Audiobooks Like The Goldfinch

10 audiobooks for fans of The Goldfinch

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   The Secret History

   by Donna Tartt

   Narrated by Donna Tartt

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.15 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.17 Audible (2.1K)

   22h 3m listening time • Released 2023

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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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   The Little Friend

   by Donna Tartt

   Narrated by Karen White

   ★ 3.38 ABR Score (84.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.48 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 3.62 Audible (1.2K)

   25h 53m listening time • Released 2003

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   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

   Harry Potter • Book 5

   by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré

   Narrated by Jim Dale

   ★ 5.00 ABR Score (3.9M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (3.8M) ★ 4.93 Audible (117.3K)

   26h 28m listening time • Released 2015

   Jim Dale transforms this sprawling fifth book into something transcendent—his voice work captures Harry's adolescent rage with such raw precision that the anger becomes contagious and impossible to look away from.

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   The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

   by Edgar Allan Poe

   Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble

   ★ 4.13 ABR Score (297.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.59 Audible (29)

   36h 34m listening time • Released 2022

   Poe's complete works — the inventor of the detective story, the master of gothic horror, all in one essential collection.

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   Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

   by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.42 ABR Score (164.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.06 Goodreads (154.7K) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.2K)

   26h 29m listening time • Released 2011

   Scott Brick's measured, forensic delivery transforms this true crime classic into something deeper than lurid true crime—you're inside the prosecutor's mind as he methodically dismantles one of the century's darkest conspiracies.

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   The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction

   by Neil Gaiman, Marlon James

   Narrated by Neil Gaiman, George Guidall, Lenny Henry, Leon Nixon

   ★ 4.32 ABR Score (3.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.44 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.73 Audible (802)

   27h 2m listening time • Released 2020

   Hearing Gaiman read his own work alongside master narrators like George Guidall and Lenny Henry transforms 52 stories into a masterclass in tone and voice—each tale lands exactly as intended.

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   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

   ねじまき鳥クロニクル #1-3

   by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

   Narrated by Rupert Degas

   ★ 4.22 ABR Score (323.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.14 Goodreads (317.7K) ★ 4.32 Audible (5.7K)

   26h 11m listening time • Released 2013

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   The Brothers K

   by David James Duncan

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (17.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.78 Audible (83)

   28h 7m listening time • Released 2024

   Robertson Dean's narration captures the raw comedy and heartbreak of a fractured family across decades—his voice work transforms what could've been a sprawling mess into something you genuinely can't stop listening to.

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    [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)

    28h 24m listening time • Released 2024

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