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Four Seasons in Rome Audiobook by Anthony Doerr— narrated by Anthony Doerr
On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr spends a Rome Prize year chasing Pliny, Keats, and a dying pope through the city's back alleys while his newborn twins scream through the night, and the result is a memoir about attention as much as about Italy.
Why the audiobook wins
Anthony Doerr reads Four Seasons in Rome himself, which turns a book about paying attention into a demonstration of it. The prose is image-dense enough that a narrator racing through it would flatten it. Doerr gives his own sentences room, and the Roman details he spent a year collecting arrive one at a time instead of in a rush.
It also makes the exhaustion honest. This is a memoir written by a man with newborn twins who is not sleeping, and hearing the author say so in his own voice lands differently from reading it on the page. The comedy of the insomnia and the awe at the city come out of the same mouth, which is the book's whole argument.
If you came to Doerr through All the Light We Cannot See, this is where the attention in that novel was trained. One Audible credit covers the recording.
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- Who narrates the Four Seasons in Rome audiobook?
- Anthony Doerr narrates the audiobook edition of Four Seasons in Rome.
- Is the Four Seasons in Rome audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Four Seasons in Rome 4.2 out of 5. Anthony Doerr reads Four Seasons in Rome himself, which turns a book about paying attention into a demonstration of it. The prose is image-dense enough that a narrator racing through it would flatten it. Doerr gives his own sentences room, and the Roman details he spent a year…
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- Eligible new Audible members can use a free-trial credit to listen in the Audible app. Eligibility and current offer terms are set by Audible.Listen to Four Seasons in Rome free with an Audible trial
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- Is Four Seasons in Rome on Kindle Unlimited?
- No. Four Seasons in Rome was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on July 19, 2026.
