Audiobooks Like Frankenstein

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Dan Stevens narrates Frankenstein with an eerie, sculpted intensity — his Victor is both feverish and cold, a man who speaks of creation the way others speak of God, and the creature's chapters arrive in a voice that is somehow more eloquent and more wounded than the man who made him. At 9 hours, the story never rushes its philosophical dread. Several of these recommendations also feature Stevens in the narrator's chair, and the rest run a similar length with that same unsettling quality of horror that thinks.

10 audiobooks for fans of Frankenstein

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    All These Worlds

    Bobiverse • Book 3

    by Dennis E. Taylor

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.68 ABR Score (134.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (65.4K) ★ 4.78 Audible (68.9K)
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    Ray Porter returns as Bob's various clones wage war against ancient aliens while humanity's colonies bicker and Brazilian probes cause interstellar havoc.

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    For We Are Many

    Bobiverse • Book 2

    by Dennis E. Taylor

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K) ★ 4.77 Audible (74.0K)
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    Ray Porter continues voicing Bob's expanding consciousness as the AI copies spread across space, facing system-wide war and an alien threat to humanity.

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    The Flood

    Arisen • Book 10

    by Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.46 ABR Score (5.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.84 Audible (3.7K)
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    London under zombie siege and desperate missions into fallen Russia get R.C. Bray's intense treatment as Major Jameson weighs retrieving a pathogen that kills even the undead.

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    Second Foundation

    Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 3

    by Isaac Asimov

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.46 ABR Score (212.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (204.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (7.9K)
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    The Mule hunts for the hidden Second Foundation while 14-year-old Arkady might hold the key to either the Foundation's salvation or destruction.

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    Foundation and Empire

    Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 2

    by Isaac Asimov

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.43 ABR Score (237.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (228.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (9.6K)
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    Asimov's galactic chess match between the Foundation's psychohistory and the mutant Mule gets epic scope through Scott Brick's commanding delivery.

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    Old Man's War

    Old Man\u2019s War • Book 1

    by John Scalzi

    Narrated by William Dufris

    ★ 4.43 ABR Score (255.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (28.5K)
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    John Perry's 75th birthday recruitment into humanity's star-spanning military gets perfectly pitched energy from William Dufris.

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    Death of Empires

    Arisen • Book 7

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.41 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.8 Audible (2.8K)
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    Military zombie apocalypse series races toward its epic conclusion as survivors face their greatest challenges yet in this powerhouse seventh installment.

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    Cataclysm

    Arisen • Book 9

    by Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.8K) ★ 4.81 Audible (2.5K)
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    London falls to the zombie tide while Alpha team fragments in Africa's deadly confusion and humanity's savior plummets toward Earth. R.C. Bray handles the apocalyptic scope and multiple fronts of this climactic zombie war finale.

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    Cinder

    The Lunar Chronicles • Book 1

    by Marissa Meyer

    Narrated by Rebecca Soler

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.56 Audible (14.5K)
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    Cinderella reimagined as a cyborg mechanic in plague-ravaged New Beijing, with lunar colonists plotting Earth's destruction. Rebecca Soler brings warmth to this sci-fi fairy tale while handling the world-building with clarity.

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    The Horizon

    Arisen • Book 6

    by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (6.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.76 Audible (3.8K)
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    Alpha team gets their first chance to rest after completing their zombie apocalypse mission, but R.C. Bray shows how quiet moments can be as dangerous as combat.

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