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- New to Simon Jones? Start here → Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- What fans keep coming back to → Imperium
- Short listen, big payoff → The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
- Highest rated by listeners → The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 4.35 BLT Score (144.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.7K) - 2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (Dramatized)
Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series • Book 1
by Douglas Adams
Narrated by Full Cast, Peter Jones, Susan Sheridan, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore
★ 4.20 BLT Score (6.3K ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (2.7K) ★ 4.41 Audible (3.6K) - 3
Summary & Analysis of Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Benjamin Adams
Narrated by Marin Ireland, Simon Jones
★ 4.13 BLT Score (9.5K ratings)★ 3.55 Goodreads (38) ★ 4.58 Audible (9.4K) - 4
Imperium
Cicero • Book 1
by Robert Harris
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 4.10 BLT Score (45.0K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (41.9K) ★ 4.33 Audible (3.1K) - 5
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
by Dan Ariely
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 4.00 BLT Score (18.1K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (16.9K) ★ 4.4 Audible (1.2K) - 6
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Original Albums)
by Douglas Adams, Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Frank Middlemass, Stephen Greif, Cindy Oswin, Stephen Moore, Richard Vernon, Valentine Dyall, David Tate, Jim Broadbent, Bill Wallis, Roy Hudd, Geoffrey Perkins, Tim Souster, Paddy Kingsland
Narrated by Full Cast, Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey
★ 3.81 BLT Score (169 ratings)★ 4.49 Goodreads (81) ★ 4.65 Audible (88) - 7
Slaves of Obsession
William Monk • Book 11
by Anne Perry
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 3.79 BLT Score (3.9K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (3.7K) ★ 4.17 Audible (211) - 8
Last Orders
by Graham Swift, Unknown Author
Narrated by Simon Prebble, Gigi Marceau Clarke, Jenny Sterlin, Ian Stewart, Gerard Doyle, Simon Jones, Domonick Hawksley
★ 3.60 BLT Score (15.2K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 3.74 Audible (179)More about this pick
Multiple narrators bring distinct voices to four working-class men on a road trip, turning what could be a simple premise into a layered meditation on memory, loyalty, and unspoken grief that justifies Swift's Booker Prize.
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Swordspoint
The World of Riverside • Book 1
by Ellen Kushner
Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Dion Graham, Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones
★ 3.35 BLT Score (12.5K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.66 Audible (1.4K)
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