Where to Start with Johnathan McClain
- New to Johnathan McClain? Start here → Illuminae
- What fans keep coming back to → Die Trying
- Highest rated by listeners → Tripwire
- Best narrator–author pairing → Running Blind
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Tripwire
Jack Reacher • Book 3
by Lee Child
Narrated by Johnathan McClain
★ 4.53 ABR Score (159.7K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (143.3K) ★ 4.58 Audible (16.4K)More about this pick
Reacher investigates his former commanding officer's disappearance and confronts a Vietnam-era war criminal with prosthetic hooks for hands—Child's most personal and vicious villain yet.
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Running Blind
Jack Reacher • Book 4
by Lee Child
Narrated by Johnathan McClain
★ 4.43 ABR Score (133.8K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (124.9K) ★ 4.47 Audible (8.9K)More about this pick
Women from Reacher's military past are dying in impossible murders with no evidence left behind, making him both investigator and potential target. Johnathan McClain captures the methodical tension of hunting an untraceable killer.
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Die Trying
Jack Reacher • Book 2
by Lee Child
Narrated by Johnathan McClain
★ 4.43 ABR Score (178.8K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (166.9K) ★ 4.47 Audible (11.9K)More about this pick
Reacher and a kidnapped FBI agent face off against militia extremists in this early series entry that Johnathan McClain delivers with steady tension.
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Illuminae
The Illuminae Files • Book 1
by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Narrated by Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lincoln Hoppe, Johnathan McClain, Kimberly Farr, Donnabella Mortel, Matthew Frow, Ryan Gesell, Sile Bermingham, Beata Pozniak, Jolene Kim, Emma Bering, Full Cast
★ 4.34 ABR Score (166.9K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (162.1K) ★ 4.55 Audible (4.8K)More about this pick
This document-format space opera gets full audio treatment with multiple voices handling emails, transcripts, and AI conversations during an interstellar escape.
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The Noob Returns
Noobtown • Book 9
by Ryan Rimmel
Narrated by Johnathan McClain
★ 4.00 ABR Score (454 ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (73) ★ 4.67 Audible (381)More about this pick
Jim discovers the Dark Overlord was merely a puppet for Michael, an Elder Demon restarting the War in Heaven. McClain handles the cosmic escalation and Jim's separation from his scattered allies with perfect timing.
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The 30-Day Sobriety Solution
by Jack Canfield, Dave Andrews
Narrated by Jack Canfield, Dave Andrews, Bahni Turpin, Johnathan McClain
★ 3.98 ABR Score (549 ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (256) ★ 4.6 Audible (293)More about this pick
Multiple narrators keep this from feeling like a lecture, and the 30-day structure makes recovery feel like an achievable sprint instead of an endless marathon.
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
Narrated by Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, Ryan Anderson, Johnathan McClain, Robert Younis, Thom Rivera
★ 3.98 ABR Score (40.8K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (38.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (2.4K)More about this pick
The 1976 attempt on Bob Marley's life explodes into Jamaica's political violence through multiple narrators spanning decades.
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The Book of Witches
by Jonathan Strahan, Linda D. Addison, P. Djèlí Clark, Kathleen Jennings, Tade Thompson, Ken Liu, Darcie Little Badger, Andrea Hairston, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Cassandra Khaw, Tobi Ogundiran, Kelly Robson, C.L. Clark, Millie Ho, Indrapramit Das, Saad Z. Hossain, Garth Nix, Premee Mohamed, Maureen F. McHugh, Andrea Stewart, Tochi Onyebuchi, Sheree Renée Thomas, Angela Slatter, Fonda Lee, Usman T. Malik, E. Lily Yu, Miyuki Jane Pinckard, Emily Y. Teng, Amal El-Mohtar, Alyssa Winans
Narrated by Vikas Adam, Anniwaa Buachie, Rainy Fields, Eva Kaminsky, Johnathan McClain, Vyvy Nguyen, Deryn Oliver, Logan Rozos, Bahni Turpin
★ 3.62 ABR Score (692 ratings)★ 3.46 Goodreads (690) ★ 3 Audible (2)More about this pick
Thirty authors reimagine witchcraft across cultures and genres in this ambitious anthology. Multiple narrators handle the diverse voices, though the collection's uneven quality shows in both writing and performance.
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