Best Keith Szarabajka Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Keith Szarabajka — 7 titles spanning Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Biography & Memoir, Literature & Fiction, averaging 3.90 ABR stars.

Keith Szarabajka brings the weight of a career actor to every audiobook he touches — and you hear it immediately. His voice is a deep, lived-in baritone with a natural authority that suits morally complex material: thrillers, literary fiction, dark sci-fi. He's the narrator you want when a book demands gravitas without melodrama. His performance in The Kind Worth Killing captures Peter Swanson's cold, precise prose perfectly — Szarabajka never oversells the menace, which makes it more unsettling. He handles tonal range well too, bringing genuine weight to Halo: Epitaph's grief-heavy narrative. Listeners who gravitate toward character-driven suspense and literary fiction will find him deeply satisfying. He's not a showman — he's the kind of narrator who makes you forget you're listening to a narrator, which is ultimately the higher compliment.

Where to Start with Keith Szarabajka

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    The Kind Worth Killing cover

    The Kind Worth Killing

    Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner • Book 1

    by Peter Swanson

    Narrated by Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (249.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (245.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (3.1K)
    10h 17m listening time • Released 2020
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    Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

    by H.P. Lovecraft, Les Edwards, Stephen Jones

    Narrated by Richard Powers, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, Keith Szarabajka, Adam Verner, Tom Weiner, Patrick Cullen

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (23.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (16.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (7.1K)
    21h 1m listening time • Released 2014
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    Halo: Epitaph

    Halo • Book 35

    by Kelly Gay

    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka

    ★ 4.17 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (590) ★ 4.83 Audible (511)
    9h 2m listening time • Released 2024
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    Fangs Out

    A Cordell Logan Mystery • Book 2

    by David Freed

    Narrated by Keith Szarabajka

    ★ 3.90 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (794) ★ 4.33 Audible (1.4K)
    8h 54m listening time • Released 2023
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    Analytic review of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By: Jon Meacham

    by Andrew McKenzie

    Narrated by Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham, Steve Hendrickson, Mike Chamberlain, Robert Petkoff, January LaVoy, Kimberly Farr, Robert Fass, Jim Seybert, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson, Tavia Gilbert, Keith Szarabajka, Full Cast

    ★ 3.56 ABR Score (24 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4 Audible (23)
    20h 22m listening time • Released 2026
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    Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories

    Music and Murder Mystery • Book 2

    by Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, David R. Slayton

    Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, Gary Tiedemann

    ★ 3.52 ABR Score (192 ratings)
    ★ 3.15 Goodreads (189) ★ 4.33 Audible (3)
    7h 19m listening time • Released 2023

    A rotating cast of narrators brings real punch to each story, making this anthology feel less like a collection and more like a curated night of master storytellers at their sharpest.

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    The American People, Vol. 1

    The American People • Book 1

    by Larry Kramer

    Narrated by full cast, Robertson Dean, Traber Burns, Keith Szarabajka, Ray Porter, Kate Reading, Richard Powers

    ★ 3.50 ABR Score (21 ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Audible (21)
    38h 41m listening time • Released 2015
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