Where to Start with Peter Clines
- Best entry point → 14
- Best standalone → Paradox Bound
- Start the Kaiju Rising series → Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
- What fans keep coming back to → The Fold
- Best narrator for Peter Clines → Terminus
- Highest rated by listeners → God's Junk Drawer
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14
Threshold • Book 1
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.20 ABR Score (88.8K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.35 Audible (49.1K)12h 34m listening time • Released 2012Ray Porter's measured, curious delivery transforms this locked-door mystery into something genuinely unsettling—each revelation lands harder because he treats the impossible like a puzzle worth solving.
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Paradox Bound
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.12 ABR Score (28.2K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (10.6K) ★ 4.47 Audible (17.6K)12h 31m listening time • Released 2017Ray Porter's relentless energy transforms this time-bending road trip into something you can't pause—he captures the mounting dread and wonder perfectly as reality itself starts fracturing around the characters.
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The Fold
Threshold • Book 2
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.11 ABR Score (71.1K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (33.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (37.7K)10h 52m listening time • Released 2015Ray Porter elevates a mind-bending sci-fi mystery with crisp, controlled narration that keeps you locked in as reality itself becomes unreliable. The Fold clicks because it trusts your intelligence—no hand-holding, just mounting dread.
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God's Junk Drawer
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.10 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.1K)16h 42m listening time • Released 2026Ray Porter's delivery transforms this reality-bending adventure into something genuinely immersive, making the impossible feel inevitable as you're pulled into a valley where time and physics shatter.
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Terminus
Threshold • Book 4
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 3.99 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.38 Audible (9.1K)11h 21m listening time • Released 2020Ray Porter's narration transforms this sprawling finale into something genuinely propulsive—his ability to shift between Murdoch's weary cynicism, Chase's raw trauma, and Anne's messianic fervor makes the competing philosophies feel lived rather than argued.
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Dead Men Can't Complain and Other Stories
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ralph Lister, Ray Porter
★ 3.99 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (967) ★ 4.46 Audible (2.2K)4h 54m listening time • Released 2017Ralph Lister and Ray Porter tag-team these genre-bending shorts with such distinct voices that each story feels like a separate gift. Clines hits that sweet spot between clever concept and genuine emotional gut-punch that makes you want to immediately restart it.
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Dead Moon
Threshold • Book 3
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 3.61 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)★ 3.48 Goodreads (5.0K) ★ 4.07 Audible (8.2K)11h 23m listening time • Released 2019Ray Porter's crisp delivery transforms this locked-room sci-fi thriller into something genuinely unsettling—his voice captures both the claustrophobic dread and dark humor that make the premise work.
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Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Kaiju Rising • Book 1
by Tim Marquitz, Nickolas Sharps, Peter Clines, Timothy W. Long, Peter Stenson, Kane Gilmour, Erin Hoffman, Paul Genesse, Edward M. Erdelac, Jonathan Wood, Shane Berryhill, Natania Barron, Pete Rawlik, James Swallow, Jaym Gates, Patrick M. Tracy, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Mike MacLean, Larry Correia, Sean Sherman, Gini Koch, James Lovegrove, James Maxey, C.L. Werner, Howard Andrew Jones, David Annandale, Joshua Reynolds
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck, Jeff Woodman, Bronson Pinchot, Marc Vietor, Simon Vance, Ray Porter, Nicola Barber
★ 3.46 ABR Score (985 ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (527) ★ 3.76 Audible (458)18h 1m listening time • Released 2014An all-star anthology where each story hits different, anchored by a stellar ensemble of narrators who bring real weight to kaiju chaos—18 hours of pure monster mayhem from writers who actually know how to deliver spectacle.
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