Audiobooks Like Breakfast of Champions

10 audiobooks for fans of Breakfast of Champions

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   Sucker's Portfolio

   by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

   Narrated by Luke Daniels

   ★ 3.54 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 3.68 Audible (321)

   4h 15m listening time • Released 2013

   Luke Daniels nails Vonnegut's deadpan misanthropy across seven previously unpublished stories that cut deeper than they are short. Bite-sized but lethal.

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   I Must Betray You

   by Ruta Sepetys

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys

   ★ 4.56 ABR Score (103.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (101.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.7K)

   7h 10m listening time • Released 2022

   Ballerini's dual narration captures the suffocating paranoia of Cold War Romania so viscerally you'll feel the weight of every impossible choice Cristian makes. A gripping true-stakes thriller about resistance that refuses easy heroics.

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   The Body

   by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.52 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (45.7K)

   6h 38m listening time • Released 2026

   Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw nostalgia and heartbreak of King's coming-of-age masterpiece so perfectly you'll forget you're listening. This one hits different as an audiobook.

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   Alanna: The First Adventure

   Tortall • Book 4

   by Tamora Pierce

   Narrated by Trini Alvarado

   ★ 4.53 ABR Score (139.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.27 Goodreads (137.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (2.5K)

   5h 14m listening time • Released 2003

   Pierce's classic series starter features one of children's fantasy's first true feminist heroes — a girl disguising herself as a boy to become a knight.

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   Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev

   Narrated by Alan Turton

   ★ 4.49 ABR Score (237.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K)

   5h 25m listening time • Released 2026

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   Their Eyes Were Watching God

   by Zora Neale Hurston

   Narrated by Ruby Dee

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (402.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (390.8K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.1K)

   6h 44m listening time • Released 2004

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   Looking for Alaska

   by John Green

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.64 Audible (2.4K)

   6h 40m listening time • Released 2019

   Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw vulnerability of adolescence so perfectly that you'll feel like you're living in the dorm room alongside Pudge—and when the emotional gut-punch lands, it hits harder through audio.

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   If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)

   by James Baldwin

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (88.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.27 Goodreads (84.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.8K)

   7h 7m listening time • Released 2016

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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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    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

    ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

    ★ 4 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.36 Audible (23.9K)

    6h 39m listening time • Released 2007

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