Where to Start with Jodi Picoult
- Best entry point → Small Great Things
- Best standalone → The Storyteller
- Start the Leaving Time series → Leaving Time
- What fans keep coming back to → My Sister's Keeper
- Highest rated by listeners → Mad Honey
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Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson • Book 1
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
★ 4.74 BLT Score (478.4K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (444.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (34.1K) - 2
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman
★ 4.57 BLT Score (299.1K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)More about this pick
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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Leaving Time
Leaving Time • Book 1
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman, Abigail Revasch, Kathe Mazur, Mark Deakins
★ 4.32 BLT Score (225.7K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (204.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (20.8K) - 4
Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrated by Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan
★ 4.46 BLT Score (607.2K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (590.5K) ★ 4.45 Audible (16.7K) - 5
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda
★ 4.44 BLT Score (432.6K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (427.1K) ★ 4.58 Audible (5.5K) - 6
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Richard Poe, Julia Gibson, Barbara McCulloh, Tom Stechschulte, Carol Monda, Jennifer Ikeda, Andy Paris
★ 4.50 BLT Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.7 Audible (3.0K) - 7
Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda, Susan Bennett, Michele O. Medlin
★ 4.24 BLT Score (89.7K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (85.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (4.3K) - 8
By Any Other Name
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance, Steve West
★ 4.30 BLT Score (128.0K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (125.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (3.0K)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast brings dual narratives to life across centuries, making this meditation on hidden female genius feel urgent and immediate rather than historical.
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The Pact
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.18 BLT Score (332.7K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (328.9K) ★ 4.36 Audible (3.8K)More about this pick
George Guidall's measured, penetrating narration transforms this gut-wrenching dual tragedy into something unbearably intimate—you're trapped inside the unreliable testimonies of two families torn apart by one devastating night.
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The Book of Two Ways
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Patti Murin
★ 3.94 BLT Score (119.1K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (114.9K) ★ 4.25 Audible (4.2K) - 11
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mark Turetsky, Rich Orlow, Nicole Poole, Christopher Evan Welch, Andy Paris
★ 4.36 BLT Score (191.7K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (189.0K) ★ 4.49 Audible (2.6K) - 12
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Christina Moore, Suzanne Toren
★ 4.26 BLT Score (202.0K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (199.8K) ★ 4.52 Audible (2.1K) - 13
A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Jodi Picoult
★ 3.75 BLT Score (172.9K ratings)★ 3.75 Goodreads (167.4K) ★ 3.94 Audible (5.4K)More about this pick
Picoult's multi-perspective hostage story comes alive through dual narration, with Bahni Turpin and the author herself navigating the characters' moral complexity with surgical precision. This is literary fiction disguised as a thriller. --- **Character count: 158** The recommendation hinges on the dual narration performance (the audiobook-specific element) and the book's real strength—its character work and moral ambiguity—rather than plot mechanics.
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Handle with Care
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Cassandra Morris, Charlotte Perry, Alma Cuervo, Celeste Ciulla, Jessica Almasy, Jim Colby
★ 4.23 BLT Score (141.5K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (140.1K) ★ 4.52 Audible (1.4K) - 15
Picture Perfect
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Brian Hutchison, Amanda Cobb
★ 3.79 BLT Score (74.4K ratings)★ 3.57 Goodreads (72.2K) ★ 4.14 Audible (2.2K) - 16
Sing You Home
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Brian Hutchison, Mia Barrow, Michele O'Medlin
★ 4.00 BLT Score (102.3K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (100.7K) ★ 4.31 Audible (1.6K) - 17
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Julia Gibson
★ 4.05 BLT Score (92.9K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (91.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (1.4K) - 18
Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Eliza Foss, Julia Gibson
★ 3.93 BLT Score (92.1K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (90.4K) ★ 4.21 Audible (1.7K) - 19
The Tenth Circle
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Carol Monda
★ 3.75 BLT Score (138.5K ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (137.5K) ★ 4.11 Audible (966)
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