10 audiobooks for fans of Table for Two
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The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners
by Amor Towles, Jenny Minton Quigley, Emma Binder, Michele Mari, Brad Felver, Morris Collins, Jai Chakrabarti, Amber Caron, Francisco González, Caroline Kim, Katherine D. Stutzman, Juliana Leite, Kate DiCamillo, Colin Barrett, Robin Romm, Allegra Goodman, Dave Eggers, E.K. Ota, Tom Crewe, Madeline Ffitch, Jess Walter, Allegra Hyde, Brian Robert Moore, Zoë Perry
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Kristen DiMercurio, Blair Young, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Vikas Adam, Helen Laser, Johnny Rey Diaz, Jeena Yi, Jason Culp, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Dylan Moore, Alana Kerr Collins, Full Cast
Why this book?
The O. Henry Prize Winners collection features Amor Towles among its acclaimed short story contributors, offering the same literary sophistication and narrative intrigue in concentrated form, while Edoardo Ballerini's narration ensures a similarly immersive listening experience across the anthology's diverse mysteries and character studies.
★ 3.79 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (34)More about this pick
Prize-winning stories from Newbery winners, National Book Award nominees, and Pulitzer finalists get the full-cast treatment they deserve in this year's essential collection.
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Playground
by Richard Powers
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, Kevin R Free
Why this book?
Both audiobooks benefit from Edoardo Ballerini's nuanced narration to bring depth to intricate, character-driven mysteries that unfold across interconnected narratives. *Playground* offers a similarly immersive listening experience with its exploration of complex human relationships and hidden truths, enhanced by an ensemble cast that captures the same sophisticated tone as *Table for Two*.
★ 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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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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The Aeneid
by Virgil, Scott McGill, Susannah Wright, Emily Wilson
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Emily Wilson
★ 3.89 ABR Score (144.9K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (144.8K) ★ 4.71 Audible (21)More about this pick
Aeneas flees burning Troy to found Rome in Wilson's electrifying new translation, with Edoardo Ballerini capturing both the epic's violence and its surprising emotional intimacy.
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Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.83 ABR Score (198.6K ratings)★ 3.68 Goodreads (186.0K) ★ 4.03 Audible (12.6K)More about this pick
This time-jumping story connects 1960s Italy during the filming of Cleopatra with modern-day Hollywood through an almost-love affair. Edoardo Ballerini brings warmth and wit to Walter's meditation on dreams deferred.
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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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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)More about this pick
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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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 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
by Robert Dugoni
Narrated by Robert Dugoni
★ 4.68 ABR Score (253.5K ratings)★ 4.45 Goodreads (230.8K) ★ 4.67 Audible (22.7K)More about this pick
Born with red pupils that make him a target for bullying, Sam Hell navigates childhood with the help of two fellow misfits and family faith. Author Robert Dugoni narrates his own touching story.
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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)More about this pick
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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