Best Long Tragedy Audiobooks

Explore our selection of epic Tragedy audiobooks.

Welcome to our curated collection of the best and longest Tragedy audiobooks, all 20+ hours in length.

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Epic Audiobooks in this Genre

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (67h)

  Narrated by: Bill Homewood

  60 hours of revolution and redemption. The musical is great, but the novel is a universe unto itself.

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (32h 24m)

  Narrated by: David Pittu

  32 hours of art and grief. A Dickensian novel for the modern age, centered on a stolen painting.

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (32h 51m)

  Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

  33 hours of heartbreak. A devastatingly beautiful portrait of male friendship and trauma.

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (35h 35m)

  Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal

  35 hours of high-stakes Russian drama. Often cited as the greatest novel ever written.

• A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (47h 34m)

  Narrated by: Roy Dotrice

  47 hours of twists. The Red Wedding awaits in the series' most shocking volume.

• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (9h 7m)

  Narrated by: Scott Brick, Simon Vance, et al.

  9 hours of consequences. A tighter, tragic coda to Dune that deconstructs the hero myth.

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (14h 2m)

  Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt

  14 hours on the moors. A dark, passionate story of obsession that refuses to be tamed.

• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo (19h 2m)

  Narrated by: Bill Homewood

  19 hours in medieval Paris. Hugo's architecture-obsessed tragedy is far darker than the Disney version.

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (21h 10m)

  Narrated by: Dylan Baker

  21 hours on the Dust Bowl highway. Steinbeck's Great American Novel is even more devastating and urgent by ear.

• The Jane Austen Collection by Jane Austen (45 hours)

  Narrated by: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Billie Piper, Florence Pugh, Emma Thompson,

  The definitive Austen experience featuring forty-five hours of dramatised performance. Immerse yourself in the wit and romance of Regency England with an all-star cast.

• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (24h 56m)

  Narrated by: Constantine Gregory

  25 hours of psychological genius. A pure, saintly soul descends into the treacherous parlor games of St. Petersburg.

• Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (19h 24m)

  Narrated by: Malk Williams

  19 hours of moral redemption. An aristocrat journeys to Siberia to save the woman he wronged in Tolstoy's final masterpiece.

• Troy: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths, Book 3 by Stephen Fry (11h 10m)

  Narrated by: Stephen Fry

  The legendary ten-year siege of Troy retold with sparkling wit and tragedy. 11 hours of Stephen Fry in audio.

• The Rise of Endymion: Hyperion Cantos, Book 4 by Dan Simmons (29h 47m)

  Narrated by: Victor Bevine

  Nearly 30 hours of cosmic climax. Aenea and Raul Endymion unlock the ultimate mysteries of the Shrike and humanity.