Audiobooks Like The Great Gatsby

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Seth Numrich reads Nick Carraway with just enough remove to honor the novel's ironies, and the three-voice production gives Gatsby and Daisy room to exist as distinct presences rather than characters filtered entirely through Nick's narration. At six hours, it's a tight, elegant listen. Several of the recommendations share Fitzgerald's authorship, and the rest orbit this same compact, Jazz Age frequency — classic American literary fiction that rewards close listening.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Great Gatsby

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

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Narrated by Adam Verner

    ★ 3.76 ABR Score (65.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.73 Goodreads (65.8K) ★ 3.96 Audible (57)
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    Verner captures the languid decadence of Anthony and Gloria Patch's dissolute Jazz Age marriage as they wait for an inheritance that may never come.

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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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    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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    The Body

    by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (45.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (45.7K)
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    King's coming-of-age tale about four boys searching for a dead body captures the raw terror and wonder of childhood friendships on the brink of dissolving.

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

    Narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (6.0M ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (6.0M) ★ 4.47 Audible (23.7K)
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    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

    ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.36 Audible (23.9K)
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    A father and son trek across post-apocalyptic America, scavenging for food while avoiding cannibals in this haunting meditation on survival and love.

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    Slaughterhouse-Five

    by Kurt Vonnegut

    Narrated by James Franco

    ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.31 Audible (19.8K)
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    Billy Pilgrim's time-jumping journey through World War II and alien abduction creates Vonnegut's darkly comic meditation on war's psychological aftermath.

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    Lord Of The Flies

    by Raymond Wilson

    Narrated by William Golding

    ★ 4.10 ABR Score (3.2M ratings)
    ★ 3.7 Goodreads (3.2M) ★ 4.28 Audible (11.0K)
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    British schoolboys stranded on an island descend from civilization to savagery with chilling inevitability. Golding's narration adds weight to this exploration of humanity's darker instincts.

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    The Jungle Temple Oracle

    The Mystery of Herobrine • Book 2

    by Mark Cheverton

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (599 ratings)
    ★ 4.52 Goodreads (569) ★ 4.77 Audible (30)
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    Luke Daniels brings genuine urgency to this jungle-temple adventure, making the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with an AI villain feel genuinely claustrophobic and tense.

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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter • Book 3

    by J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Jim Dale

    ★ 5.00 ABR Score (5.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (4.9M) ★ 4.94 Audible (130.7K)
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    Jim Dale's narration transforms this into the series' emotional turning point, giving each character distinct life while building genuine dread alongside the mystery. His performance alone justifies the nearly 12-hour listen.

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