Audiobooks Like The Savage Detectives

10 audiobooks for fans of The Savage Detectives

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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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   [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Narrated by Malk Williams

   ★ 4.03 ABR Score (64.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (17)

   28h 24m listening time • Released 2024

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   2666

   2666 #1-5

   by Natasha [Translator] Bolano, Roberto; Wimmer

   Narrated by Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner, John Lee, Scott Brick

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (49.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (49.5K) ★ 4.54 Audible (13)

   39h 16m listening time • Released 2025

   Five narrators divvy up Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece, and their distinct voices actually deepen the novel's fractured structure—each section lands differently, keeping you locked in for all 39 hours.

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   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

   Harry Potter • Book 5

   by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

   Narrated by Jim Dale

   ★ 5.00 ABR Score (3.9M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)

   26h 28m listening time • Released 2015

   Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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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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   Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

   by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.42 ABR Score (164.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.06 Goodreads (154.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.2K)

   26h 29m listening time • Released 2011

   Scott Brick's measured, forensic delivery transforms this true crime classic into something deeper than lurid true crime—you're inside the prosecutor's mind as he methodically dismantles one of the century's darkest conspiracies.

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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 Idiot

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   Narrated by Constantine Gregory

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (222.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K) ★ 4.49 Audible (1.5K)

   24h 56m listening time • Released 2017

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   Conspiracy of Fools

   by Kurt Eichenwald

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (8.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.2 Goodreads (6.5K) ★ 4.61 Audible (1.5K)

   30h 26m listening time • Released 2005

   Robertson Dean's narration transforms 30 hours of corporate malfeasance into compulsive listening—his ability to shift between boardroom bravado and criminal desperation makes the Enron implosion feel like a thriller you can't stop.

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    The Overstory

    by Richard Powers

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren

    ★ 4.25 ABR Score (210.0K ratings)

    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (199.8K) ★ 4.35 Audible (10.2K)

    22h 58m listening time • Released 2018

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