Audiobooks Like Red Rising

10 audiobooks for fans of Red Rising

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   Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

   Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 1

   by Elizabeth Schaefer, Ben Acker, Jonathan Davis, Tom Angleberger, Janina Gavankar, Ben Blacker, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Christie Golden, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Pierce Brown, Ashley Eckstein, Carol Monda, Mur Lafferty, Marc Thompson, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel José Older, Ian Doescher, Daniel M. Lavery, Madeleine Roux, Gary D. Schmidt, Matt Fraction, Cavan Scott, Sabaa Tahir, Kieron Gillen, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Christopher, Rae Carson, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Paul Dini, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Paul S. Kemp, Elizabeth Wein, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, Charles Soule, Wil Wheaton, Renée Ahdieh

   Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson

   ★ 4.07 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (15.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.2K)

   15h 3m listening time • Released 2017

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   Ender's Shadow

   Ender's Shadow • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (194.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (180.6K) ★ 4.76 Audible (13.8K)

   15h 42m listening time • Released 2005

   A companion novel that retells Ender's Game from Bean's perspective — and in many ways surpasses the original in emotional depth and strategic brilliance.

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   Jurassic Park

   Jurassic Park • Book 1

   by Michael Crichton

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.60 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.76 Audible (46.8K)

   15h 10m listening time • Released 2015

   Crichton's genetic-engineering thriller is as much a gripping thought experiment as an action novel — the science is as terrifying as the dinosaurs.

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   Foundation's Edge

   Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 4

   by Isaac Asimov

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.45 ABR Score (104.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (99.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (4.7K)

   16h 14m listening time • Released 2011

   Scott Brick's measured, intelligent delivery turns Asimov's grand-scale sci-fi chess match into something genuinely gripping—he makes the philosophical debates feel as urgent as the mystery itself.

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   Speaker for the Dead

   The Ender Saga • Book 2

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (294.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (272.3K) ★ 4.56 Audible (22.3K)

   14h 8m listening time • Released 2002

   A richer and more ambitious book than Ender's Game, tackling xenobiology, grief, and moral philosophy in a story about understanding truly alien life.

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   Children of Dune

   Dune • Book 3

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Simon Vance

   ★ 4.34 ABR Score (272.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (254.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (18.3K)

   16h 51m listening time • Released 2008

   Scott Brick and Simon Vance elevate Herbert's most intricate Dune novel with dual narration that captures the twins' divided consciousness and the empire's political chaos with surgical precision.

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   Contact

   by Carl Sagan

   Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (159.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (153.3K) ★ 4.54 Audible (5.8K)

   14h 45m listening time • Released 2012

   Sagan's only novel is a rigorous, moving meditation on faith, science, and first contact — the audiobook restores the full scope of his vision.

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   The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

   by Robert A. Heinlein

   Narrated by Lloyd James

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (150.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (139.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (11.2K)

   14h 12m listening time • Released 2006

   A masterclass in world-building and political philosophy — Heinlein's lunar colony revolution is gripping, funny, and surprisingly prescient about AI.

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   Heretics of Dune

   Dune • Book 5

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Simon Vance, Scott Brick

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (112.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (104.1K) ★ 4.55 Audible (8.1K)

   18h 4m listening time • Released 2008

   Vance and Brick's dual narration captures the philosophical depth and sprawling scope that makes Herbert's far-future vision so absorbing—a perfect match for a book that trades action for intricate power games across a collapsing empire.

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    Chapterhouse: Dune

    Dune • Book 6

    by Frank Herbert

    Narrated by Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Simon Vance

    ★ 4.16 ABR Score (91.3K ratings)

    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (6.6K)

    16h 42m listening time • Released 2009

    The ensemble cast transforms Herbert's final, divisive chapter into something unexpectedly gripping—each narrator inhabiting distinct factions with such clarity that the competing ideologies actually click into place.

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