Best Robin Miles Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Robin Miles — 24 titles spanning Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Horror, Thriller, Self-Help, Sci-Fi, Mystery, averaging 3.89 ABR stars.

Robin Miles brings a rare combination of vocal intelligence and range to genres that demand both precision and atmosphere. Her work spans literary fiction, speculative anthology collections, and mythologically dense material like Zachary Mason's Metamorphica — a book that requires a narrator who can hold philosophical weight without tipping into pretension, and Miles delivers exactly that. Her voice is warm but disciplined, with a clarity that cuts through dense prose without flattening it. She's the kind of narrator who makes anthology formats — like the Weird Tales series or METAtropolis: Green Space — actually work, giving each piece its own texture while keeping the listening experience coherent across wildly different authors and tones. Listeners who gravitate toward literary genre fiction, the kind that takes ideas seriously, will find Miles consistently rewarding. She never oversells a moment, which in the right material is everything.

Where to Start with Robin Miles

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    The Book of Lost Friends

    by Lisa Wingate

    Narrated by Sophie Amoss, Lisa Flanagan, Dominic Hoffman, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, Bahni Turpin, Lisa Wingate

    4.55 ABR Score (135.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (123.9K) ★ 4.71 Audible (11.7K)
    15h 6m listening time • Released 2020

    The ensemble cast transforms this post-Civil War saga into something transcendent, each narrator embodying their character so distinctly you forget you're listening to a book rather than witnessing history unfold.

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    The Obelisk Gate

    The Broken Earth • Book 2

    by N.K. Jemisin

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    4.34 ABR Score (200.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (199.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (630)
    13h 19m listening time • Released 2021
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    The Stone Sky

    The Broken Earth • Book 3

    by N.K. Jemisin, Robin Miles

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    4.34 ABR Score (170.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (169.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (765)
    14h 17m listening time • Released 2020
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    Summary : the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

    by Good Reads Publishing

    Narrated by Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles

    4.33 ABR Score (96.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (133) ★ 4.63 Audible (96.4K)
    12h 10m listening time • Released 2017

    Three stellar narrators trade off to bring Evelyn's glamorous secrets to life, and their distinct voices make each confession feel like a private confession rather than a summary.

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    Just as i am: Cicely Tyson notebook cover

    by just as i am

    Narrated by Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles

    4.29 ABR Score (6.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.67 Goodreads (3) ★ 4.9 Audible (6.7K)
    16h 8m listening time • Released 2021
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    The Fifth Season

    The Broken Earth • Book 1

    by N.K. Jemisin

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    4.29 ABR Score (367.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (339.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (27.2K)
    15h 27m listening time • Released 2015
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    The Good House

    by Tananarive Due

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    4.07 ABR Score (16.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (10.8K) ★ 4.19 Audible (5.3K)
    21h 54m listening time • Released 2004
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    The Ice Cream Girls

    Poppy & Serena • Book 1

    by Dorothy Koomson

    Narrated by Robin Miles, Charlotte Parry, Tim Gerard Reynolds

    4.05 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (14.1K) ★ 4.37 Audible (76)
    14h 51m listening time • Released 2012

    Three narrators split the unreliable perspectives perfectly—Miles and Parry make you question everything about these women's friendship, while Reynolds grounds the present-day tension that keeps you guessing until the final reveal.

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    We Are Water

    by Wally Lamb

    Narrated by Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Sandy Rustin

    4.03 ABR Score (59.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (56.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.9K)
    23h 11m listening time • Released 2013

    A stellar ensemble cast transforms this multigenerational family reckoning into something closer to theater than narration, with each voice bringing authentic depth to competing perspectives on love, loyalty, and secrets.

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    Hidden Figures

    by Margot Lee Shetterly

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    3.99 ABR Score (124.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (114.6K) ★ 4.28 Audible (9.7K)
    10h 47m listening time • Released 2016
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    The City We Became

    Great Cities • Book 1

    by N.K. Jemisin

    Narrated by Robin Miles

    3.98 ABR Score (82.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (79.0K) ★ 4.39 Audible (3.8K)
    16h 12m listening time • Released 2020
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    What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life cover

    What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life

    by Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue

    Narrated by Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, Tom Zingarelli, Maggi-Meg Reed, Therese Plummer, Adam Verner, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Sean Patrick Hopkins

    3.95 ABR Score (1.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (188)
    19h 55m listening time • Released 2020
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    METAtropolis: Green Space

    METAtropolis • Book 3

    by Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ken Scholes, Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire

    Narrated by Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, Jonathan Davis

    3.75 ABR Score (972 ratings)
    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (354) ★ 4.28 Audible (618)
    14h 16m listening time • Released 2013
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    New York 2140

    by Kim Stanley Robinson

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Robin Miles, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Caitlin Kelly, Michael Crouch, Ryan Vincent Anderson, Christopher Ryan Grant, Robert Blumenfeld

    3.70 ABR Score (15.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.6 Goodreads (15.8K) ★ 4.24 Audible (29)
    22h 35m listening time • Released 2020
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    Metamorphica

    by Zachary Mason

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Kevin Kenerly, Robertson Dean, Will Damron, Xe Sands, Amy Landon, Kate Reading, Robin Miles

    3.68 ABR Score (654 ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (589) ★ 4.22 Audible (65)
    6h 31m listening time • Released 2018

    Mason remakes Ovid's myths with Borges-like inventiveness, and an all-star ensemble cast transforms each tale into its own distinct vocal world. Audible storytelling at its most theatrical.

