Audiobooks Like Table for Two

10 audiobooks for fans of Table for Two

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   The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners

   by Amor Towles, Jenny Minton Quigley, Emma Binder, Michele Mari, Brad Felver, Morris Collins, Jai Chakrabarti, Amber Caron, Francisco González, Caroline Kim, Katherine D. Stutzman, Juliana Leite, Kate DiCamillo, Colin Barrett, Robin Romm, Allegra Goodman, Dave Eggers, E.K. Ota, Tom Crewe, Madeline Ffitch, Jess Walter, Allegra Hyde, Brian Robert Moore, Zoë Perry

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Kristen DiMercurio, Blair Young, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Vikas Adam, Helen Laser, Johnny Rey Diaz, Jeena Yi, Jason Culp, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Dylan Moore, Alana Kerr Collins, Full Cast

   The O. Henry Prize Winners collection features Amor Towles among its acclaimed short story contributors, offering the same literary sophistication and narrative intrigue in concentrated form, while Edoardo Ballerini's narration ensures a similarly immersive listening experience across the anthology's diverse mysteries and character studies.

   ★ 3.79 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (34)

   13h 56m listening time • Released 2024

   Twenty prize-winning stories with a stellar ensemble cast means you get a different narrator's voice for each gem—perfect for dipping in or binging, and the variety keeps every story feeling fresh.

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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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   Playground

   by Richard Powers

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

   Both audiobooks benefit from Edoardo Ballerini's nuanced narration to bring depth to intricate, character-driven mysteries that unfold across interconnected narratives. *Playground* offers a similarly immersive listening experience with its exploration of complex human relationships and hidden truths, enhanced by an ensemble cast that captures the same sophisticated tone as *Table for Two*.

   ★ 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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   The Divine Comedy

   La Divina Commedia #1-3 • Book 1

   by Dante Alighieri

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.08 ABR Score (176.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.09 Goodreads (174.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (1.8K)

   14h 38m listening time • Released 2013

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   Long Island Compromise

   by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

   ★ 3.90 ABR Score (48.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.75 Goodreads (47.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (674)

   15h 23m listening time • Released 2024

   Brodesser-Akner's dual narration with Ballerini cuts between family members wrestling with old trauma, making each voice a distinct conscience arguing with the others—it's the audio format doing the psychological heavy lifting that prose alone couldn't.

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   The Aeneid

   by Virgil, Scott McGill, Susannah Wright, Emily Wilson

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Emily Wilson

   ★ 3.89 ABR Score (144.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.88 Goodreads (144.8K) ★ 4.71 Audible (21)

   12h 36m listening time • Released 2025

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   Beautiful Ruins

   by Jess Walter

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 3.83 ABR Score (198.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.68 Goodreads (186.0K) ★ 4.03 Audible (12.6K)

   12h 53m listening time • Released 2012

   Edoardo Ballerini's performance transforms Walter's time-jumping romance into pure magic, capturing the ache of a love story that spans decades and continents with effortless charm and heartbreak.

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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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   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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    Theo of Golden

    by Allen Levi

    Narrated by David Morse

    ★ 4.85 ABR Score (178.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (168.5K) ★ 4.89 Audible (10.3K)

    13h 12m listening time • Released 2025

    David Morse's weathered voice transforms this quiet parable into something hypnotic—each pencil portrait portrait exchange feels like a secret being shared directly with you, making generosity feel less like virtue and more like magic.

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