Audiobooks Like The Master and Margarita

George Guidall narrates The Master and Margarita in a voice perfectly calibrated for a novel that requires you to trust the storyteller completely — his deep, authoritative delivery holds the book's wildly shifting registers together over seventeen hours, whether the scene is sardonic satire, romantic tragedy, or biblical reimagining. He appears throughout the rest of the list, a narrator whose voice has the range and gravity to make even Stalinist Moscow feel somehow inevitable.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Master and Margarita

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    The Jungle

    by Upton Sinclair

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (156.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (155.6K) ★ 4.37 Audible (717)
    15h 58m listening time • Released 2011

    George Guidall's measured, unflinching narration turns this muckraking classic into something rawer than the text alone—you feel the desperation grinding down on Jurgis rather than just reading about it.

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    Baudolino

    by Umberto Eco

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.96 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (309)
    18h 53m listening time • Released 2012

    George Guidall's performance transforms Eco's labyrinthine medieval adventure into pure narrative magic—his voice shifts effortlessly between con artists, crusaders, and philosophers, making 19 hours vanish.

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    Babbitt

    by Sinclair Lewis

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.80 ABR Score (25.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.69 Goodreads (25.0K) ★ 4.33 Audible (67)
    14h 14m listening time • Released 2011

    Guidall's measured, almost weary delivery turns this 1920s satire into something devastatingly human—you hear Babbitt's quiet desperation beneath all his boosterism.

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    The Cunning Man

    Toronto Trilogy • Book 2

    by Robertson Davies

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.79 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.26 Audible (54)
    16h 53m listening time • Released 2014

    George Guidall's measured, thoughtful delivery transforms Davies's meandering mystery into a masterclass in unreliable memory—he makes you feel the weight of a lifetime of secrets without rushing toward easy answers.

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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 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 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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