Where to Start with Adam Verner
- Best entry point → Noah Wolf Series, Books 1-4: Noah Wolf Boxed Set
- Best standalone → What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
- Start the Painting the Mists series → Painting the Mists: Volume 1: Painting the Mists, Books 1-3
- What fans keep coming back to → Mind War (Nick Hall, 3)
- Best narrator for Adam Verner → The Longest Day
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Noah Wolf Series, Books 1-4: Noah Wolf Boxed Set
Noah Wolf Series • Book 1
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.89 ABR Score (728 ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (2) ★ 4.41 Audible (726)More about this pick
Wolf suffers from emotional detachment after witnessing his parents' murder-suicide, making him the perfect assassin for a secret government program. Four novels of methodical, calculating action.
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Noah Wolf Series: Books 8-10: Noah Wolf Boxed Set
Noah Wolf Series • Book 8
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.99 ABR Score (311 ratings)★ 5 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.81 Audible (310)More about this pick
Deep cover operations and mass elimination missions pack this three-book collection of international intrigue. Verner maintains tension across 25+ hours of espionage action.
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Noah Wolf Series: Books 11-13: Noah Wolf Boxed Set
Noah Wolf Series • Book 11
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.97 ABR Score (249 ratings)★ 3 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.85 Audible (248)More about this pick
History repeats as Jenny takes point on missions that echo past operations with deadly new twists. This trilogy pushes team dynamics into uncharted territory.
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Mind War (Nick Hall, 3)
Nick Hall • Book 3
by Douglas E. Richards, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 4.09 ABR Score (4.6K ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (382)More about this pick
Brain implants let Nick read minds and access memories, but that power makes him a target for global manipulation schemes.
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Planesfall: Painting the Mists
Painting the Mists • Book 18
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 4.05 ABR Score (96 ratings)★ 4.83 Audible (96)More about this pick
The Inkwell Plane collapses toward Planesfall while enemies capture the Monkey King, leaving student Cha Ming as the realm's unlikely final hope.
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Bloodstorm: Painting the Mists
Painting the Mists • Book 17
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 4.04 ABR Score (89 ratings)★ 4.84 Audible (89)More about this pick
After twenty years in the Heartforge Realm, Cha Ming faces the brush of creation's final test while defending a dying world from fiendish invasion.
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World Order - A Noah Wolf Thriller
Noah Wolf Series • Book 14
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.86 ABR Score (50 ratings)★ 4.48 Audible (50)More about this pick
Noah Wolf investigates what appears to be an extraterrestrial base where American soldiers keep vanishing. UFOs, alien creatures, and Men in Black challenge even this emotionless operative's logic.
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Middle Falls Time Travel Omnibus: Books 4-6
Middle Falls Time Travel #4-6 • Book 16
by Shawn Inmon, Tamara Marston, Charlie Thurston, Adam Verner
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner, Luke Daniels, Scott Brick
★ 3.91 ABR Score (418 ratings)★ 4.68 Goodreads (387) ★ 4.81 Audible (31)More about this pick
Three standalone time travel stories explore different characters and eras, from a man born with impossible powers to a woman seeking emancipation across time. Multiple skilled narrators handle the varied tones and time periods expertly.
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What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
by Taylor Mali, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.87 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (1.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (36)More about this pick
Former teacher Taylor Mali transforms his viral poem about educator salaries into a passionate defense of the teaching profession. Adam Verner captures Mali's righteous indignation and genuine love for education.
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Painting the Mists: Volume 1: Painting the Mists, Books 1-3
Painting the Mists • Book 1
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.71 ABR Score (33 ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.53 Audible (32)More about this pick
Office worker Cha Ming gets transported to a world of flying swords and magic talismans when he asks the universe for something more. Verner handles the genre transition smoothly.
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The Broken Blade: An EndWorld Everlasting Saga: A Battle Mage Reborn
An EndWorld Everlasting Saga • Book 2
by R. Brady Frost, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.83 ABR Score (27 ratings)★ 4.56 Audible (27)More about this pick
Denton Wade carries a dark mark and shattered weapon to the Frostwind Mountains, seeking rare thistles for an Elixir of Souls.
