10 audiobooks for fans of Golden Son
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Ender's Shadow
Ender's Shadow • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast
★ 4.59 ABR Score (194.4K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (180.6K) ★ 4.76 Audible (13.8K)More about this pick
Bean's parallel journey through Battle School gets full-cast treatment, with Scott Brick and Gabrielle de Cuir leading voices that capture both his genius and vulnerability.
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Dune
Dune • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers
★ 4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.67 Audible (126.5K)More about this pick
Paul Atreides' transformation from noble heir to messianic leader on the spice planet Arrakis unfolds through multiple skilled voices that capture each character's distinct perspective.
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Foundation's Edge
Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 4
by Isaac Asimov
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.45 ABR Score (104.1K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (99.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (4.7K)More about this pick
Asimov returns to his galactic empire thirty years later as the First Foundation discovers disturbing flaws in Seldon's plan. Scott Brick captures both the scope and intricate plotting.
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Children of Dune
Dune • Book 3
Narrated by Scott Brick, Simon Vance
★ 4.34 ABR Score (272.6K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (254.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (18.3K)More about this pick
Paul Atreides' twin children inherit not only their father's prescient abilities but the political chaos of ruling Arrakis, where religious zealotry and spice addiction threaten the empire's future.
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Hyperion
Hyperion • Book 1
by Dan Simmons
Narrated by Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine
★ 4.31 ABR Score (328.7K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (303.0K) ★ 4.37 Audible (25.7K)More about this pick
Seven pilgrims journey to meet the deadly Shrike in Canterbury Tales meets space opera. Multiple narrators handle each pilgrim's backstory, creating distinct voices for this sprawling, genre-bending epic about humanity's cosmic reckoning.
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Heretics of Dune
Dune • Book 5
Narrated by Simon Vance, Scott Brick
★ 4.18 ABR Score (112.2K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (104.1K) ★ 4.55 Audible (8.1K)More about this pick
Fifteen hundred years after God Emperor Leto's death, the Empire has scattered and the Bene Gesserit face new threats from returning exiles. Herbert's complex fifth Dune novel benefits from dual narrators handling its intricate political plotting.
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Chapterhouse: Dune
Dune • Book 6
Narrated by Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Simon Vance
★ 4.16 ABR Score (91.3K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (6.6K)More about this pick
Herbert's final Dune novel follows the scattered Bene Gesserit as they face extinction from the brutal Honored Matres. The ensemble cast handles the complex political maneuvering across multiple perspectives with clarity.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Narrated by Christopher Hurt
★ 4.12 ABR Score (338.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (327.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (11.2K)More about this pick
Valentine Michael Smith, raised by Martians and possessing psychic powers, struggles to understand human society after arriving on Earth for the first time. His journey from alien outsider to messianic figure challenges everything about human nature, religion, and social convention.
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Xenocide
Ender's Saga • Book 3
Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
★ 4.10 ABR Score (179.4K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (166.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (13.3K)More about this pick
Card's complex third Ender novel juggles multiple alien species and philosophical debates, requiring the full ensemble cast to handle its scope.
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Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 1
by Elizabeth Schaefer, Ben Acker, Jonathan Davis, Tom Angleberger, Janina Gavankar, Ben Blacker, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Christie Golden, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Pierce Brown, Ashley Eckstein, Carol Monda, Mur Lafferty, Marc Thompson, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel José Older, Ian Doescher, Daniel M. Lavery, Madeleine Roux, Gary D. Schmidt, Matt Fraction, Cavan Scott, Sabaa Tahir, Kieron Gillen, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Christopher, Rae Carson, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Paul Dini, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Paul S. Kemp, Elizabeth Wein, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, Charles Soule, Wil Wheaton, Renée Ahdieh
Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson
★ 4.07 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (15.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.2K)More about this pick
Multiple celebrity narrators including Neil Patrick Harris and Jon Hamm bring variety to these 40 short stories retelling A New Hope from background characters' perspectives.
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