10 audiobooks for fans of Emma
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Jane Austen: The BBC Radio Drama Collection
by Jane Austen, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Tennant, Julia McKenzie, Juliet Stephenson, Eve Best, Jenny Agutter
Narrated by Julia McKenzie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliet Stevenson, Eve Best, Jenny Agutter, Toby Jones, full cast, David Tennant
★ 4.15 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (613) ★ 4.56 Audible (2.4K)More about this pick
All six Austen novels performed as BBC radio drama by ensemble casts that make period literature feel as immediate as contemporary fiction.
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Sense and Sensibility: Jane Austen's Timeless Romance for Teens About Sisterhood, Passion, and Love
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.46 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.67 Audible (3.6K)More about this pick
Two sisters with opposite hearts, two kinds of heartbreak. Stevenson's narration transforms Austen's wit and pain into something you can't stop listening to.
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen's Novels
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Frances Barber
★ 4.22 ABR Score (386.0K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (382.8K) ★ 4.52 Audible (3.2K)More about this pick
Frances Barber brings sharp wit to Austen's most underrated heroine, making Fanny Price's quiet strength feel radical rather than passive.
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Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen, Lulu Raczka
Narrated by Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy, Sophie Wilde, Will Poulter, Jessie Buckley, Toheeb Jimoh, Patricia Allison, Bertie Carvel, Leah Harvey, David Gyasi, Rosalind Eleazar, full cast
★ 4.55 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)★ 4.36 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.1K)More about this pick
Austen's marriage comedy gets full-cast treatment with an impressive ensemble including Glenn Close, Bill Nighy, and rising stars bringing fresh energy.
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The Jane Austen Collection
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, Florence Pugh, Emma Thompson
★ 4.53 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)★ 4.59 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.77 Audible (3.5K) - 6
North and South Annotated
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
★ 4.45 ABR Score (193.1K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (185.2K) ★ 4.64 Audible (7.9K)More about this pick
Juliet Stevenson captures Margaret's quiet defiance and the slow-burn romance with such depth that 18 hours dissolves completely.
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Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen Collection)
Jane Austen's Novels
by Jane Austen
Narrated by Emma Thompson, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ella Purnell, Jeremy Irvine, Lily Cole
★ 4.26 ABR Score (465.4K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (459.4K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.0K)More about this pick
Catherine Morland's Gothic novel obsession leads to hilarious misunderstandings when she visits the Tilney family estate. The full-cast recording featuring Emma Thompson and others captures Austen's wit and Catherine's melodramatic imagination perfectly through distinct character voices.
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Lady Susan:(Jane Austen Collection)
by Jane Austen, Larvae Editions
Narrated by Harriet Walter, Kim Hicks
★ 3.82 ABR Score (54.3K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (54.1K) ★ 4.31 Audible (138)More about this pick
The novella where Austen stops being polite: Lady Susan's wit and schemes, narrated by Harriet Walter in 2.5 perfectly acidic hours.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
Narrated by Julia Whelan
★ 4.76 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)More about this pick
Julia Whelan captures both Alaska's brutal beauty and a family's desperate struggle when a volatile Vietnam vet moves them off-grid in 1974.
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Small Great Things
Ruth Jefferson • Book 1
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos
★ 4.71 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.
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