Where to Start with H.G. Wells
- Best entry point → The Time Machine
- Best standalone → H.G. Wells Seven Novels, Complete & Unabridged The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Invisible Man, First Men In The Moon, Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet and War of the Worlds
- Start the Great Classic Stories (BBC Audio) series → Great Classic Science Fiction
- What fans keep coming back to → The War of the Worlds
- Best narrator for H.G. Wells → The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Highest rated by listeners → The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Author) Sep-01-10
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.96 ABR Score (569.3K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (569.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (313)3h 54m listening time • Released 2006Scott Brick's measured, cerebral performance transforms this Victorian-era classic into something genuinely unsettling—he makes Wells's social commentary hit harder than the time travel spectacle ever could.
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H.G. Wells Seven Novels, Complete & Unabridged The Time Machine, Island of Dr. Moreau, Invisible Man, First Men In The Moon, Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet and War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Gregory Dwyer
★ 3.92 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (2.9K)9h 14m listening time • Released 2024 - 3
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.86 ABR Score (352.7K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (352.7K) ★ 4.78 Audible (9)6h 13m listening time • Released 2019Simon Prebble's narration transforms this sci-fi classic into pure dread—his measured voice makes the Martian invasion feel terrifyingly inevitable, turning a 126-year-old novel into genuine suspense.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H.G. Wells, Alan Lightman
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.83 ABR Score (138.3K ratings)★ 3.73 Goodreads (136.5K) ★ 4.2 Audible (1.9K)5h 18m listening time • Released 2011Simon Prebble's narration transforms this Victorian horror into something genuinely unsettling—his voice shifts between Prendick's creeping dread and the creature's inhuman wrongness in ways that hit harder than reading alone.
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The Invisible Man by Wells, H. G. (Author) Sep-01-10
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by James Adams
★ 3.71 ABR Score (222.9K ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (219.4K) ★ 4.06 Audible (3.5K)5h 19m listening time • Released 2000 - 6
Great Classic Science Fiction
Great Classic Stories (BBC Audio)
by H.G. Wells, James H. Schmitz, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton
Narrated by Simon Vance, Barbara Rosenblat, Nick Sullivan, Robert Fass, Katherine Kellgren, Scott Brick, Stephen Thorne, Greg Itzin
★ 3.65 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (522) ★ 4.23 Audible (566)7h 45m listening time • Released 2010 - 7
The Food of the Gods
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Alan Munro
★ 3.52 ABR Score (5.4K ratings)★ 3.42 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 3 Audible (4)9h 4m listening time • Released 2020 - 8
A Modern Utopia - Illustrated
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by Bryan Godwin
★ 3.48 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.35 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 2 Audible (1)9h 17m listening time • Released 2023 - 9
The Sleeper Awakes - H
by H.G. Wells
Narrated by James Gillies
★ 3.19 ABR Score (5.7K ratings)★ 3.35 Goodreads (5.7K)8h 43m listening time • Released 2022
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