Audiobooks Like My Antonia

10 audiobooks for fans of My Antonia

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   The Trial

   by Franz Kafka, Yavar Ismayilov

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (403.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (402.2K) ★ 4.15 Audible (893)

   8h 53m listening time • Released 2005

   George Guidall's measured, urbane delivery transforms Kafka's nightmare logic into something hypnotic—you'll feel Josef K.'s dread creeping in slowly, then all at once it's suffocating.

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   The Sheep Queen

   by Tom Savage

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.78 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (98)

   8h 13m listening time • Released 2014

   George Guidall's measured, penetrating delivery unlocks the quiet devastation in Savage's prose—a novel about family secrets that feels less like plot and more like watching a life fracture in real time.

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   [Exit Ghost] [By: Roth, Philip] [September, 2008]

   Complete Nathan Zuckerman • Book 9

   by Philip Roth

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.64 ABR Score (6.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.52 Goodreads (5.8K) ★ 4.05 Audible (155)

   7h 35m listening time • Released 2008

   George Guidall's weathered, deliberate performance captures Roth's late-career reckoning with aging and desire—he makes Zuckerman's isolation and sudden re-entry into the world feel genuinely unsettling.

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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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   Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

   by Taylor Jenkins Reid

   Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid

   ★ 4.68 ABR Score (778.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (19.8K)

   9h 52m listening time • Released 2025

   Multiple narrators embody the fierce ambition and competing loyalties of women breaking into NASA, making this feel like you're in the room with them rather than just hearing their story.

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   The Master and Margarita

   by Mikhail Bulgakov, George Guidall, Diana Burgin - Translator - translator, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor - Translator - translator

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 4.64 ABR Score (428.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (428.1K)

   17h 4m listening time • Released 2026

   George Guidall's masterful narration transforms Bulgakov's wildly inventive Soviet satire into a hypnotic experience—his voice shifts effortlessly between the demonic, the tragic, and the absurd across 17 hours of pure literary magic.

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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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   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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    Say Goodbye for Now

    by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Nick Podehl, Teri Schnaubelt

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (29.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.55 Audible (2.3K)

    9h 41m listening time • Released 2016

    Nick Podehl and Teri Schnaubelt bring richness to Hyde's story of outsiders finding belonging in 1950s Texas—their dual narration deepens the emotional weight of a love and friendship that society forbids.

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