Best Keith Szarabajka Audiobooks
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
- New to Keith Szarabajka? Start here → The Kind Worth Killing
- What fans keep coming back to → Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales
- Short listen, big payoff → Halo: Epitaph
- Highest rated by listeners → Fangs Out
Best Keith Szarabajka Audiobooks
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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 - 2
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 - 3
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 - 4
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 - 5
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 - 6
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 2023A 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