Best Nicol Zanzarella Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Nicol Zanzarella — 5 titles spanning Thriller, Romance, Sci-Fi, averaging 4.13 ABR stars.

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Nicol Zanzarella has built a quiet following among romance listeners, particularly for her work on Sarina Bowen's Brooklyn Bruisers hockey series — Rookie Move, Hard Hitter, and Pipe Dreams — where her warm, expressive delivery brings both the on-ice tension and the romantic heat to life. She has a light, conversational quality that suits contemporary romance well: natural pacing, emotionally present without overselling, and convincingly female-perspective. That same intimacy carries into thrillers like Freida McFadden's The Ex, where her measured tone keeps the suspense simmering without tipping into melodrama. The Predator anthology is the outlier in her catalog, and it shows — she's at her best with character-driven material rather than action-heavy ensemble casts. If you love contemporary romance with sharp emotional stakes, Zanzarella is a reliable narrator who makes the genre feel genuine.

Where to Start with Nicol Zanzarella

  1. 1
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    The Ex

    by Freida McFadden

    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

    ★ 4.24 ABR Score (190.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (184.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (5.8K)
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    Cassie thinks she's found the perfect boyfriend until his ex-girlfriend Francesca starts making her life hell. Nicol Zanzarella captures the escalating paranoia as Cassie questions everyone's motives in this domestic thriller.

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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)
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    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)
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    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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    Predator: If It Bleeds

    Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

    by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Holly Roberds, Steve Perry, John Shirley, Jeremy Robinson, Jonathan Maberry, Kevin J. Anderson, Weston Ochse, Mira Grant, Tim Lebbon, Larry Correia, Dayton Ward, Peter J. Wacks

    Narrated by full cast, Tom Taylorson, Nicol Zanzarella, Traber Burns, Bradford Hastings, Bahni Turpin, Emily Sutton-Smith, Ulf Bjorklund, James Patrick Cronin, Andrew Eiden, Scott Brick, Feodor Chin, John Pruden, Mark Bramhall, various

    ★ 4.07 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (917) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)
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    Seventeen stories spanning from 12th-century Japan to deep space get the full-cast treatment they deserve, with each narrator bringing their own energy to different Predator encounters across time.

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    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)
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    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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