Audiobooks Like I Must Betray You

10 audiobooks for fans of I Must Betray You

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   The Path to the Spiders' Nests

   by Italo Calvino

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 3.77 ABR Score (26.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.78 Goodreads (26.4K) ★ 4.38 Audible (13)

   5h 53m listening time • Released 2018

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   The Storyteller

   by Jodi Picoult

   Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (299.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)

   18h 13m listening time • Released 2013

   Multiple narrators bring genuine depth to this emotional story about complicity and forgiveness—each voice makes you feel like you're hearing a different person's truth.

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   Martin Eden

   by Jack London

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (56.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.48 Goodreads (56.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (56)

   14h 7m listening time • Released 2020

   Ballerini's measured, introspective performance captures the raw hunger of a working-class man clawing toward literary success—turning London's ambitious novel into a quietly devastating character study about the cost of ambition.

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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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   James

   by Percival Everett

   Narrated by Dominic Hoffman

   ★ 4.76 ABR Score (552.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (533.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (18.6K)

   7h 49m listening time • Released 2024

   Dominic Hoffman's narration brings Jim's voice to life with such moral clarity and wit that you'll hear why Everett's reimagining won the Pulitzer—it's the definitive audiobook performance of a story that needed retelling.

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   Psalms

   Bible • Book 19

   by Anonymous

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.52 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.65 Goodreads (2.4K)

   4h 2m listening time • Released 2026

   Ballerini's measured, reverent delivery transforms these ancient songs into intimate meditations—his voice becomes the instrument through which centuries of human longing and praise find their most resonant expression.

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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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   Stay

   by Catherine Ryan Hyde

   Narrated by Nick Podehl

   ★ 4.41 ABR Score (34.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (31.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (3.6K)

   8h 12m listening time • Released 2019

   Nick Podehl captures the quiet intimacy of two broken people finding each other—his performance makes the 1969 setting feel lived-in and achingly real, turning a story about connection into something you won't forget.

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   Table for Two

   Rules of Civility #1.5 incl'd

   by Amor Towles

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron

   ★ 4.36 ABR Score (73.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (71.8K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.8K)

   13h 23m listening time • Released 2024

   Towles' short stories showcase his gift for moral complexity and sharp wit, while Ballerini and Smith-Cameron's dual narration transforms each tale into an intimate conversation that catches you off guard.

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    Playground

    by Richard Powers

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, Kevin R Free

    ★ 4.24 ABR Score (47.6K ratings)

    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (46.5K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.1K)

    13h 51m listening time • Released 2024

    Richard Powers orchestrates four interconnected lives with a cast of narrators who each bring devastating specificity to their characters, turning a sprawling mystery into something that feels like overhearing four truths at once.

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