Jess Walter
Beautiful Ruins
The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story
You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.
Best Sellers
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Beautiful Ruins
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just can’t do it.
- By J Brandon. on 2021-05-19
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Beautiful Ruins
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-12
- Language: English
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Price: $34.95 or 1 Credit
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The Cold Millions
- A Novel
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains, and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While 16-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By paul chapman on 2022-12-24
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The Cold Millions
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, Cassandra Campbell, MacLeod Andrews, Tim Gerard Reynolds, Mike Ortego, Rex Anderson, Charlie Thurston, Frankie Corzo
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-27
- Language: English
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Price: $31.46 or 1 Credit
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The Angel of Rome
- And Other Stories
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho....
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The Angel of Rome
- And Other Stories
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Julia Whelan
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-28
- Language: English
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The Angel of Rome
- Written by: Jess Walter, Edoardo Ballerini
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A young American studying in Rome gets swept up in the glamorous world of cinema when he meets a beautiful Italian actress near the end of her career and an irrepressible American TV star hoping to revive his....
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5 out of 5 stars
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So fun to listen to!
- By C. Bergeron on 2022-02-05
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The Angel of Rome
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Series: Audible Original Stories
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-16
- Language: English
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Price: $17.98 or 1 Credit
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In Contempt
- Written by: Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter - contributor
- Narrated by: Christopher Darden
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Abridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
For more than a year, Christopher Darden argued tirelessly for the prosecution, giving voice to the victims in the 0.J. Simpson murder trial....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Abridged to the point of being incoherent
- By Anonymous User on 2022-12-01
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In Contempt
- Narrated by: Christopher Darden
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-06
- Language: English
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Price: $9.20 or 1 Credit
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Jess Walter
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless....
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
- Narrated by: Jess Walter
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2009-11-17
- Language: English
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Price: $25.63 or 1 Credit
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We Live in Water
- Stories
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
These 12 stories - published over the last five years in Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney's, Playboy, and other publications - veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction....
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We Live in Water
- Stories
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-12
- Language: English
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022
- Written by: Jess Walter - editor, Steph Cha - series editor
- Narrated by: Desean Terry, Lindsey Dorcus, Max Meyers, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha....
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022
- Narrated by: Desean Terry, Lindsey Dorcus, Max Meyers, Frankie Corzo, Christopher Salazar, Chanté McCormick
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-01
- Language: English
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So Far Gone
- A Novel
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes a hilarious and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
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So Far Gone
- A Novel
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 2025-06-10
- Language: English
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Price: $30.78 or 1 Credit
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Parable
- The One
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Jess Walter
- Length: 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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In this funny remembrance of an unusual triangle, Jess learns to accept what’s best for the one animal he has ever loved. After all, he gave his heart to the Australian shepherd mix he’d rescued. What alternative has he other than to give the restless girl her freedom....
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Parable
- The One
- Narrated by: Jess Walter
- Series: The One collection
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 2019-07-30
- Language: English
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The Way the World Ends
- Warmer collection
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a number one New York Times best-selling author’s invigorating, touching story of one slippery night, an open bar, and total abandon....
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The Way the World Ends
- Warmer collection
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Series: Warmer Collection
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-30
- Language: English
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Schöne Ruinen
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Ein verschlafener Ort an der ligurischen Küste im Frühjahr 1962: Pasquale hat von seinem Vater eine Pension geerbt, und wenn er nicht gerade...
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Schöne Ruinen
- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2013-03-28
- Language: German
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The Zero
- Written by: Jess Walter
- Narrated by: Christopher Graybill
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From its opening scene, when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head, novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour....
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The Zero
- Narrated by: Christopher Graybill
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-25
- Language: English
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