10 audiobooks for fans of The Remains of the Day
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An Artist of the Floating World
Narrated by David Case
★ 3.78 ABR Score (47.0K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (46.7K) ★ 4.05 Audible (340)6h 24m listening time • Released 2012 - 2
A Pale View of Hills
Narrated by Roe Kendall
★ 3.77 ABR Score (44.8K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (44.6K) ★ 4.02 Audible (247)5h 59m listening time • Released 2012 - 3
The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various
★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)8h 36m listening time • Released 2025A sprawling ensemble cast brings luminous depth to this meditation on lifelong correspondence—each narrator inhabits their character so fully you'll forget you're listening to a performance, not overhearing actual lives unfolding.
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James
by Percival Everett
Narrated by Dominic Hoffman
★ 4.76 ABR Score (552.1K ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (533.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (18.6K)7h 49m listening time • Released 2024Dominic Hoffman's narration brings Jim's voice to life with such moral clarity and wit that you'll hear why Everett's reimagining won the Pulitzer—it's the definitive audiobook performance of a story that needed retelling.
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Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid
★ 4.68 ABR Score (778.0K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (19.8K)9h 52m listening time • Released 2025Multiple narrators embody the fierce ambition and competing loyalties of women breaking into NASA, making this feel like you're in the room with them rather than just hearing their story.
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When Crickets Cry
by Charles Martin
Narrated by Charles Martin, Adam Verner
★ 4.45 ABR Score (74.6K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (72.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (2.3K)11h 15m listening time • Released 2019 - 7
Chasing Fireflies
by Charles Martin
Narrated by Adam Verner
★ 4.43 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (44.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.7K)10h 25m listening time • Released 2020 - 8
The Essential Rumi
by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, A.J. Arberry, John Moyne
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 4.32 ABR Score (51.4K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (50.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (517)9h 24m listening time • Released 2018 - 9
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games • Book 1
by Suzanne Collins
Narrated by Tatiana Maslany
★ 4.89 ABR Score (10.0M ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (10.0M) ★ 4.89 Audible (16.9K)10h 35m listening time • Released 2018Collins reinvented YA dystopia with a heroine who never stops fighting — propulsive, politically sharp, and impossible to put down.
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The Color Purple
The Color Purple Collection • Book 1
by Alice Walker
Narrated by Alice Walker
★ 4.68 ABR Score (764.1K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (758.4K) ★ 4.81 Audible (5.7K)7h 58m listening time • Released 2018
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