Best John Lee Audiobooks

Best John Lee Audiobooks

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   The Pillars of the Earth

   Kingsbridge • Book 1

   by Ken Follett

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.69 ABR Score (874.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (838.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (36.3K)

   40h 56m listening time • Released 2007

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   The Evening and the Morning

   Kingsbridge

   by Ken Follett

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (136.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (12.8K)

   24h 19m listening time • Released 2020

   Set in 997 CE England, three lives intersect during Viking raids and political chaos as a new town rises. Lee's commanding voice spans decades of medieval intrigue in this Kingsbridge prequel about power, faith, and survival.

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   Set in 997 CE England, three lives intersect during Viking raids and political chaos as a new town rises. Lee's commanding voice spans decades of medieval intrigue in this Kingsbridge prequel about power, faith, and survival.

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   Dracula

   by Bram Stoker

   Narrated by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.61 Audible (37.6K)

   15h 27m listening time • Released 2012

   Stoker's epistolary vampire classic comes alive through a full cast including Tim Curry and Alan Cumming, each voice adding texture to the unfolding Gothic horror.

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   Stoker's epistolary vampire classic comes alive through a full cast including Tim Curry and Alan Cumming, each voice adding texture to the unfolding Gothic horror.

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   Fall of Giants

   The Century Trilogy • Book 1

   by Ken Follett

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.52 ABR Score (370.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (350.4K) ★ 4.53 Audible (20.3K)

   30h 38m listening time • Released 2010

   Five families' fates entwine with war, revolution, and history. John Lee's thirty-hour narration proves that epic scope and intimate human drama aren't opposites: they're inseparable.

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   Five families' fates entwine with war, revolution, and history. John Lee's thirty-hour narration proves that epic scope and intimate human drama aren't opposites: they're inseparable.

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   A Death in Vienna

   Gabriel Allon • Book 4

   by Daniel Silva

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.42 ABR Score (35.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.25 Goodreads (32.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.0K)

   10h 15m listening time • Released 2004

   Art restorer Gabriel Allon investigates a bombing but encounters a face from the Holocaust that changes everything. John Lee's narration handles the emotional weight and historical complexity with appropriate gravity.

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   Art restorer Gabriel Allon investigates a bombing but encounters a face from the Holocaust that changes everything. John Lee's narration handles the emotional weight and historical complexity with appropriate gravity.

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   The Confessor

   Gabriel Allon • Book 3

   by Daniel Silva

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.40 ABR Score (40.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (37.4K) ★ 4.49 Audible (3.4K)

   10h 48m listening time • Released 2003

   Gabriel Allon investigates a scholar's murder that connects to Vatican secrets about Holocaust collaboration, and John Lee navigates the religious intrigue expertly.

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   Gabriel Allon investigates a scholar's murder that connects to Vatican secrets about Holocaust collaboration, and John Lee navigates the religious intrigue expertly.

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   Napoleon: A Life

   by Andrew Roberts

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.38 ABR Score (37.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.25 Goodreads (29.2K) ★ 4.61 Audible (7.7K)

   32h 56m listening time • Released 2014

   Roberts draws on newly available archives to present the complete Napoleon, from Corsican artillery officer to emperor. Lee's narration spans the massive scope of this definitive biography covering military genius and political ambition.

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   Roberts draws on newly available archives to present the complete Napoleon, from Corsican artillery officer to emperor. Lee's narration spans the massive scope of this definitive biography covering military genius and political ambition.

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   The English Assassin

   Gabriel Allon • Book 2

   by Daniel Silva

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (49.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.36 Audible (4.0K)

   10h 7m listening time • Released 2004

   Gabriel Allon's art restoration work in Switzerland uncovers Nazi collaboration and wartime profiteering that someone will kill to keep buried.

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   Gabriel Allon's art restoration work in Switzerland uncovers Nazi collaboration and wartime profiteering that someone will kill to keep buried.

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   Hornet Flight

   by Ken Follett

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (33.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (29.5K) ★ 4.47 Audible (4.1K)

   14h 1m listening time • Released 2005

   Follett at his most taut: a teenager with an impossible secret and only a broken biplane to escape in. John Lee's narration makes every moment crackle.

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   Follett at his most taut: a teenager with an impossible secret and only a broken biplane to escape in. John Lee's narration makes every moment crackle.

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    Judas Unchained

    Commonwealth Saga • Book 2

    by Peter F. Hamilton, Marta García Martínez

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (48.4K ratings)

    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (40.7K) ★ 4.48 Audible (7.7K)

    40h 58m listening time • Released 2008

    Hamilton concludes his Commonwealth Saga as humanity fights for survival against the technologically superior Prime aliens bent on galactic conquest. John Lee handles the massive cast and complex plot threads across this 40-hour epic finale.

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    Hamilton concludes his Commonwealth Saga as humanity fights for survival against the technologically superior Prime aliens bent on galactic conquest. John Lee handles the massive cast and complex plot threads across this 40-hour epic finale.

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    The Naked God

    Night's Dawn • Book 3

    by Peter F. Hamilton

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (23.0K ratings)

    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (20.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (2.1K)

    48h 37m listening time • Released 2016

    Quinn Dexter terrorizes Earth's arcologies while Louise Kavanagh hunts him with mysterious allies whose motives don't align with hers.

