Audiobooks Like The Secret

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If you loved The Secret by Lee Child, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Scott Brick's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Secret

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    Tom Clancy Shadow State (A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Book 18)

    Jack Ryan, Jr. • Book 18

    by M.P. Woodward

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.49 ABR Score (7.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (6.1K) ★ 4.69 Audible (1.1K)
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    Jack Ryan Jr. survives a helicopter crash in Vietnam only to uncover a conspiracy threatening Western investors. The latest Clancy thriller blends modern economic espionage with classic action sequences across Southeast Asia.

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    Dear Debbie

    by Freida McFadden

    Narrated by Julia Whelan, January LaVoy, Scott Brick

    4.45 ABR Score (249.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (244.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (5.8K)
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    Advice columnist Debbie Mullen's breaking point arrives when her helpful suggestions turn deadly in McFadden's latest twisted tale. Three skilled narrators handle the shifting perspectives with precision.

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    The Race

    Isaac Bell • Book 4

    by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.28 ABR Score (10.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (2.5K)
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    1910's first transcontinental flying race offers $50,000 to whoever crosses America in under fifty days, but someone's sabotaging the aircraft. Scott Brick captures the early aviation excitement and detective work.

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    The Assassin

    Isaac Bell • Book 8

    by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.28 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (6.3K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.3K)
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    Detective Isaac Bell hunts a sniper murdering Standard Oil's enemies across America's early oilfields. The investigation weaves through Rockefeller's monopoly and the dangerous politics of black gold.

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    The Thief

    Isaac Bell • Book 5

    by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.25 ABR Score (9.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.0K)
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    Detective Isaac Bell races to protect European scientists with a revolutionary invention aboard the Mauretania, their technology worth killing for in 1910.

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    The Gangster

    Isaac Bell • Book 9

    by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.23 ABR Score (8.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (6.2K) ★ 4.46 Audible (2.4K)
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    Detective Isaac Bell forms a special Black Hand Squad to combat Italian organized crime terrorizing 1906 New York. The gangsters seem omnipresent, making every street corner potentially deadly in this historical thriller.

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    The Next Mrs. Parrish

    Mrs. Parrish • Book 2

    by Liv Constantine

    Narrated by Raquel Beattie, Scott Brick, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Erin Bennett

    4.21 ABR Score (118.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (115.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (2.8K)
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    When Daphne and Amber Parrish reunite to face a shared enemy from their past, the stellar ensemble cast captures every twist in this psychological chess match between two women who've mastered the art of deception.

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    Radiant Angel

    John Corey • Book 7

    by Nelson DeMille

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.20 ABR Score (26.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (21.7K) ★ 4.33 Audible (5.0K)
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    John Corey joins the Diplomatic Surveillance Group, watching Russian diplomats at the UN Mission in what's supposed to be a quiet assignment. His surveillance work proves anything but peaceful in this seventh series installment.

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    Pacific Vortex!

    Dirk Pitt® • Book 1

    by Clive Cussler, Michael Pritchard

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.17 ABR Score (26.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (25.4K) ★ 4.56 Audible (749)
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    Dirk Pitt's first adventure plunges into the fog-shrouded Pacific waters where ships vanish without trace, including America's nuclear submarine Starbuck.

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    Cold Storage

    Revival • Book 2

    by Michael C. Grumley

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.16 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.58 Audible (164)
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    Army veteran John Reiff awakens in a rundown ambulance, fleeing shadowy organizations in this standalone Revival series thriller about immortality's true cost.

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