Audiobooks Like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

10 audiobooks for fans of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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   Sophie’s World

   by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (287.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (284.9K) ★ 4.42 Audible (2.0K)

   16h 53m listening time • Released 2007

   Simon Vance makes a philosophical mystery genuinely gripping—his performance pulls you through sixteen hours of existential questions like they're plot twists, not lectures.

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   The Little Stranger

   by Sarah Waters

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 3.59 ABR Score (61.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.57 Goodreads (60.1K) ★ 3.88 Audible (1.7K)

   15h 49m listening time • Released 2009

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   The Canterbury Tales

   by Geoffrey Chaucer, J.U. Nicolson

   Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Jay Carnes, Ray Porter, John Lee, Malcolm Hillgartner, Ralph Cosham, Simon Vance

   ★ 3.46 ABR Score (239.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.53 Goodreads (238.9K) ★ 3.63 Audible (606)

   20h 49m listening time • Released 2008

   A rotating cast of seven narrators brings Chaucer's medieval voices alive with distinct personalities and accents, making the fourteenth-century banter feel less dusty textbook and more like eavesdropping on real people.

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   Demon Copperhead

   by Barbara Kingsolver

   Narrated by Charlie Thurston

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (858.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (824.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (34.3K)

   21h 3m listening time • Released 2022

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   The Great Alone

   by Kristin Hannah

   Narrated by Julia Whelan

   ★ 4.79 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)

   15h 3m listening time • Released 2018

   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.

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   Small Great Things

   Ruth Jefferson • Book 1

   by Jodi Picoult

   Narrated by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos

   ★ 4.74 ABR Score (478.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (444.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (34.1K)

   16h 14m listening time • Released 2016

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   Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

   Stephen Fry's Great Mythology • Book 2

   by Stephen Fry

   Narrated by Stephen Fry

   ★ 4.68 ABR Score (68.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (61.1K) ★ 4.86 Audible (7.5K)

   15h 1m listening time • Released 2020

   Stephen Fry's voice transforms these Greek myths into something irresistible—his wit and warmth make ancient heroes feel urgent and alive, turning 15 hours into pure escapism.

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   The Storyteller

   by Jodi Picoult

   Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (299.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)

   18h 13m listening time • Released 2013

   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 House of the Spirits

   Trilogía Involuntaria • Book 3

   by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin

   Narrated by Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (328.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K)

   18h 51m listening time • Released 2016

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    The Godfather

    The Godfather • Book 1

    by Mario Puzo

    Narrated by Joe Mantegna

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (468.1K ratings)

    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (468.0K) ★ 4.88 Audible (128)

    18h 5m listening time • Released 2014

    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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