Audiobooks Like This Side of Paradise

10 audiobooks for fans of This Side of Paradise

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   The Essential Rumi

   by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Coleman Barks, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, A.J. Arberry, John Moyne

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.32 ABR Score (51.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (50.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (517)

   9h 24m listening time • Released 2018

   Coleman Barks' translations of the 13th-century Sufi mystic flow between ecstatic love poetry and profound spiritual insight. Robertson Dean's warm voice gives these timeless verses about divine longing their full emotional weight.

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   Coleman Barks' translations of the 13th-century Sufi mystic flow between ecstatic love poetry and profound spiritual insight. Robertson Dean's warm voice gives these timeless verses about divine longing their full emotional weight.

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   The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Portrait of Youth, Wealth, and Moral Decay

   by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Narrated by Adam Verner

   ★ 3.76 ABR Score (65.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.73 Goodreads (65.8K) ★ 3.96 Audible (57)

   14h 21m listening time • Released 2018

   Verner captures the languid decadence of Anthony and Gloria Patch's dissolute Jazz Age marriage as they wait for an inheritance that may never come.

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   Verner captures the languid decadence of Anthony and Gloria Patch's dissolute Jazz Age marriage as they wait for an inheritance that may never come.

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3. 3

   

   The Brothers K

   by David James Duncan

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (17.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.78 Audible (83)

   28h 7m listening time • Released 2024

   Robertson Dean captures each family member's distinct voice as the Chance family navigates Vietnam War-era America through baseball, religion, and sibling bonds spanning decades.

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   Robertson Dean captures each family member's distinct voice as the Chance family navigates Vietnam War-era America through baseball, religion, and sibling bonds spanning decades.

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4. 4

   

   The Great Gatsby

   by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jesmyn Ward - introduction

   Narrated by Seth Numrich, Eleanor Lanahan, James L. W. West III

   ★ 4.05 ABR Score (6.0M ratings)

   ★ 3.93 Goodreads (6.0M) ★ 4.62 Audible (47)

   5h 59m listening time • Released 2025

   Seth Numrich captures Nick Carraway's mix of fascination and disgust as he watches Gatsby's American Dream curdle into tragedy.

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   Seth Numrich captures Nick Carraway's mix of fascination and disgust as he watches Gatsby's American Dream curdle into tragedy.

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   Empire of Sin

   by Gary Krist

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.86 ABR Score (4.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.73 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 4.39 Audible (326)

   10h 49m listening time • Released 2014

   New Orleans' thirty-year war between its elite society and entrenched criminal underworld unfolds through jazz-soaked streets and smoke-filled backrooms. The rich historical detail comes alive through expert narration.

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   New Orleans' thirty-year war between its elite society and entrenched criminal underworld unfolds through jazz-soaked streets and smoke-filled backrooms. The rich historical detail comes alive through expert narration.

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   Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

   by Piu Marie Eatwell

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.82 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.74 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.4 Audible (215)

   9h 7m listening time • Released 2017

   Elizabeth Short's mutilated body in 1947 Los Angeles launched America's most famous unsolved case. True crime investigation into the corruption and cover-ups that kept the Black Dahlia killer free.

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   Elizabeth Short's mutilated body in 1947 Los Angeles launched America's most famous unsolved case. True crime investigation into the corruption and cover-ups that kept the Black Dahlia killer free.

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   High Plains Tango

   by Robert James Waller

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.63 ABR Score (915 ratings)

   ★ 3.61 Goodreads (868) ★ 4.04 Audible (47)

   9h 53m listening time • Released 2005

   Wind-swept plains and Sioux reservations provide the backdrop for this haunting story of isolation and music. Robertson Dean's weathered voice matches the desolate beauty of Waller's prairie setting.

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   Wind-swept plains and Sioux reservations provide the backdrop for this haunting story of isolation and music. Robertson Dean's weathered voice matches the desolate beauty of Waller's prairie setting.

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   Narcopolis

   by Jeet Thayil

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.62 ABR Score (8.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.44 Goodreads (8.0K) ★ 4.09 Audible (33)

   8h 53m listening time • Released 2012

   Inside Rashid's opium den in 1970s Bombay, addicts drift through drug-hazed conversations while the city transforms around them. Robertson Dean navigates the lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose with skill.

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   Inside Rashid's opium den in 1970s Bombay, addicts drift through drug-hazed conversations while the city transforms around them. Robertson Dean navigates the lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose with skill.

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   The Color of A Dog Running Away

   by Richard Gwyn

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 3.43 ABR Score (362 ratings)

   ★ 3.06 Goodreads (340) ★ 2.77 Audible (22)

   9h 28m listening time • Released 2007

   Musician Lucas finds a cryptic gallery invitation that launches improbable, interconnected events disrupting his passive Barcelona existence. What begins as mysterious intrigue becomes a disorienting exploration of reality and connection.

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   Musician Lucas finds a cryptic gallery invitation that launches improbable, interconnected events disrupting his passive Barcelona existence. What begins as mysterious intrigue becomes a disorienting exploration of reality and connection.

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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)

    8h 36m listening time • Released 2025

    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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    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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