Audiobooks Like Heart the Lover

10 audiobooks for fans of Heart the Lover

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   Euphoria

   by Lily King

   Narrated by Simon Vance, Xe Sands

   ★ 3.85 ABR Score (103.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.87 Goodreads (103.8K) ★ 4.09 Audible (33)

   6h 53m listening time • Released 2025

   Vance and Sands's dual narration captures the intoxicating pull of a doomed love triangle among anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea—their voices making each character's obsession feel dangerously real.

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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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   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 Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

   by Gabrielle Zevin

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.26 ABR Score (375.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.04 Goodreads (362.9K) ★ 4.37 Audible (12.4K)

   7h 2m listening time • Released 2014

   Scott Brick's narration transforms this book-lover's redemption story into something genuinely moving—his gruff tenderness as A.J. feels earned, not performed.

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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 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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    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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