Best Margaret Atwood Audiobooks
Where to Start with Margaret Atwood
- Best entry point → The Handmaid's Tale
- Best standalone → Alias Grace
- What fans keep coming back to → The Testaments
- Highest rated by listeners → The Robber Bride
Best Margaret Atwood Audiobooks
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The Testaments
The Handmaid’s Tale • Book 2
Narrated by Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, Derek Jacobi, Tantoo Cardinal, Margaret Atwood
★ 4.57 ABR Score (457.5K ratings)★ 4.2 Goodreads (432.3K) ★ 4.74 Audible (25.2K)13h 18m listening time • Released 2019 - 2
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale • Book 1
Narrated by Claire Danes
★ 4.36 ABR Score (2.5M ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (2.5M) ★ 4.41 Audible (45.4K)11h 1m listening time • Released 2012Atwood's theocratic dystopia, written in 1985, has only grown more urgent — a suffocating, beautifully crafted story about power, bodies, and resistance.
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Alias Grace
Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Sarah Gadon
★ 4.13 ABR Score (163.3K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (158.3K) ★ 4.36 Audible (5.0K)15h 57m listening time • Released 2017 - 4
The Robber Bride
Narrated by Bernadette Dunne
★ 3.91 ABR Score (51.0K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (50.1K) ★ 4.23 Audible (893)20h 12m listening time • Released 2011 - 5
Shadow Show: New Short Stories and Fantasy from Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, and 24 Writers – A Ray Bradbury Tribute
by Sam Weller, Mort Castle, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, Harlan Ellison, Joe Hill, Alice Hoffman, Kelly Link, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Audrey Niffenegger, Ray Bradbury, Jay Bonansinga, David Morrell, Thomas F. Monteleone, Lee Martin, Dan Chaon, John McNally, Joe Meno, Robert McCammon, Ramsey Campbell, John Maclay, Gary A. Braunbeck, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Charles Yu, Julia Keller, Bayo Ojikutu
Narrated by George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Robert Petkoff, Dion Graham, Simon Van Booy, Edoardo Ballerini
★ 3.80 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (182)14h 11m listening time • Released 2012A master class in short-form storytelling with an all-star narrator lineup—Takei, Mulgrew, and Gaiman himself elevate 26 writers' Bradbury-inspired tales into something you'll want to hear in one sitting.
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The Blind Assassin
Narrated by Margot Dionne
★ 3.77 ABR Score (166.5K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (164.3K) ★ 3.89 Audible (2.1K)18h 27m listening time • Released 2001 - 7
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
Narrated by Margaret Atwood, Linda Lavin, Dan Stevens, Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Bahni Turpin, Dawn Harvey, Allan Corduner
★ 3.61 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)★ 3.66 Goodreads (11.5K) ★ 4 Audible (1)8h 43m listening time • Released 2023