Best Robert Petkoff Audiobooks

Robert Petkoff is a quietly essential narrator — the kind you start noticing after he shows up in three completely different corners of your audiobook library. His voice is smooth and controlled, with a mid-range authority that never feels pushy, making him unusually adaptable across genres. He handles the sprawling, morally tangled drama of Greg Iles' Natchez Burning Trilogy with the same grounded confidence he brings to Dooku: Jedi Lost, where he navigates a full cast of Star Wars characters without losing track of a single one. The Shadow Show anthology is another showcase — short fiction requires a narrator who can reset completely between stories, and Petkoff does it without breaking a sweat. If you tend toward thrillers and genre fiction that takes itself seriously, he's exactly the kind of narrator who stays out of the way of the story while quietly elevating every page of it.

13 audiobooks in collection
4.05 avg ABR rating
Literature & Fiction, Non-Fiction, Self-Help, Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction, Biography & Memoir

Best Robert Petkoff Audiobooks

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    The Correspondent cover

    The Correspondent

    by Virginia Evans

    Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various

    4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)
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    Through discovered letters, the life story of a remarkable woman unfolds across decades of love, loss, war, and artistic passion. This epistolary novel examines how written words preserve and transform our understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary lives.

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    Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan cover

    Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly

    4.74 ABR Score (32.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.78 Audible (10.3K)
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    O'Reilly and Dugard chronicle the Pacific War's final phase, from kamikaze attacks to atomic bombs. Robert Petkoff and Bill O'Reilly share narration duties, bringing intensity to this account of Japan's refusal to surrender.

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    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Dale Carnegie Provides Techniques for a Stress-Free Life by Carnegie, Dale cover

    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Dale Carnegie Provides Techniques for a Stress-Free Life by Carnegie, Dale

    by Dale Carnegie

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    4.40 ABR Score (124.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (116.5K) ★ 4.66 Audible (7.9K)
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    Carnegie's depression-era wisdom about conquering anxiety remains startlingly relevant, offering practical techniques for managing stress and fear through real-world examples. Petkoff's warm delivery makes the self-help classic feel like advice from a trusted mentor rather than a lecture.

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    The Mist (Previously Published as a Novella in 'Skeleton Crew') cover

    The Mist (Previously Published as a Novella in 'Skeleton Crew')

    Skeleton Crew • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Kyle Beltran, Matthew Broderick, Norbert Leo Butz, Michael C. Hall, Paul Giamatti, Dana Ivey, Will Patton, Robert Petkoff, David Morse, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen

    4.32 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (183.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (6.2K)
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    Customers trapped in a supermarket face both otherworldly monsters and human fanaticism in this all-star cast production led by Stephen King himself.

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    How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age (Dale Carnegie Books) cover

    How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age (Dale Carnegie Books)

    by Dale Carnegie, Associates

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    4.13 ABR Score (21.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (15.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (6.4K)
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    Carnegie's classic principles get updated for social media, email, and online networking. Robert Petkoff presents the digital adaptations with clarity, making timeless advice feel immediately applicable to modern communication.

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    The Natchez Burning Trilogy: A Penn Cage Collection Featuring: Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and Mississippi Blood cover

    The Natchez Burning Trilogy: A Penn Cage Collection Featuring: Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and Mississippi Blood

    by Greg Iles

    Narrated by David Ledoux, Robert Petkoff, Scott Brick

    4.01 ABR Score (345 ratings)
    ★ 4.67 Goodreads (84) ★ 4.58 Audible (261)
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    Penn Cage confronts his hometown's buried racial violence in this sweeping Southern gothic trilogy. Three skilled narrators guide you through nearly 100 hours of Civil Rights-era secrets and their deadly modern consequences.

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    Fear Itself

    Star Trek: Discovery • Book 3

    by James Swallow, Robert Petkoff

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    3.94 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (831) ★ 4.61 Audible (328)
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    Kelpien Lieutenant Saru, born on a world of predators, understands fear intimately but must overcome his prey-species instincts to succeed on the U.S.S. Shenzhou. When his protocol breach during a rescue mission backfires, survival becomes personal.

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    How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character cover

    How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

    by Paul Tough

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    3.90 ABR Score (24.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (24.7K) ★ 4.46 Audible (80)
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    Test scores don't predict success—character traits like perseverance and curiosity do, according to Tough's research synthesis. Robert Petkoff's clear narration helps digest the neuroscience and psychology behind childhood development.

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    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute cover

    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute

    by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu

    Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini

    3.80 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (182)
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    Celebrating Bradbury's legacy, this collection features stories by Gaiman, Hill, and others, with an impressive cast including George Takei and Neil Gaiman himself reading these homages.

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    Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures cover

    Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures

    Star Trek: Discovery • Book 2

    by Dayton Ward

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    3.69 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.25 Audible (379)
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    Ten years before the Binary Stars battle, young Gabriel Lorca faces a deadly contagion ravaging Tarsus IV colony with eight thousand lives at stake.

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    Barkskins

    by Annie Proulx

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    3.68 ABR Score (22.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (20.6K) ★ 4.06 Audible (2.0K)
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    Two French immigrants become indentured woodcutters in 17th-century New France, their descendants caught between vanishing forests and cultural extinction.

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    Magician and Fool

    Arcana Oracle • Book 1

    by Susan Wands

    Narrated by January Lavoy, Robert Petkoff

    3.62 ABR Score (122 ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (121) ★ 5 Audible (1)
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    Pamela Colman Smith illustrates tarot cards for the Golden Dawn while Aleister Crowley threatens her muses in Victorian London. January Lavoy and Robert Petkoff bring this occult world to vivid life.

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    Analytic review of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By: Jon Meacham

    by Andrew McKenzie

    Narrated by Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham, Steve Hendrickson, Mike Chamberlain, Robert Petkoff, January LaVoy, Kimberly Farr, Robert Fass, Jim Seybert, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, Tavia Gilbert, Keith Szarabajka, Full Cast

    3.59 ABR Score (24 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4 Audible (23)

All Robert Petkoff Audiobooks (13)

Sci-Fi (3)

Fear Itself by James Swallow, Robert Petkoff
3.94 10h 1m
Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu
3.91 14h 11m
3.63 11h 31m

Historical Fiction (2)

Barkskins by Annie Proulx
3.83 25h 53m
Magician and Fool by Susan Wands
3.90 8h 35m

Literature & Fiction (1)

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
4.53 8h 36m