10 audiobooks for fans of Nine Perfect Strangers
- 1
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies • Book 1
Narrated by Caroline Lee
★ 4.41 ABR Score (55.9K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (448) ★ 4.64 Audible (55.5K)More about this pick
Kindergarten parent politics mask deeper secrets that explode into violence in this darkly comic thriller. Lee's narration captures the suburban tensions and hidden traumas that turn school pickup into a battleground.
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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)More about this pick
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)More about this pick
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)More about this pick
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)More about this pick
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 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 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)More about this pick
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 Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by Michael Crouch
★ 4.46 ABR Score (179.2K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (175.1K) ★ 4.59 Audible (4.1K)More about this pick
Yale's art world triumph collides with the AIDS epidemic devastating 1980s Chicago in parallel with a mother's search for her daughter in modern Paris. Michael Crouch navigates both timelines with emotional precision, honoring each character's pain and resilience.
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The House of the Spirits
Trilogía Involuntaria • Book 3
by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin
Narrated by Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez
★ 4.35 ABR Score (328.3K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K)More about this pick
Three generations of the Trueba family navigate love, politics, and supernatural forces in an unnamed Latin American country. The magical realist epic spans decades of political upheaval while exploring how personal relationships intersect with larger historical forces in unforgettable ways.
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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)More about this pick
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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