Audiobooks Like Best Kept Secret

If you loved Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Alex Jennings's narration will find familiar voices here too.

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. 2
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    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. 3
    Enlightenment cover

    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. 4
    The Alexander Pushkin BBC Radio Collection cover

    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. 5
    Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last cover

    Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last

    Patrick Melrose #4-5 • Book 4

    by Edward St. Aubyn

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    3.66 ABR Score (925 ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (920) ★ 4.6 Audible (5)
    13h 10m listening time • Released 2018
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    Ever After cover

    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
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    The Noel Coward BBC Radio Drama Collection cover

    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
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    Lionel Asbo: State of England cover

    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
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    Anton Chekhov: 6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions cover

    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
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    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 2025

    David 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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