Where to Start with Peter Clines
- Best entry point → 14
- Best standalone → Paradox Bound
- Start the Kaiju Rising series → Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
- What fans keep coming back to → The Fold
- Best narrator for Peter Clines → Terminus
- Highest rated by listeners → God's Junk Drawer
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14
Threshold • Book 1
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.20 ABR Score (88.8K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.35 Audible (49.1K)More about this pick
Nate's cheap LA apartment comes with padlocked doors, strange fixtures, and mutant cockroaches that hint at reality-bending secrets. Ray Porter guides listeners through mounting cosmic dread with perfect pacing.
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The Fold
Threshold • Book 2
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.11 ABR Score (71.1K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (37.7K)More about this pick
Mike Erikson's intelligence-powered investigation into a teleportation device gone wrong creates perfect sci-fi mystery material, and Ray Porter captures both the everyday charm of the reluctant genius protagonist and the mounting cosmic dread.
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Paradox Bound
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.12 ABR Score (28.2K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (10.6K) ★ 4.47 Audible (17.6K)More about this pick
Eli becomes obsessed with a time-traveling woman in Revolutionary War clothing who drives a century-old car through modern America. Ray Porter balances the quirky premise with genuine emotional stakes as reality unravels.
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Terminus
Threshold • Book 4
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 3.99 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.38 Audible (9.1K)More about this pick
Murdoch's past drags him back into world-ending schemes while Chase tries escaping traumatic memories — Porter navigates Clines' reality-bending finale with his signature dramatic flair.
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Dead Moon
Threshold • Book 3
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 3.61 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)★ 3.48 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.07 Audible (8.2K)More about this pick
The Moon serves as humanity's graveyard until a meteor crash awakens something terrible — Porter's narration handles Clines' horror-sci-fi hybrid with appropriate dread and dark humor.
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Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ralph Lister, Ray Porter
★ 3.99 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (967) ★ 4.46 Audible (2.2K)More about this pick
Peter Clines serves up cops, superheroes, and zombies in this eclectic collection of speculative short fiction. Ralph Lister and Ray Porter tackle the varied tones from noir investigation to undead comedy.
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The Broken Room
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
★ 4.07 ABR Score (6.2K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 4.31 Audible (2.7K)More about this pick
Former government operative Hector teams with memory-fractured Natalie in this conspiracy thriller. Timothy Andrés Pabon balances the action with deeper themes about trauma and recovery.
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God's Junk Drawer
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.10 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.1K)More about this pick
Forty years after a family vanished during a rafting trip, one member returns with tales of a primordial valley filled with dinosaurs and aliens — Porter's range handles the wild premise.
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Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Kaiju Rising • Book 1
by Tim Marquitz, Nickolas Sharps, Peter Clines, Timothy W. Long, Peter Stenson, Kane Gilmour, Erin Hoffman, Paul Genesse, Edward M. Erdelac, Jonathan Wood, Shane Berryhill, Natania Barron, Pete Rawlik, James Swallow, Jaym Gates, Patrick M. Tracy, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Mike MacLean, Larry Correia, Sean Sherman, Gini Koch, James Lovegrove, James Maxey, C.L. Werner, Howard Andrew Jones, David Annandale, Joshua Reynolds
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck, Jeff Woodman, Bronson Pinchot, Marc Vietor, Simon Vance, Ray Porter, Nicola Barber
★ 3.46 ABR Score (985 ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (527) ★ 3.76 Audible (458)More about this pick
Twenty-three authors tackle giant monster mayhem from every angle imaginable. Multiple narrators including Ray Porter and Simon Vance handle the diverse tones across this kaiju anthology.
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