Audiobooks Like Shantaram

10 audiobooks for fans of Shantaram

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   Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Narrated by Luke Thompson

   ★ 4.49 ABR Score (395.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (394.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (638)

   43h 6m listening time • Released 2021

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   The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble

   ★ 4.13 ABR Score (297.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (29)

   36h 34m listening time • Released 2022

   Poe's complete works — the inventor of the detective story, the master of gothic horror, all in one essential collection.

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   DON QUIXOTE. Translated

   Don Quijote de la Mancha #1-2

   by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (314.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (308.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.5K)

   39h 42m listening time • Released 2012

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   Anna Karenina

   by Leo Tolstoy

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.99 ABR Score (942.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.1 Goodreads (941.3K) ★ 4.08 Audible (933)

   36h 41m listening time • Released 2003

   Davina Porter's narration transforms this 36-hour epic into an intimate psychological journey, making Tolstoy's most devastating portrait of desire and consequence feel urgently alive.

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   1Q84

   1Q84 #1-3

   by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel

   Narrated by Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett

   ★ 3.99 ABR Score (353.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (342.2K) ★ 4.08 Audible (10.9K)

   46h 45m listening time • Released 2011

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   2666

   2666 #1-5

   by Natasha [Translator] Bolano, Roberto; Wimmer

   Narrated by Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner, John Lee, Scott Brick

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (49.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (49.5K) ★ 4.54 Audible (13)

   39h 16m listening time • Released 2025

   Five narrators divvy up Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece, and their distinct voices actually deepen the novel's fractured structure—each section lands differently, keeping you locked in for all 39 hours.

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   Gravity's Rainbow

   by B.H. Roberts

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.89 ABR Score (49.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (48.8K) ★ 4.08 Audible (1.2K)

   37h 21m listening time • Released 2014

   George Guidall's 37-hour performance transforms Pynchon's notoriously dense masterpiece into something navigable—his measured cadence and tonal precision make the paranoia and chaos feel purposeful rather than punishing.

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   An American Tragedy

   An American Tragedy (in 2 Volumes) #1, 2

   by Theodore Dreiser, Zenith Evergreen Literary Co

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.86 ABR Score (39.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (38.9K) ★ 4.75 Audible (12)

   38h 38m listening time • Released 2024

   Grover Gardner's measured, methodical performance transforms Dreiser's sprawling classic into a hypnotic descent into moral compromise—38 hours that feel inevitable, not exhausting.

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   The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Early Years

   by Charles Dickens, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Bill Nighy, Julia McKenzie, Pam Ferris, Phil Daniels, Robert Glenister, Sandi Toksvig, Tim McInnerny

   Narrated by Full Cast, Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, Phil Daniels, Julia McKenzie, Tim McInnerny, Robert Glenister

   ★ 3.64 ABR Score (69 ratings)

   ★ 4.47 Goodreads (15) ★ 4.5 Audible (54)

   35h 7m listening time • Released 2018

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    Kathleen Glasgow Three-Audiobook Collection: Girl in Pieces; How to Make Friends with the Dark; You'd Be Home Now

    by Kathleen Glasgow

    Narrated by Julia Whelan, Jorjeana Marie, Julia Knippen, Kathleen Glasgow

    ★ 3.56 ABR Score (33 ratings)

    ★ 4.81 Goodreads (26) ★ 4.71 Audible (7)

    35h 38m listening time • Released 2025

    Glasgow's trilogy hits harder in audio form, where multiple narrators bring raw emotional specificity to each character's trauma and recovery. 35 hours of unsparing, necessary stories about survival.

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