10 audiobooks for fans of The Goldfinch
- 1
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Narrated by Donna Tartt
★ 4.10 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.17 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
Elite college students studying ancient Greek attempt to recreate Dionysiac rituals, leading to murder and the unraveling of their exclusive academic circle. Tartt narrates her own masterpiece.
- 2
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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The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Narrated by Karen White
★ 3.38 ABR Score (84.8K ratings)★ 3.48 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 3.62 Audible (1.2K)More about this pick
Twelve years after her brother Robin's unsolved murder, young Harriet Dufresnes launches her own investigation in 1970s Mississippi. Tartt's dense Southern Gothic unfolds slowly through richly detailed character portraits.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter • Book 5
by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Narrated by Jim Dale
★ 5.00 ABR Score (3.9M ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)More about this pick
Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.
- 5
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Narrated by Abraham Verghese
★ 4.62 ABR Score (337.4K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (11.3K)More about this pick
Three generations of a Kerala family are haunted by a strange condition where family members drown despite being skilled swimmers. Verghese narrates his own sweeping epic, bringing intimate knowledge to this multigenerational saga of love, medicine, and mysterious tragedy spanning eight decades.
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The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble
★ 4.13 ABR Score (297.3K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (29)More about this pick
Every Poe tale from "The Raven" to "The Fall of the House of Usher" gets the full gothic treatment. Narrators Jonathan Keeble and Peter Noble understand that Poe's horror lives in atmosphere, not jump scares.
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.42 ABR Score (164.8K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (154.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.2K)More about this pick
Scott Brick's gripping narration follows prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's inside account of the Manson family's brutal Tate-LaBianca murders and trial.
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal
★ 4.39 ABR Score (958.4K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (944.0K) ★ 4.46 Audible (14.4K)More about this pick
Maggie Gyllenhaal narrates Anna with such intelligence and vulnerability that Tolstoy's century-old tragedy feels like a story unfolding in real time.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Narrated by Rupert Degas
★ 4.22 ABR Score (323.4K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (317.7K) ★ 4.32 Audible (5.7K)More about this pick
Searching for his wife's missing cat leads Toru Okada into Tokyo's hidden world of mysterious women, psychic powers, and buried wartime secrets. Degas captures Murakami's surreal atmosphere as reality bends around a man whose quiet life becomes entangled with Japan's violent historical past.
- 10
The Brothers K
by David James Duncan
Narrated by Robertson Dean
★ 4.17 ABR Score (17.2K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.78 Audible (83)More about this pick
Robertson Dean captures each family member's distinct voice as the Chance family navigates Vietnam War-era America through baseball, religion, and sibling bonds spanning decades.
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