10 audiobooks for fans of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
Narrated by John Chancer
★ 4.05 ABR Score (743.1K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (740.7K) ★ 4.19 Audible (2.5K)13h 21m listening time • Released 2013 -
1Q84
1Q84 #1-3
by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
Narrated by Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
★ 3.99 ABR Score (353.1K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (342.2K) ★ 4.08 Audible (10.9K)46h 45m listening time • Released 2011 -
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 -
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.78 ABR Score (674.9K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (655.0K) ★ 4.78 Audible (19.8K)25h 23m listening time • Released 2011 -
[Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994]
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 -
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 2015Jim 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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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 2011Scott 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 2020Hearing 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 Idiot
Narrated by Constantine Gregory
★ 4.30 ABR Score (222.9K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (221.5K) ★ 4.49 Audible (1.5K)24h 56m listening time • Released 2017 -
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
Narrated by Suzanne Toren
★ 4.25 ABR Score (210.0K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (199.8K) ★ 4.35 Audible (10.2K)22h 58m listening time • Released 2018
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