Audiobooks Like This Is How You Lose the Time War

10 audiobooks for fans of This Is How You Lose the Time War

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   Rogue Protocol

   The Murderbot Diaries • Book 3

   by Martha Wells

   Narrated by Kevin R. Free

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (186.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.24 Goodreads (176.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (9.8K)

   3h 46m listening time • Released 2018

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   Fugitive Telemetry

   The Murderbot Diaries • Book 6

   by Martha Wells

   Narrated by Kevin R. Free

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (113.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (106.7K) ★ 4.68 Audible (7.1K)

   4h 24m listening time • Released 2021

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   Allora

   Silver Ships • Book 7

   by S.H. Jucha

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.19 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (795)

   4h 38m listening time • Released 2017

   Grover Gardner's measured, introspective narration brings profound depth to a young AI's struggle for freedom—this is speculative fiction that treats consciousness and autonomy as genuinely urgent moral questions.

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   The Universe in a Nutshell

   by Stephen W. Hawking

   Narrated by Simon Prebble

   ★ 4.05 ABR Score (46.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.18 Goodreads (45.5K) ★ 4.3 Audible (1.2K)

   3h 27m listening time • Released 2001

   Simon Prebble's measured, crystalline delivery makes Hawking's mind-bending physics feel conversational rather than intimidating—the perfect narrator for a physicist explaining how reality actually works.

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   The Word for World Is Forest

   The Hainish Cycle • Book 5

   by Ursula K. Le Guin

   Narrated by John Skelley

   ★ 4.05 ABR Score (45.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.07 Goodreads (45.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (112)

   4h 44m listening time • Released 2024

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   Alamo

   The Retreat • Book 4

   by Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight, Joe McKinney

   Narrated by R.C. Bray

   ★ 4.05 ABR Score (624 ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (310) ★ 4.77 Audible (314)

   4h 48m listening time • Released 2020

   R.C. Bray's intensity elevates this siege horror into something genuinely claustrophobic—the underground bunker setting and infected masses create relentless tension that his narration nails perfectly.

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   The Time Machine

   by H.G. Wells

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (569.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.89 Goodreads (569.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (313)

   3h 54m listening time • Released 2006

   Scott Brick's measured, cerebral performance transforms this Victorian-era classic into something genuinely unsettling—he makes Wells's social commentary hit harder than the time travel spectacle ever could.

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   Warlord Conquering (The Great Insurrection)

   The Great Insurrection • Book 3

   by David Beers

   Narrated by Bradley Foster Smith, Catherine Aselford, Chris Stinson, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, David Jourdan, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Rob McFadyen

   ★ 3.83 ABR Score (379 ratings)

   ★ 4.48 Goodreads (360) ★ 4.79 Audible (19)

   4h 58m listening time • Released 2021

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   Earthcore (3 of 3)

   Sun Symbol Series • Book 1

   by Scott Sigler

   Narrated by full cast, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Jonathan Feuer, Danny Gavigan, Amanda Forstrom, Matthew Schleigh, Colleen Delany, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Ken Jackson, Bradley Smith

   ★ 3.48 ABR Score (6 ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (5) ★ 4 Audible (1)

   4h 57m listening time • Released 2020

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    From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

    Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 2

    by Elizabeth Schaefer, Mark Oshiro, Rob Hart, Michael Moreci, Mike Chen, Beth Revis, Zoraida Córdova, Kiersten White, Lilliam Rivera, Mackenzi Lee, Amy Ratcliffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Emily Skrutskie, Tracy Deonn, C.B. Lee, Karen Strong, Delilah S. Dawson, Lydia Kang, Adam Christopher, Cavan Scott, R.F. Kuang, Tom Angleberger, S.A. Chakraborty, Seth Dickinson, Alexander Freed, Jason Fry, Christie Golden, Hank Green, Michael Kogge, John Jackson Miller, Daniel José Older, Anne Toole, Austin Walker, Martha Wells, Django Wexler, Gary Whitta, Brittany N. Williams, Charles Yu, Jim Zub, Katie Cook, Sarwat Chadda

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, Dion Graham, Jon Hamm, January LaVoy, Soneela Nankani, Marc Thompson, Sam Witwer, Emily Woo Zeller

    ★ 3.93 ABR Score (7.5K ratings)

    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.9K) ★ 4.39 Audible (1.6K)

    17h 59m listening time • Released 2020

    Forty writers and an all-star cast of narrators (including Jon Hamm and Sam Witwer) transform Empire into a anthology of revelation, making you hear the galaxy's most pivotal moments through entirely new eyes.

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