Where to Start with Ron McLarty
- New to Ron McLarty? Start here → Salem's Lot
- What fans keep coming back to → Memory Man
- Highest rated by listeners → The Escape
- Best narrator–author pairing → The Hit
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Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Joe Hill
★ 4.65 ABR Score (695.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (667.2K) ★ 4.58 Audible (28.4K)17h 37m listening time • Released 2012 - 2
The Innocent
Will Robie • Book 1
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.53 ABR Score (20.9K ratings)★ 4.49 Audible (20.9K)12h 14m listening time • Released 2012 - 3
The Escape
John Puller • Book 3
Narrated by Ron McLarty
★ 4.51 ABR Score (76.2K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (62.9K) ★ 4.53 Audible (13.3K)14h 51m listening time • Released 2014 - 4
The Hit
Will Robie • Book 2
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.50 ABR Score (92.3K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (79.7K) ★ 4.54 Audible (12.6K)11h 45m listening time • Released 2013 - 5
The Forgotten
John Puller • Book 2
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.50 ABR Score (81.3K ratings)★ 4.16 Goodreads (70.2K) ★ 4.56 Audible (11.0K)12h 30m listening time • Released 2012 - 6
The Target
Will Robie • Book 3
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.50 ABR Score (80.3K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (66.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (14.3K)12h 51m listening time • Released 2014 - 7
Memory Man
Amos Decker • Book 1
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.47 ABR Score (191.4K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (160.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (31.2K)13h 16m listening time • Released 2015 - 8
The Longest Ride
Narrated by Ron McLarty, January LaVoy
★ 4.40 ABR Score (166.9K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (159.2K) ★ 4.58 Audible (7.6K)13h 11m listening time • Released 2013Ron McLarty and January LaVoy's dual narration captures the ache of long marriage and youthful passion with such tenderness that Sparks' dual timeline actually lands. The audio itself becomes the emotional experience.
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The Whole Truth
A. Shaw • Book 1
Narrated by Ron McLarty
★ 4.39 ABR Score (49.2K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (43.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (5.8K)11h 22m listening time • Released 2008 - 10
Hell's Corner
The Camel Club • Book 5
Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy
★ 4.38 ABR Score (49.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (44.8K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.1K)14h 23m listening time • Released 2010 - 11
Valhalla Rising
Dirk Pitt® • Book 16
Narrated by Ron McLarty
★ 4.24 ABR Score (26.4K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.52 Audible (900)6h 5m listening time • Released 2009 - 12
Just After Sunset
by Stephen King
Narrated by Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Denis O'Hare, Ben Shenkman, Skipp Sudduth, Mare Winningham, Karen Ziemba
★ 4.21 ABR Score (64.7K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (60.9K) ★ 4.37 Audible (3.8K)14h 49m listening time • Released 2008King himself narrates several stories here, and a stellar ensemble cast handles the rest, each bringing their own darkness to tales that blur the line between ordinary and deeply unsettling. It's short fiction at its sharpest, where King's mastery of dread plays perfectly to the intimacy of audio.
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The Snow Angel (Deckle Edge)
by Glenn Beck, Nicole Baart
Narrated by January LaVoy, Ron McLarty
★ 4.01 ABR Score (4.5K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (4.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (267)6h 23m listening time • Released 2011LaVoy and McLarty's dual narration transforms this generational trauma story into something genuinely haunting—their voices capture the fracture between past and present so effectively you feel the weight of cycles breaking.
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Money, Money, Money
87th Precinct • Book 51
by Ed McBain
Narrated by Ron McLarty
★ 3.63 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 3.73 Audible (37)6h 6m listening time • Released 2001
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