Audiobooks Like The Passage

Scott Brick narrates The Passage's 37 hours with the kind of stamina the book itself requires — this is a novel that moves through decades and generations, and Brick's authority keeps the sprawl coherent, his voice a consistent thread through a story that keeps radically changing what it is. Nine of the ten recommendations also feature Brick's narration and are award-winning titles, so the list is organized around one of audio's most prolific voices working in the ambitious end of the genre.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Passage

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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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    Dune

    Dune • Book 1

    by Frank Herbert

    Narrated by Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers

    4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.67 Audible (126.5K)
    21h 2m listening time • Released 2007

    The Godfather of science fiction epics: a richly imagined desert world where politics, religion, and ecology collide in a story that feels more relevant every decade.

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    11/22/63

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Craig Wasson

    4.63 ABR Score (740.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.66 Audible (73.7K)
    30h 40m listening time • Released 2011

    Craig Wasson's performance transforms King's sprawling time-travel epic into something intimate and devastating—30 hours that feel essential, not excessive.

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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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    Second Foundation

    Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 3

    by Isaac Asimov

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.46 ABR Score (212.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (204.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (7.9K)
    9h 21m listening time • Released 2010

    Scott Brick's measured, intelligent narration transforms this mind-bending finale into something genuinely suspenseful—he finds the psychological tension beneath Asimov's intricate plotting and makes you feel the paranoia of not knowing who's really in control.

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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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    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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    Foundation

    Foundation • Book 3

    by Isaac Asimov

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.29 ABR Score (620.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (600.9K) ★ 4.4 Audible (19.4K)
    8h 38m listening time • Released 2010

    Asimov's complete original trilogy collected — the full arc of Hari Seldon's plan to shorten the dark ages of civilization by thousands of years.

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    The Butlerian Jihad

    Legends of Dune • Book 1

    by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.21 ABR Score (95.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (90.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (5.2K)
    23h 41m listening time • Released 2003

    Scott Brick's measured, commanding delivery transforms this origin story into an epic that actually earns its scope—10,000 years of human resistance against thinking machines becomes visceral and immediate in his hands.

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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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