Audiobooks Like City of Thieves

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Ron Perlman's voice carries a roughness that suits a story set in a starving city during wartime — there's gravel and weight in his delivery, and a dry, dark humor that keeps the Leningrad siege from becoming pure suffering. At eight hours the listen moves quickly, and Perlman keeps the friendship at the story's center feeling warm even when the circumstances are brutal. These recommendations share similar runtimes and carry the same balance of historical violence and human connection.

10 audiobooks for fans of City of Thieves

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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back • Book 1

    by Erich Maria Remarque

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    ★ 4.54 ABR Score (537.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (525.3K) ★ 4.67 Audible (12.3K)
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    Muller's raw narration captures a young soldier watching everything he believed in collapse in the trenches. Unflinching, intimate, and absolutely merciless.

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    The Chosen: Come and See

    The Chosen • Book 2

    by Jerry B. Jenkins

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (895 ratings)
    ★ 4.78 Goodreads (624) ★ 4.99 Audible (271)
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    Simon Vance's narration elevates Jenkins' reimagining into something genuinely alive—his distinctive voices for each disciple make you feel like you're actually there witnessing the chaos and wonder unfold.

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    In the Heart of the Sea

    by Nathaniel Philbrick

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.24 ABR Score (123.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (119.9K) ★ 4.43 Audible (3.6K)
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    Scott Brick's measured, gripping narration transforms this true whale-hunt survival story into pure disaster cinema. It's the kind of audiobook that makes a commute disappear.

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    For Crew and Country (April, 2014)

    by John Wukovits

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    ★ 4.23 ABR Score (1.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (452) ★ 4.73 Audible (862)
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    Robertson Dean's measured, respectful narration captures the tension and heroism of the Samuel B. Roberts' last stand—a true underdog naval battle that deserves to be heard as much as read.

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    The Prince and The Pauper

    by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    ★ 4.07 ABR Score (126.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (126.0K) ★ 4.69 Audible (127)
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    Tudor England's class divide becomes personal when Prince Edward and street beggar Tom Canty switch identities for a lark. Dick Hill guides listeners through Twain's social satire with storytelling warmth.

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    Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

    by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

    Narrated by Anderson Cooper

    ★ 4.05 ABR Score (21.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (20.5K) ★ 4.52 Audible (1.4K)
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    Cooper traces his family's connection to the Astor dynasty, from German immigrant John Jacob's arrival to the fortune's eventual dissolution across two centuries.

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    Munich

    by Robert Harris

    Narrated by David Rintoul

    ★ 3.93 ABR Score (31.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (29.8K) ★ 4.31 Audible (1.7K)
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    Opposing spies who were once friends at Munich's darkest hour. Rintoul's measured narration cuts through the betrayals and compromises with brutal precision.

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    Pompeii

    by Robert Harris

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 3.85 ABR Score (56.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (54.4K) ★ 4.2 Audible (2.5K)
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    Knowing Vesuvius erupts doesn't spoil this: Harris builds genuine dread watching an engineer frantically solve a crisis as catastrophe nears.

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    The Sisters Brothers

    by Patrick deWitt

    Narrated by John Pruden

    ★ 3.85 ABR Score (105.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (103.8K) ★ 4.2 Audible (1.7K)
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    Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious assassins, journey to Gold Rush California to kill Hermann Kermit Warm, bickering constantly along the way. DeWitt's darkly comic Western follows sibling dynamics through America's violent expansion.

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    Lincoln In The Bardo

    by George Saunders

    Narrated by George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Carrie Brownstein, Don Cheadle, Lena Dunham, Bill Hader, Kirby Heyborne, Keegan-Michael Key, Julianne Moore, Megan Mullally, Susan Sarandon, Ben Stiller, Various

    ★ 3.65 ABR Score (190.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (179.7K) ★ 3.97 Audible (10.6K)
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    Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, and a star-studded cast voice the dead trapped in a Washington cemetery while Lincoln grieves his son Willie during the Civil War.

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