Where to Start with Unknown Author
- Best entry point → The Infinite Game
- Best standalone → God's Smuggler
- Start The Last Thing He Told Me series → The Last Thing He Told Me
- What fans keep coming back to → Apples Never Fall
- Best narrator for Unknown Author → Bring Up The Bodies
- Highest rated by listeners → Beast Behaving Badly (Pride) (Pride #5)
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The Last Thing He Told Me
The Last Thing He Told Me • Book 1
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman
★ 4.14 ABR Score (59.1K ratings)★ 3.5 Goodreads (4) ★ 4.37 Audible (59.1K)More about this pick
Hannah must protect her husband's resentful teenage daughter Bailey when Owen vanishes, leaving only a cryptic note. Rebecca Lowman captures the tension between the women searching for answers.
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The Lake House
by Kate Morton, Unknown Author
Narrated by Caroline Lee
★ 4.34 ABR Score (152.9K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.1K)More about this pick
A child vanishes during a 1933 midsummer party, and seventy years later a detective discovers the abandoned estate where the Edevane family's tragedy began.
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Apples Never Fall
by Liane Moriarty, Unknown Author
Narrated by Caroline Lee
★ 4.09 ABR Score (472.5K ratings)★ 3.75 Goodreads (449.3K) ★ 4.31 Audible (23.2K)More about this pick
Tennis coaches Stan and Joy Delaney built their life around the sport until a mysterious young woman disrupts their retirement plans. When Joy disappears, family secrets emerge about the cost of competitive parenting and marriage sacrifices.
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God's Smuggler
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.65 ABR Score (50.5K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K) ★ 4.9 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
Simon Vance's measured, trustworthy delivery transforms this true account of Bible smuggling into a page-turner that feels both intimate and urgent. A modern classic that still grips because the stakes, and the faith, feel devastatingly real.
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd
★ 3.92 ABR Score (5.0K ratings)★ 5 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.53 Audible (5.0K) -
Luckiest Girl Alive--by Jessica Knoll
by Jessica Knoll, Unknown Author
Narrated by Madeleine Maby
★ 3.98 ABR Score (267.8K ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (258.1K) ★ 4.15 Audible (9.8K)More about this pick
Ani FaNelli's perfect Manhattan life built on lies starts cracking when a documentary filmmaker wants to interview her about a high school shooting she survived but never fully disclosed.
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Bring Up The Bodies
Thomas Cromwell • Book 2
by Hilary Mantel, Unknown Author
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.40 ABR Score (109.1K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (105.7K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.3K)More about this pick
Simon Vance's narration transforms Mantel's intricate political prose into pure suspense—you'll hear the machinery of power and betrayal click into place across 14 hours you won't want to pause.
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Beast Behaving Badly (Pride)
Pride • Book 5
by Shelly Laurenston, Unknown Author
Narrated by Charlotte Kane
★ 4.53 ABR Score (18.1K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (16.2K) ★ 4.75 Audible (1.9K)More about this pick
Charlotte Kane makes the slow burn between a patient polar bear and a sarcastic wolfdog absolutely sing in this paranormal romance where patience finally wins.
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Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
Narrated by Tai Sammons, Bronson Pinchot
★ 3.77 ABR Score (6.5K ratings)★ 4.09 Audible (6.5K)More about this pick
Haunted house horror unfolds inside a Swedish furniture megastore as five employees work overnight to solve bizarre vandalism—Pinchot and Sammons capture every creepy detail.
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison, Durthy Washington, Tayari Jones, Unknown Author
Narrated by Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
★ 4.43 ABR Score (131.7K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (129.7K) ★ 4.69 Audible (2.0K)More about this pick
Toni Morrison herself narrates this tale of Milkman Dead's journey through family secrets and African American folklore, her voice lending authority to every mythic moment.
