Audiobooks Like Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen Collection)

Emma Thompson leads the ensemble cast of this Northanger Abbey with a crisp comic authority that suits Austen's most overtly satirical novel — her timing on the self-aware Gothic jokes is precise, and the supporting cast of Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ella Purnell, Jeremy Irvine, and Lily Cole keeps the Regency social choreography lively across a lean six-hour runtime. Most of the titles here share that same theatrical production quality, landing in a similar length where Austen's wit doesn't need to be stretched, with a thread of classic literary prestige running through them.

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 2025

    A 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 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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    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
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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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    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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    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
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    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
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    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 2019

    Wil 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
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    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 2025

    Rebecca 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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