10 audiobooks for fans of Wool Omnibus
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Sand
The Sand Chronicles • Book 1
by Hugh Howey
Narrated by Jeremy Arthur
★ 3.94 ABR Score (33.9K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.32 Audible (571)8h 42m listening time • Released 2022 -
Beacon 23
Beacon 23 #1-5 • Book 1
by Hugh Howey
Narrated by Peter Ganim
★ 3.78 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (22.9K) ★ 4.09 Audible (452)6h 9m listening time • Released 2023 -
Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Ted Chiang
★ 4.27 ABR Score (117.4K ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (113.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (4.1K)11h 22m listening time • Released 2019Chiang's stories rewire how you think about time, choice, and existence itself, and the ensemble narration lets each idea breathe with the weight it deserves.
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Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come #1-4
by Mark Waid, Alex Ross, Dirk Maggs
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Kerry Shale, Marc Thompson, Lorelei King, Glenn Wrage, William DeMeritt, Garrick Hagon, Tom Alexander, John Chancer, Ray Porter, Full Cast
★ 4.18 ABR Score (68.9K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (68.8K) ★ 4.78 Audible (106)3h 16m listening time • Released 2025A full-cast audio adaptation that transforms Alex Ross's painterly masterpiece into cinematic storytelling, with a ensemble cast that makes every hero's voice distinctive and the sound design that justifies experiencing this as audio rather than on the page.
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Winter World
The Long Winter • Book 1
by A.G. Riddle
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
★ 4.17 ABR Score (41.8K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (36.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (5.9K)11h 4m listening time • Released 2019Ballerini and Cobb's dual narration transforms this climate catastrophe thriller into something genuinely immersive—their chemistry selling the high-stakes tension while you're locked into humanity's last desperate gamble against the cold.
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Ubik
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.02 ABR Score (124.5K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (124.5K) ★ 4.48 Audible (58)6h 49m listening time • Released 2025Ballerini nails the paranoid, reality-warping dread of Dick's masterpiece, making the absurd metaphysical chaos feel genuinely unsettling rather than just clever. This is sci-fi that gets under your skin.
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Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Julie
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.92 ABR Score (1.9M ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.83 Audible (6)8h 9m listening time • Released 2025Edoardo Ballerini's narration captures the Gothic dread and philosophical torment at the heart of this 200-year-old masterpiece, making Shelley's creation feel urgently modern and deeply human.
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The Man in the High Castle
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.71 ABR Score (237.7K ratings)★ 3.59 Goodreads (237.7K) ★ 3.88 Audible (51)8h 9m listening time • Released 2025Edoardo Ballerini's measured, unsettling performance captures the paranoia and moral dread of Dick's alternate history—he makes you feel the weight of every small rebellion. This is speculative fiction that thinks like philosophy, and the audiobook lets you absorb its ideas while completely absorbed in them.
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The Solar War
The Long Winter • Book 2
by A.G. Riddle
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
★ 4.21 ABR Score (24.0K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (21.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (3.0K)12h 20m listening time • Released 2019Ballerini and Cobb's dual narration makes the competing perspectives feel like separate battles unfolding in real time, turning what could be exposition-heavy sci-fi into something genuinely suspenseful and hard to put down.
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The Lost Colony
The Long Winter • Book 3
by A.G. Riddle
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Amanda Leigh Cobb
★ 4.18 ABR Score (23.6K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (21.1K) ★ 4.48 Audible (2.6K)9h 21m listening time • Released 2019Ballerini and Cobb's dual narration transforms this sci-fi finale into something genuinely cinematic, where their distinct voices clarify competing timelines and perspectives in ways print simply can't match.
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