Audiobooks Like White Nights

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Edoardo Ballerini's narration of this two-hour Dostoevsky novella is almost uncomfortably intimate — his delivery of the Dreamer's longing is quiet and precise, the kind of voice that makes you feel you're overhearing rather than being read to. Three other narrators in the recommendations are also Ballerini, and seven of the ten come from Dostoevsky's wider catalog, so if you want to stay inside this particular Russian interior — that mix of philosophical ache and romantic yearning — the list offers plenty of space to do it.

10 audiobooks for fans of White Nights

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    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994] cover

    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Malk Williams

    ★ 4.03 ABR Score (64.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.31 Goodreads (64.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (17)
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    Malk Williams navigates Dostoyevsky's brutal examination of revolutionary terrorism as Pyotr and Stavrogin's cell faces exposure and turns on its own members.

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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator

    Narrated by Anthony Heald

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.4K)
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    Dostoevsky's psychological masterpiece follows a murderer's mental breakdown and eventual redemption. Anthony Heald navigates the Russian soul with haunting precision.

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    Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground cover

    Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Vassiliev

    Narrated by Alan Turton

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (237.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (237.7K)
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    Dostoevsky's bitter narrator philosophizes about free will and human nature from his self-imposed isolation in this psychological masterwork. Alan Turton captures the underground man's contradictory rage.

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    The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Constantine Gregory

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (222.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K) ★ 4.49 Audible (1.5K)
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    Prince Myshkin's epileptic innocence meets St. Petersburg's corrupt society through Constantine Gregory's nuanced portrayal of Dostoevsky's Christ-figure.

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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by James Anderson Foster

    ★ 4.29 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.44 Audible (680)
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    Foster's narration pins you inside Raskolnikov's spiraling guilt and moral reckoning. There's nowhere to hide for 20 hours, and that's exactly what Dostoevsky demands.

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    The Gambler

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 3.90 ABR Score (124.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (124.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (44)
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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)
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    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)
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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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    The Complete novels of Leo Tolstoy

    by Leo Tolstoy, The Complete Works Collection, The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, Aylmer Maude

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Malk Williams, Emma Gregory

    ★ 3.62 ABR Score (61 ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (37) ★ 4.58 Audible (24)
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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)
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    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.

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