Audiobooks Like The Covenant of Water

10 audiobooks for fans of The Covenant of Water

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   Cutting for Stone

   by Abraham Verghese

   Narrated by Sunil Malhotra

   ★ 4.61 BLT Score (445.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (431.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (14.2K)

   23h 54m listening time • Released 2009

   A luminous family saga whose emotional depth justifies the full 24-hour audiobook. Malhotra captures both the intimacy and epic scope of this prose.

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   A luminous family saga whose emotional depth justifies the full 24-hour audiobook. Malhotra captures both the intimacy and epic scope of this prose.

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   East of Eden

   by John Steinbeck

   Narrated by Richard Poe

   ★ 4.78 BLT Score (674.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.44 Goodreads (655.0K) ★ 4.78 Audible (19.8K)

   25h 23m listening time • Released 2011

   Poe's narration brings the weight this epic deserves: 25 hours of Steinbeck's moral reckoning with love, choice, and the family darkness that shapes generations.

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   Poe's narration brings the weight this epic deserves: 25 hours of Steinbeck's moral reckoning with love, choice, and the family darkness that shapes generations.

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

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4. 4

   

   [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Narrated by Malk Williams

   ★ 4.03 BLT Score (64.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (17)

   28h 24m listening time • Released 2024

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5. 5

   

   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

   Harry Potter • Book 5

   by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

   Narrated by Jim Dale

   ★ 5.00 BLT Score (3.9M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)

   26h 28m listening time • Released 2015

   Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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   Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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6. 6

   

   Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

   by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.42 BLT Score (164.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.06 Goodreads (154.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.2K)

   26h 29m listening time • Released 2011

   Scott Brick's measured, forensic delivery transforms this true crime classic into something deeper than lurid true crime—you're inside the prosecutor's mind as he methodically dismantles one of the century's darkest conspiracies.

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   Scott Brick's measured, forensic delivery transforms this true crime classic into something deeper than lurid true crime—you're inside the prosecutor's mind as he methodically dismantles one of the century's darkest conspiracies.

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   Anna Karenina

   by Leo Tolstoy

   Narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal

   ★ 4.39 BLT Score (958.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (944.0K) ★ 4.46 Audible (14.4K)

   35h 35m listening time • Released 2016

   Maggie Gyllenhaal narrates Anna with such intelligence and vulnerability that Tolstoy's century-old tragedy feels like a story unfolding in real time.

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   Maggie Gyllenhaal narrates Anna with such intelligence and vulnerability that Tolstoy's century-old tragedy feels like a story unfolding in real time.

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8. 8

   

   Homer Box Set: The Iliad & The Odyssey

   Iliad & Odyssey • Book 1

   by Homer

   Narrated by Anthony Heald

   ★ 4.31 BLT Score (87.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.07 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.55 Audible (3.1K)

   25h 2m listening time • Released 2012

   Heald narrates Homer's complete epics with such immediacy that 25 centuries of distance disappears, rendering ancient war and exile as raw, devastating human drama.

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   Heald narrates Homer's complete epics with such immediacy that 25 centuries of distance disappears, rendering ancient war and exile as raw, devastating human drama.

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   The Goldfinch

   by Donna Tartt

   Narrated by David Pittu

   ★ 4.28 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.33 Audible (42.4K)

   32h 24m listening time • Released 2013

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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3

    by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

    Narrated by Rupert Degas

    ★ 4.22 BLT Score (323.4K ratings)

    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (317.7K) ★ 4.32 Audible (5.7K)

    26h 11m listening time • Released 2013

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