Audiobooks Like The Thirteenth Tale

10 audiobooks for fans of The Thirteenth Tale

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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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   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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   If You Want to Make God Laugh

   by Bianca Marais

   Narrated by Bianca Amato, Katharine Lee McEwan, Bahni Turpin

   Both audiobooks benefit from intimate, layered narration that draws listeners into deeply personal mysteries woven through complex family histories. The shared narrator's nuanced performance captures the same atmospheric, character-driven storytelling that makes *The Thirteenth Tale* compelling—where uncovering secrets becomes as much about understanding human motivation as solving the central plot.

   ★ 4.19 ABR Score (5.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (5.2K) ★ 4.72 Audible (224)

   12h 39m listening time • Released 2019

   Three narrators bring three women's intersecting crises to vivid life across post-Apartheid South Africa, creating an audiobook experience that deepens every emotional turn.

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   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

   by Stephen Graham Jones

   Narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, Owen Teale

   ★ 4.12 ABR Score (49.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (47.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (1.7K)

   15h 29m listening time • Released 2025

   Shane Ghostkeeper's performance transforms this into essential listening—a horror novel where the narrator's voice becomes part of the terror, pulling you deeper into Jones's relentless mythology.

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   Saving Fish from Drowning

   by Amy Tan

   Narrated by Amy Tan

   ★ 3.30 ABR Score (33.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.47 Goodreads (33.2K) ★ 3.45 Audible (495)

   17h 39m listening time • Released 2008

   Amy Tan narrating her own deadpan ghost narrator is the perfect match: wry, precise, and weaving between comedy and heartbreak as tourists stumble through Burma with zero cultural awareness. Her voice makes the chaos feel intimate rather than chaotic.

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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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   Remarkably Bright Creatures

   by Shelby Van Pelt

   Narrated by Marin Ireland, Michael Urie

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.79 Audible (62.8K)

   11h 16m listening time • Released 2022

   Marin Ireland and Michael Urie elevate this widow-and-octopus story into something genuinely moving, their dual narration making the emotional reckoning feel earned rather than sentimental.

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   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 2025

   A 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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   The Great Alone

   by Kristin Hannah

   Narrated by Julia Whelan

   Both novels weave atmospheric storytelling with deeply personal mysteries that unfold gradually, drawing listeners into richly layered narratives where family secrets and hidden truths drive the plot forward. Julia Whelan's immersive narration captures the same haunting, character-driven tension that makes *The Thirteenth Tale* so compelling, while the Alaskan wilderness setting provides a similarly gothic and isolating backdrop for psychological drama.

   ★ 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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