Best Susan Duerden Audiobooks
Susan Duerden is a British audiobook narrator with a clear, cultivated voice suited to literary science fiction and historical romance. She narrated China Miéville's Embassytown — a linguistically complex, intellectually ambitious science fiction novel about language, colonialism, and consciousness — with a precision that serves Miéville's demanding prose. She also narrated Alastair Reynolds' Slow Bullets, a compact but emotionally resonant science fiction novella. Her work in historical romance includes Jo Beverley's Christmas Angel and A Scandalous Countess, as well as Too Dangerous for a Lady. Duerden navigates both the cerebral demands of literary science fiction and the emotional warmth of Regency-era romance with apparent ease, which speaks to unusual range as a narrator. Her British accent and careful diction serve the period authenticity of the romance titles while lending appropriate gravity to the science fiction. Duerden is a versatile narrator whose best work demonstrates that strong vocal presence can serve very different genres with equal effectiveness.
Where to Start with Susan Duerden
- New to Susan Duerden? Start here → Dracula
- What fans keep coming back to → Embassytown
- Short listen, big payoff → Christmas Angel
- Highest rated by listeners → Eine Lady für Lord Charrington
- Best narrator–author pairing → Too Dangerous For a Lady
Best Susan Duerden Audiobooks
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Narrated by Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, Simon Vance, Katherine Kellgren, Susan Duerden, John Lee, Graeme Malcolm, Steven Crossley
★ 4.68 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.61 Audible (37.6K)15h 27m listening time • Released 2012 - 2
Christmas Angel
Company of Rogues • Book 3
by Jo Beverley
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 4.01 ABR Score (3.1K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.69 Audible (93)9h 58m listening time • Released 2022Beverley's award-winning Regency slow-burn pairs perfectly with Duerden's warm, precise delivery as a marriage of convenience unravels two very guarded hearts.
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Eine Lady für Lord Charrington
Company of Rogues • Book 3
by Jo Beverley
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.97 ABR Score (3.1K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.62 Audible (68)11h 34m listening time • Released 2022Beverley's award-winning marriage-of-convenience romance crackles with secrets, and Duerden brings warmth to every charged moment.
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Too Dangerous For a Lady
Company of Rogues • Book 15
by Jo Beverley
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.87 ABR Score (961 ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (922) ★ 4.59 Audible (39)11h 57m listening time • Released 2022Duerden brings warmth and wit to Beverley's final Rogues installment, a slow-burn reunion romance laced with real political danger.
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A Scandalous Countess
Mallorens & Friends • Book 12
by Jo Beverley
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.81 ABR Score (886 ratings)★ 3.81 Goodreads (867) ★ 4.63 Audible (19)11h 47m listening time • Released 2022Duerden brings elegant precision to Beverley's witty Regency world, and fans twelve books deep will love seeing Lady May finally get her story.
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Embassytown
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.80 ABR Score (36.1K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (34.9K) ★ 4.11 Audible (1.2K)12h 23m listening time • Released 2011 - 7
Fangs
Vampire Archives • Book 2
by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, Arthur Conan Doyle, Erik Davies
Narrated by Peter Altschuler, Scott Brick, Susan Denaker, Susan Duerden, Stephen Hoye, Carrington MacDuffie, Robin Sachs, Simon Vance, Bob Walter, Steve West
★ 3.64 ABR Score (228 ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (160) ★ 4.09 Audible (68)18h 26m listening time • Released 2010A stellar ensemble cast transforms these vampire tales—each narrator finds the perfect voice for stories ranging from Gothic dread to sensual horror, making this anthology feel like a curated night of dark fiction rather than a slog through a collection.
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Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Guardians #3.6 - The Demon Dancer
by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham, Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher
Narrated by Phil Gigante, Michael Page, Susan Duerden, Julia Whelan
★ 3.57 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)★ 3.76 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.76 Audible (190)19h 39m listening time • Released 2011 - 9
Slow Bullets
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.54 ABR Score (5.6K ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 3.85 Audible (231)4h 18m listening time • Released 2015 - 10
Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives
Vampire Archives • Book 1
by Otto Penzler, Stephen King, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, Neil Gaiman - preface, Otto Penzler
Narrated by Scott Brick, Fred Sanders, Mark Deakens, Susan Duerden, Simon Vance, Marc Cashman, Stephen Hoye, Allyson Ryan
★ 3.45 ABR Score (461 ratings)★ 3.47 Goodreads (322) ★ 3.61 Audible (139)12h 50m listening time • Released 2010A killer lineup of narrators transforms these vampire stories into a genuinely immersive experience—each voice perfectly matched to its tale, making King's terror and Stoker's dread feel freshly terrifying.