Audiobooks Like The Hour I First Believed

10 audiobooks for fans of The Hour I First Believed

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   We Are Water

   by Wally Lamb

   Narrated by Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Sandy Rustin

   ★ 4.03 ABR Score (59.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.84 Goodreads (56.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.9K)

   23h 11m listening time • Released 2013

   A stellar ensemble cast transforms this multigenerational family reckoning into something closer to theater than narration, with each voice bringing authentic depth to competing perspectives on love, loyalty, and secrets.

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   The River

   by Wally Lamb

   Narrated by Jeremy Sisto

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (159.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (155.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.0K)

   14h 40m listening time • Released 2025

   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 Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction

   by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

   Narrated by Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry, Leon Nixon

   ★ 4.32 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.44 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.73 Audible (802)

   27h 2m listening time • Released 2020

   Hearing Gaiman read his own work alongside master narrators like George Guidall and Lenny Henry transforms 52 stories into a masterclass in tone and voice—each tale lands exactly as intended.

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   The Corrections

   by Jonathan Franzen

   Narrated by George Guidall

   George Guidall's measured, introspective narration brings the same contemplative depth to *The Corrections* that makes *The Hour I First Believed* so absorbing, while both novels weave complex family mysteries through richly detailed character studies that reward close listening.

   ★ 4.00 ABR Score (202.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (199.7K) ★ 4.23 Audible (3.1K)

   21h 53m listening time • Released 2010

   George Guidall's performance transforms this sprawling family epic into something visceral—his precise control over tone makes each Lambert's unraveling feel devastatingly intimate and darkly funny at once.

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   Lost Man's River

   Shadow Country Trilogy • Book 2

   by Peter Matthiessen

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.68 ABR Score (566 ratings)

   ★ 3.93 Goodreads (534) ★ 4.06 Audible (32)

   27h 6m listening time • Released 2009

   George Guidall's measured, gravitas-laden narration transforms this sprawling frontier saga into something almost Shakespearean—he makes you feel the weight of each Watson family secret across 27 hours like you're witnessing myth being spoken aloud.

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   East of Eden

   by John Steinbeck

   Narrated by Richard Poe

   ★ 4.78 ABR Score (674.9K ratings)

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

   25h 23m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Master and Margarita

   by Mikhail Bulgakov, George Guidall, Diana Burgin - Translator - translator, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor - Translator - translator

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 4.64 ABR Score (428.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.28 Goodreads (428.1K)

   17h 4m listening time • Released 2026

   George Guidall's masterful narration transforms Bulgakov's wildly inventive Soviet satire into a hypnotic experience—his voice shifts effortlessly between the demonic, the tragic, and the absurd across 17 hours of pure literary magic.

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   DON QUIXOTE. Translated

   Don Quijote de la Mancha #1-2

   by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (314.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (308.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.5K)

   39h 42m listening time • Released 2012

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   The Brothers K

   by David James Duncan

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (17.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.78 Audible (83)

   28h 7m listening time • Released 2024

   Robertson Dean's narration captures the raw comedy and heartbreak of a fractured family across decades—his voice work transforms what could've been a sprawling mess into something you genuinely can't stop listening to.

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    Gilgamesh: Versión de Stephen Mitchell

    by Anonymous, Stephen Mitchell

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (124.6K ratings)

    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (120.4K) ★ 4.35 Audible (4.2K)

    4h 5m listening time • Released 2004

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