Where to Start with Nicola Barber
- New to Nicola Barber? Start here → The Man in the Brown Suit
- What fans keep coming back to → The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
- Short listen, big payoff → Vanished in the Crowd
- Highest rated by listeners → Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches
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The Man in the Brown Suit
Colonel Race • Book 1
Narrated by Nicola Barber, Graeme Malcolm
★ 4.25 BLT Score (129.6K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (126.6K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.1K) - 2
Vanished in the Crowd
Molly Murphy • Book 22
by Rhys Bowen, Clare Broyles
Narrated by Nicola Barber
★ 3.96 BLT Score (499 ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (448) ★ 4.86 Audible (51) - 3
Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches
by Hillary Frank
Narrated by Hillary Frank, Nicola Barber, Dan Bittner, Raphael Corkhill, Ana Isabel, Laura Knight-Keating, Barrie Kreinik, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Gabra Zackman
★ 3.71 BLT Score (981 ratings)★ 3.59 Goodreads (940) ★ 4.51 Audible (41) - 4
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
Best American
by John Joseph Adams
Narrated by Diana Gabaldon, Christopher Ryan Grant, Jay Snyder, Scott Keiji Takeda, Sean Crisden, Polly Lee, Rebecca Lowman, Nicola Barber, Emily Woo Zeller, Bahni Turpin, Andre Blake, Andi Arndt, Priya Ayyar, Kim Mai Guest, Therese Plummer
★ 3.65 BLT Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.71 Goodreads (967) ★ 3.9 Audible (39)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast brings 17 hours of wildly varied SF/F to life—each narrator perfectly matched to their story, making this anthology feel less like a greatest-hits compilation and more like discovering your next favorite writer.
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Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters
Kaiju Rising • Book 1
by Tim Marquitz, Nickolas Sharps, Peter Clines, Timothy W. Long, Peter Stenson, Kane Gilmour, Erin Hoffman, Paul Genesse, Edward M. Erdelac, Jonathan Wood, Shane Berryhill, Natania Barron, Pete Rawlik, James Swallow, Jaym Gates, Patrick M. Tracy, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Mike MacLean, Larry Correia, Sean Sherman, Gini Koch, James Lovegrove, James Maxey, C.L. Werner, Howard Andrew Jones, David Annandale, Joshua Reynolds
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck, Jeff Woodman, Bronson Pinchot, Marc Vietor, Simon Vance, Ray Porter, Nicola Barber
★ 3.46 BLT Score (985 ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (527) ★ 3.76 Audible (458)More about this pick
An all-star anthology where each story hits different, anchored by a stellar ensemble of narrators who bring real weight to kaiju chaos—18 hours of pure monster mayhem from writers who actually know how to deliver spectacle.
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