Best Dual Timeline Fantasy Audiobooks

The highest-rated fantasy audiobooks featuring dual timeline, ranked by listeners. Browse 10 titles.

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The best fantasy audiobooks featuring the dual timeline trope, ranked by listener and reader ratings from Audible and Goodreads.

Dual Timeline shows up across many genres, but it plays out differently in fantasy — these are the highest-rated examples.

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    The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina cover

    The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

    by Zoraida Córdova

    Narrated by Frankie Corzo

    4.22 ABR Score (34.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (33.7K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.1K)
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    Green Rath: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 3) cover

    Green Rath: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 3)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 3

    by Aoibh Wood

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    4.15 ABR Score (377 ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (251) ★ 4.85 Audible (126)
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    Two thousand years before Cait's birth, handmaid Weyna stuns the Tuatha de Dannan by defeating their greatest fighter, setting mythological events in motion.

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    Fire and Hemlock cover

    Fire and Hemlock

    by Diana Wynne Jones

    Narrated by Gemma Dawson

    4.15 ABR Score (11.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (11.2K) ★ 4.49 Audible (130)
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    The Otherwhere Post cover

    The Otherwhere Post

    by Emily J. Taylor

    Narrated by Barrie Kreinik

    4.08 ABR Score (8.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (8.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (53)
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    Deathless cover

    Deathless

    Leningrad Diptych • Book 1

    by Catherynne M. Valente

    Narrated by Kim de Blecourt

    4.04 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (23.1K) ★ 4.06 Audible (317)
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    Valente reimagines Russian folklore through Marya's marriage to Koschei the Deathless, set against the siege of Leningrad and Soviet political upheaval.

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    The Undertakers cover

    The Undertakers

    A Murder & Magic Novel • Book 2

    by Nicole Glover

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    4.03 ABR Score (923 ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (855) ★ 4.6 Audible (68)
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    Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this post-Civil War murder mystery into something genuinely gripping—her voice work sharpens every twist in a plot where nothing's as simple as it seems. The Undertakers proves the series only gets better.

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    The Runes of the Earth cover

    The Runes of the Earth

    The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant • Book 1

    by Stephen R. Donaldson

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    3.96 ABR Score (8.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.05 Audible (775)
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    Ten years after Thomas Covenant's death, Linden Avery returns to find her child building mysterious structures and herself once again summoned to save the Land.

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    The Improvisers cover

    The Improvisers

    Murder and Magic • Book 3

    by Nicole Glover

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    3.94 ABR Score (285 ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (271) ★ 4.57 Audible (14)
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    Velma, a barnstorming pilot turned magic bootlegger, hunts dangerous enchanted items across Prohibition America. Bahni Turpin's dynamic performance captures Velma's aerial daredevil spirit.

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    Oh Bubba, Where Art Thou? cover

    Oh Bubba, Where Art Thou?

    Bubba the Monster Hunter Novellas • Book 26

    by John G. Hartness

    Narrated by John Solo

    3.93 ABR Score (88 ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (71) ★ 4.41 Audible (17)
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    Music legends guide Bubba through past, present, and future to save music from Auto-Tune Hell itself. Solo's narration captures the absurdity as our hero gets beaten up by a little girl while trying to rescue country music.

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    Blood Triad: Stories in the Blood & Ancient Scrolls Series cover

    Blood Triad: Stories in the Blood & Ancient Scrolls Series

    Blood & Ancient Scrolls #3.5

    by Raven Belasco

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Tavia Gilbert, Paul Rogan

    3.75 ABR Score (6 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (4) ★ 5 Audible (2)
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    Vampire fiction spanning Norse and Pictish eras through multiple historical periods and locations. Bahni Turpin, Tavia Gilbert, and Paul Rogan handle the diverse characters across centuries.

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