Data story · narrator league table
The most-recorded audiobook narrators, measured: Scott Brick leads with 32 titles
Using the retailer's own narrator credits on 1,761 audiobooks, we built a league table: who records the most, whose catalogs listeners rate highest (weighted, never subjective), and how fast each one reads. 190 narrators have three or more books in our catalog.
For 1,761 of the audiobooks in our catalog we hold the narrator credit straight from the retailer's product page (schema.org read-by data on author-verified editions, no guessing). That is enough to rank narrators three ways: by how many titles they have recorded, by how highly listeners rate their catalog, and by how fast they read. 190 narrators clear three books; Scott Brick leads the count with 32.
The most-recorded narrators
| Narrator | Titles | Hours narrated | Weighted rating | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Brick | 32 | 430.2 hrs | 4.06★ | 135 wpm |
| Hugh Fraser | 28 | 177.8 hrs | 4.06★ | 170 wpm |
| Rosalyn Landor | 27 | 327 hrs | 3.99★ | 150 wpm |
| Macleod Andrews | 26 | 230.9 hrs | 4.19★ | 188 wpm |
| John Lee | 23 | 508 hrs | 3.90★ | 121 wpm |
| Lorelei King | 21 | 194.1 hrs | 4.14★ | 160 wpm |
| Anne Flosnik | 19 | 270.9 hrs | 4.03★ | 168 wpm |
| Richard Ferrone | 16 | 252.2 hrs | 3.82★ | 128 wpm |
| Stefan Rudnicki | 16 | 196.9 hrs | 4.08★ | 132 wpm |
| James Marsters | 15 | 222.4 hrs | 4.21★ | 140 wpm |
| Jefferson Mays | 13 | 214.3 hrs | 4.17★ | 131 wpm |
| George Guidall | 12 | 161.6 hrs | 3.99★ | 139 wpm |
| Julia Whelan | 12 | 121 hrs | 4.04★ | 171 wpm |
| Peter Joyce | 12 | 197.4 hrs | 3.96★ | 126 wpm |
| Simon Prebble | 12 | 127.8 hrs | 4.10★ | 171 wpm |
The highest-rated narrators
Ranked instead by a Bayesian-weighted listener rating of their whole catalog (the same formula our best-of pages use, so a high average on a handful of ratings cannot leapfrog a strong average on thousands), Stephen Briggs comes out on top at 4.25★ across 4 titles.
The Scott Brick shelf
Scott Brick's 32 credited titles include Foundation, I, Robot, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation and In Cold Blood, 430.2 hours of narration in our catalog alone.
Frequently asked
- Who is the most prolific audiobook narrator?
- In our catalog Scott Brick has the most credited audiobooks, 32 titles totalling 430.2 hours of narration.
- Which audiobook narrator is rated highest?
- By a Bayesian-weighted listener rating of their whole catalog, Stephen Briggs rates highest at 4.25★ across 4 titles.
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Start listening freeMethodology.A narrator is counted only when the retailer's product page credits them on an author-verified edition (schema.org read-by); synthetic-voice narration is excluded. Weighted rating = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), R the catalog's rating-count-weighted mean listener rating, v its total ratings, C the 3.98★ mean across all credited books. Narration pace in words per minute derives from Open Library page counts × 275 words/page ÷ the store's real duration, so the 275-words assumption carries into every absolute wpm figure; cross-book and cross-genre comparisons are robust because the assumption cancels. The assumption-free absolute is minutes of narration per 100 pages, a pure measurement. Real narration durations are the store-listed running times of 1,642 author-verified audiobook editions (we read each retailer product page's own schema.org record; author identity confirmed per book). Dataset: 8,560 audiobooks measured by The Books Insider as of 2026-09-30. Listening hours are the store-listed duration where we hold an author-verified edition (1,642 books), otherwise estimated from page counts (pages × 275 words ÷ 9,300 words/hour, ±10%, labeled as estimates); full method on the About page. Explore the full dataset on ouraudiobook statistics page.About & methodology →