Best Octavia E. Butler Audiobooks
Where to Start with Octavia E. Butler
- Best entry point → Kindred
- Best standalone → Bloodchild and Other Stories
- Start the Earthseed series → Parable of the Sower
- What fans keep coming back to → Parable of the Talents
- Highest rated by listeners → Imago (Xenogenesis #3)
7 audiobooks in collection
★ 4.26 avg ABR rating
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Best Octavia E. Butler Audiobooks
- 1
Kindred
Narrated by Kim Staunton
★ 4.49 ABR Score (294.1K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (15.6K)10h 55m listening time • Released 2007 - 2
Parable of the Talents
Earthseed • Book 2
Narrated by Patricia R. Floyd, Peter Jay Fernandez, Sisi Aisha Johnson
★ 4.47 ABR Score (93.1K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (86.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (6.2K)15h 26m listening time • Released 2008 - 3
Parable of the Sower
Earthseed • Book 1
Narrated by Lynne Thigpen
★ 4.47 ABR Score (287.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (272.8K) ★ 4.66 Audible (14.9K) - 4
Imago
Xenogenesis • Book 3
Narrated by Ron Butler
★ 4.14 ABR Score (25.4K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (25.2K) ★ 4.67 Audible (176)7h 50m listening time • Released 2023 - 5
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Narrated by Malik Rashad, Allyson Johnson, Bahni Turpin
★ 4.11 ABR Score (27.7K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (27.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (76)6h 15m listening time • Released 2023Three narrators bring Butler's prescient stories to vivid life, each voice sharpening how these speculative parables cut into our present moment. Her unflinching imagination about power, bodily autonomy, and survival hits harder when spoken aloud.
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Adulthood Rites
Xenogenesis • Book 2
Narrated by J.D Jackson
★ 4.10 ABR Score (29.5K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (29.4K) ★ 4.66 Audible (106)10h 13m listening time • Released 2023 - 7
Dawn
Xenogenesis • Book 1
Narrated by Julienne Irons
★ 4.06 ABR Score (65.2K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (64.8K) ★ 4.37 Audible (427)8h 26m listening time • Released 2023
All Octavia E. Butler Audiobooks (7)
Xenogenesis (3)
★4.15 8h 26m
★4.19 10h 13m
★4.19 7h 50m
Earthseed (2)
★4.19
★4.32 15h 26m
Standalone Titles (2)
Kindred narrated by Kim Staunton
★4.31 10h 55m
Bloodchild and Other Stories narrated by Malik Rashad, Allyson Johnson, Bahni Turpin
★4.34 6h 15m