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    Quinn Dexter terrorizes Earth's arcologies while Louise Kavanagh hunts him with mysterious allies whose motives don't align with hers.

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    Seamage

    Spellmonger • Book 18

    by Terry Mancour

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)

    ★ 4.73 Goodreads (457) ★ 4.84 Audible (705)

    21h 41m listening time • Released 2026

    Minalan faces his greatest challenge commanding a sea battle against seventy enemy ships with no naval experience, but legendary warmage Durgan Jole has a plan that John Lee presents with epic maritime scope.

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    Minalan faces his greatest challenge commanding a sea battle against seventy enemy ships with no naval experience, but legendary warmage Durgan Jole has a plan that John Lee presents with epic maritime scope.

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    By Any Other Name

    by Jodi Picoult

    Narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance, Steve West

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (128.0K ratings)

    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (125.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (3.0K)

    18h 25m listening time • Released 2024

    Two women centuries apart—Elizabethan Emilia Bassano and modern playwright Melina Green—fight for recognition in male-dominated theater worlds. A stellar cast led by Billie Fulford-Brown explores this dual narrative about hidden female genius.

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    Two women centuries apart—Elizabethan Emilia Bassano and modern playwright Melina Green—fight for recognition in male-dominated theater worlds. A stellar cast led by Billie Fulford-Brown explores this dual narrative about hidden female genius.

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    The Neutronium Alchemist

    Night's Dawn • Book 2

    by Peter F. Hamilton

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.28 ABR Score (23.2K ratings)

    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (21.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.3K)

    40h 22m listening time • Released 2016

    The possessed escape Lalonde and spread across the Confederation, acquiring godlike powers while following a twisted gospel from world to world.

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    The possessed escape Lalonde and spread across the Confederation, acquiring godlike powers while following a twisted gospel from world to world.

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    House of Suns

    House of Suns • Book 1

    by Alastair Reynolds

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.24 ABR Score (37.9K ratings)

    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (33.1K) ★ 4.47 Audible (4.8K)

    18h 17m listening time • Released 2009

    Campion and Purslane, two clones from a thousand-member family scattered across the galaxy, race to discover who's systematically murdering their siblings in this sweeping space opera.

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    Campion and Purslane, two clones from a thousand-member family scattered across the galaxy, race to discover who's systematically murdering their siblings in this sweeping space opera.

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    Inhibitor Phase

    Revelation Space • Book 4

    by Alastair Reynolds

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.16 ABR Score (8.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (7.3K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.0K)

    19h 36m listening time • Released 2021

    John Lee navigates Reynolds' complex far-future world where Miguel de Ruyter has spent forty years hiding his community from the xenocidal Inhibitor machines.

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    John Lee navigates Reynolds' complex far-future world where Miguel de Ruyter has spent forty years hiding his community from the xenocidal Inhibitor machines.

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    The Prefect

    Prefect Dreyfus Emergency • Book 1

    by Alastair Reynolds

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.15 ABR Score (25.4K ratings)

    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (3.5K)

    19h 41m listening time • Released 2011

    Prefect Tom Dreyfus polices the utopian Glitter Band space habitats until a murder case reveals deeper conspiracies. What seems straightforward becomes a threat to their entire civilization.

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    Prefect Tom Dreyfus polices the utopian Glitter Band space habitats until a murder case reveals deeper conspiracies. What seems straightforward becomes a threat to their entire civilization.

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    Pandora's Star

    Commonwealth Saga • Book 1

    by Peter F. Hamilton, Marta García Martínez

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.10 ABR Score (64.2K ratings)

    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (54.2K) ★ 4.23 Audible (10.0K)

    37h 21m listening time • Released 2008

    A vanishing star launches humanity's first interstellar investigation, uncovering an ancient alien prison that threatens six hundred connected worlds across the Commonwealth's wormhole network.

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    A vanishing star launches humanity's first interstellar investigation, uncovering an ancient alien prison that threatens six hundred connected worlds across the Commonwealth's wormhole network.

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    Cien Anos De Soledad/ One hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Compendios Vosgos

    by Gabriel García Márquez, Lydia Gordo Ribas

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.10 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.13 Audible (6.6K)

    14h 4m listening time • Released 2014

    The mythical Buendía family experiences seven generations of love, war, and magical realism in the doomed town of Macondo. John Lee's narration anchors the swirling timeline.

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    The mythical Buendía family experiences seven generations of love, war, and magical realism in the doomed town of Macondo. John Lee's narration anchors the swirling timeline.

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    Chasm City

    Revelation Space #0.5 • Book 2

    by Alastair Reynolds

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.10 ABR Score (31.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (27.8K) ★ 4.35 Audible (3.9K)

    23h 3m listening time • Released 2009

    A plague-infected city where buildings themselves have become diseased — Reynolds crafts the perfect noir hellscape for this cyberpunk mystery. John Lee's measured delivery captures both the detective's paranoia and the city's creeping decay.

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    A plague-infected city where buildings themselves have become diseased — Reynolds crafts the perfect noir hellscape for this cyberpunk mystery. John Lee's measured delivery captures both the detective's paranoia and the city's creeping decay.

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All John Lee Audiobooks (49)