Rick Riordan Audiobooks

Greek myth retold for Percy Jackson's readers, in the Greek Gods and Greek Heroes

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Who is Rick Riordan?

Rick Riordan, born in 1964, is the American author behind one of the defining children’s publishing successes of the century. His breakthrough was The Lightning Thief in 2005, which dropped a group of modern adolescents into the world of Greek myth and launched Percy Jackson and the Olympians; from there grew The Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo and the Nico di Angelo Adventures, all under the Camp Half-Blood banner.

He has repeated the trick elsewhere – Egyptian mythology in The Kane Chronicles, Norse in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard – and helped develop The 39 Clues for Scholastic, writing its opening book. His novels have been translated into 42 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies in the United States alone. He now serves as co-creator and executive producer of the Percy Jackson television series that arrived on Disney+ in 2023, work that has earned him two Emmy Awards.

Rick Riordan in audiobooks

We carry two of his myth-first companion volumes: Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods and Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes, in which the source legends themselves take centre stage, retold with the irreverence that made the novels irresistible. Riordan’s whole project has been to make Greek myth feel like it happened just down the road, and these books are that project in its purest form.

In audio they are family gold: long enough for a serious car journey, episodic enough to dip in and out of, and funny enough that the adults will not be reaching for their own headphones. For UK households with a mythology-mad child in them, they are close to essential.