Audiobooks Like The Canterbury Tales

10 audiobooks for fans of The Canterbury Tales

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   Sophie’s World

   by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (287.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (284.9K) ★ 4.42 Audible (2.0K)

   16h 53m listening time • Released 2007

   Simon Vance makes a philosophical mystery genuinely gripping—his performance pulls you through sixteen hours of existential questions like they're plot twists, not lectures.

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   Cloud Atlas

   by David Mitchell

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, Richard Matthews, David Mitchell, Gabrielle Zevin

   ★ 4.01 ABR Score (276.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (269.8K) ★ 4.11 Audible (7.1K)

   19h 48m listening time • Released 2004

   Seven narrators make this nested-worlds epic feel like a conversation across centuries, each voice perfectly matched to its era and character. It's the rare audiobook where the medium doesn't just serve the story—it becomes essential to how you experience it.

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   Doctor Zhivago

   by Boris Pasternak

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 3.97 ABR Score (104.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (103.8K) ★ 4.18 Audible (787)

   23h 18m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

   by Victor Hugo

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 3.89 ABR Score (220.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (220.8K) ★ 4.67 Audible (6)

   18h 35m listening time • Released 2022

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   Brown Dog

   by Jim Harrison

   Narrated by Bronson Pinchot, Ray Porter, Lloyd James

   ★ 4.00 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (2.8K) ★ 4.37 Audible (459)

   18h 10m listening time • Released 2013

   Three narrators bring Harrison's irreverent Michigan rogue to life with perfectly calibrated voices—this collection captures BD's messy charm and dark humor better than reading it alone ever could.

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   The small house at Allington

   Chronicles of Barsetshire • Book 5

   by Anthony Trollope

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 3.77 ABR Score (379 ratings)

   ★ 4.27 Goodreads (26) ★ 4.4 Audible (353)

   22h 59m listening time • Released 2007

   Simon Vance's narration transforms Trollope's masterpiece of romantic entanglement and social constraint into something achingly human—you'll hear the desperation beneath every drawing-room conversation.

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   Demon Copperhead

   by Barbara Kingsolver

   Narrated by Charlie Thurston

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (858.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (824.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (34.3K)

   21h 3m listening time • Released 2022

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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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   The House of the Spirits

   Trilogía Involuntaria • Book 3

   by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin

   Narrated by Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (328.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K)

   18h 51m listening time • Released 2016

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    The Godfather

    The Godfather • Book 1

    by Mario Puzo

    Narrated by Joe Mantegna

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (468.1K ratings)

    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (468.0K) ★ 4.88 Audible (128)

    18h 5m listening time • Released 2014

    Puzo's crime epic isn't just a novel about the Mafia — it's a story about power, family, and the American dream pursued by any means necessary.

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