Best Lorelei King Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Lorelei King — 5 titles spanning Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, averaging 4.05 ABR stars.

Lorelei King has the kind of voice that makes literary audiobooks feel like events — warm, precise, and capable of making even dense prose feel effortless. Her narration of William Gibson's The Peripheral is a masterclass in playing it cool: Gibson's near-future slang and fractured timelines demand a narrator who can hold complexity without tipping into confusion, and King delivers that steadiness in every sentence. She's equally at home with the anarchic comedy of Good Omens, where her timing is impeccable. King has a transatlantic polish — rooted and authoritative without being stiff — that suits intelligent genre fiction particularly well. If you're the kind of listener who reads a lot and needs a narrator who can keep pace with ambitious writing, King rewards attention. She doesn't showboat; she serves the text, and the text usually ends up better for it.

Where to Start with Lorelei King

  1. 1
    Good Omens cover

    Good Omens

    by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

    Narrated by Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Arthur Darvill, Chris Nelson, David Tennant, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Gabrielle Glaister, Josh Hopkins, Katherine Kingsley, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Lemn Sissay, Lorelei King, Louis Davison, Matt Reeves, Michael Sheen

    ★ 4.33 ABR Score (830.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (830.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (206)
    12h 14m listening time • Released 2022
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    Kingdom Come

    Kingdom Come #1-4

    by Mark Waid, Alex Ross, Dirk Maggs

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Kerry Shale, Marc Thompson, Lorelei King, Glenn Wrage, William DeMeritt, Garrick Hagon, Tom Alexander, John Chancer, Ray Porter, Full Cast

    ★ 4.18 ABR Score (68.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (68.8K) ★ 4.78 Audible (106)
    3h 16m listening time • Released 2025

    A full-cast audio adaptation that transforms Alex Ross's painterly masterpiece into cinematic storytelling, with a ensemble cast that makes every hero's voice distinctive and the sound design that justifies experiencing this as audio rather than on the page.

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    Flesh and Blood

    Kay Scarpetta • Book 22

    by Patricia Cornwell

    Narrated by Lorelei King

    ★ 4.02 ABR Score (25.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (23.8K) ★ 4.24 Audible (1.9K)
    12h 9m listening time • Released 2014
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    The Peripheral

    Jackpot • Book 1

    by William Gibson

    Narrated by Lorelei King

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (36.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (33.6K) ★ 4.18 Audible (3.2K)
    14h 5m listening time • Released 2014
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    Agency

    Jackpot • Book 2

    by William Gibson

    Narrated by Lorelei King

    ★ 3.83 ABR Score (16.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (14.6K) ★ 4.24 Audible (1.5K)
    10h 12m listening time • Released 2020
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