Audiobooks Like My Friends

10 audiobooks for fans of My Friends

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   Remarkably Bright Creatures

   by Shelby Van Pelt

   Narrated by Marin Ireland, Michael Urie

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.79 Audible (62.8K)

   11h 16m listening time • Released 2022

   Marin Ireland and Michael Urie elevate this widow-and-octopus story into something genuinely moving, their dual narration making the emotional reckoning feel earned rather than sentimental.

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   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

   by Stephen Graham Jones

   Narrated by Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland, Owen Teale

   ★ 4.12 ABR Score (49.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (47.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (1.7K)

   15h 29m listening time • Released 2025

   Shane Ghostkeeper's performance transforms this into essential listening—a horror novel where the narrator's voice becomes part of the terror, pulling you deeper into Jones's relentless mythology.

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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   The Hunger Games

   by Suzanne Collins

   Narrated by Jefferson White

   ★ 4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)

   12h 48m listening time • Released 2025

   Jefferson White's narration transforms this prequel into something unexpectedly intimate—he finds the quiet devastation in Haymitch before the legend, making every loss feel like your own.

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   Under the Banner of Heaven

   by Jon Krakauer

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.28 ABR Score (236.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (9.2K)

   12h 29m listening time • Released 2003

   Scott Brick's measured, unflinching narration transforms Krakauer's investigation into religious extremism from true crime into something more unsettling: a forensic examination of how faith becomes justification for the unthinkable.

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   The Thirteenth Tale

   by Diane Setterfield

   Narrated by Bianca Amato, Jill Tanner

   ★ 4.22 ABR Score (339.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.98 Goodreads (327.6K) ★ 4.36 Audible (11.6K)

   15h 38m listening time • Released 2006

   Setterfield's gothic debut channels du Maurier and the Brontës — a reclusive author dictates her true history to a biographer in a story full of secrets and sisters.

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   The Lovely Bones

   by Alice Sebold

   Narrated by Alice Sebold

   ★ 3.89 ABR Score (2.5M ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (2.5M) ★ 4.01 Audible (2.2K)

   10h 53m listening time • Released 2007

   Sebold's debut is narrated by a murdered girl watching her family grieve from heaven — devastating, strangely beautiful, and unlike anything else in crime fiction.

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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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   The Hate U Give

   The Hate U Give • Book 1

   by Angie Thomas

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.45 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.78 Audible (45.9K)

   11h 50m listening time • Released 2017

   Bahni Turpin's narration gives each character a distinct, lived-in voice that makes Starr's internal conflict feel devastatingly real. This is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand why this book became a cultural phenomenon.

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   To Kill a Mockingbird

   To Kill a Mockingbird • Book 1

   by Harper Lee

   Narrated by Sissy Spacek

   ★ 4.82 ABR Score (7.0M ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (7.0M) ★ 4.8 Audible (49.0K)

   12h 17m listening time • Released 2014

   Sissy Spacek's narration captures Scout's voice with such immediacy and warmth that the injustice of the story hits harder—you're not just reading about the South's moral reckoning, you're living it through a child's dawning understanding.

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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)

    8h 36m listening time • Released 2025

    A sprawling ensemble cast brings luminous depth to this meditation on lifelong correspondence—each narrator inhabits their character so fully you'll forget you're listening to a performance, not overhearing actual lives unfolding.

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