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    The Amen Corner

    by James Baldwin

    Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor, Dion Graham, January LaVoy, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Janina Edwards, Aaron Goodson, Angel Pean, Shayna Small, Robin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, JD Jackson, Adenrele Ojo

    3.68 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 5 Audible (4)
    2h 48m listening time • Released 2024

    Baldwin's searing play about faith and hypocrisy hits harder with a full cast bringing Harlem's church voices to life. The ensemble narration transforms a intimate family reckoning into something visceral and communal.

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    (S)Kin

    by Ibi Zoboi

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Robin Miles

    3.66 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4 Audible (11)
    6h 15m listening time • Released 2025

    Zoboi's verse novel crackles with Caribbean magic and generational rage, and Turpin and Miles elevate every inherited curse with narration that feels like a spell being cast.

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    The Boat

    by Nam Le

    Narrated by James Yaegashi, Jesús E. Martínez, Henry Strozier, Gideon Emery, Jennifer Ikeda, Robin Miles, Ali Ahn

    3.65 ABR Score (6.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.62 Goodreads (6.1K) ★ 3.89 Audible (27)
    10h 31m listening time • Released 2009
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    This Is Not a Ghost Story

    by Amerie

    Narrated by Leon Nixon, January LaVoy, Robin Miles

    3.62 ABR Score (328 ratings)
    ★ 3.09 Goodreads (319) ★ 3.67 Audible (9)
    11h 46m listening time • Released 2025

    Three narrators bring genuine depth to Amerie's sharp, genre-bending mystery about a ghost navigating LA celebrity culture. The audio format lets the satirical wit land perfectly.

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    Existence

    by David Brin

    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins, Robin Miles, L. J. Ganser

    3.53 ABR Score (8.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (7.2K) ★ 3.84 Audible (1.2K)
    32h 25m listening time • Released 2012
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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 368: Occult Detective Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Eric G. Dove, Kevin Kenerly, Andrea Emmes, Robin Miles, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Tim Campbell, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert Fass, Joel Froomkin, Frankie Corzo, Scott Aiello, Simon Vance, Hillary Huber

    3.51 ABR Score (69 ratings)
    ★ 3.4 Goodreads (43) ★ 3.65 Audible (26)
    8h 6m listening time • Released 2024

    A stellar ensemble cast elevates these occult detective stories from pulp to genuinely unsettling—each narrator inhabits their tale so completely you'll forget you're listening to an anthology.

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    Trinidad Noir

    Akashic Books: Noir

    by Lisa Allen-Agostini, Elizabeth Nunez, Robert Antoni, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Tiphanie Yanique, Bahni Turpin, Kevin Free, Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Jeanne Mason - editor

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Kevin Free, Ron Butler, Robin Miles, Lisa Allen-Agostini

    3.48 ABR Score (10 ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (1) ★ 4.78 Audible (9)
    10h 58m listening time • Released 2019

    Multiple narrators bring Trinidad's underworld to vivid life, each voice perfectly matched to its story's moral ambiguity and island rhythms. This collection hits harder as audio than on the page.

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    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

    by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor

    Narrated by January LaVoy, Gerard Doyle, Simon Vance, Dion Graham, Dan Bittner, Roger Clark, Edoardo Ballerini, Grover Gardner, Christopher Tester, Jean Brassard, Scott Brick, Tim Campbell, Robin Miles, Joel Froomkin, full cast

    3.48 ABR Score (7 ratings)
    ★ 4.67 Goodreads (3) ★ 3.75 Audible (4)
    14h 24m listening time • Released 2025

    A stellar ensemble cast transforms this curated mystery anthology into pure listening theater—each narrator becomes the perfect voice for their story, making 14 hours fly by.

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    Weird Tales Magazine No. 371: The Undead Issue

    Weird Tales Magazine

    by Jonathan Maberry

    Narrated by Ray Porter, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Natalie Naudus, Charlotte Moore-Lambert, Sam Stark, Mike Cooper, Charles Linshaw, Jenn Lee, Tim Lounibos, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Robin Miles, Joel Froomkin

    3.46 ABR Score (15 ratings)
    ★ 2.83 Goodreads (6) ★ 4.11 Audible (9)
    5h 11m listening time • Released 2025

    A stellar cast of narrators transforms this undead anthology into something visceral—each story gets its own voice, and Ray Porter's presence anchors the whole thing with real weight.

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