Best Dion Graham Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Dion Graham — 25 titles spanning Thriller, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Sci-Fi, Biography & Memoir, Horror, averaging 3.93 ABR stars.

Dion Graham brings a deep, authoritative baritone to every project he touches, but what separates him from other voices in his register is control — he never lets that richness tip into pomposity. His reading of The Martian Chronicles is a masterclass in restraint, letting Bradbury's poetic prose breathe without over-performing it. He's equally at home in genre-hopping anthologies like METAtropolis: Green Space, where his grounded delivery keeps sprawling speculative fiction anchored even as the material shifts between authors and tones. Graham has a particular gift for atmosphere — his pacing slows just enough in darker material to build genuine unease, which makes him a natural for horror and literary thriller. Listeners who appreciate a narrator who trusts the text rather than upstaging it will find a lot to love here. He's the kind of voice that makes a good book feel essential.

Where to Start with Dion Graham

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    The President's Daughter

    by Bill Clinton, James Patterson

    Narrated by Tony Goldwyn, Fajer Al-Kaisi, James Chen, Jeremy Davidson, Amanda Dolan, Peter Ganim, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Soneela Nankani

    4.62 ABR Score (62.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (53.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (8.6K)
    14h 21m listening time • Released 2021

    Tony Goldwyn leads an all-star ensemble cast through a propulsive thriller that feels like watching a prestige TV series unfold in your ears. The multiple narrators give each character distinct weight, turning what could be a pulpy premise into genuinely immersive storytelling.

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    Cross and Sampson

    Alex Cross • Book 35

    by James Patterson, Brian Sitts

    Narrated by Isaiah Mustafa, Dion Graham

    4.40 ABR Score (6.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (6.2K) ★ 4.62 Audible (404)
    7h 24m listening time • Released 2026

    Isaiah Mustafa and Dion Graham split the dual-detective narrative perfectly, each bringing distinct energy to Cross and Sampson's investigation. The dual-narrator format transforms what could be a standard thriller into something more immersive, letting you inhabit both detectives' headspace simultaneously.

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    The Mortal Affairs: A Dark Academy Fantasy

    The Secret World of Maggie Grey • Book 4

    by Granger

    Narrated by Dion Graham, Trei Taylor

    4.38 ABR Score (459 ratings)
    ★ 4.9 Audible (459)
    13h 41m listening time • Released 2026
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    Lovely War

    by Julie Berry

    Narrated by Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, Dion Graham, Fiona Hardingham, John Lee, Nathaniel Parker, Steve West

    4.27 ABR Score (71.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (70.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.2K)
    12h 57m listening time • Released 2019
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    Summary of the Lincoln Highway

    by Smith Lincon

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham

    4.19 ABR Score (23.8K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (13) ★ 4.61 Audible (23.7K)
    16h 39m listening time • Released 2021
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    Tailored Realities

    Skyward universe

    by Brandon Sanderson

    Narrated by André Santana, Avi Roque, Dion Graham, Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Imani Jade Powers, January LaVoy, MacLeod Andrews, Michael Kramer, Ray Porter, Shahjehan Khan, Stephanie Németh-Parker

    4.09 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 4.68 Audible (454)
    17h 31m listening time • Released 2025

    Sanderson's short fiction collection hits harder when an all-star ensemble cast brings each wildly different story to life, turning standalone tales into a masterclass in genre-hopping storytelling.

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    Cross Country

    Alex Cross • Book 14

    by James Patterson

    Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez, Dion Graham

    4.05 ABR Score (48.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (46.1K) ★ 4.18 Audible (1.9K)
    7h 21m listening time • Released 2008
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    The Martian Chronicles

    by Ray Bradbury

    Narrated by Dion Graham

    4.01 ABR Score (287.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (287.7K) ★ 4.33 Audible (18)
    8h 41m listening time • Released 2025

    Bradbury's poetic meditation on colonization, nostalgia, and human folly — less a traditional novel than a series of haunting vignettes that add up to something profound.

