10 audiobooks for fans of Gilgamesh: Versión de Stephen Mitchell
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Psalms
Bible • Book 19
by Anonymous
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.52 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 4.65 Goodreads (2.4K)More about this pick
Ballerini's measured, reverent delivery transforms these ancient songs into intimate meditations—his voice becomes the instrument through which centuries of human longing and praise find their most resonant expression.
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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.
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov, George Guidall, Diana Burgin - Translator - translator, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor - Translator - translator
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.64 ABR Score (428.1K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (428.1K)More about this pick
George Guidall guides listeners through Bulgakov's wild satire where Satan visits Stalin's Moscow and chaos erupts across the literary scene.
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DON QUIXOTE. Translated
Don Quijote de la Mancha #1-2
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.31 ABR Score (314.6K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (308.1K) ★ 4.54 Audible (6.5K)More about this pick
An aging gentleman reads so many chivalric romances that he decides to become a knight-errant himself, accompanied by his practical squire Sancho Panza. Guidall's narration spans the epic adventures of literature's most famous delusional hero and his increasingly wise fool companion across their quixotic journeys.
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We Are Water
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Sandy Rustin
★ 4.03 ABR Score (59.5K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (56.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast transforms this multigenerational family reckoning into something closer to theater than narration, with each voice bringing authentic depth to competing perspectives on love, loyalty, and secrets.
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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.00 ABR Score (156.3K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (155.6K) ★ 4.37 Audible (717)More about this pick
George Guidall's steady narration carries Sinclair's brutal exposé of Chicago's meatpacking plants and immigrant workers' exploitation in early America.
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.00 ABR Score (202.8K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (199.7K) ★ 4.23 Audible (3.1K)More about this pick
The Lambert family's dysfunction explodes during one final Christmas gathering as parents age and adult children struggle with modern life. Guidall captures the bitter humor and genuine pathos of this Midwestern family's slow-motion collapse.
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.96 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (309)More about this pick
Medieval peasant Baudolino spins fantastical tales of invented kingdoms and forged letters to a Byzantine historian during the Fourth Crusade's chaos.
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka, Yavar Ismayilov
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.96 ABR Score (403.1K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (402.2K) ★ 4.15 Audible (893)More about this pick
Josef K. navigates a surreal legal system after his mysterious arrest for an unnamed crime. George Guidall's measured performance emphasizes the absurdist horror of Kafka's bureaucratic maze.
- 10
The Hour I First Believed
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.93 ABR Score (67.5K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (66.1K) ★ 4.22 Audible (1.3K)More about this pick
Lamb weaves together myth, psychology, and generations of family history in this introspective novel that expands beyond his previous work.
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