Audiobooks Like White Nights

Edoardo Ballerini's narration of this two-hour Dostoevsky novella is almost uncomfortably intimate — his delivery of the Dreamer's longing is quiet and precise, the kind of voice that makes you feel you're overhearing rather than being read to. Three other narrators in the recommendations are also Ballerini, and seven of the ten come from Dostoevsky's wider catalog, so if you want to stay inside this particular Russian interior — that mix of philosophical ache and romantic yearning — the list offers plenty of space to do it.

10 audiobooks for fans of White Nights

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    Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov cover

    Los hermanos Karam??zov / The Brothers Karamazov

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Luke Thompson

    4.49 ABR Score (395.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (394.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (638)
    43h 6m listening time • Released 2021
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    [Demons] [By: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor] [September, 1994] cover

    [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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    Crime and Punishment cover

    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator

    Narrated by Anthony Heald

    4.56 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.6 Audible (10.4K)
    20h 28m listening time • Released 2007

    Dostoevsky's psychological masterwork follows a man who commits the 'perfect' murder and is destroyed not by justice but by his own conscience.

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    Russian Classics in Russian and English: Notes from Underground cover

    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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    The Idiot cover

    The Idiot

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    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
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    Crime and Punishment

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    4.03 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 3.92 Audible (111)
    5h 15m listening time • Released 2005
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    The Gambler cover

    The Gambler

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles James Hogarth

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    3.90 ABR Score (124.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (124.0K) ★ 4.3 Audible (44)
    6h 33m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection cover

    The Fyodor Dostoevsky BBC Radio Drama Collection

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Roger Allam, Joseph Arkley, Nicholas Boulton, Jonathan Forbes, John Gray, Paul Hilton, Boris Isarov, Alex Jennings, Barnaby Kay, Gary Lilburn, Roy Marsden, Clive Merrison, Jim Norton, Ronald Pickup, Paul Rhys, David Suchet, Jane Whittenshaw, Lia Williams, Rowan Williams

    Narrated by Roy Marsden, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam, Paul Rhys, Nicholas Boulton, Paul Hilton, David Suchet, full cast, Barnaby Kay, Lia Williams

    3.55 ABR Score (29 ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (12) ★ 4.35 Audible (17)
    17h 28m listening time • Released 2021
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    The Storyteller cover

    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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    I Must Betray You cover

    I Must Betray You

    by Ruta Sepetys

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Ruta Sepetys

    4.56 ABR Score (103.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (101.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.7K)
    7h 10m listening time • Released 2022

    Ballerini's dual narration captures the suffocating paranoia of Cold War Romania so viscerally you'll feel the weight of every impossible choice Cristian makes. A gripping true-stakes thriller about resistance that refuses easy heroics.

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