10 audiobooks for fans of Best Kept Secret
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Waterland
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.71 ABR Score (10.2K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 3.5 Audible (2)12h 57m listening time • Released 2021 - 2
Flaubert's parrot / A history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters
by Julian Barnes
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.63 ABR Score (17.0K ratings)★ 3.65 Goodreads (16.8K) ★ 3.89 Audible (272)10h 54m listening time • Released 2007 - 3
Enlightenment
by Sarah Perry
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.57 ABR Score (5.4K ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2)13h 5m listening time • Released 2024 - 4
The Alexander Pushkin BBC Radio Collection
by Alexander Pushkin, Alex Jennings
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy, Paul Scofield, Simon Callow, Hattie Morahan, Alison Pettitt, Greg Wise, full cast, Alan Howard, Moira Lister, Max Irons, Linus Roache
★ 3.42 ABR Score (4 ratings)★ 4.5 Goodreads (2) ★ 4.5 Audible (2)11h 49m listening time • Released 2023 - 5
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last
Patrick Melrose #4-5 • Book 4
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.66 ABR Score (925 ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (920) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)13h 10m listening time • Released 2018 - 6
Ever After
by Graham Swift
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.64 ABR Score (784 ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (784)9h 20m listening time • Released 2021 - 7
The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection
by Noel Coward
Narrated by Alex Jennings, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, full cast, Harriet Walters, Helena Bonham-Carter, Judi Dench, Roger Allam
★ 3.61 ABR Score (55 ratings)★ 4.25 Audible (55)11h 55m listening time • Released 2018 - 8
Lionel Asbo: State of England
by Martin Amis
Narrated by Alex Jennings
★ 3.54 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)★ 3.32 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 3.99 Audible (131)9h 42m listening time • Released 2012 - 9
Anton Chekhov: 6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions
by Anton Chekhov
Narrated by Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anton Lesser, Robert Glenister, Sinead Cusack, Hattie Morahan, Alex Jennings, Maurice Denham, full cast
★ 3.53 ABR Score (11 ratings)★ 4.82 Audible (11)12h 28m listening time • Released 2022 - 10
Theo of Golden
by Allen Levi
Narrated by David Morse
★ 4.85 ABR Score (178.8K ratings)★ 4.57 Goodreads (168.5K) ★ 4.89 Audible (10.3K)13h 12m listening time • Released 2025David Morse's weathered voice transforms this quiet parable into something hypnotic—each pencil portrait portrait exchange feels like a secret being shared directly with you, making generosity feel less like virtue and more like magic.
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