Audiobooks Like My Antonia

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George Guidall brings a warm, unhurried patience to My Ántonia that suits the book's elegiac mood perfectly — he reads Cather's prairie prose like someone recalling a beloved place from a great distance, the nostalgia built into every sentence. At nine hours it moves at the pace of memory itself, never rushing. Several of these recommendations feature Guidall himself, and the rest share that same quality of literary fiction that settles in slowly and stays with you long after.

10 audiobooks for fans of My Antonia

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    The Trial cover

    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)
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    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.

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    The Sheep Queen

    by Tom Savage

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.77 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (98)
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    George Guidall's measured, penetrating delivery unlocks the quiet devastation in Savage's prose—a novel about family secrets that feels less like plot and more like watching a life fracture in real time.

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    [Exit Ghost] [By: Roth, Philip] [September, 2008]

    Complete Nathan Zuckerman • Book 9

    by Philip Roth

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.64 ABR Score (6.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (5.8K) ★ 4.05 Audible (155)
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    George Guidall's weathered, deliberate performance captures Roth's late-career reckoning with aging and desire—he makes Zuckerman's isolation and sudden re-entry into the world feel genuinely unsettling.

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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)
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    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)
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    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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    Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid

    ★ 4.68 ABR Score (778.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (19.8K)
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    Joan Goodwin abandons her quiet professor life to join NASA's first female astronaut program, chasing childhood dreams among the stars. The multi-narrator approach captures different perspectives in this space race drama.

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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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    I Must Betray You

    by Ruta Sepetys

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (103.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (101.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.7K)
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    Ballerini's dual narration captures the suffocating paranoia of Cold War Romania so viscerally you'll feel the weight of every impossible choice Cristian makes. A gripping true-stakes thriller about resistance that refuses easy heroics.

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    Say Goodbye for Now

    by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Nick Podehl, Teri Schnaubelt

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (29.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.55 Audible (2.3K)
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    Nick Podehl and Teri Schnaubelt bring richness to Hyde's story of outsiders finding belonging in 1950s Texas—their dual narration deepens the emotional weight of a love and friendship that society forbids.

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    Long Way Gone

    by Charles Martin

    Narrated by Adam Verner

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (21.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (20.2K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.5K)
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    A failed Nashville musician's journey back to his Tennessee roots unfolds with Adam Verner's warm narration perfectly matching this story of redemption and second chances.

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