Audiobooks Like The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography

B.J. Harrison narrates this short Edgar Allan Poe entry — the runtime is unlisted but brief — with a classically trained gravity that suits both the Gothic fiction and the biographical framing, giving Poe's dark sensibility a context without domesticating it. Harrison's voice treats the macabre with the same seriousness Poe demanded, which is the only approach that works. Nine recommendations are highly rated biography and memoir titles across different subjects and narrators, connected by the same premium on a distinctive voice and life — listeners who came for literary biography and dark history will find much to return to.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Cask of Amontillado: Edgar Allan Poe Biography

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    The Black Cat: Edgar Allan Poe Biography

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Gil Anders

    ★ 3.90 ABR Score (58.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.03 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4 Audible (6)
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    Finding Me

    by Viola Davis

    Narrated by Viola Davis

    ★ 4.91 ABR Score (228.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (43.9K)
    9h 15m listening time • Released 2022
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    Shoe Dog

    by Phil Knight

    Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz

    ★ 4.83 ABR Score (428.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (53.5K)
    13h 21m listening time • Released 2016
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    Know My Name

    by Chanel Miller

    Narrated by Chanel Miller

    ★ 4.81 ABR Score (271.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.68 Goodreads (262.6K) ★ 4.82 Audible (9.3K)
    15h 24m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Choice: Embrace the Possible

    by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

    Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh

    ★ 4.79 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (132.9K) ★ 4.91 Audible (6.0K)
    12h 26m listening time • Released 2017
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    A Promised Land

    The Presidential Memoirs • Book 1

    by Barack Obama

    Narrated by Barack Obama

    ★ 4.76 ABR Score (335.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (279.1K) ★ 4.86 Audible (56.0K)
    29h 10m listening time • Released 2020
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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

    Narrated by Laurence Fishburne

    ★ 4.76 ABR Score (307.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (293.7K) ★ 4.9 Audible (13.5K)
    16h 52m listening time • Released 2020
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    Grant

    by Ron Chernow

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall

    ★ 4.74 ABR Score (58.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (44.7K) ★ 4.87 Audible (13.8K)
    48h 2m listening time • Released 2017
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    Nobody's Girl

    by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Gabra Zackman

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (78.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.55 Goodreads (70.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (7.4K)
    13h 39m listening time • Released 2025

    The dual narration cuts between Giuffre's voice and Plummer's, creating an intimate testament that demands to be heard rather than read—a survivor's reckoning told with devastating clarity.

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    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    by Alfred Lansing

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    ★ 4.70 ABR Score (196.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (169.7K) ★ 4.77 Audible (27.1K)
    10h 21m listening time • Released 2008

    Simon Prebble's measured, unflinching narration transforms this into survival storytelling that feels like you're huddled in the ice with them. The tension never breaks for 10+ hours.

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