10 audiobooks for fans of The City & the City
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Embassytown
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.80 ABR Score (36.1K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (34.9K) ★ 4.11 Audible (1.2K)More about this pick
Human colonists struggle with an alien species whose language literally creates reality through paired speakers. Susan Duerden navigates Miéville's complex linguistic concepts while maintaining the protagonist's personal journey through cultural upheaval.
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Judas Unchained
Commonwealth Saga • Book 2
by Peter F. Hamilton, Marta García Martínez
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.30 ABR Score (48.4K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (40.7K) ★ 4.48 Audible (7.7K)More about this pick
Hamilton concludes his Commonwealth Saga as humanity fights for survival against the technologically superior Prime aliens bent on galactic conquest. John Lee handles the massive cast and complex plot threads across this 40-hour epic finale.
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For We Are Many
Bobiverse • Book 2
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K) ★ 4.77 Audible (74.0K)More about this pick
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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Not Till We Are Lost
Bobiverse • Book 5
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.50 ABR Score (32.3K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (19.1K) ★ 4.73 Audible (13.2K)More about this pick
The Bobiverse fractures after the Starfleet War, with Ray Porter navigating the emotional weight as the once-united Bobs face their most existential threat yet.
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Kindred
Narrated by Kim Staunton
★ 4.49 ABR Score (294.1K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (15.6K)More about this pick
Dana, a modern Black woman, gets violently yanked through time to antebellum Maryland whenever her white ancestor faces mortal danger. Kim Staunton's performance navigates the brutal emotional whiplash between 1970s California and slavery-era violence with unflinching power.
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The Naked God
Night's Dawn • Book 3
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.30 ABR Score (23.0K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (20.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
Quinn Dexter terrorizes Earth's arcologies while Louise Kavanagh hunts him with mysterious allies whose motives don't align with hers.
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The Neutronium Alchemist
Night's Dawn • Book 2
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.28 ABR Score (23.2K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (21.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.3K)More about this pick
The possessed escape Lalonde and spread across the Confederation, acquiring godlike powers while following a twisted gospel from world to world.
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House of Suns
House of Suns • Book 1
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.24 ABR Score (37.9K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (33.1K) ★ 4.47 Audible (4.8K)More about this pick
Campion and Purslane, two clones from a thousand-member family scattered across the galaxy, race to discover who's systematically murdering their siblings in this sweeping space opera.
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The Prefect
Prefect Dreyfus Emergency • Book 1
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.15 ABR Score (25.4K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (3.5K)More about this pick
Prefect Tom Dreyfus polices the utopian Glitter Band space habitats until a murder case reveals deeper conspiracies. What seems straightforward becomes a threat to their entire civilization.
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Pandora's Star
Commonwealth Saga • Book 1
by Peter F. Hamilton, Marta García Martínez
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.10 ABR Score (64.2K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (54.2K) ★ 4.23 Audible (10.0K)More about this pick
A vanishing star launches humanity's first interstellar investigation, uncovering an ancient alien prison that threatens six hundred connected worlds across the Commonwealth's wormhole network.
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