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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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power....
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3 out of 5 stars
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watch her on tv
- By Mackenzie on 2019-07-12
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SPQR
- A History of Ancient Rome
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-19
- Language: English
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Price: $33.40
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million people each year. Yet it is also one of the most puzzling, with an intriguing and sometimes violent history....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mary Beard always delivers excellence.
- By Permutation on 2023-11-08
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The Fires of Vesuvius
- Pompeii Lost and Found
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-18
- Language: English
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Price: $27.83
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 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
This audiobook narrated by best-selling author Mary Beard explores how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power....
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-28
- Language: English
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Price: $25.20
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire....
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4 out of 5 stars
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How to be an Emperor
- By Williamanon on 2025-01-15
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Emperor of Rome
- Ruling the Ancient World
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-24
- Language: English
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Price: $27.83
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves.
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Laughter in Ancient Rome
- On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-14
- Language: English
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Price: $21.92
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The Roman Triumph
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 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
A radical reexamination of this most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman triumph, but also its darker side....
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The Roman Triumph
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2023-02-28
- Language: English
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Price: $33.40
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The Parthenon
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance1.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue....
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The Parthenon
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-24
- Language: English
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Price: $17.81
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Imperator
- Une histoire des empereurs de Rome
- Written by: Mary Beard, Souad Degachi - traducteur, Maxime Shelledy - traducteur
- Narrated by: Hélène Pierre
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Mary Beard braque les projecteurs sur les hommes qui ont gouverné l’Empire romain, de Jules César (assassiné en 44 avant notre ère) à Alexandre Sévère...
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Imperator
- Une histoire des empereurs de Rome
- Narrated by: Hélène Pierre
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-06
- Language: French
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Price: $36.97
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19
At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- By Just on 2021-10-01
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Women & Power
- A Manifesto
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-21
- Language: English
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Price: $11.66
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SPQR
- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- Written by: Mary Beard, Silvia Furió
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 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
Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge...
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SPQR
- Una historia de la antigua Roma
- Narrated by: Neus Sendra
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-25
- Language: Spanish
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Price: $23.21
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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- Written by: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 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
Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation....
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The Colosseum
- Wonders of the World, Book 19
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Series: Wonders of the World
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2019-12-03
- Language: English
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Price: $17.81
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity....
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How Do We Look
- The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-04
- Language: English
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Price: $12.24
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Written by: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion....
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The Invention of Jane Harrison
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-14
- Language: English
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Price: $22.26
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Written by: Mary Beard, John Henderson
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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We are all classicists - we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature....
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Classics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-14
- Language: English
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Price: $14.47
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