Audiobooks Like Half His Age

10 audiobooks for fans of Half His Age

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   Pride and Prejudice

   by Jane Austen, Lulu Raczka

   Narrated by Marisa Abela, Harris Dickinson, Glenn Close, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bill Nighy, Sophie Wilde, Will Poulter, Jessie Buckley, Toheeb Jimoh, Patricia Allison, Bertie Carvel, Leah Harvey, David Gyasi, Rosalind Eleazar, full cast

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (9.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (3.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (6.1K)

   4h 34m listening time • Released 2025

   A full-cast production with Bill Nighy, Glenn Close, and Jessie Buckley that transforms Austen's wit into a genuinely dramatic audioplay—four and a half hours that feel essential.

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   Alanna: The First Adventure

   Tortall • Book 4

   by Tamora Pierce

   Narrated by Trini Alvarado

   ★ 4.53 ABR Score (139.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.27 Goodreads (137.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (2.5K)

   5h 14m listening time • Released 2003

   Pierce's classic series starter features one of children's fantasy's first true feminist heroes — a girl disguising herself as a boy to become a knight.

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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)

   4h 2m listening time • Released 2026

   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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   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)

   5h 25m listening time • Released 2026

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   A Single Man

   by Christopher Isherwood

   Narrated by Alex Jennings

   ★ 4.26 ABR Score (38.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.05 Goodreads (38.0K)

   4h 38m listening time • Released 2025

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   What a Carve Up!

   The Winshaw Legacy • Book 1

   by Jonathan Coe

   Narrated by Alex Jennings, Jeff Rawle

   ★ 4.25 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.11 Goodreads (13.3K)

   3h 51m listening time • Released 2005

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   The Time Keeper

   by Mitch Albom

   Narrated by Dan Stevens

   ★ 4.13 ABR Score (125.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.9 Goodreads (123.6K) ★ 4.42 Audible (2.2K)

   4h 42m listening time • Released 2012

   Dan Stevens' hushed, haunting narration transforms Albom's time-obsessed fable into something genuinely moving—his voice carries the weight of centuries in a way that makes Father Time's redemption actually land.

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   Calico Joe

   by John Grisham

   Narrated by Erik Singer

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (52.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.89 Goodreads (50.4K) ★ 4.42 Audible (2.0K)

   4h 35m listening time • Released 2012

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   The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

   by John of the Cross

   Narrated by Michael Kramer

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (11.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (11.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (496)

   5h 28m listening time • Released 2008

   Michael Kramer's measured, contemplative narration transforms this spiritual treatise into something almost hypnotic—he lets the paradoxes breathe, making the darkness feel like illumination rather than despair.

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    Gilgamesh: Versión de Stephen Mitchell

    by Anonymous, Stephen Mitchell

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (124.6K ratings)

    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (120.4K) ★ 4.35 Audible (4.2K)

    4h 5m listening time • Released 2004

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