Best Pete Bradbury Audiobooks
Pete Bradbury has a voice built for darkness — deep, measured, and authoritative in a way that makes dread feel inevitable. He's best known among fantasy listeners for his work on Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle series, starting with The Warded Man, where his controlled pacing and ability to shift between gruff warriors and quieter, more vulnerable characters gives the series real weight. His narration of Dracula — the Dacre Stoker expanded edition — shows why horror suits him so well: he understands atmosphere, letting tension build rather than rushing it. What's striking about Bradbury is his range; he brings the same gravity to hard sci-fi like Timescape and even Star Wars tie-in fiction. Listeners who prefer their fantasy and horror unrushed, with a narrator who sounds like he's been places and believes every word, will find a lot to love here.
Where to Start with Pete Bradbury
- New to Pete Bradbury? Start here → Dracula: With original content
- What fans keep coming back to → The Warded Man
- Highest rated by listeners → Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)
Best Pete Bradbury Audiobooks
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The Warded Man
The Demon Cycle • Book 1
Narrated by Pete Bradbury
★ 4.28 ABR Score (144.1K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (132.1K) ★ 4.49 Audible (12.0K)18h 10m listening time • Released 2009Brett's debut introduces a world where demons rise every night and humanity survives behind magical wards — gripping, original, and impossible to put down.
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Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars)
Star Wars Disney Canon Novel • Book 9
by Cavan Scott
Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Marc Thompson, Pete Bradbury, Jonathan Davis, Neil Hellegers, Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Robert Petkoff, Rebecca Soler
★ 4.08 ABR Score (21.2K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (11.0K) ★ 4.47 Audible (10.2K)6h 21m listening time • Released 2019The full-cast performance transforms this into a theatrical experience—each narrator inhabits a different character so distinctly that you forget you're listening to a book, not watching a play unfold.
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Dracula: With original content
Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, Allan Corduner, Pete Bradbury, Raphael Corkhill, Saskia Maarleveld, Vikas Adam
★ 3.96 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)16h 25m listening time • Released 2018 - 4
The Holy Bible : Good News Translation
by American Bible Society
Narrated by George Guidall, Suzanne Toren, Jonathan Davis, Peter Jay Fernandez, Pete Bradbury, Jeff Woodman, John McDonough, Nelson Runger
★ 3.63 ABR Score (304 ratings)★ 4.85 Goodreads (13) ★ 4.14 Audible (291)102h 26m listening time • Released 2016 - 5
Timescape
by Gregory Benford
Narrated by Simon Prebble, Pete Bradbury
★ 3.58 ABR Score (11.9K ratings)★ 3.72 Goodreads (11.6K) ★ 3.79 Audible (240)15h 39m listening time • Released 2008Prebble and Bradbury anchor this hard sci-fi masterpiece with crystalline clarity, making the dual timelines and physics-heavy dialogue feel urgent rather than dense. It's the rare audiobook where the narration earns its Nebula Award right alongside the writing.