Best Fiona Hardingham Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Fiona Hardingham — 10 titles spanning Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Literature & Fiction, averaging 4.00 ABR stars.

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Fiona Hardingham has become the go-to voice for lush, atmospheric fantasy — and once you hear her in The Starless Sea, it's easy to understand why. Her voice carries a natural musicality, warm but precise, that makes lyrical prose feel inevitable rather than overwrought. She's equally at home in We Hunt the Flame's Arabian-inspired world-building and the gothic unease of Good Girls Lie, which speaks to a versatility that goes beyond simply having a pretty voice. What Hardingham does exceptionally well is pacing — she seems to understand intuitively when to linger and when to propel forward, which makes her ideal for authors like Erin Morgenstern and Julie Berry who build immersive, slow-burn worlds. If you gravitate toward audiobooks where the narration feels inseparable from the story itself, Hardingham belongs at the top of your list.

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    An Ember in the Ashes

    An Ember in the Ashes • Book 1

    by Sabaa Tahir

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Steve West

    ★ 4.54 ABR Score (361.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (353.3K) ★ 4.62 Audible (7.9K)
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    Tahir's brutal Roman-inspired world follows a slave girl and a reluctant soldier whose fates intertwine, brought to visceral life by Hardingham and West's alternating perspectives.

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    Lovely War

    by Julie Berry

    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, Dion Graham, Fiona Hardingham, John Lee, Nathaniel Parker, Steve West

    ★ 4.27 ABR Score (71.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (70.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.2K)
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    Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All

    by Candace Fleming, M.T. Anderson, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson

    Narrated by Justine Eyre, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jayne Entwistle, Heather Wilds, Fiona Hardingham, Elizabeth Knowelden, Elliot Hill

    ★ 4.11 ABR Score (7.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (6.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (779)
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    Seven distinct voices bring Henry's wives out of history and into your ear. Each woman's tragedy becomes devastatingly intimate.

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    We Hunt the Flame

    Sands of Arawiya • Book 1

    by Hafsah Faizal

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Steve West

    ★ 4.09 ABR Score (110.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (109.5K) ★ 4.17 Audible (640)
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    Good Girls Lie

    by J.T. Ellison

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham

    ★ 4.07 ABR Score (26.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.32 Audible (1.1K)
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    The Passion of Dolssa

    by Julie Berry

    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry

    ★ 3.95 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (7.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (201)
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    The Fox and the Devil

    by Kiersten White

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Barrie Kreinik, Alex Sarrigeorgiou

    ★ 3.86 ABR Score (741 ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (739) ★ 4 Audible (2)
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    Three skilled narrators weave Kiersten White's gothic tale of Van Helsing's daughter pursuing a deadly beauty who may be more than human. The multi-voice approach suits the layered mystery perfectly.

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    Soot

    Smoke • Book 2

    by Dan Vyleta

    Narrated by Allan Corduner, Steve West, Dominic Hoffman, Fiona Hardingham, Katharine Lee McEwan, Nicholas Guy Smith, Deepti Gupta, Juha Sorola, Mark Bramhall

    ★ 3.85 ABR Score (258 ratings)
    ★ 3.31 Goodreads (250) ★ 4.25 Audible (8)
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    Paris for One and Other Stories

    by Jojo Moyes

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Susan Duerden, Jayne Entwistle, Olivia Mackenzie-Smith, Katharine Lee McEwan

    ★ 3.65 ABR Score (51.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (50.6K) ★ 4.16 Audible (436)
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    Moyes excels at those moments when one brave choice reveals a version of yourself you didn't know existed; five narrators bring intimate depth to each story.

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    The Reservoir Tapes

    by Jon McGregor

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre, Sarah Nichols, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Ralph Lister, Simon Vance

    ★ 3.62 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.74 Goodreads (1.5K) ★ 3.63 Audible (30)
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    Multiple perspectives unravel the mystery of a vanished teenager through intimate village interviews that reveal more than anyone intended to share. Six skilled narrators create distinct voices for each witness's secrets.

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