Audiobooks Like The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Portrait of Youth, Wealth, and Moral Decay

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Adam Verner narrates at a pace that lets Fitzgerald's sentences do their quiet damage — this is a dark, introspective novel where the ruin accumulates slowly, and at fourteen hours there's enough room for the moral weight to settle without the performance ever needing to hurry past it. The audiobook earns its length because decay isn't an event here, it's a texture, and sitting inside it for the full stretch is precisely what makes the ending land. The books gathered here follow the same unhurried, unsparing logic — several narrated by Verner himself, a couple more drawn from Fitzgerald's catalog, and most carrying Goodreads ratings that reflect readers who chose to stay inside something genuinely dark rather than move through it.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Portrait of Youth, Wealth, and Moral Decay

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    Sons

    House of Earth • Book 2

    by Pearl S. Buck

    Narrated by Adam Verner

    ★ 3.92 ABR Score (8.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (641)
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    Wang Lung's three sons inherit his hard-won estate as revolution sweeps China, their greed threatening to destroy everything their father built.

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    This Side of Paradise

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    ★ 3.71 ABR Score (81.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (80.6K) ★ 4.01 Audible (395)
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    Fitzgerald's debut follows privileged Amory Blaine through Princeton and beyond as he drifts through love affairs and existential crises in the pre-war era.

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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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    The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward - introduction

    Narrated by Seth Numrich, Eleanor Lanahan, James L. W. West III

    ★ 4.05 ABR Score (6.0M ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (6.0M) ★ 4.62 Audible (47)
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    Seth Numrich captures Nick Carraway's mix of fascination and disgust as he watches Gatsby's American Dream curdle into tragedy.

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    The Hop

    by Diana Clarke

    Narrated by Taryn Ryan, Olivia Mackenzie-Smith, Adam Verner, Laura Petersen, Carolina Hoyos

    ★ 3.93 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (59)
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    Rural New Zealand girl Kate Burns transforms herself from attention-seeker to sex icon and unlikely feminist figure. The five-narrator ensemble creates distinct voices for Kate's complex journey from poverty to fame.

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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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    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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    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)
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    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)
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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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    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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