10 audiobooks for fans of Cloud Atlas
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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)More about this pick
Three stellar narrators handle this explosive story of a Black nurse forbidden from touching a white supremacist couple's newborn with devastating emotional precision.
- 2
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)More about this pick
Scott Brick's gripping narration follows prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's inside account of the Manson family's brutal Tate-LaBianca murders and trial.
- 3
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
by Ayn Rand
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.28 ABR Score (427.6K ratings)★ 3.69 Goodreads (408.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (19.3K)More about this pick
Scott Brick's commanding performance transforms Rand's philosophical epic into something genuinely gripping—he gives each character a distinct voice that makes the 63-hour journey feel essential, not exhausting.
- 4
Under the Banner of Heaven
by Jon Krakauer
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.28 ABR Score (236.0K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (9.2K)More about this pick
Krakauer dissects Mormon fundamentalist violence and polygamy through a double murder case, with Scott Brick handling the disturbing details unflinchingly.
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.26 ABR Score (375.2K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (362.9K) ★ 4.37 Audible (12.4K)More about this pick
Scott Brick's narration transforms this book-lover's redemption story into something genuinely moving—his gruff tenderness as A.J. feels earned, not performed.
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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
Narrated by John Lee
★ 3.97 ABR Score (104.6K ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (103.8K) ★ 4.18 Audible (787)More about this pick
Pasternak's epic follows poet-physician Yuri Zhivago through the Russian Revolution's upheaval and his impossible love for Lara. John Lee guides listeners through this sweeping tale of art, politics, and passion across revolutionary Russia.
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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)More about this pick
Five interconnected novellas spanning literary academics, a sports journalist, and mysterious murders in a Mexican border town create Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece. Multiple narrators handle the ambitious scope beautifully.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, J.U. Nicolson
Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Jay Carnes, Ray Porter, John Lee, Malcolm Hillgartner, Ralph Cosham, Simon Vance
★ 3.46 ABR Score (239.5K ratings)★ 3.53 Goodreads (238.9K) ★ 3.63 Audible (606)More about this pick
A rotating cast of seven narrators brings Chaucer's medieval voices alive with distinct personalities and accents, making the fourteenth-century banter feel less dusty textbook and more like eavesdropping on real people.
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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)More about this pick
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.
- 10
The Last Tribe
by Brad Manuel
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.16 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (4.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (16.6K)More about this pick
Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon survives a global pandemic at boarding school, facing not just physical survival but crushing loneliness as one of humanity's few survivors.
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