Best Sarah Naughton Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Sarah Naughton — 5 titles spanning Thriller, Romance, averaging 3.95 ABR stars.

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Sarah Naughton works a narrow but demanding lane — the thriller-romance crossover — and handles both with a voice that's crisp and emotionally immediate. Her performance in No Exit, Taylor Adams's claustrophobic survival thriller, showcases her ability to ratchet tension through pacing alone; she never over-dramatizes, letting the material do the work while staying tightly controlled. Flip to her romance work — The Off Limits Rule or the It Happened in Nashville series — and that same clarity becomes warmth, with a conversational intimacy that suits the genre well. She's not a chameleon narrator who disappears into characters, but rather a consistent, assured presence who shapes the emotional register of a scene without calling attention to herself. Listeners who want a narrator that feels grounded and real rather than theatrical will find her easy to spend hours with.

Where to Start with Sarah Naughton

  1. 1
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    No Exit

    by Taylor Adams

    Narrated by Sarah Naughton

    ★ 4.17 ABR Score (223.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (218.6K) ★ 4.2 Audible (4.9K)
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    College student Darby discovers a kidnapped child in a van during a blizzard, but the kidnapper is one of her fellow stranded travelers. Sarah Naughton ratchets up the claustrophobic tension as paranoia consumes the snowed-in rest stop.

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    Lie to Me

    by J.T. Ellison

    Narrated by Matthew Waterson, Saskia Maarleveld, Sarah Naughton, Julia Whelan

    ★ 4.04 ABR Score (40.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.79 Goodreads (36.9K) ★ 4.22 Audible (3.3K)
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    A marriage built on secrets and financial ruin explodes when wife Sutton vanishes, leaving husband Ethan as the prime suspect. Multiple narrators capture each character's deceptions perfectly.

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    I Came Back for You

    by Kate White

    Narrated by Sarah Naughton

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (10.3K) ★ 4.32 Audible (101)
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    Ten years after her daughter's murder, a deathbed confession from the convicted killer forces Bree Winter to question everything about the case. Sarah Naughton captures a mother's renewed anguish and determination.

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    The Off Limits Rule

    It Happened in Nashville • Book 1

    by Sarah Adams

    Narrated by Rusty Mewha, Sarah Naughton

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (77.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (77.3K) ★ 4.39 Audible (473)
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    Woman Down

    by Colleen Hoover

    Narrated by Sarah Naughton

    ★ 3.69 ABR Score (115.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.47 Goodreads (112.9K) ★ 3.86 Audible (2.9K)
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    Sarah Naughton voices Petra Rose's descent into isolation as the author's remote writing retreat becomes something far more twisted than a creative hideaway.

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