Audiobooks Like Golden Son

10 audiobooks for fans of Golden Son

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   Ender's Shadow

   Ender's Shadow • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (194.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (180.6K) ★ 4.76 Audible (13.8K)

   15h 42m listening time • Released 2005

   A companion novel that retells Ender's Game from Bean's perspective — and in many ways surpasses the original in emotional depth and strategic brilliance.

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   Dune

   Dune • Book 1

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon Vance, Ilyana Kadushin, Byron Jennings, David R. Gordon, Jason Culp, Kent Broadhurst, Oliver Wyman, Patricia Kilgarriff, Scott Sowers

   ★ 4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.67 Audible (126.5K)

   21h 2m listening time • Released 2007

   The Godfather of science fiction epics: a richly imagined desert world where politics, religion, and ecology collide in a story that feels more relevant every decade.

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   Foundation's Edge

   Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 4

   by Isaac Asimov

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.45 ABR Score (104.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (99.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (4.7K)

   16h 14m listening time • Released 2011

   Scott Brick's measured, intelligent delivery turns Asimov's grand-scale sci-fi chess match into something genuinely gripping—he makes the philosophical debates feel as urgent as the mystery itself.

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   Children of Dune

   Dune • Book 3

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Simon Vance

   ★ 4.34 ABR Score (272.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (254.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (18.3K)

   16h 51m listening time • Released 2008

   Scott Brick and Simon Vance elevate Herbert's most intricate Dune novel with dual narration that captures the twins' divided consciousness and the empire's political chaos with surgical precision.

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   Hyperion

   Hyperion • Book 1

   by Dan Simmons

   Narrated by Marc Vietor, Allyson Johnson, Kevin Pariseau, Jay Snyder, Victor Bevine

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (328.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (303.0K) ★ 4.37 Audible (25.7K)

   20h 44m listening time • Released 2008

   Structured like The Canterbury Tales but set across the galaxy, Dan Simmons weaves six extraordinary stories into a puzzle-box epic unlike anything else in sci-fi.

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   Heretics of Dune

   Dune • Book 5

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Simon Vance, Scott Brick

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (112.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (104.1K) ★ 4.55 Audible (8.1K)

   18h 4m listening time • Released 2008

   Vance and Brick's dual narration captures the philosophical depth and sprawling scope that makes Herbert's far-future vision so absorbing—a perfect match for a book that trades action for intricate power games across a collapsing empire.

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   Chapterhouse: Dune

   Dune • Book 6

   by Frank Herbert

   Narrated by Euan Morton, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Simon Vance

   ★ 4.16 ABR Score (91.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (6.6K)

   16h 42m listening time • Released 2009

   The ensemble cast transforms Herbert's final, divisive chapter into something unexpectedly gripping—each narrator inhabiting distinct factions with such clarity that the competing ideologies actually click into place.

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   Stranger in a Strange Land

   by Robert A. Heinlein

   Narrated by Christopher Hurt

   ★ 4.11 ABR Score (338.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.92 Goodreads (327.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (11.2K)

   16h 17m listening time • Released 1999

   Heinlein's counterculture classic about a human raised by Martians remains a provocative, boundary-pushing exploration of religion, sexuality, and what it means to be human.

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   Xenocide

   Ender's Saga • Book 3

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (179.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.82 Goodreads (166.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (13.3K)

   20h 10m listening time • Released 2003

   A stellar ensemble cast elevates Card's most philosophically ambitious Ender book, with five narrators embodying distinct worlds and perspectives across 20 hours of complex, character-driven science fiction.

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    Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

    Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View • Book 1

    by Elizabeth Schaefer, Ben Acker, Jonathan Davis, Tom Angleberger, Janina Gavankar, Ben Blacker, Jon Hamm, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Christie Golden, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Pierce Brown, Ashley Eckstein, Carol Monda, Mur Lafferty, Marc Thompson, Ken Liu, Griffin McElroy, John Jackson Miller, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Nnedi Okorafor, Daniel José Older, Ian Doescher, Daniel M. Lavery, Madeleine Roux, Gary D. Schmidt, Matt Fraction, Cavan Scott, Sabaa Tahir, Kieron Gillen, Glen Weldon, Chuck Wendig, Gary Whitta, Meg Cabot, Pablo Hidalgo, Adam Christopher, Rae Carson, Zoraida Córdova, Delilah S. Dawson, Paul Dini, Alexander Freed, Claudia Gray, Paul S. Kemp, Elizabeth Wein, Beth Revis, Greg Rucka, Charles Soule, Wil Wheaton, Renée Ahdieh

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis, Ashley Eckstein, Janina Gavankar, Jon Hamm, Neil Patrick Harris, January LaVoy, Saskia Maarleveld, Carol Monda, Daniel José Older, Marc Thompson

    ★ 4.07 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)

    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (15.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.2K)

    15h 3m listening time • Released 2017

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