Audiobooks Like The Trial

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George Guidall narrates The Trial in a voice that suits the absurdist nightmare perfectly — his authoritative, slightly measured delivery makes the bureaucratic horror feel procedurally credible, which is exactly the effect Kafka needs over nine hours. He appears across five of the other titles here as well, with a mix of similarly rated classics and literary fiction that share that quality of a dense, idea-driven text made navigable by a narrator who can hold ambiguity without resolving it.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Trial

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    The Metamorphosis

    by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold

    Narrated by Ralph Cosham

    ★ 4.04 ABR Score (1.5M ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.5M) ★ 4.18 Audible (3.6K)
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    My Antonia

    Great Plains Trilogy • Book 3

    by Willa Cather

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.92 ABR Score (148.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (148.7K) ★ 4.28 Audible (144)
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    Cather's prairie masterpiece follows immigrant families struggling to build new lives in rural Nebraska, centered on the unforgettable Ántonia Shimerda. George Guidall's warm narration captures the nostalgic beauty of this American classic about memory and the frontier spirit.

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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)
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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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    The Sheep Queen

    by Tom Savage

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.77 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (98)
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    George Guidall's measured, penetrating delivery unlocks the quiet devastation in Savage's prose—a novel about family secrets that feels less like plot and more like watching a life fracture in real time.

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    [Exit Ghost] [By: Roth, Philip] [September, 2008]

    Complete Nathan Zuckerman • Book 9

    by Philip Roth

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 3.64 ABR Score (6.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (5.8K) ★ 4.05 Audible (155)
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    George Guidall's weathered, deliberate performance captures Roth's late-career reckoning with aging and desire—he makes Zuckerman's isolation and sudden re-entry into the world feel genuinely unsettling.

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    The Correspondent

    by Virginia Evans

    Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various

    ★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)
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    Through discovered letters, the life story of a remarkable woman unfolds across decades of love, loss, war, and artistic passion. This epistolary novel examines how written words preserve and transform our understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary lives.

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    James

    by Percival Everett

    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman

    ★ 4.76 ABR Score (552.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (533.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (18.6K)
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    Jim's perspective on the Huckleberry Finn story reveals the brutal realities of slavery through brilliant code-switching between dialects. Dominic Hoffman's performance captures every nuanced layer of survival and dignity.

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    Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid

    ★ 4.68 ABR Score (778.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (19.8K)
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    Joan Goodwin abandons her quiet professor life to join NASA's first female astronaut program, chasing childhood dreams among the stars. The multi-narrator approach captures different perspectives in this space race drama.

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    The Master and Margarita

    by Mikhail Bulgakov, George Guidall, Diana Burgin - Translator - translator, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor - Translator - translator

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.64 ABR Score (428.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (428.1K)
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    George Guidall guides listeners through Bulgakov's wild satire where Satan visits Stalin's Moscow and chaos erupts across the literary scene.

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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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