Best Nick Sullivan Audiobooks
Nick Sullivan's range is genuinely unusual — he narrates Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp thrillers with the clipped intensity those books demand, then turns around and delivers Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint with the precise, mannered wit that makes Riverside's scheming aristocrats feel fully alive. That kind of tonal flexibility is rare. His voice sits in a clean, authoritative mid-register — not a showboating baritone, but controlled and expressive, the sort you trust immediately. The BBC Audio classic science fiction collection shows another gear entirely: he's equally at home with Wells and Philip K. Dick as he is with modern thriller plotting. If you're a listener who bounces between genres and gets frustrated when a narrator feels miscast, Sullivan tends to disappear into the material in the best possible way. His work on The World of Riverside in particular deserves more attention than it gets.
Where to Start with Nick Sullivan
- New to Nick Sullivan? Start here → D.C. Noir
- What fans keep coming back to → Transfer of Power
- Short listen, big payoff → Great Classic Science Fiction
- Highest rated by listeners → The Third Option
Best Nick Sullivan Audiobooks
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Transfer of Power
Mitch Rapp • Book 3
by Vince Flynn
Narrated by Nick Sullivan
★ 4.63 ABR Score (76.0K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (61.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (15.0K)16h 43m listening time • Released 2011 - 2
The Third Option
Mitch Rapp • Book 4
by Vince Flynn
Narrated by Nick Sullivan
★ 4.58 ABR Score (62.6K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (50.9K) ★ 4.61 Audible (11.7K)11h 45m listening time • Released 2011 - 3
The Privilege of the Sword
The World of Riverside • Book 2
by Ellen Kushner
Narrated by Ellen Kushner, Barbara Rosenblat, Felicia Day, Joe Hurley, Katherine Kellgren, Nick Sullivan, Neil Gaiman
★ 3.65 ABR Score (6.3K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (5.5K) ★ 4.01 Audible (848)15h 36m listening time • Released 2012 - 4
Great Classic Science Fiction
Great Classic Stories (BBC Audio)
by H.G. Wells, James H. Schmitz, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton
Narrated by Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Stephen Thorne, Greg Itzin
★ 3.65 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (522) ★ 4.23 Audible (566)7h 45m listening time • Released 2010 - 5
D.C. Noir
D.C. Noir • Book 1
by George P. Pelecanos, Quintin Peterson, James Grady, Jim Beane, Rubén Castañeda, Jennifer Howard, Lester Irby, Robert Andrews, David Slater, Jim Fusilli, Robert Wisdom, Richard Currey, Laura Lippman, James M. Patton, Kenji Jasper, Norman W. Kelley
Narrated by Lisa Renee Pitts, Cassandra Campbell, William Dufris, Mirron Willis, Carol Monda, Ray Porter, Nick Sullivan, Victor Bevine
★ 3.55 ABR Score (636 ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (610) ★ 3.88 Audible (26)9h 8m listening time • Released 2014 - 6
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 ABR Score (12.5K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.66 Audible (1.4K)10h 51m listening time • Released 2011