Audiobooks Like Cutting for Stone

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If you loved Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Sunil Malhotra's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Cutting for Stone

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    The Covenant of Water

    by Abraham Verghese

    Narrated by Abraham Verghese

    4.62 BLT Score (337.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (11.3K)
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    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

    Harry Potter • Book 4

    by J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 BLT Score (4.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (4.2M) ★ 4.94 Audible (125.6K)
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    Jim Dale's performance transforms this darker turn into something almost unbearably gripping—his voices for the Triwizard Tournament's chaos and Voldemort's return will haunt you long after the 20+ hours end.

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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

    Harry Potter • Book 5

    by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    5.00 BLT Score (3.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)
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    Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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    Demon Copperhead

    by Barbara Kingsolver

    Narrated by Charlie Thurston

    4.81 BLT Score (858.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (824.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (34.3K)
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    Thurston's narration makes this Pulitzer Prize story sing. Kingsolver captured rural invisibility with such wit and heartbreak it lingers long after you finish.

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    East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck

    Narrated by Richard Poe

    4.78 BLT Score (674.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (655.0K) ★ 4.78 Audible (19.8K)
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    Poe's narration brings the weight this epic deserves: 25 hours of Steinbeck's moral reckoning with love, choice, and the family darkness that shapes generations.

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    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Malk Williams

    4.03 BLT Score (64.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (17)
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    Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë Collection 1)

    Jane Eyre • Book 1

    by Charlotte Brontë

    Narrated by Thandiwe Newton

    4.72 BLT Score (2.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (2.3M) ★ 4.8 Audible (21.8K)
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    Thandiwe Newton narrates Jane Eyre with the sophistication it demands: a woman's quiet but unshakeable refusal to compromise, voiced with uncommon depth.

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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator

    Narrated by Anthony Heald

    4.56 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.4K)
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    Dostoevsky's psychological masterwork follows a man who commits the 'perfect' murder and is destroyed not by justice but by his own conscience.

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    The Grapes of Wrath Novel

    by John Steinbeck

    Narrated by Dylan Baker

    4.53 BLT Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.67 Audible (14.6K)
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    Nineteen Minutes

    by Jodi Picoult

    Narrated by Carol Monda

    4.44 BLT Score (432.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (427.1K) ★ 4.58 Audible (5.5K)

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