Audiobooks Like Homer Box Set: The Iliad & The Odyssey

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If you loved Homer Box Set: The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer, 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 Anthony Heald's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Homer Box Set: The Iliad & The Odyssey

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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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    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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    Cutting for Stone

    by Abraham Verghese

    Narrated by Sunil Malhotra

    ★ 4.61 BLT Score (445.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (431.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (14.2K)
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    A luminous family saga whose emotional depth justifies the full 24-hour audiobook. Malhotra captures both the intimacy and epic scope of this prose.

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    The Brothers K

    by David James Duncan

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    ★ 4.17 BLT Score (17.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.78 Audible (83)
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    Robertson Dean's narration captures the raw comedy and heartbreak of a fractured family across decades—his voice work transforms what could've been a sprawling mess into something you genuinely can't stop listening to.

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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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    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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    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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    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

    by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.42 BLT Score (164.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (154.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.2K)
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    Scott Brick's measured, forensic delivery transforms this true crime classic into something deeper than lurid true crime—you're inside the prosecutor's mind as he methodically dismantles one of the century's darkest conspiracies.

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