10 audiobooks for fans of Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen Collection)
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen, Lulu Raczka
Narrated by Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy, Sophie Wilde, Will Poulter, Jessie Buckley, Toheeb Jimoh, Patricia Allison, Bertie Carvel, Leah Harvey, David Gyasi, Rosalind Eleazar, full cast
★ 4.57 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.1K)4h 34m listening time • Released 2025A full-cast production with Bill Nighy, Glenn Close, and Jessie Buckley that transforms Austen's wit into a genuinely dramatic audioplay—four and a half hours that feel essential.
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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 2022Ballerini'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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The Turn of the Screw
by Joseph Cowley
Narrated by Emma Thompson, Richard Armitage - introduction
★ 3.62 ABR Score (188.0K ratings)★ 3.38 Goodreads (182.3K) ★ 3.95 Audible (5.7K)4h 40m listening time • Released 2016 -
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 2003Pierce'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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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 2026Wil 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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Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev
Narrated by Alan Turton
★ 4.49 ABR Score (237.7K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K)5h 25m listening time • Released 2026 -
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by Ruby Dee
★ 4.47 ABR Score (402.9K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (390.8K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.1K)6h 44m listening time • Released 2004 -
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Narrated by Wil Wheaton
★ 4.39 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.64 Audible (2.4K)6h 40m listening time • Released 2019Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw vulnerability of adolescence so perfectly that you'll feel like you're living in the dorm room alongside Pudge—and when the emotional gut-punch lands, it hits harder through audio.
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If Beale Street Could Talk (Vintage International)
by James Baldwin
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.37 ABR Score (88.1K ratings)★ 4.27 Goodreads (84.2K) ★ 4.51 Audible (3.8K)7h 7m listening time • Released 2016 -
Heart the Lover
by Lily King
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman
★ 4.36 ABR Score (204.0K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (201.6K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.4K)5h 52m listening time • Released 2025Rebecca Lowman's performance captures the raw vulnerability of King's prose so perfectly you'll forget you're listening—her pacing lets the emotional weight of each moment land exactly when it needs to.
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