Audiobooks Like The Pelican Brief

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Alexander Adams narrates The Pelican Brief with the clean directness that Grisham's propulsive plotting demands — there's no ornamentation here, just a voice that keeps an eleven-hour legal conspiracy moving at the pace of someone who knows the story is doing the work. He returns in at least one title here, and most of the rest are Grisham himself, the kind of courtroom and conspiracy thrillers where the machinery is the pleasure.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Pelican Brief

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    The Chamber

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Alexander Adams

    ★ 4.26 ABR Score (150.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (147.2K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.4K)
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    A young lawyer risks everything to save his racist grandfather from death row in this morally complex legal thriller that exposes the ugly legacy of the KKK.

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    The Client

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by John MacDonald

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (464.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (464.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (561)
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    Eleven-year-old Mark Sway knows where the FBI's most wanted body is buried after a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer. The legal thriller format works beautifully in audio, with courtroom tensions and childhood vulnerability creating compelling contrast.

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    The Last Juror

    Harry Rex Vonner • Book 3

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Michael Beck

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (115.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (109.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (6.0K)
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    College dropout Willie Traynor buys a failing Mississippi newspaper in 1970, then covers a brutal murder trial that makes him a target of the notorious Padgitt family.

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    The Partner

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Frank Muller

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (142.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (135.6K) ★ 4.49 Audible (6.5K)
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    Lawyer Patrick Lanigan fakes his death and steals ninety million dollars, only to be captured years later in Brazil. Muller's tense performance drives this cat-and-mouse thriller about betrayal, torture, and massive financial fraud.

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    The Litigators

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

    ★ 4.26 ABR Score (95.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (84.7K) ★ 4.37 Audible (10.9K)
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    Grisham follows three mismatched lawyers taking on Big Pharma from their strip-mall office in this return to legal comedy. Dennis Boutsikaris captures the humor and humanity of these underdogs facing corporate giants.

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    Camino Ghosts

    Camino Island • Book 3

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, John Grisham

    ★ 4.17 ABR Score (65.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (62.6K) ★ 4.16 Audible (2.5K)
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    Bookseller Bruce Cable investigates whether an ancient curse threatens Camino Island's developers in Grisham's third island mystery. Whoopi Goldberg and Grisham himself narrate this supernatural-tinged legal thriller with surprising warmth.

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    Camino Island

    Camino Island • Book 1

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 4.11 ABR Score (183.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (164.8K) ★ 4.14 Audible (18.2K)
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    Grisham's literary caper about stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts flows smoothly through January LaVoy's engaging performance of bookstore intrigue.

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    Rogue Lawyer

    Rogue Lawyer • Book 1

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Mark Deakins

    ★ 4.10 ABR Score (103.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (90.7K) ★ 4.17 Audible (13.1K)
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    Sebastian Rudd operates from a bulletproof van with an armed bodyguard, taking cases other lawyers won't touch in a legal system gone wrong.

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    The Rooster Bar

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Ari Fliakos

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (116.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (99.7K) ★ 4.19 Audible (16.9K)
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    Three law students discover their for-profit school is a scam designed to saddle them with debt while ensuring they'll never pass the bar.

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    The Appeal

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Michael Beck

    ★ 3.91 ABR Score (67.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.65 Goodreads (63.1K) ★ 4.08 Audible (4.2K)
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    Corporate giants manipulate a state supreme court election to overturn a massive pollution verdict, showing how money corrupts justice at every level. Michael Beck guides listeners through Grisham's most cynical legal thriller.

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