Audiobooks Like The Red and the Black

10 audiobooks for fans of The Red and the Black

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   Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy (New Casebooks)

   by Peter Widdowson

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.84 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.3 Goodreads (10) ★ 4.37 Audible (2.2K)

   17h 6m listening time • Released 2011

   Davina Porter's narration transforms Hardy's tragedy into something visceral and immediate, capturing Tess's quiet devastation with a voice that makes her suffering feel unbearably real.

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   The Canterbury Tales

   by Peter Ackroyd, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nick Bantock

   Narrated by Keith Moore, Toby Leonard Moore, Colin McPhillamy, John Curless, John Keating, Graeme Malcolm, Davina Porter, Steven Crossley

   ★ 3.71 ABR Score (2.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.57 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (98)

   16h 55m listening time • Released 2011

   Multiple narrators bring Ackroyd's modernized Canterbury Tales to vivid life, each voice perfectly matched to their pilgrim, making this sprawling medieval classic feel urgent and intimate.

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   Demon Copperhead

   by Barbara Kingsolver

   Narrated by Charlie Thurston

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (858.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (824.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (34.3K)

   21h 3m listening time • Released 2022

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   Small Great Things

   Ruth Jefferson • Book 1

   by Jodi Picoult

   Narrated by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, Ari Fliakos

   ★ 4.74 ABR Score (478.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (444.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (34.1K)

   16h 14m listening time • Released 2016

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   The Storyteller

   by Jodi Picoult

   Narrated by Mozhan Marno, Jennifer Ikeda, Edoardo Ballerini, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (299.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (278.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (21.0K)

   18h 13m listening time • Released 2013

   Multiple narrators bring genuine depth to this emotional story about complicity and forgiveness—each voice makes you feel like you're hearing a different person's truth.

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   The House of the Spirits

   Trilogía Involuntaria • Book 3

   by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin

   Narrated by Thom Rivera, Marisol Ramirez

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (328.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (325.3K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.0K)

   18h 51m listening time • Released 2016

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   The Godfather

   The Godfather • Book 1

   by Mario Puzo

   Narrated by Joe Mantegna

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (468.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (468.0K) ★ 4.88 Audible (128)

   18h 5m listening time • Released 2014

   Puzo's crime epic isn't just a novel about the Mafia — it's a story about power, family, and the American dream pursued by any means necessary.

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   The Right Attitude to Rain

   Isabel Dalhousie • Book 3

   by Alexander McCall Smith

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.85 ABR Score (11.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.78 Goodreads (11.4K) ★ 4.24 Audible (541)

   8h 50m listening time • Released 2007

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   Cranford

   by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.84 ABR Score (48.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.83 Goodreads (48.4K) ★ 4.16 Audible (135)

   7h 38m listening time • Released 2009

   Davina Porter's warm, precise narration transforms this Victorian gem into something intimate and immediate—you'll hear every delicious piece of gossip and genuine affection that holds this community together.

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    Madame Bovary

    by Gustave Flaubert

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.74 ABR Score (379.2K ratings)

    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (378.9K) ★ 3.95 Audible (370)

    13h 5m listening time • Released 1999

    Davina Porter's narration transforms Flaubert's obsessive prose into something hypnotic—you hear the suffocation of provincial life in every perfectly measured pause and inflection.

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