Audiobooks Like The Master and Margarita

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George Guidall narrates The Master and Margarita in a voice perfectly calibrated for a novel that requires you to trust the storyteller completely — his deep, authoritative delivery holds the book's wildly shifting registers together over seventeen hours, whether the scene is sardonic satire, romantic tragedy, or biblical reimagining. He appears throughout the rest of the list, a narrator whose voice has the range and gravity to make even Stalinist Moscow feel somehow inevitable.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Master and Margarita

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    The Jungle

    by Upton Sinclair

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (156.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (155.6K) ★ 4.37 Audible (717)
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    George Guidall's steady narration carries Sinclair's brutal exposé of Chicago's meatpacking plants and immigrant workers' exploitation in early America.

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    Baudolino

    by Umberto Eco

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.96 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (309)
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    Medieval peasant Baudolino spins fantastical tales of invented kingdoms and forged letters to a Byzantine historian during the Fourth Crusade's chaos.

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    Babbitt

    by Sinclair Lewis

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.80 ABR Score (25.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.69 Goodreads (25.0K) ★ 4.33 Audible (67)
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    Guidall's measured, almost weary delivery turns this 1920s satire into something devastatingly human—you hear Babbitt's quiet desperation beneath all his boosterism.

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    The Cunning Man

    Toronto Trilogy • Book 2

    by Robertson Davies

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.79 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.26 Audible (54)
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    George Guidall's measured, thoughtful delivery transforms Davies's meandering mystery into a masterclass in unreliable memory—he makes you feel the weight of a lifetime of secrets without rushing toward easy answers.

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    The Great Alone

    by Kristin Hannah

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    ★ 4.79 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.7 Audible (58.5K)
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    Julia Whelan captures both Alaska's brutal beauty and a family's desperate struggle when a volatile Vietnam vet moves them off-grid in 1974.

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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 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)
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    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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    The River

    by Wally Lamb

    Narrated by Jeremy Sisto

    ★ 4.47 ABR Score (159.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (155.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.0K)
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    Jeremy Sisto voices Corby Ledbetter's journey from addiction and tragedy through prison brutality toward possible redemption in Lamb's latest.

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    The Great Believers

    by Rebecca Makkai

    Narrated by Michael Crouch

    ★ 4.46 ABR Score (179.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (175.1K) ★ 4.59 Audible (4.1K)
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    Yale's art world triumph collides with the AIDS epidemic devastating 1980s Chicago in parallel with a mother's search for her daughter in modern Paris. Michael Crouch navigates both timelines with emotional precision, honoring each character's pain and resilience.

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    The House of the Spirits

    Trilogía Involuntaria • Book 3

    by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin

    Narrated by Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (328.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K)
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    Three generations of the Trueba family navigate love, politics, and supernatural forces in an unnamed Latin American country. The magical realist epic spans decades of political upheaval while exploring how personal relationships intersect with larger historical forces in unforgettable ways.

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