10 audiobooks for fans of We Are Water
- 1
The Hour I First Believed
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.93 ABR Score (67.5K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (66.1K) ★ 4.22 Audible (1.3K)More about this pick
Lamb weaves together myth, psychology, and generations of family history in this introspective novel that expands beyond his previous work.
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The River
by Wally Lamb
Narrated by Jeremy Sisto
★ 4.47 ABR Score (159.0K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (155.0K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.0K)More about this pick
Jeremy Sisto voices Corby Ledbetter's journey from addiction and tragedy through prison brutality toward possible redemption in Lamb's latest.
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.00 ABR Score (202.8K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (199.7K) ★ 4.23 Audible (3.1K)More about this pick
The Lambert family's dysfunction explodes during one final Christmas gathering as parents age and adult children struggle with modern life. Guidall captures the bitter humor and genuine pathos of this Midwestern family's slow-motion collapse.
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Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.96 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (25.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (309)More about this pick
Medieval peasant Baudolino spins fantastical tales of invented kingdoms and forged letters to a Byzantine historian during the Fourth Crusade's chaos.
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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)More about this pick
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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The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman
★ 4.57 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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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)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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Lost Man's River
Shadow Country Trilogy • Book 2
by Peter Matthiessen
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.68 ABR Score (566 ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (534) ★ 4.06 Audible (32)More about this pick
Matthiessen's haunting exploration of Florida's violent frontier history through the Watson family saga. Guidall's weathered voice suits the swampy, blood-soaked atmosphere perfectly.
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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)More about this pick
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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Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Narrated by Sunil Malhotra
★ 4.61 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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