Audiobooks Like 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne

10 audiobooks for fans of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne

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   Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance

   by Jules Verne, Tim Curry

   Narrated by Tim Curry

   ★ 4.15 ABR Score (238.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K) ★ 4.46 Audible (11.2K)

   8h 20m listening time • Released 2011

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   A Journey To The Center Of The Earth

   by Jules Verne

   Narrated by Simon Prebble

   ★ 3.91 ABR Score (227.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.3K) ★ 4.27 Audible (443)

   7h 43m listening time • Released 2008

   Simon Prebble's measured, intelligent delivery transforms Verne's Victorian adventure into something that feels genuinely urgent—he makes the geological wonder and mounting danger feel equally real, which is exactly what this annotated edition needs to land.

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   Journey to the Centre of the Earth

   by Jules Verne, David Brin

   Narrated by David DeVries, Kristin Kalbli

   ★ 3.86 ABR Score (227.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K) ★ 4.16 Audible (228)

   26h 5m listening time • Released 2012

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   An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

   by Jules Verne

   Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

   ★ 3.65 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.62 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.13 Audible (24)

   8h 48m listening time • Released 2013

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   The Martian

   The Martian • Book 1

   by Andy Weir

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.76 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.8 Audible (42.3K)

   10h 59m listening time • Released 2020

   Wil Wheaton's deadpan delivery transforms this survival story into something hilarious and gripping—his timing on Watney's wisecracks lands perfectly while keeping the genuine stakes sharp.

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   For We Are Many

   Bobiverse • Book 2

   by Dennis E. Taylor

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K) ★ 4.77 Audible (74.0K)

   8h 59m listening time • Released 2017

   Ray Porter's performance transforms the Bobiverse's multiple Bobs from a gimmick into genuinely distinct voices—each one feels like a real person making impossible decisions while the stakes keep escalating in ways that actually land.

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   Network Effect

   The Murderbot Diaries • Book 5

   by Martha Wells

   Narrated by Kevin R. Free

   ★ 4.61 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (129.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.8K)

   12h 47m listening time • Released 2020

   Kevin R. Free's deadpan delivery transforms Murderbot from a sardonic loner into someone genuinely worth rooting for—the audiobook does what the best narration does, making you hear the heart beneath the snark.

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   Ender's Game

   The Ender Saga • Book 1

   by Orson Scott Card

   Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.63 Audible (44.6K)

   11h 57m listening time • Released 2002

   The gold standard of military sci-fi — a child prodigy trained for interstellar war in a story that's as emotionally devastating as it is thrillingly plotted.

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   Kindred

   by Octavia E. Butler

   Narrated by Kim Staunton

   ★ 4.49 ABR Score (294.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (15.6K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2007

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    A Closed and Common Orbit

    Wayfarers • Book 2

    by Becky Chambers

    Narrated by Rachel Dulude

    ★ 4.44 ABR Score (92.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (89.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (2.4K)

    11h 29m listening time • Released 2019

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