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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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    The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

    by Jonathan Abrams

    Narrated by Dion Graham, Diontae Black, Torian Brackett, Langston Darby, James Fouhey, Kevin R. Free, Dominic Hoffman, JD Jackson, Terrence Kidd, January LaVoy, Adam Lazarre-White, Leon Nixon, Reynaldo Piniella, Malik Rashad

    3.92 ABR Score (782 ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (730) ★ 4.73 Audible (52)
    18h 10m listening time • Released 2022

    Multiple narrators embody the original voices behind hip-hop's rise, transforming this oral history into something closer to a documentary you're hearing firsthand from the legends themselves.

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    The Starless Sea

    by Erin Morgenstern

    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Bahni Turpin, Allan Corduner, Fiona Hardingham, Jorjeana Marie

    3.90 ABR Score (237.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (237.0K) ★ 4.17 Audible (65)
    18h 37m listening time • Released 2019
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    Dominion

    by Addie E. Citchens

    Narrated by Andre Giles, Angel Pean, Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham

    3.90 ABR Score (8.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (8.2K) ★ 4.42 Audible (212)
    7h 1m listening time • Released 2025

    Four narrators bring crystalline depth to this Southern family reckoning, each voice perfectly calibrated to expose the quiet complicity that holds a town together.

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    Dangerous Visions

    Dangerous Visions • Book 1

    by Harlan Ellison, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon

    Narrated by Tim Campbell, Simon Vance, Steven Jay Cohen, Johnny Heller, Edoardo Ballerini, Ramiz Monsef, Neil Hellegers, Jim Meskimen, JD Jackson, P. J. Ochlan, Dion Graham, Natalie Naudus, Vikas Adam, Scott Aiello

    3.88 ABR Score (10.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 3.94 Audible (48)
    24h 33m listening time • Released 2024

    A landmark 1960s sci-fi anthology featuring Dick, Asimov, and Zelazny at their peak, brought to life by an all-star narrator ensemble who elevate each wildly different vision into its own compelling performance.

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    The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943

    by Inge Scholl, Dorothee Sölle, Inge Aicher-Scholl

    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley, Heather Henderson, Edoardo Ballerini, Kaylee Harwood, David Skulski, Dion Graham, Josh Bloomberg, Paul Strikwera

    3.82 ABR Score (2.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (19)
    3h 57m listening time • Released 2020

    Multiple narrators bring Sophie and Hans Scholl's resistance to life with documentary precision, making their defiance against Nazi atrocity feel immediate and unbearably human.

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    Greatest Hits

    by Neil Gaiman, Cassandra Khaw, J. Michael Straczynski

    Narrated by Harlan Ellison, Grover Gardner, Hillary Huber, Tim Lounibos, Scott Brick, Steven Jay Cohen, Robert Fass, Neil Hellegers, Dion Graham, Edoardo Ballerini, Stefan Rudnicki, Angelo Di Loreto, Luis Moreno

    3.82 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (29)
    17h 35m listening time • Released 2024

    A masterclass in short-form sci-fi storytelling where Ellison's unhinged brilliance gets the ensemble treatment it deserves. Multiple narrators make each twisted tale land harder.

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    Lot

    by Bryan Washington

    Narrated by Bryan Washington, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Bahni Turpin

    3.81 ABR Score (10.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.74 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.28 Audible (126)
    5h 41m listening time • Released 2019

    Four narrators bring Houston's interconnected lives to vivid life—a debut that braids intimate family drama with the city's full spectrum of joy, survival, and resilience.

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    Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute

    by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu

    Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini

    3.80 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (182)
    14h 11m listening time • Released 2012

    A master class in short-form storytelling with an all-star narrator lineup—Takei, Mulgrew, and Gaiman himself elevate 26 writers' Bradbury-inspired tales into something you'll want to hear in one sitting.

