Best Tanya Eby Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Tanya Eby — 20 titles spanning Literature & Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Biography & Memoir, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Sci-Fi, averaging 4.01 ABR stars.

Tanya Eby has a voice that feels lived-in and immediate — the kind of narration where you forget you're listening to a performance and just start believing the story. She's a natural fit for emotionally grounded fiction like Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde, where her warm, unaffected delivery lets the quiet drama breathe without overselling it. But she's got range — her work on Strange Highways and Other Stories shows she can shift into something darker and more unsettling without losing that sense of authenticity. She also handles ensemble-heavy material well, as demonstrated by The Atopia Chronicles, a complex near-future thriller that benefits from her clear character differentiation. Listeners who want a narrator who sounds like a real person rather than a trained voice actor will find a lot to love here — Eby is understated in the best possible way, and that restraint is exactly what emotionally layered fiction needs.

Where to Start with Tanya Eby

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    Regretting You

    by Colleen Hoover

    Narrated by Tanya Eby, Lauren Ezzo

    4.42 ABR Score (982.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (962.0K) ★ 4.48 Audible (20.0K)
    11h 17m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Search

    by Nora Roberts

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.23 ABR Score (77.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (67.2K) ★ 4.41 Audible (10.6K)
    14h 54m listening time • Released 2010
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    I Know a Secret

    Rizzoli & Isles • Book 12

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.22 ABR Score (30.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.43 Audible (1.5K)
    9h 9m listening time • Released 2017
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    The Silent Girl

    Rizzoli & Isles • Book 9

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.21 ABR Score (48.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (46.4K) ★ 4.26 Audible (2.1K)
    10h 4m listening time • Released 2011
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    Ice Cold

    Rizzoli & Isles • Book 8

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.21 ABR Score (56.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (53.2K) ★ 4.2 Audible (2.8K)
    9h 48m listening time • Released 2010
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    Worthy

    by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Nick Podehl, Tanya Eby

    4.20 ABR Score (16.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (14.6K) ★ 4.44 Audible (1.6K)
    8h 42m listening time • Released 2015

    Podehl and Eby's dual narration captures the raw emotional complexity of a story about second chances and long-buried connections, making what could've been sentimental feel genuinely earned and devastating.

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    Last to Die

    Rizzoli & Isles • Book 10

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.18 ABR Score (40.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (38.0K) ★ 4.23 Audible (2.1K)
    10h 27m listening time • Released 2012
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    Good Boy

    WAGs • Book 1

    by Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen

    Narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Tanya Eby

    4.12 ABR Score (48.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (45.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.3K)
    8h 15m listening time • Released 2017
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    Die Again

    Rizzoli & Isles • Book 11

    by Tess Gerritsen

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    4.10 ABR Score (37.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (35.2K) ★ 4.28 Audible (2.4K)
    9h 28m listening time • Released 2014
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    Between You & Me

    by Susan Wiggs

    Narrated by Tanya Eby, Adam Verner

    4.08 ABR Score (9.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (8.9K) ★ 4.51 Audible (292)
    10h 55m listening time • Released 2018
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    Strange Highways and Other Stories

    Dean Koontz: From the Vault

    by Dean Koontz

    Narrated by Jeff Cummings, Nick Podehl, Dick Hill, Will Damron, Tanya Eby

    4.06 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (307)
    22h 30m listening time • Released 2022

    Five different narrators bring distinct voices to 13 Koontz stories, each performance sharp enough to make you forget you're listening to shorts instead of novels. These aren't the sanitized Koontz—they're darker, meaner, and perfectly suited to binge in one sitting.

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    The Last Alibi

    Jason Kolarich • Book 4

    by David Ellis

    Narrated by Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby

    4.03 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.22 Audible (194)
    13h 43m listening time • Released 2013

    Luke Daniels and Tanya Eby's dual narration cuts through the twists with surgical precision, making this Jason Kolarich thriller one of Ellis's sharpest frame-jobs yet.

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    A Single Swallow

    by Zhang Ling, Shelly Bryant

    Narrated by Arthur Morey, Adam Verner, Feodor Chin, Tanya Eby, Christopher Lane

    4.02 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 4.28 Audible (563)
    13h 19m listening time • Released 2020
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    What Remains True

    by Janis Thomas

    Narrated by Lauren Ezzo, Scott Lange, Mikael Naramore, Nick Podehl, Amy McFadden, Tanya Eby, Mia Ellis, Scott Merriman

    3.97 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 4.32 Audible (442)
    9h 48m listening time • Released 2017

    Eight narrators give each family member their own voice, turning grief into something visceral and immediate—you don't just hear their pain, you feel how differently they're drowning in it.

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    The Gravity Collection Box Set: Three Complete Novels

    Gravity #1-3 • Book 1

    by Sarina Bowen

    Narrated by Emma Wilder, Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell, Noel Harrison, Tanya Eby, Aiden Snow

    3.89 ABR Score (254 ratings)
    ★ 4.27 Goodreads (213) ★ 4.63 Audible (41)
    21h 39m listening time • Released 2024
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    Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

    by Susan Kuklin

    Narrated by Tanya Eby, Nick Podehl, Todd Haberkorn, Roxanne Hernandez, Janina Edwards, Nancy Wu, Marisol Ramirez

    3.79 ABR Score (5.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (5.2K) ★ 4.31 Audible (124)
    4h 35m listening time • Released 2014

    Multiple narrators voicing real teens make this feel like eavesdropping on honest conversations rather than listening to a book. Each voice matches a different person's story, turning individual struggles into something immediate and undeniable.

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    The Boy Detective of Oz: An Otherland Story (Oz Reimagined)

    Otherland #4.6

    by Tad Williams, Douglas Cohen, John Joseph Adams

    Narrated by Nick Podehl, Tanya Eby

    3.72 ABR Score (184 ratings)
    ★ 3.68 Goodreads (107) ★ 4.08 Audible (77)
    10h 30m listening time • Released 2013
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    Greasy Grass

    by Johnny D. Boggs

    Narrated by Michael Kramer, Lloyd James, Traber Burns, Tanya Eby, Jim Meskimen, Sam Osheroff, Eric G. Dove

    3.72 ABR Score (99 ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (89) ★ 5 Audible (10)

    Multiple narrators embody the opposing perspectives of Little Bighorn, transforming a historical tragedy into intimate, conflicting voices that make you question everything you thought you knew.

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    The Entity

    by Frank De Felitta

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

    3.69 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 3.96 Audible (56)
    14h 16m listening time • Released 2020
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    The Atopia Chronicles

    Atopia Chronicles #1-6 • Book 1

    by Matthew Mather

    Narrated by Luke Daniels, Nick Podehl, Angela Dawe, Tanya Eby, Amy McFadden, Mikael Naramore

    3.33 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.56 Goodreads (6.1K) ★ 3.65 Audible (873)
    14h 8m listening time • Released 2014

    A sprawling near-future thriller with an ensemble cast of narrators who each nail their characters' distinct voices, making the human stakes feel visceral even as the tech gets wild and terrifying.

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