Best Richard Ferrone Audiobooks
Richard Ferrone is a veteran audiobook narrator with a deep, distinctive voice that has served science fiction, fantasy, and adventure fiction across multiple decades. He is the narrator of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy — Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars — considered one of the most ambitious and scientifically rigorous works of hard science fiction. Ferrone's narration of the trilogy, which spans over a century of Martian colonization and transformation, required sustained commitment to an enormous cast of characters and an extraordinary range of scientific, philosophical, and political material. He also narrated Clive Barker's Abarat, bringing Barker's lush, visionary fantasy world to audio with appropriate imagination. His work on Conn Iggulden's Genghis: Birth of an Empire and Richard A. Knaak's Stormrage shows his breadth across historical fiction and fantasy gaming tie-ins. Ferrone's voice has a natural gravitas that suits large-canvas, intellectually ambitious fiction.
Where to Start with Richard Ferrone
- New to Richard Ferrone? Start here → We Are Water
- What fans keep coming back to → Red Mars
- Highest rated by listeners → Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Best Richard Ferrone Audiobooks
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Conqueror • Book 1
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 4.45 ABR Score (39.1K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (38.2K) ★ 4.68 Audible (876)More about this pick
Young Temujin survives his father's poisoning and family abandonment to forge the Mongol Empire through brutal determination. Richard Ferrone captures the harsh steppe politics and personal vendettas.
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We Are Water
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Sandy Rustin
★ 4.03 ABR Score (59.5K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (56.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast transforms this multigenerational family reckoning into something closer to theater than narration, with each voice bringing authentic depth to competing perspectives on love, loyalty, and secrets.
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Green Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 2
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.99 ABR Score (43.6K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (41.2K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.5K)More about this pick
Mars colonization enters its second generation as terraforming accelerates and political factions clash over the planet's future. Richard Ferrone's 27-hour performance tackles Robinson's dense scientific and political complexity with remarkable clarity.
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Blue Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 3
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.92 ABR Score (35.2K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (1.9K)More about this pick
Mars blooms into a habitable world while Earth suffocates under ecological collapse, creating interplanetary tensions between terraformers and preservationists.
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Abarat
Abarat • Book 1
by Clive Barker
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.89 ABR Score (30.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (29.9K) ★ 4.19 Audible (724)More about this pick
Barker creates a surreal archipelago where each island represents a different hour of the day, and teenage Candy discovers she's connected to this magical realm in ways she never imagined.
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Red Mars
Mars Trilogy • Book 1
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.78 ABR Score (94.5K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (89.2K) ★ 4.03 Audible (5.3K)More about this pick
Richard Ferrone guides you through Robinson's meticulously researched vision of 100 colonists attempting to terraform Mars starting in 2026.
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Stormrage
World of Warcraft • Book 7
by Richard A. Knaak
Narrated by Richard Ferrone
★ 3.53 ABR Score (6.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 4 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
The Emerald Dream faces corruption that threatens to spill into Azeroth's waking world, demanding heroes from all races unite against primal chaos. Richard Ferrone's narration captures the epic scope of this World of Warcraft adventure.