10 audiobooks for fans of The Great Believers
- 1
Buckeye: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Patrick Ryan
Narrated by Michael Crouch
★ 4.10 BLT Score (2.2K ratings)★ 4.45 Audible (2.2K) - 2
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by Charlie Thurston
★ 4.81 BLT Score (858.9K ratings)★ 4.46 Goodreads (824.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (34.3K)More about this pick
Thurston's narration makes this Pulitzer Prize story sing. Kingsolver captured rural invisibility with such wit and heartbreak it lingers long after you finish.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Narrated by Julia Whelan
★ 4.79 BLT Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)More about this pick
Julia Whelan's narration captures the suffocating intensity of a family unraveling in 1970s Alaska, making this survival story feel dangerously intimate and impossible to abandon.
- 4
Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson • Book 1
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
★ 4.74 BLT Score (478.4K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (444.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (34.1K) - 5
The Darkest Child
by Delores Phillips
Narrated by Bahni Turpin
★ 4.59 BLT Score (24.3K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (17.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (6.5K)More about this pick
Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this brutally intimate family saga into something unforgettable, capturing the quiet resilience of a girl fighting for escape in 1950s Georgia. A devastating listen that earns every one of its 15+ hours.
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The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman
★ 4.57 BLT Score (299.1K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)More about this pick
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 River
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by Jeremy Sisto
★ 4.47 BLT Score (159.0K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (155.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.0K)More about this pick
Jeremy Sisto's voice carries you through Corby's devastating fall and unlikely redemption with such raw humanity that you stop thinking of prison as punishment and start seeing it as a crucible for grace.
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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 BLT Score (328.3K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K) - 9
The Godfather
The Godfather • Book 1
by Mario Puzo
Narrated by Joe Mantegna
★ 4.35 BLT Score (468.1K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (468.0K) ★ 4.88 Audible (128)More about this pick
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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North Woods
by Daniel Mason
Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark Deakins, Jayne Entwistle, Billie Fulford-Brown, Arthur Morey, George Newbern, Kirsten Potter, Simon Vance
★ 4.26 BLT Score (120.3K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (117.0K) ★ 4.46 Audible (3.4K)More about this pick
A multigenerational haunting told through ten perfectly cast narrators—each voice anchors a different era, making the house itself feel alive across centuries of secrets and sorrow.
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