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Painting the Mists: Volume 2: Painting the Mists, Books 4-6
Painting the Mists • Book 4
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.70 ABR Score (23 ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.73 Audible (22)More about this pick
Guilt-ridden Cha Ming faces his former enslaver in Quicksilver City across this middle trilogy. Adam Verner guides listeners through 42+ hours of cultivation progression and emotional reckonings.
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Painting the Mists: Volume 4: Painting the Mists, Books 10-12
Painting the Mists • Book 10
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.80 ABR Score (14 ratings)★ 4.79 Audible (14)More about this pick
Back at the bottom of the food chain, Cha Ming and Huxian navigate a magical plane where Daoist arts meet technology and immortals hunt their secrets.
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Painting the Mists: Volume 3: Painting the Mists, Books 7-9
Painting the Mists • Book 7
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.66 ABR Score (13 ratings)★ 3 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.5 Audible (12)More about this pick
Cha Ming's quest to resurrect his dead love spans three books of cultivation fantasy with demonic gardens and monkey kings. Nearly 48 hours of intricate world-building awaits.
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The Brain Change Program: 6 Steps to Renew Your Mind and Transform Your Life
by Dr. Alan Weissenbacher, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.59 ABR Score (12 ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.36 Audible (11) -
Painting the Mists: Volume 5: Painting the Mists, Books 13-15
Painting the Mists • Book 13
by Patrick G. Laplante, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.75 ABR Score (9 ratings)★ 4.56 Audible (9)More about this pick
Cha Ming's quest to revive the Monkey King across ancient desert ruins spans over 60 hours of immersive cultivation fantasy.
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The Longest Day
The Eden Stories • Book 1
by Terry Toler, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.64 ABR Score (337 ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (326) ★ 4.18 Audible (11)More about this pick
An atheist astronaut searches for his missing daughter while preparing for humanity's first deep space mission to find intelligent life. Adam Verner co-authored and narrates this philosophical space opera about faith and family.
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Deep Magic: Volume 1: A Speculative Fiction Collection: Deep Magic
Deep Magic • Book 1
by Jeff Wheeler, Kate Rudd, Hannah Curtis, Cindy Kay, Amir Abdullah, Adam Verner, John York, Anthony Palmini, David Doersch, D.K. Holmberg, Maria V. Snyder, Charlie N. Holmberg, T.E. Bradford, Caitlyn McFarland, Brendon Taylor
Narrated by Kate Rudd, Hannah Curtis, Cindy Kay, Amir Abdullah, Adam Verner, John York, Anthony Palmini, David Doersch
★ 3.71 ABR Score (7 ratings)★ 4 Audible (7)More about this pick
Eight different narrators tackle twenty-two tales spanning ancient Rome with magic to Mars colonization, each story getting its perfect voice.
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Deep Magic: Volume 2: A Speculative Fiction Collection: Deep Magic
Deep Magic • Book 2
by Jeff Wheeler, Kate Rudd, Amir Abdullah, Elizabeth Wiley, Samara Naeymi, Hannah Curtis, Adam Verner, Anthony Ryan, Ken Liu, Charlie N. Holmberg, Jeanna Mason Stay, Wulf Moon
Narrated by Kate Rudd, Amir Abdullah, Elizabeth Wiley, Samara Naeymi, Hannah Curtis, Adam Verner
★ 3.67 ABR Score (3 ratings)★ 4.33 Audible (3)More about this pick
Six talented narrators including Kate Rudd and Adam Verner bring space adventures, mysterious poisoners, and war birds to life across multiple fantastical worlds.
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The Artifact 1: The Artifact
The Artifact • Book 1
by Joshua T. Calvert, Adam Verner
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 3.56 ABR Score (4 ratings)★ 2.75 Audible (4)More about this pick
Archaeological thriller becomes deadly chase as Adam Verner voices Marcus Brown's desperate flight from killers hunting an artifact that rewrites history.
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