Audiobooks Like The Poisonwood Bible

10 audiobooks for fans of The Poisonwood Bible

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   Flight Behavior

   by Barbara Kingsolver

   Narrated by Barbara Kingsolver

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (108.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.83 Goodreads (102.7K) ★ 4.36 Audible (5.4K)

   16h 56m listening time • Released 2012

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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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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   The Hunger Games

   by Suzanne Collins

   Narrated by Jefferson White

   ★ 4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)

   12h 48m listening time • Released 2025

   Jefferson White's narration transforms this prequel into something unexpectedly intimate—he finds the quiet devastation in Haymitch before the legend, making every loss feel like your own.

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   Theo of Golden

   by Allen Levi

   Narrated by David Morse

   ★ 4.85 ABR Score (178.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.57 Goodreads (168.5K) ★ 4.89 Audible (10.3K)

   13h 12m listening time • Released 2025

   David Morse's weathered voice transforms this quiet parable into something hypnotic—each pencil portrait portrait exchange feels like a secret being shared directly with you, making generosity feel less like virtue and more like magic.

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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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   My Friends

   by Fredrik Backman

   Narrated by Marin Ireland

   ★ 4.58 ABR Score (421.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (413.4K) ★ 4.64 Audible (8.5K)

   13h 22m listening time • Released 2025

   Marin Ireland's narration transforms this story of teenage friendship into something achingly real—she captures the specific cadence of how friends actually talk, making you feel like you're eavesdropping on something sacred.

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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 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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