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Wild Cards I (Wild Cards Series)
Wild Cards • Book 1
Narrated by Luke Daniels
★ 3.57 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)★ 5 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.05 Audible (2.7K) -
Greenwitch
The Dark Is Rising • Book 3
by Susan Cooper, Unknown Author
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 4.14 ABR Score (33.0K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (32.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (716)More about this pick
Alex Jennings animates this mythology ensemble so vividly that you forget you're listening: The Dark Is Rising's finest and most assured entry in the series.
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[Talking God] [By: Tony Hillerman] [January, 2010]
Leaphorn & Chee • Book 9
by Tony Hillerman, Unknown Author
Narrated by Christian Baskous
★ 4.14 ABR Score (11.4K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.48 Audible (875)More about this pick
A grave robber and mysterious corpse pull Leaphorn and Chee into connected cases involving stolen ancestral bones and Smithsonian politics. Christian Baskous navigates Hillerman's layered mystery with steady pacing.
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The Miniaturist
The Miniaturist • Book 1
by Jessie Burton, Unknown Author
Narrated by Davina Porter
★ 3.63 ABR Score (155.3K ratings)★ 3.62 Goodreads (153.6K) ★ 4.07 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
An eighteen-year-old bride receives a mysterious dollhouse replica of her new Amsterdam home, with miniatures that seem to predict the future. Atmospheric 17th-century mystery steeped in religious oppression and family secrets.
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Great & Secret Show
Book of the Art • Book 1
Narrated by Chet Williamson
★ 3.79 ABR Score (945 ratings)★ 4.26 Audible (945) -
Wildwood Dancing
Wildwood • Book 1
by Juliet Marillier, Unknown Author
Narrated by Kim Mai Guest
★ 4.02 ABR Score (33.1K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (32.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (532)More about this pick
Five sisters living in a Transylvanian castle discover a portal to an enchanted realm they can access only during full moons, creating a rich fantasy tapestry of sibling bonds and magical secrets.
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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four
Sherlock Holmes • Book 2
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.57 ABR Score (593 ratings)★ 3 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.17 Audible (592) -
The New Rules of Marketing and PR
Narrated by David Meerman Scott, Sean Pratt
★ 3.93 ABR Score (404 ratings)★ 4.41 Audible (404) -
The Killing Room (Byrne and Balzano)
Jack Paris • Book 6
by Richard Montanari, Unknown Author
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.82 ABR Score (179 ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.52 Audible (178) -
The Ice House
by Minette Walters, Unknown Author
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.74 ABR Score (10.9K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (10.7K) ★ 4.1 Audible (240)More about this pick
Three women living in countryside seclusion become suspects when a faceless corpse appears in their ice house. Simon Prebble navigates the gothic atmosphere and unreliable testimony with understated British precision.
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Frost Line
by Linda Howard, Linda Winstead Jones, Unknown Author
Narrated by Abby Craden
★ 3.79 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 3.5 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (166)More about this pick
Lenna, a Tarot card manifestation pulled into the human world, must protect a young boy in this paranormal romance that Abby Craden narrates with appropriate otherworldly intensity.
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Bad News
Dortmunder • Book 10
by Donald E. Westlake, Unknown Author
Narrated by Michael Kramer
★ 3.92 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 4.57 Audible (109)More about this pick
John Dortmunder hates manual labor, so digging up graves seems like a terrible idea—until criminal mastermind Fitzroy Guilderpost offers serious money. Michael Kramer narrates this caper about switching two 70-year-dead Indians and the mystery behind it.
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Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War
Red Dragon Rising • Book 2
Narrated by Luke Daniels
★ 3.84 ABR Score (690 ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (547) ★ 4.2 Audible (143)More about this pick
CIA officer Mara Duncan must extract a scientist and child witness from bomb-torn Hanoi while pursued by a relentless Chinese commando monk.
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Killer's Choice
87th Precinct • Book 5
by Ed McBain, Jack M. Bickham, Jeff Clinton, Unknown Author
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 3.81 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (116)More about this pick
87th Precinct detectives Carella and Kling investigate Annie Boone's murder, questioning whether she was random victim or intended target. Dick Hill's noir-perfect voice suits this classic police procedural perfectly.
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