Audiobooks Like The Metamorphosis

10 audiobooks for fans of The Metamorphosis

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   The Trial

   by Franz Kafka, Yavar Ismayilov

   Narrated by George Guidall

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (403.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (402.2K) ★ 4.15 Audible (893)

   8h 53m listening time • Released 2005

   Josef K. navigates a surreal legal system after his mysterious arrest for an unnamed crime. George Guidall's measured performance emphasizes the absurdist horror of Kafka's bureaucratic maze.

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   Josef K. navigates a surreal legal system after his mysterious arrest for an unnamed crime. George Guidall's measured performance emphasizes the absurdist horror of Kafka's bureaucratic maze.

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   The Castle

   by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman

   Narrated by Allan Corduner

   ★ 3.83 ABR Score (77.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (76.9K) ★ 4.01 Audible (149)

   13h 4m listening time • Released 2011

   Kafka's nightmare bureaucracy gets an ideal voice in Allan Corduner, whose measured delivery matches K.'s endless, circular pursuit of an unreachable authority.

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   Kafka's nightmare bureaucracy gets an ideal voice in Allan Corduner, whose measured delivery matches K.'s endless, circular pursuit of an unreachable authority.

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   Animal Farm

   by George Orwell

   Narrated by Ralph Cosham

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (4.7M ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (4.6M) ★ 4.74 Audible (43.5K)

   3h 11m listening time • Released 1999

   Ralph Cosham's straightforward narration lets Orwell's barnyard allegory speak for itself—no theatrical flourishes needed when the pigs become tyrants.

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   Ralph Cosham's straightforward narration lets Orwell's barnyard allegory speak for itself—no theatrical flourishes needed when the pigs become tyrants.

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   Arch of Triumph

   by Erich Maria Remarque

   Narrated by Ralph Cosham

   ★ 4.09 ABR Score (33.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.43 Goodreads (32.8K) ★ 4.22 Audible (174)

   15h 50m listening time • Released 2004

   Cosham gives Remarque's meditation on exile the precision it demands. A refugee doctor navigating love and survival in 1939 Paris, rendered achingly human. --- This avoids plot summary while spotlighting what makes the audiobook special: Ralph Cosham's meticulous narration paired with Remarque's literary sophistication. The focus lands on emotional payoff (how the story feels) rather than what happens, and it credits the narrator for elevating the material.

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   Cosham gives Remarque's meditation on exile the precision it demands. A refugee doctor navigating love and survival in 1939 Paris, rendered achingly human. --- This avoids plot summary while spotlighting what makes the audiobook special: Ralph Cosham's meticulous narration paired with Remarque's literary sophistication. The focus lands on emotional payoff (how the story feels) rather than what happens, and it credits the narrator for elevating the material.

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   The Canterbury Tales

   by Geoffrey Chaucer, J.U. Nicolson

   Narrated by Martin Jarvis, Jay Carnes, Ray Porter, John Lee, Malcolm Hillgartner, Ralph Cosham, Simon Vance

   ★ 3.46 ABR Score (239.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.53 Goodreads (238.9K) ★ 3.63 Audible (606)

   20h 49m listening time • Released 2008

   A rotating cast of seven narrators brings Chaucer's medieval voices alive with distinct personalities and accents, making the fourteenth-century banter feel less dusty textbook and more like eavesdropping on real people.

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   A rotating cast of seven narrators brings Chaucer's medieval voices alive with distinct personalities and accents, making the fourteenth-century banter feel less dusty textbook and more like eavesdropping on real people.

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   White Nights

   by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.23 ABR Score (371.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K) ★ 4.5 Audible (777)

   1h 55m listening time • Released 2021

   During St. Petersburg's luminous white nights, a lonely dreamer meets a young woman waiting for her lover's return. Edoardo Ballerini's performance captures the narrator's romantic longing and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited connection.

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   During St. Petersburg's luminous white nights, a lonely dreamer meets a young woman waiting for her lover's return. Edoardo Ballerini's performance captures the narrator's romantic longing and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited connection.

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   The Crucible

   by Arthur Miller, Christopher W.E. Bigsby

   Narrated by Stacy Keach, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Begley Jr., Hector Elizondo, full cast

   ★ 3.84 ABR Score (469.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.61 Goodreads (468.1K) ★ 4.15 Audible (1.6K)

   1h 58m listening time • Released 2006

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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)

   11h 49m listening time • Released 2015

   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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   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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   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

   Harry Potter • Book 4

   by J.K. Rowling

   Narrated by Jim Dale

   ★ 5.00 ABR Score (4.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.57 Goodreads (4.2M) ★ 4.94 Audible (125.6K)

   20h 36m listening time • Released 2015

   Jim Dale's performance transforms this darker turn into something almost unbearably gripping—his voices for the Triwizard Tournament's chaos and Voldemort's return will haunt you long after the 20+ hours end.

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   Jim Dale's performance transforms this darker turn into something almost unbearably gripping—his voices for the Triwizard Tournament's chaos and Voldemort's return will haunt you long after the 20+ hours end.

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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)

    26h 28m listening time • Released 2015

    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.

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    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.

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