Audiobooks Like The English Patient

10 audiobooks for fans of The English Patient

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   The Correspondent

   by Virginia Evans

   Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)

   8h 36m listening time • Released 2025

   A sprawling ensemble cast brings luminous depth to this meditation on lifelong correspondence—each narrator inhabits their character so fully you'll forget you're listening to a performance, not overhearing actual lives unfolding.

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   James

   by Percival Everett

   Narrated by Dominic Hoffman

   ★ 4.76 ABR Score (552.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (533.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (18.6K)

   7h 49m listening time • Released 2024

   Dominic Hoffman's narration brings Jim's voice to life with such moral clarity and wit that you'll hear why Everett's reimagining won the Pulitzer—it's the definitive audiobook performance of a story that needed retelling.

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   Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

   by Taylor Jenkins Reid

   Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid

   ★ 4.68 ABR Score (778.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (19.8K)

   9h 52m listening time • Released 2025

   Multiple narrators embody the fierce ambition and competing loyalties of women breaking into NASA, making this feel like you're in the room with them rather than just hearing their story.

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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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   Chasing Fireflies

   by Charles Martin

   Narrated by Adam Verner

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (44.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.7K)

   10h 25m listening time • Released 2020

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   Stay

   by Catherine Ryan Hyde

   Narrated by Nick Podehl

   ★ 4.41 ABR Score (34.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (31.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (3.6K)

   8h 12m listening time • Released 2019

   Nick Podehl captures the quiet intimacy of two broken people finding each other—his performance makes the 1969 setting feel lived-in and achingly real, turning a story about connection into something you won't forget.

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   Say Goodbye for Now

   by Catherine Ryan Hyde

   Narrated by Nick Podehl, Teri Schnaubelt

   ★ 4.38 ABR Score (29.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.55 Audible (2.3K)

   9h 41m listening time • Released 2016

   Nick Podehl and Teri Schnaubelt bring richness to Hyde's story of outsiders finding belonging in 1950s Texas—their dual narration deepens the emotional weight of a love and friendship that society forbids.

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   Long Way Gone

   by Charles Martin

   Narrated by Adam Verner

   ★ 4.38 ABR Score (21.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (20.2K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.5K)

   9h 50m listening time • Released 2016

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   The Essential Rumi

   by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, A.J. Arberry, John Moyne

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.32 ABR Score (51.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (50.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (517)

   9h 24m listening time • Released 2018

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    The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games • Book 1

    by Suzanne Collins

    Narrated by Tatiana Maslany

    ★ 4.89 ABR Score (10.0M ratings)

    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (10.0M) ★ 4.89 Audible (16.9K)

    10h 35m listening time • Released 2018

    Collins reinvented YA dystopia with a heroine who never stops fighting — propulsive, politically sharp, and impossible to put down.

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