10 audiobooks for fans of I Must Betray You
- 1
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman
★ 4.57 ABR Score (299.1K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)More about this pick
When an elderly man asks baker Sage to help him die as penance for his Nazi past, she must confront family history and impossible moral choices. Multiple narrators handle the interconnected timelines skillfully, from modern grief support groups to Holocaust survival stories.
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various
★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)More about this pick
Through discovered letters, the life story of a remarkable woman unfolds across decades of love, loss, war, and artistic passion. This epistolary novel examines how written words preserve and transform our understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary lives.
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James
by Percival Everett
Narrated by Dominic Hoffman
★ 4.76 ABR Score (552.1K ratings)★ 4.42 Goodreads (533.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (18.6K)More about this pick
Jim's perspective on the Huckleberry Finn story reveals the brutal realities of slavery through brilliant code-switching between dialects. Dominic Hoffman's performance captures every nuanced layer of survival and dignity.
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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 Body
by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King
Narrated by Wil Wheaton
★ 4.52 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (45.7K)More about this pick
King's coming-of-age tale about four boys searching for a dead body captures the raw terror and wonder of childhood friendships on the brink of dissolving.
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Table for Two
Rules of Civility #1.5 incl'd
by Amor Towles
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
★ 4.36 ABR Score (73.6K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (71.8K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.8K)More about this pick
Towles returns to his New York and Los Angeles settings with six stories plus a novella about Hollywood's golden age. Ballerini and Smith-Cameron split duties, each bringing distinct voices to Towles's elegant character studies.
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Playground
by Richard Powers
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, Kevin R Free
★ 4.24 ABR Score (47.6K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (46.5K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.1K)More about this pick
Powers connects four lives across decades and continents in this oceanic meditation on technology and nature. The ensemble cast guides listeners through underwater Montreal, Pacific naval bases, and AI boardrooms with distinct vocal textures.
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White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.23 ABR Score (371.7K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K) ★ 4.5 Audible (777)More about this pick
During St. Petersburg's luminous white nights, a lonely dreamer meets a young woman waiting for her lover's return. Edoardo Ballerini's performance captures the narrator's romantic longing and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited connection.
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The Art Thief
by Michael Finkel
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Finkel
★ 4.14 ABR Score (104.0K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (102.4K) ★ 4.45 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Ballerini captures the obsessive psychology of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art purely for love rather than money.
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The Divine Comedy
La Divina Commedia #1-3 • Book 1
by Dante Alighieri
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.08 ABR Score (176.2K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (174.4K) ★ 4.25 Audible (1.8K)More about this pick
Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise guided by Virgil remains literature's most ambitious spiritual quest. Edoardo Ballerini brings operatic grandeur to the medieval Italian epic while keeping the narrative momentum clear.
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