who loves immersive, world-building sci-fi.
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Forty Rooms
by Olga Grushin
This is a deep and wonderful story, told by a masterful narrator. Christa Lewis brings all the characters to life and each 'room' is very distinct. This is a journey, and a very emotional story.
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The boundless imagination of Speculative Fiction and Magical Realism are a deep love.
Whether I am navigating the lyrical prose of Olga Grushin’s mystical Forty Rooms or voicing the complex, multi-generational lineages of Melanie Rawn’s epic fantasy The Dragon Prince —I dig deeply into the emotional truth of stories that defy the ordinary and grow our imagination.