Audiobooks Like World War Z

10 audiobooks for fans of World War Z

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   Network Effect

   The Murderbot Diaries • Book 5

   by Martha Wells

   Narrated by Kevin R. Free

   ★ 4.61 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (129.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.8K)

   12h 47m listening time • Released 2020

   Kevin R. Free's deadpan delivery transforms Murderbot from a sardonic loner into someone genuinely worth rooting for—the audiobook does what the best narration does, making you hear the heart beneath the snark.

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   Ender's Game

   The Ender Saga • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.63 Audible (44.6K)

   11h 57m listening time • Released 2002

   The gold standard of military sci-fi — a child prodigy trained for interstellar war in a story that's as emotionally devastating as it is thrillingly plotted.

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   We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

   Bobiverse • Book 1

   by Dennis E. Taylor

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.58 ABR Score (236.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (128.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (107.9K)

   9h 56m listening time • Released 2016

   Ray Porter's performance transforms this sci-fi premise into pure audiobook gold—his deadpan delivery of Bob's irreverent humor lands perfectly, making the existential stakes feel both hilarious and genuinely moving.

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   Old Man's War

   Old Man\u2019s War • Book 1

   by John Scalzi

   Narrated by William Dufris

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (255.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.23 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.55 Audible (28.5K)

   9h 55m listening time • Released 2007

   Scalzi's military sci-fi debut is the most fun you'll have with the genre — Earth's elderly enlist for interstellar war and get young bodies with old wisdom.

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   Speaker for the Dead

   The Ender Saga • Book 2

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (294.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (272.3K) ★ 4.56 Audible (22.3K)

   14h 8m listening time • Released 2002

   A richer and more ambitious book than Ender's Game, tackling xenobiology, grief, and moral philosophy in a story about understanding truly alien life.

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   The Handmaid's Tale

   The Handmaid's Tale • Book 1

   by Margaret Atwood

   Narrated by Claire Danes

   ★ 4.36 ABR Score (2.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (2.5M) ★ 4.41 Audible (45.4K)

   11h 1m listening time • Released 2012

   Atwood's theocratic dystopia, written in 1985, has only grown more urgent — a suffocating, beautifully crafted story about power, bodies, and resistance.

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   The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

   by Robert A. Heinlein

   Narrated by Lloyd James

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (150.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (139.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (11.2K)

   14h 12m listening time • Released 2006

   A masterclass in world-building and political philosophy — Heinlein's lunar colony revolution is gripping, funny, and surprisingly prescient about AI.

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   Predator: If It Bleeds

   Aliens / Predator / Prometheus Universe

   by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Holly Roberds, Steve Perry, John Shirley, Jeremy Robinson, Jonathan Maberry, Kevin J. Anderson, Weston Ochse, Mira Grant, Tim Lebbon, Larry Correia, Dayton Ward, Peter J. Wacks

   Narrated by full cast, Tom Taylorson, Nicol Zanzarella, Traber Burns, Bradford Hastings, Bahni Turpin, Emily Sutton-Smith, Ulf Bjorklund, James Patrick Cronin, Andrew Eiden, Scott Brick, Feodor Chin, John Pruden, Mark Bramhall, various

   ★ 4.07 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (917) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.3K)

   12h 34m listening time • Released 2018

   A full-cast ensemble brings teeth to seventeen Predator stories spanning centuries and continents, with A-list sci-fi narrators elevating what could've been fan service into genuinely immersive hunts.

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   A Canticle for Leibowitz

   St. Leibowitz • Book 1

   by Walter M. Miller Jr.

   Narrated by Tom Weiner

   ★ 3.92 ABR Score (126.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (120.4K) ★ 4.13 Audible (5.9K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2011

   A sweeping post-apocalyptic epic spanning centuries, following monks who preserve fragments of human knowledge — bleak, darkly funny, and deeply humane.

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    Ringworld

    Known Space • Book 12

    by Larry Niven

    Narrated by Tom Parker

    ★ 3.91 ABR Score (138.2K ratings)

    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (129.4K) ★ 4.12 Audible (8.8K)

    11h 15m listening time • Released 2012

    Niven's Big Dumb Object classic — a world the size of a million Earths, circling its sun, built by someone, and abandoned. Audacious, ingenious world-building.

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