Best Cult / Secret Society Fantasy Audiobooks

The highest-rated fantasy audiobooks featuring cult / secret society, ranked by listeners. Browse 10 titles.

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The best fantasy audiobooks featuring the cult / secret society trope, ranked by listener and reader ratings from Audible and Goodreads.

Cult / Secret Society shows up across many genres, but it plays out differently in fantasy — these are the highest-rated examples.

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    Preservation

    Battle Mage Farmer • Book 6

    by Seth Ring

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 4.47 ABR Score (4.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.82 Audible (1.0K)
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    Battle mage John just wants to get married and go on his honeymoon, but insane cults and reality-warping enemies keep interrupting his plans.

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    Erhaltung : Kampfmagischer Farmer 6

    Battle Mage Farmer • Book 6

    by Seth Ring

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 4.46 ABR Score (3.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.86 Audible (668)
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    John's sealed himself powerless but only cares about one thing—marrying Katrine after surviving the worst beast wave ever. Michael Kramer continues this German-language farming fantasy with warmth.

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    The Rhesus Chart

    Laundry Files • Book 5

    by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Gideon Emery

    ★ 4.34 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.2K)
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    Bob Howard faces the Laundry's first vampire problem when occult mathematics creates actual bloodsuckers. Gideon Emery balances the bureaucratic humor with mounting supernatural dread perfectly.

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    The Fuller Memorandum

    Laundry Files • Book 3

    by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Gideon Emery

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (12.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.4K)
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    Bob Howard faces Russian agents and ancient demons when a top-secret file vanishes from the Laundry archives in Stross's computational demonology thriller.

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    A Conventional Boy

    Laundry Files • Book 13

    by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Gideon Emery

    ★ 4.13 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (114)
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    Derek Reilly's teenage D&D obsession triggered a government raid during the 1980s Satanic Panic, landing him in supernatural containment decades later. Gideon Emery perfectly captures the absurdist horror.

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    Blood Pact

    Darkling Mage • Book 7

    by Nazri Noor

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    ★ 4.13 ABR Score (469 ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (398) ★ 4.83 Audible (71)
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    Dustin Graves faces bloodthirsty cultists and magical canine mysteries while Luke Daniels captures both supernatural dread and Welsh corgi charm.

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    Doom Bringers

    Arc of Radiance/Fall of Radiance • Book 2

    by Blake Arthur Peel

    Narrated by Michael Kramer, Kate Reading

    ★ 4.05 ABR Score (732 ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (562) ★ 4.54 Audible (170)
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    Victory at Forest Hill leads Owyn and Zara to the capital, where assassins and demon cults threaten the failing magical protections.

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    The Oversight

    Oversight Trilogy • Book 1

    by Charlie Fletcher

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (2.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (2.3K) ★ 4.35 Audible (258)
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    London's secret magical police force has dwindled to just five members when a screaming girl arrives at their door, threatening everything they protect.

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    The Fox Hunt

    by Caitlin Breeze

    Narrated by Maddy Lenny

    ★ 3.86 ABR Score (614 ratings)
    ★ 3.56 Goodreads (610) ★ 5 Audible (4)
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    Ancient university rituals and aristocratic power games get extra menace through Maddy Lenny's atmospheric performance. She captures the seductive darkness that pulls Emma into Oxford's elite circles.

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    The Dark Necromancer (Tales of the Amulet Book 2)

    Tales of the Amulet • Book 2

    by Dan Zangari, Robert Zangari

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 3.82 ABR Score (14 ratings)
    ★ 4.6 Goodreads (5) ★ 4.89 Audible (9)
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    The search for the Keepers has awakened The Unspoken One, Hemran'na's harbinger—Michael Kramer's narration spans this epic fantasy's massive scope beautifully.

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