Audiobooks Like The Green Mile

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If you loved The Green Mile by Stephen King, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Frank Muller's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Green Mile

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    The Dark Tower I-III Boxed Set

    The Dark Tower #1-3 • Book 3

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.63 ABR Score (34.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (8.6K) ★ 4.84 Audible (25.5K)
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    Roland's relentless pursuit of the Man in Black across a dying world launches King's epic fantasy series. Frank Muller's iconic narration helped define these characters for an entire generation of listeners.

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    The Talisman

    The Talisman • Book 1

    by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    4.17 ABR Score (160.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (143.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (17.1K)
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    Twelve-year-old Jack travels between our world and a dark parallel dimension to find a magical talisman that can save his dying mother in this ambitious King-Straub collaboration.

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    Song of Susannah

    The Dark Tower • Book 6

    by Stephen King, Darrel Anderson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.32 ABR Score (192.7K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (177.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (15.5K)
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    Susannah's body hosts the demon Mia as she travels to 1999 New York to birth Roland's nemesis, while the ka-tet faces their most personal catastrophe yet.

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    Fairy Tale

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Seth Numrich, Stephen King

    4.52 ABR Score (426.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (345.9K) ★ 4.72 Audible (80.1K)
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    King sends teenager Charlie Reade into a parallel world where good and evil wage war, with the stakes reaching beyond both dimensions.

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    Wolves of the Calla

    The Dark Tower • Book 5

    by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.47 ABR Score (221.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (203.6K) ★ 4.7 Audible (17.5K)
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    Roland's gunslinger skills are needed when the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis faces the Wolves—masked riders who steal half of every set of twins.

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    The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.43 ABR Score (692.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (668.4K) ★ 4.75 Audible (24.1K)
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    Roland pursues the Man in Black across a dying desert wasteland, beginning his quest for the mysterious Dark Tower in King's genre-blending epic.

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    The Drawing of the Three

    The Dark Tower • Book 2

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.22 ABR Score (333.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (293.2K) ★ 4.33 Audible (40.7K)
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    Roland the gunslinger encounters mysterious doors that open into different people's minds in 1980s New York. George Guidall navigates the complex perspective shifts as Roland enters Eddie's drug deal and Odetta's fractured psyche, building his ka-tet.

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    The Wind Through the Keyhole

    The Dark Tower #4.5 • Book 8

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by Stephen King

    4.17 ABR Score (103.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (94.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (9.0K)
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    Roland tells young Jake a story-within-a-story about his early days as a gunslinger investigating shape-changing monsters in a plague-stricken town. King's own narration adds authentic Western flavor to this Dark Tower interquel.

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    The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

    The Dark Tower • Book 1

    by Stephen King

    Narrated by George Guidall

    3.77 ABR Score (668.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (667.9K) ★ 3.97 Audible (429)
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    Roland's pursuit of the Man in Black across a dying western-fantasy wasteland kicks off King's epic saga. George Guidall captures the gunslinger's weathered determination perfectly.

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    Carl's Doomsday Scenario

    Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 2

    by Matt Dinniman

    Narrated by Jeff Hays

    4.78 ABR Score (217.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.51 Goodreads (187.5K) ★ 4.89 Audible (30.0K)
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    Carl and his magic cat Princess Donut navigate the second level of an alien game show designed to kill humans for entertainment. Jeff Hays perfectly captures the absurd humor of this death-trap RPG scenario.

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