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)
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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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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) - 3
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 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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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) - 6
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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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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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
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) - 10
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) - 11
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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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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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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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.
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