Best Sarina Bowen Audiobooks
Sarina Bowen built her reputation on sports romance that actually earns its emotional weight. Where the genre often leans on chemistry alone, Bowen layers in real character work — her protagonists carry specific wounds and blind spots that drive the conflict rather than manufactured misunderstanding. The Ivy Years series captures the particular texture of college life with warmth and wit, while Brooklyn Bruisers delivers sharp, funny ensemble storytelling where the secondary characters are almost as compelling as the leads. Her collaboration with Elle Kennedy on Him is rightly celebrated: two best friends falling for each other, written with a candor and ease that makes the romance feel genuinely inevitable. Bowen's prose is efficient and emotionally precise — she doesn't overwrite the feeling, she earns it. Readers who want romance with stakes, specificity, and a light hand should start here.
Where to Start with Sarina Bowen
- Best entry point → The Year We Fell Down
- Best standalone → Top Secret
- Start the Him series → Him
- Short listen, big payoff → Us
- What fans keep coming back to → The Five Year Lie
- Best narrator for Sarina Bowen → The Understatement of the Year
- Highest rated by listeners → Brooklynaire (Brooklyn Bruisers #4)
Best Sarina Bowen Audiobooks
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Us
Him • Book 2
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan
★ 4.61 ABR Score (62.1K ratings)★ 4.23 Goodreads (57.6K) ★ 4.82 Audible (4.5K) - 2
Him
Him • Book 1
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan
★ 4.57 ABR Score (113.2K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (106.0K) ★ 4.76 Audible (7.3K)More about this pick
Dual narrators bring conflicting perspectives to this romance: four years of unresolved tension that earns every moment of intensity and vulnerability.
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Top Secret
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Christian Fox
★ 4.43 ABR Score (46.3K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (42.4K) ★ 4.74 Audible (3.9K) - 4
The Understatement of the Year
The Ivy Years • Book 3
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Christian Fox
★ 4.36 ABR Score (25.6K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (22.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (3.4K) - 5
Brooklynaire
Brooklyn Bruisers • Book 4
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Zachary Webber, Virginia Rose, Joe Hempel
★ 4.31 ABR Score (26.8K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (23.9K) ★ 4.65 Audible (3.0K)More about this pick
Webber and Rose turn seven years of unspoken chemistry into one unforgettable night of sizzling tension.
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The Year We Hid Away
The Ivy Years • Book 2
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nick Podehl, Saskia Maarleveld
★ 4.31 ABR Score (19.0K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (16.9K) ★ 4.66 Audible (2.1K) - 7
The Fifteenth Minute
The Ivy Years • Book 5
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nick Podehl, Saskia Maarleveld
★ 4.22 ABR Score (10.0K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (8.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (1.7K) - 8
The Year We Fell Down
The Ivy Years • Book 1
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nick Podehl, Saskia Maarleveld
★ 4.20 ABR Score (36.5K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (33.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.7K) - 9
Hard Hitter
Brooklyn Bruisers • Book 2
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella, Rock Engle
★ 4.19 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (12.6K) ★ 4.58 Audible (1.5K)More about this pick
The dual narration perfectly captures the charged tension between a hockey enforcer and physical therapist as walls come down through touch.
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The Five Year Lie
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Kathleen Early, Gary Tiedemann, Jason Clarke
★ 4.17 ABR Score (51.4K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (46.1K) ★ 4.44 Audible (5.3K)More about this pick
Ariel receives a text from her supposedly dead ex-boyfriend, shattering her carefully rebuilt life. The three-narrator approach handles multiple perspectives as Bowen's thriller unfolds through past and present timelines.
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Pipe Dreams
Brooklyn Bruisers • Book 3
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella, Rock Engle
★ 4.15 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (1.4K)More about this pick
Dual narration nails the push-pull between a widower and his ex, turning their reunion into something genuinely earned and moving.
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Good Boy
WAGs • Book 1
Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Tanya Eby
★ 4.11 ABR Score (48.9K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (45.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.3K)More about this pick
Teddy Hamilton and Tanya Eby have perfect on-mic chemistry that makes the banter genuinely irresistible. Dual narration romance done right.
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Rookie Move
Brooklyn Bruisers • Book 1
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella, Rock Engle
★ 4.02 ABR Score (19.3K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (17.4K) ★ 4.46 Audible (1.9K)More about this pick
Nicol Zanzarella and Rock Engle nail the push-pull in this exes-to-lovers hockey romance, delivering tension that feels genuine instead of manufactured.
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The Gravity Collection Box Set: Three Complete Novels
Gravity #1-3 • Book 1
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Emma Wilder, Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell, Noel Harrison, Tanya Eby, Aiden Snow
★ 3.86 ABR Score (254 ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (213) ★ 4.63 Audible (41)More about this pick
Six narrators bring Vermont's ski country to life across three interconnected romances about Olympic hopefuls and small-town secrets. The ensemble cast captures both the athletic intensity and intimate moments perfectly.
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Coming in from the Cold
Gravity • Book 1
by Sarina Bowen
Narrated by Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
★ 3.75 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)★ 3.65 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.38 Audible (24)More about this pick
Stranded together, two people learn honesty from proximity alone; Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell's narration makes every moment of vulnerability feel essential.