10 audiobooks for fans of To Paradise
- 1
We Are Water
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by Wally Lamb, George Guidall, Maggi-Meg Reed, Tavia Gilbert, Richard Ferrone, Edoardo Ballerini, Cynthia Darlow, Therese Plummer, Robin Miles, Sandy Rustin
★ 4.01 ABR Score (59.5K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (56.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
A stellar ensemble cast transforms this multigenerational family reckoning into something closer to theater than narration, with each voice bringing authentic depth to competing perspectives on love, loyalty, and secrets.
- 2
I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys
★ 4.54 ABR Score (103.0K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (101.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.7K)More about this pick
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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The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman
★ 4.54 ABR Score (299.1K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)More about this pick
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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Italian Folktales
by Italo Calvino
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.90 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (4.8K) ★ 4.38 Audible (40)More about this pick
Edoardo Ballerini's warm, conversational delivery transforms Calvino's 200 Italian folktales into something even better than reading them: you're sitting across from someone who genuinely loves these stories and wants you to feel their magic too.
- 5
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Narrated by Abraham Verghese
★ 4.59 ABR Score (337.4K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (326.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (11.3K)More about this pick
Three generations of a Kerala family are haunted by a strange condition where family members drown despite being skilled swimmers. Verghese narrates his own sweeping epic, bringing intimate knowledge to this multigenerational saga of love, medicine, and mysterious tragedy spanning eight decades.
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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Narrated by Sunil Malhotra
★ 4.58 ABR Score (445.5K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (431.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (14.2K)More about this pick
A luminous family saga whose emotional depth justifies the full 24-hour audiobook. Malhotra captures both the intimacy and epic scope of this prose.
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Psalms
Bible • Book 19
by Anonymous
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.52 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 4.65 Goodreads (2.4K)More about this pick
Ballerini's measured, reverent delivery transforms these ancient songs into intimate meditations—his voice becomes the instrument through which centuries of human longing and praise find their most resonant expression.
- 8
Table for Two
Rules of Civility #1.5 incl'd
by Amor Towles
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
★ 4.34 ABR Score (73.6K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (71.8K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.8K)More about this pick
Towles returns to his New York and Los Angeles settings with six stories plus a novella about Hollywood's golden age. Ballerini and Smith-Cameron split duties, each bringing distinct voices to Towles's elegant character studies.
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Playground
by Richard Powers
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, Krys Janae, Kevin R Free
★ 4.22 ABR Score (47.6K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (46.5K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.1K)More about this pick
Powers connects four lives across decades and continents in this oceanic meditation on technology and nature. The ensemble cast guides listeners through underwater Montreal, Pacific naval bases, and AI boardrooms with distinct vocal textures.
- 10
White Nights
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, TAZIRI, Constance Garnett
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.21 ABR Score (371.7K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (370.9K) ★ 4.5 Audible (777)More about this pick
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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