Check out all 200(ish) Brian Troxell performances over at Audible
Awards & Recognition
Daily narrator of Audible’s Wall Street Journal from 2015-2021
At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life was an AudioFile Earphones Award Winner in May 2025
Library Journal selected Give Us a Kiss as Editor’s Choice for Best Fiction Audiobook of 2012
What People Are Saying
“Brian Troxell superb per usual.”
-Audible review of Hard Cash Valley
“Brian Troxell is magical in his performance. He embraces a Midwestern twang so personable and appealing that we can't help but root for Sammy and his friends. Between Troxell's mastery of the dialogue and accent and Woodrell's way with words and characters, this is irresistible.”
— AudioFile on Tomato Red
“With empathy and style, Troxell allows a sense of desperation into his delivery when there's a body on the floor and dozens of witnesses to Nails's loss of control. Now even his powerful boss can't fix the situation. While on the run, Nails and Dallas are drawn to each other, and Troxell captures their longing. He ratchets up the tension as the slow-witted giant seizes his one last chance to escape.”
— AudioFile on Nothing But the Bones
“Brian Troxell is one of those audiobook narrators with a no-nonsense, all-American sort of voice; he projects mightily, but stops short of blaring. He sounds like a smart guy you might bump into at Home Depot, the autodidactic history buff who built his own deck. Troxell narrates a lot of nonfiction (and some hard-boiled crime fiction), and he's eminently suited to the crisp, straightforward presentation of information. So I wasn't quite prepared for the way Troxell's voice softens and twists around the Ozark cadences required by Daniel Woodrell's novel The Maid's Version.”
— Salon.com on The Maid’s Version
“Brian Troxell sounds like your favorite history professor as he uses emotion, intensity, varied voices, and inflection to bring to life the many personalities central to President Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to transform the Court into an institution more attuned to his views. Troxell accomplishes this by creating distinct timbres for the book's many historical figures, thereby allowing listeners to feel as though they are eavesdropping upon every meeting.”
— AudioFile on The Court at War
Fiction Demo
SPOILER! A wonderful character moment that also happens to be the very end of Nothing But the Bones by Brian Panowich
History Demo
Non-fiction history demo from Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
Period Action Demo
A 1930s shootout ends tragically in a scene from The County Line by Steve Weddle
Military Action Demo
From Total Empire written by A.J. Tata