Audiobooks Like The Storyteller

10 audiobooks for fans of The Storyteller

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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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   The Divine Comedy

   La Divina Commedia #1-3 • Book 1

   by Dante Alighieri

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.08 ABR Score (176.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.09 Goodreads (174.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (1.8K)

   14h 38m listening time • Released 2013

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   Long Island Compromise

   by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

   ★ 3.90 ABR Score (48.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.75 Goodreads (47.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (674)

   15h 23m listening time • Released 2024

   Brodesser-Akner's dual narration with Ballerini cuts between family members wrestling with old trauma, making each voice a distinct conscience arguing with the others—it's the audio format doing the psychological heavy lifting that prose alone couldn't.

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   The Holy Bible: King James Version

   by Anonymous

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Prentice Onayemi, Ellen Archer, LJ Ganser, Jennifer Van Dyck, Suzanne Toren

   ★ 4.56 ABR Score (322.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.45 Goodreads (320.9K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.5K)

   82h 53m listening time • Released 2020

   The King James Version's cadence and poetry hit different when spoken aloud by this all-star ensemble cast, making the language feel alive rather than archaic.

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   I Must Betray You

   by Ruta Sepetys

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys

   ★ 4.56 ABR Score (103.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (101.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.7K)

   7h 10m listening time • Released 2022

   Ballerini's dual narration captures the suffocating paranoia of Cold War Romania so viscerally you'll feel the weight of every impossible choice Cristian makes. A gripping true-stakes thriller about resistance that refuses easy heroics.

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   Summary of the Lincoln Highway

   by Smith Lincon

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham

   ★ 4.19 ABR Score (23.8K ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (13) ★ 4.61 Audible (23.7K)

   16h 39m listening time • Released 2021

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   Martin Eden

   by Jack London

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (56.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.48 Goodreads (56.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (56)

   14h 7m listening time • Released 2020

   Ballerini's measured, introspective performance captures the raw hunger of a working-class man clawing toward literary success—turning London's ambitious novel into a quietly devastating character study about the cost of ambition.

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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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    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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