Audiobooks Like Great Expectations

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Simon Prebble reads Dickens at a measured pace that gives every eccentric character room to breathe — Miss Havisham in particular benefits from his restraint, where underplaying the grotesquerie makes it stranger. Four of the recommendations are also Dickens titles, and Prebble returns for one of them, so if you want more of that Victorian social texture with a narrator who understands how to handle long sentences and moral irony, the list is assembled with that specific listening experience in mind.

10 audiobooks for fans of Great Expectations

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    A Christmas Carol: A Signature Performance

    by Charles Dickens, Tim Curry

    Narrated by Tim Curry

    ★ 4.63 ABR Score (971.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (947.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (23.8K)
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    Scrooge's supernatural Christmas Eve encounters with three spirits offer his last chance at redemption. Tim Curry's dark, theatrical narration returns this beloved holiday story to its Victorian gothic roots with delicious menace.

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    A Christmas Carol

    by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Maxine Mitchell, Tim Paige, Lucy Rivers, Tieran Wilder, Devon Ryder, Gary Furlong, Joe Arden, Sebastian York, Troy Duran

    ★ 3.96 ABR Score (947.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (947.6K) ★ 5 Audible (6)
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    Ebenezer Scrooge faces three spirits who show him past, present, and future Christmases to save his soul from eternal misery. A nine-narrator performance brings new voices to Dickens's timeless tale of redemption and second chances.

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    Oliver Twist

    by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.89 ABR Score (431.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (431.1K) ★ 4.53 Audible (17)
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    Dickens' tale of the workhouse orphan who falls among London thieves gets crisp, engaging treatment from Alex Jennings in this classic Victorian adventure.

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    The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Early Years

    by Charles Dickens, Alex Jennings, Anna Massey, Bill Nighy, Julia McKenzie, Pam Ferris, Phil Daniels, Robert Glenister, Sandi Toksvig, Tim McInnerny

    Narrated by Full Cast, Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, Phil Daniels, Julia McKenzie, Tim McInnerny, Robert Glenister

    ★ 3.64 ABR Score (69 ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (15) ★ 4.5 Audible (54)
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    Seven Dickens novels receive full BBC radio treatment with stellar casting including Bill Nighy and Julia McKenzie, transforming classics like Nicholas Nickleby into immersive theatrical experiences spanning 35+ hours.

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    Nicholas Nickleby

    by Anne de Graaf, Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.90 ABR Score (322 ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (34) ★ 4.72 Audible (288)
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    Alex Jennings solo performance spans over 34 hours, capturing every character in Dickens' sweeping indictment of 19th-century social inequality.

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    Our Mutual Friend

    Our Mutual Friend #1-2

    by Charles Dickens, Richard Gaughan

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    ★ 3.85 ABR Score (31.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (31.6K) ★ 4 Audible (6)
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    Dickens's final completed novel revolves around a dust-heap inheritance and a mysterious drowning in the Thames that changes multiple fortunes.

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    The Cricket on the Hearth

    by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    ★ 3.75 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.47 Goodreads (8.8K) ★ 4.31 Audible (319)
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    Jim Dale's warmth suits Dickens' most domestic Christmas tale, where a cricket's chirping becomes the soundtrack to marital doubt and redemption.

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    A Word Child

    by Iris Murdoch

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    ★ 3.74 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.12 Audible (52)
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    Civil servant Hilary Burde's orderly life shatters when his former victim becomes his department head, reopening old wounds. Simon Prebble navigates Murdoch's psychological complexity with measured precision.

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    Victorian Anthologies: Christmas Spirits

    by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Hume Nisbet, John Kendrick Bangs, Amelia B. Edwards, Frank Cowper, Clara Venn, F. Anstey, Verson Lee, Natalie Chisholm, Chris Kaye, Jonathan Rhodes

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    ★ 3.56 ABR Score (22 ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (22)
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    Classic Victorian ghost stories from Dickens, Braddon, and others create the perfect atmospheric Christmas horror collection for winter nights.

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    Dombey and son /

    by Charles Dickens

    Narrated by Alex Jennings, Full Cast, Robert Glenister

    ★ 3.56 ABR Score (63 ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (58) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)
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    The full cast approach brings Victorian London's social complexities to vivid life through Dickens's exploration of pride, family, and commercial ambition.

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