Best Peter Clines Audiobooks

The best Peter Clines audiobooks — 9 titles ranked by listening experience across Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, averaging 3.96 ABR stars.

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Peter Clines has carved out a distinctive niche blending science fiction mysteries with a pulpy, propulsive energy that rewards readers who love a slow-burn reveal. His Threshold series — starting with 14 — is a masterclass in creeping dread, layering Lovecraftian horror beneath an apparently mundane apartment building with the patience of a long con. The Fold takes a similar approach: grounded characters, an intriguing premise, and a plot that accelerates from slow-drip curiosity to full-throttle chaos. Clines writes with a thriller writer's instinct for momentum and a sci-fi nerd's love of big ideas — the two impulses balanced just right. His short fiction, collected in Dead Men Can't Complain, shows the same craft in miniature. If you like your genre fiction intelligent but never precious, and you don't mind an author who genuinely enjoys pulling the rug out from under you, Clines delivers.

Peter Clines's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is 14, narrated by Ray Porter (4.2 ABR stars). Performed by narrators including Ray Porter, Ralph Lister, Ray Porter, Timothy Andrés Pabon, and more. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

Where to Start with Peter Clines

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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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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.

How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

Rankings update periodically as new ratings come in and new titles are added to the collection.

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