Audiobooks Like Hello Beautiful

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If you loved Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Maura Tierney's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Hello Beautiful

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    Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger Games

    by Suzanne Collins

    Narrated by Jefferson White

    4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)
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    Young Haymitch faces the brutal Quarter Quell with twice the usual tributes in this Hunger Games prequel. Jefferson White captures the desperation beautifully.

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    Theo of Golden

    by Allen Levi

    Narrated by David Morse

    4.85 ABR Score (178.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (168.5K) ★ 4.89 Audible (10.3K)
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    A mysterious stranger buys pencil portraits in a small Southern town, with David Morse's weathered voice adding layers of intrigue to every encounter.

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    The Great Alone

    by Kristin Hannah

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.79 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)
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    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

    4.74 ABR Score (478.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (444.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (34.1K)
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    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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    My Friends

    by Fredrik Backman

    Narrated by Marin Ireland

    4.58 ABR Score (421.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (413.4K) ★ 4.64 Audible (8.5K)
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    Backman explores how four teenagers' friendship changes a stranger's life decades later, with Marin Ireland capturing every nuance of this deeply moving tale.

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    The River

    by Wally Lamb

    Narrated by Jeremy Sisto

    4.47 ABR Score (159.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (155.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.0K)
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    Jeremy Sisto voices Corby Ledbetter's journey from addiction and tragedy through prison brutality toward possible redemption in Lamb's latest.

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    The Godfather

    The Godfather • Book 1

    by Mario Puzo

    Narrated by Joe Mantegna

    4.35 ABR Score (468.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (468.0K) ★ 4.88 Audible (128)
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    Joe Mantegna's performance captures both the intimacy of family dinners and the brutality of Corleone business dealings. His narration honors Puzo's epic scope while highlighting the personal costs of power, tradition, and revenge in America's most infamous crime family.

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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)
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    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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    The Darkest Child

    by Delores Phillips

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    4.59 ABR Score (24.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (17.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (6.5K)
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    Set in 1958 Georgia, this devastating story follows thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae as she endures her violent, colorist mother's abuse while fighting for education and escape.

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    UnDivided

    Unwind Dystology • Book 4

    by Neal Shusterman

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4.57 ABR Score (34.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (32.4K) ★ 4.77 Audible (2.0K)
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    Luke Daniels brings devastating clarity to this finale, making the moral reckoning hit harder than any previous book in the series. The stakes feel genuinely apocalyptic because he forces you to hear the humanity in every side of an impossible conflict.

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