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    METAtropolis: Green Space

    METAtropolis • Book 3

    by Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire

    Narrated by Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis

    3.75 ABR Score (972 ratings)
    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (354) ★ 4.28 Audible (618)
    14h 16m listening time • Released 2013
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 366: Sword & Sorcery Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Various

    Narrated by Scott Aiello, John Pirhalla, Simon Vance, Paul Woodson, Hillary Huber, Roger Clark, Tim Campbell, Chelsea Stephens, Dion Graham, Joe Hempel, Steve West, James Langton, Neil Hellegers, Natalie Naudus, Peter Berkrot

    3.72 ABR Score (53 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (37) ★ 4.13 Audible (16)
    7h 13m listening time • Released 2023

    A stellar ensemble cast elevates this sword-and-sorcery anthology into something rare: fifteen narrators who each bring distinct voice and urgency to stories from genre legends like Gaiman and James A. Moore.

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    The Future Is Yours

    by Dan Frey

    Narrated by Cary Hite, Vikas Adam, Kyla Garcia, Rob Shapiro, Catherine Ho, Aneesh Chaganty, Dion Graham, Joshua Kane, Thérèse Plummer, Natasha Soudek, Bahni Turpin, Full Cast

    3.72 ABR Score (2.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.13 Audible (62)
    8h 2m listening time • Released 2021

    A full-cast ensemble elevates this time-travel thriller into something genuinely unsettling: each narrator embodies a character's perspective on the same catastrophic future, making you question whose version of truth to believe.

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    Fresh Ink

    by Lamar Giles, Nicola Yoon, Malinda Lo, Melissa de la Cruz, Sara Farizan, Eric Gansworth, Walter Dean Myers, Daniel José Older, Thien Pham, Jason Reynolds, Gene Luen Yang, Sharon G. Flake, Schuyler Bailar, Aminah Mae Safi

    Narrated by Guy Lockard, Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Aminah Mae Safi, Dominic Hoffman, Dion Graham, Ron Butler, J. B. Adkins, Sara Farizan, Henry Levya, Donnabella Mortel, Schuyler Bailar, Various

    3.72 ABR Score (3.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (16)
    5h 4m listening time • Released 2018

    Multiple award-winning YA voices tackle identity, belonging, and resistance across formats—short stories, graphic work, and a never-before-printed Walter Dean Myers play—each narrator perfectly matched to their piece.

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    Coleman Hill

    by Kim Coleman Foote

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Dion Graham

    3.70 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (1.8K) ★ 3.83 Audible (18)
    9h 29m listening time • Released 2025

    Turpin and Graham's dual narration captures three generations of Black families navigating the Great Migration's broken promises—their distinct voices make the interwoven timelines feel like overhearing real lives unfold.

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    The Amen Corner

    by James Baldwin

    Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Angel Pean, Shayna Small, Robin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, JD Jackson, Adenrele Ojo

    3.68 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 5 Audible (4)
    2h 48m listening time • Released 2024

    Baldwin's searing play about faith and hypocrisy hits harder with a full cast bringing Harlem's church voices to life. The ensemble narration transforms a intimate family reckoning into something visceral and communal.

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    Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

    by Jonathan Maberry, R.L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, Victor LaValle, Robert E. Howard, Hailey Piper, H.P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, Usman T. Malik, James Aquilone, Michael A. Arnzen

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Richard J. Brewer, Natalie Naudus, Joe Hempel, Dion Graham, Neil Hellegers, Zura Johnson, Simon Vance, Peter Berkrot, James Patrick Cronin, Gabrielle de Cuir, Grover Gardner, full cast

    3.59 ABR Score (285 ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (263) ★ 3.64 Audible (22)
    18h 44m listening time • Released 2023
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 370: Monster Issue (Weird Tales Magazine)

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry, Various, Various Narrators

    Narrated by Ray Porter, Bronson Pinchot, Hillary Huber, Joe Hempel, Jennifer Pickens, Dion Graham, Simon Vance, Emily Woo Zeller, Neil Hellegers

    3.55 ABR Score (41 ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (21) ★ 4.35 Audible (20)
    6h 27m listening time • Released 2024

    A stellar ensemble cast transforms this monster-themed anthology into pure audio theater—each narrator nails their story's voice, making the twisted takes on familiar creatures genuinely unsettling.

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