Best Patrick Lawlor Audiobooks
Patrick Lawlor has a resonant, slightly weathered baritone that suits both historical material and character-driven fiction. His reading of Poe's Annabel Lee carries genuine poetic feeling, while Bonnie and Clyde brings a journalist's clarity to true crime narrative. Lawlor handles romance with surprising tenderness — Suzanne Brockmann's Some Kind of Hero benefits from his ability to convey masculine vulnerability. He is equally at home with serious nonfiction like The Wages of Whiteness, never condescending to the academic material. His voice has a lived-in quality that listeners find trustworthy over long listens. If you want a narrator who sounds like he has seen some things and can tell you about them — whether the story is a love story, a history, or a mystery — Lawlor delivers.
Where to Start with Patrick Lawlor
- New to Patrick Lawlor? Start here → The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
- What fans keep coming back to → Annabel Lee
- Highest rated by listeners → Some Kind of Hero
Best Patrick Lawlor Audiobooks
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Some Kind of Hero
Troubleshooters • Book 19
by Suzanne Brockmann
Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Patrick Lawlor
★ 4.07 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (3.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (539)More about this pick
Navy SEAL trainer Pete Greene can handle elite soldiers but not his fifteen-year-old daughter—until she disappears and his military skills become desperately relevant.
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Annabel Lee
The dark Artifices
by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
★ 3.98 ABR Score (12.0K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (22)More about this pick
Poe's final complete poem mourns a love so powerful that angels grew envious, enduring even beyond the beloved's death. Patrick Lawlor's reading honors the musical melancholy of this classic verse.
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
The Haymarket Series
by David R. Roediger, Priyamvada Gopal, Kathleen Cleaver
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
★ 3.90 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.57 Audible (56)More about this pick
Roediger's argument that whiteness itself was constructed as a psychological escape from wage labor cuts deeper than most histories of American racism—and dual narrators Lawlor and Turpin anchor this foundational text with clarity and urgency.
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Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
by Paul Schneider
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
★ 3.76 ABR Score (595 ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (562) ★ 4.24 Audible (33)More about this pick
Using FBI files and family interviews, Schneider strips away Hollywood myth to reveal the brutal reality of Depression-era America's most notorious criminals.
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Journeys Home: Inspiring Stories, Plus Tips and Strategies to Find Your Family History
by Andrew McCarthy, National Geographic Society
Narrated by Traber Burns, Patrick Lawlor, Adam Verner, Shaun Grindell, Richard Powers
★ 3.53 ABR Score (94 ratings)★ 3.74 Goodreads (92) ★ 4 Audible (2)More about this pick
Real people trace their family roots across continents, combining detective work with emotional discovery in twenty-six compelling stories.
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Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories
Music and Murder Mystery • Book 2
by Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, David R. Slayton
Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, Gary Tiedemann
★ 3.52 ABR Score (192 ratings)★ 3.15 Goodreads (189) ★ 4.33 Audible (3)More about this pick
Thirteen narrators tackle mystery stories inspired by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album tracks, from "Beat It" to "Billie Jean," each interpreted by today's top crime writers.