Where to Start with Jules Verne
- Best entry point → Around the World in 80 Days
- Best standalone → Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance
- What fans keep coming back to → 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne
- Highest rated by listeners → A Journey To The Center Of The Earth
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Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
Narrated by Patrick Tull
★ 4.28 ABR Score (286.7K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (285.4K) ★ 4.61 Audible (1.3K)6h 47m listening time • Released 2011 - 2
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne
Capitaine Nemo • Book 2
by Jules Verne
Narrated by David Linski
★ 4.21 ABR Score (287.6K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (279.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (8.5K)11h 13m listening time • Released 2017 - 3
Journey to the Center of the Earth: A Signature Performance
by Jules Verne, Tim Curry
Narrated by Tim Curry
★ 4.15 ABR Score (238.7K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K) ★ 4.46 Audible (11.2K)8h 20m listening time • Released 2011 - 4
A Journey To The Center Of The Earth
by Jules Verne
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.91 ABR Score (227.8K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.3K) ★ 4.27 Audible (443)7h 43m listening time • Released 2008Simon Prebble's measured, intelligent delivery transforms Verne's Victorian adventure into something that feels genuinely urgent—he makes the geological wonder and mounting danger feel equally real, which is exactly what this annotated edition needs to land.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Capitaine Nemo • Book 2
by Jules Verne
Narrated by Michael Kramer
★ 3.86 ABR Score (278.7K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (278.7K) ★ 4.33 Audible (9)11h 43m listening time • Released 2013Michael Kramer's narration transforms this Victorian submarine adventure into an immersive deep-sea descent, giving Captain Nemo's obsessive genius a voice as commanding and mysterious as the ocean itself.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Narrated by David DeVries, Kristin Kalbli
★ 3.86 ABR Score (227.7K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (227.5K) ★ 4.16 Audible (228)26h 5m listening time • Released 2012 - 7
An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Jules Verne
Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
★ 3.65 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 3.62 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.13 Audible (24)8h 48m listening time • Released 2013
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