Best Mind Control / Hive Mind Audiobooks

1984

by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, Tom Hardy, Chukwudi Iwuji, Romesh Ranganathan, Natasia Demetriou, Francesca Mills, Alex Lawther, Katie Leung

Second Foundation

Foundation (Publication Order) • Book 3

by Isaac Asimov

Narrated by Scott Brick

Scott Brick's measured, intelligent narration transforms this mind-bending finale into something genuinely suspenseful—he finds the psychological tension beneath Asimov's intricate plotting and makes you feel the paranoia of not knowing who's really in control.

Ancillary Mercy

Imperial Radch • Book 3

by Ann Leckie

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh

Monsters of Men

Chaos Walking • Book 3

by Patrick Ness

Narrated by Nick Podehl, Angela Dawe, MacLeod Andrews

Three narrators anchor this war epic so completely you forget you're listening to a performance. The final book of Chaos Walking hits hardest when you hear every character's interiority laid bare.

Blood of the Lost

Rylee Adamson • Book 10

by Shannon Mayer

Narrated by Bradley Foster Smith, Chris Genebach, Colleen Delany, James Konicek, Karen Novack, Ken Jackson, Laura C. Harris, Nora Achrati, Shanta Parasuraman, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Williams

The Host

by Stephenie Meyer

Narrated by Kate Reading

Meyer's most underrated book — a thoughtful alien-invasion story about identity and what it means to be human, with more depth than her more famous series.

Fire

Graceling Realm • Book 2

by Kristin Cashore

Narrated by Xanthe Elbrick

Ancillary Justice

Imperial Radch • Book 1

by Ann Leckie

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh

Elysium Fire

Prefect Dreyfus Emergency • Book 2

by Alastair Reynolds

Narrated by John Lee

The Complete Short Stories

by Philip K. Dick, Jonathan Lethem, Chris Malbon, Georgia Hill, Anna Millais, Jeremy Wilson, Raisa Álava, Chris Thornley

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Alyssa Bresnahan

Brave New World

Brave New World • Book 1

by Aldous Huxley

Narrated by Michael York

Huxley's vision of a pleasure-numbed dystopia is arguably more prescient than Orwell's — and far more unsettling because everyone in it is happy.

Unleashed (Nick Hall Book 4)

Nick Hall • Book 4

by Douglas E. Richards

Narrated by Adam Verner

We

by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Gregory Zilboorg

Narrated by Louise Brealey, Margaret Atwood, Toby Jones

Louise Brealey, Margaret Atwood, and Toby Jones elevate this proto-dystopian masterpiece into something urgent and unsettling—each voice a distinct consciousness trapped in the same suffocating state.

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

by Yohanca Delgado, Eve L. Ewing, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Danny Lore, Sheree Renée Thomas

Narrated by Janelle Monáe, Bahni Turpin

Janelle Monáe narrating her own Afrofuturistic vision transforms these interconnected stories into something beyond sci-fi: a sonic experience where her voice becomes the connective tissue between memory, freedom, and radical imagination.

Dungeon Madness

The Divine Dungeon [Dramatized Adaptation] • Book 2

by Dakota Krout, Patrick Boylan, Michael John Casey, Ryan Haugen, Amanda Forstrom, Danny Gavigan, Tia Shearer, Katie Boothe, Robb Moreira, Nora Achrati, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Matthew Pauli, Mike Ciporkin, Eric Messner, Rick Rohan, Mike Glenn, Kay Eluvian, Rayner Gabriel, Jessica Lauren Ball, Matthew Bassett, Marni Penning, Mike Carnes, Terence Aselford, Dan Delgado, Anthony Palmini, Elizabeth Jernigan, Ken Jackson, Samantha Cooper, Bradley Smith, Andrew Colford, Nanette Savard, Matthew Schleigh, Christopher Davenport, Scott McCormick

Narrated by Amanda Forstrom, Danny Gavigan, Matthew Pauli, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Tia Shearer, Robb Moreira, Ryan Haugen, Patrick Boylan, Katie Boothe

Marvel: Black Panther: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda: A Novel

The Nameless Republic

by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Narrated by William DeMeritt, Bahni Turpin

Okungbowa expands the Black Panther mythology into space opera territory with real philosophical weight, and the dual narration captures both the intimate desperation and galactic scale perfectly.

Exogene

The Subterrene War • Book 2

by T.C. McCarthy

Narrated by Bahni Turpin

Bahni Turpin's performance transforms a brutal biotech-soldier narrative into something genuinely haunting—her voice captures both the clinical detachment and desperate humanity of a doomed protagonist in ways that hit hardest through audio.

Man of Two Worlds

by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert

Narrated by Scott Brick

Scott Brick brings surgical precision to the dual consciousness dynamic, making the mental friction between human and alien feel genuinely claustrophobic and funny in ways the prose alone couldn't quite pull off.

Blake's 7: 2.3 Mindset

by Jacqueline Rayner

Narrated by Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell, Steven Pacey, Tom Chadbon

The original cast delivers their characters with such lived-in chemistry that this audio drama feels less like a recreation and more like stepping back into the Liberator itself mid-crisis.