Audiobooks Like Alanna: The First Adventure

10 audiobooks for fans of Alanna: The First Adventure

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   Heart the Lover

   by Lily King

   Narrated by Rebecca Lowman

   ★ 4.36 ABR Score (204.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (201.6K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.4K)

   5h 52m listening time • Released 2025

   Rebecca Lowman's performance captures the raw vulnerability of King's prose so perfectly you'll forget you're listening—her pacing lets the emotional weight of each moment land exactly when it needs to.

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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   The Hunger Games

   by Suzanne Collins

   Narrated by Jefferson White

   ★ 4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)

   12h 48m listening time • Released 2025

   Jefferson White's narration transforms this prequel into something unexpectedly intimate—he finds the quiet devastation in Haymitch before the legend, making every loss feel like your own.

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   Remarkably Bright Creatures

   by Shelby Van Pelt

   Narrated by Marin Ireland, Michael Urie

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.79 Audible (62.8K)

   11h 16m listening time • Released 2022

   Marin Ireland and Michael Urie elevate this widow-and-octopus story into something genuinely moving, their dual narration making the emotional reckoning feel earned rather than sentimental.

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   The Correspondent

   by Virginia Evans

   Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)

   8h 36m listening time • Released 2025

   A sprawling ensemble cast brings luminous depth to this meditation on lifelong correspondence—each narrator inhabits their character so fully you'll forget you're listening to a performance, not overhearing actual lives unfolding.

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   My Friends

   by Fredrik Backman

   Narrated by Marin Ireland

   ★ 4.58 ABR Score (421.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (413.4K) ★ 4.64 Audible (8.5K)

   13h 22m listening time • Released 2025

   Marin Ireland's narration transforms this story of teenage friendship into something achingly real—she captures the specific cadence of how friends actually talk, making you feel like you're eavesdropping on something sacred.

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   The Giver

   Giver Quartet • Book 1

   by Lois Lowry

   Narrated by Ron Rifkin

   ★ 4.41 ABR Score (2.8M ratings)

   ★ 4.12 Goodreads (2.8M) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.4K)

   4h 47m listening time • Released 2003

   The quiet novel that radicalized a generation of children — a deceptively simple story about memory, choice, and the cost of a 'perfect' society.

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   Slaughterhouse-Five

   by Kurt Vonnegut

   Narrated by James Franco

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.31 Audible (19.8K)

   5h 13m listening time • Released 2015

   Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece unstuck in time — funny, sad, and devastatingly wise about humanity's capacity for both destruction and endurance.

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   The Hunger Games

   The Hunger Games • Book 1

   by Suzanne Collins

   Narrated by Tatiana Maslany

   ★ 4.89 ABR Score (10.0M ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (10.0M) ★ 4.89 Audible (16.9K)

   10h 35m listening time • Released 2018

   Collins reinvented YA dystopia with a heroine who never stops fighting — propulsive, politically sharp, and impossible to put down.

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   Pride and Prejudice

   by Jane Austen, Lulu Raczka

   Narrated by Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy, Sophie Wilde, Will Poulter, Jessie Buckley, Toheeb Jimoh, Patricia Allison, Bertie Carvel, Leah Harvey, David Gyasi, Rosalind Eleazar, full cast

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.1K)

   4h 34m listening time • Released 2025

   A full-cast production with Bill Nighy, Glenn Close, and Jessie Buckley that transforms Austen's wit into a genuinely dramatic audioplay—four and a half hours that feel essential.

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    The Rithmatist

    Rithmatist • Book 1

    by Brandon Sanderson, Ben McSweeney

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (86.0K ratings)

    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (75.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (10.7K)

    10h 23m listening time • Released 2013

    Michael Kramer's performance elevates this magic-school mystery into something genuinely gripping—he nails the outsider protagonist's frustration while making the chalk-based magic system feel tactile and urgent.

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