Audiobooks Like The Great Gatsby

10 audiobooks for fans of The Great Gatsby

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   The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Portrait of Youth, Wealth, and Moral Decay

   by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Narrated by Adam Verner

   ★ 3.76 ABR Score (65.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.73 Goodreads (65.8K) ★ 3.96 Audible (57)

   14h 21m listening time • Released 2018

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   This Side of Paradise

   by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.71 ABR Score (81.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.63 Goodreads (80.6K) ★ 4.01 Audible (395)

   9h 10m listening time • Released 2010

   Robertson Dean's narration captures Amory Blaine's restless charm perfectly—he makes Fitzgerald's debut feel like overhearing a brilliant friend's confessions rather than reading a century-old novel.

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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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   The Body

   by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.52 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (45.7K)

   6h 38m listening time • Released 2026

   Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw nostalgia and heartbreak of King's coming-of-age masterpiece so perfectly you'll forget you're listening. This one hits different as an audiobook.

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   Looking for Alaska

   by John Green

   Narrated by Wil Wheaton

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 3.96 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.64 Audible (2.4K)

   6h 40m listening time • Released 2019

   Wil Wheaton's narration captures the raw vulnerability of adolescence so perfectly that you'll feel like you're living in the dorm room alongside Pudge—and when the emotional gut-punch lands, it hits harder through audio.

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   The Road

   by Cormac McCarthy

   Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.36 Audible (23.9K)

   6h 39m listening time • Released 2007

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   Slaughterhouse-Five

   by Kurt Vonnegut

   Narrated by James Franco

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)

   ★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.31 Audible (19.8K)

   5h 13m listening time • Released 2015

   Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece unstuck in time — funny, sad, and devastatingly wise about humanity's capacity for both destruction and endurance.

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   Lord Of The Flies

   by Raymond Wilson

   Narrated by William Golding

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (3.2M ratings)

   ★ 3.7 Goodreads (3.2M) ★ 4.28 Audible (11.0K)

   6h 35m listening time • Released 2003

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   Crime and Punishment

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Narrated by Alex Jennings

   ★ 4.03 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 3.92 Audible (111)

   5h 15m listening time • Released 2005

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    The Jungle Temple Oracle

    The Mystery of Herobrine • Book 2

    by Mark Cheverton

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (599 ratings)

    ★ 4.52 Goodreads (569) ★ 4.77 Audible (30)

    6h 16m listening time • Released 2015

    Luke Daniels brings genuine urgency to this jungle-temple adventure, making the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an AI villain feel genuinely claustrophobic and tense.

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