Best Audiobook Version of War and Peace: Every Translation and Narrator Compared

The best War and Peace audiobook is Thandiwe Newton's unabridged Audible Studios recording, which won the 2023 Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics. The best to borrow is Neville Jason's two-volume Naxos recording, and the best free one is Mark Nelson's LibriVox reading of the Maude translation, Volumes 1 to 4. For a modern translation, Penguin Classics' 2020 recording of Anthony Briggs's translation is the only one on audio.

Newton's recording runs 60 hours 14 minutes and has 4.6 stars from 1,613 ratings on Audible US as of November 11, 2026. Ten of the twelve complete recordings on sale read Louise and Aylmer Maude's translation, so for most listeners the real choice is the voice. Below: listening time at each speed, every unabridged edition with its translation, the Pevear and Volokhonsky question, the French, the free recordings and the names. Every edition fact was read from the publisher's or store's own page on November 11, 2026.

Which War and Peace audiobook is best?

Thandiwe Newton for most listeners, Neville Jason to borrow from a library, Mark Nelson's LibriVox reading for free, and the Penguin Classics recording for a modern translation.

Best overall: Thandiwe Newton (Audible Studios, 2021)

Thandiwe Newton's recording won the 2023 Audie Award for Literary Fiction & Classics, and she was a finalist for Best Female Narrator the same year, according to the Audio Publishers Association. In our scan of the association's Audie pages from 2000 to 2026, it is the only War and Peace recording that won. Many people search for it as the Thandie Newton War and Peace.

On Audible US it has 4.6 stars from 1,613 ratings and 4.7 for performance, as of November 11, 2026. It is one title, not two volumes. Audible credits Louise and Aylmer Maude as translators, and its sample matched the Maude text (see the comparison below). The US page showed "Listen for free" to a signed-out visitor, against an Audible list price of $30.00; Apple Books sold it for $32.99. A 2023 Apple Books reviewer praised her for "embodying dozens of characters speaking English, French, German, Russian and Latin." Two 2025 reviewers found some character voices too loud. We did not find it on Libby or hoopla.

Best to borrow: Neville Jason (Naxos AudioBooks, 2006)

Neville Jason reads the Maude translation for Naxos in two volumes: 30 hours 19 minutes and 31 hours 24 minutes on Audible, 61 hours 43 minutes in all. Volume 1 has 4.6 stars from 2,658 ratings and Volume 2 has 4.7 from 2,121, with performance scores of 4.7 and 4.8, as of November 11, 2026. Volume 1 was a 2007 Audie finalist for male solo narration. AudioFile's review, now hosted by Kirkus, calls it "a fresh and consistently insightful interpretation".

It is the one you can borrow. On November 11, 2026, Libby showed Volume 1 at the New York, King County and San Francisco public libraries (4 copies each) and Volume 2 at those three plus Los Angeles. Buying it means two purchases: $27.49 each on Audible.

Best free: Mark Nelson, LibriVox Maude translation, Volumes 1 to 4 (2022 to 2023)

Mark Nelson reads all four volumes of LibriVox's Maude translation alone: 62 hours 27 minutes over 365 sections, one per chapter. It is the only complete free recording in one voice, and it reads the text of Project Gutenberg eBook #2600.

Best modern translation: Penguin Classics, Anthony Briggs's translation (2020)

Penguin's recording of Anthony Briggs's 2005 translation is shared by five readers: Chloe Pirrie, Sam Woolf, Michael Fox, Olivia Darnley and Terence Wilton. It is an unabridged reading, not a dramatisation, and at 67 hours 13 minutes it is the longest of the main editions. Penguin UK dates it April 30, 2020 and lists it at £16.00. It has 4.5 stars from 174 ratings on Audible UK, and Audible US listed it at $19.32 on November 11, 2026.

Also worth knowing. Edoardo Ballerini's AmazonClassics recording of the Maude translation is the shortest main edition at 55 hours 30 minutes, with 4.6 stars from 602 ratings. Frederick Davidson's Blackstone recording of Constance Garnett's translation has the most ratings of any single title on Audible US, 4,900, but the lowest stars of the main editions, 4.1; Libby had it in all five library systems we checked.

How long is the War and Peace audiobook?

About 62 hours at 1x: the Maude translation has 561,870 words, and complete recordings run from 50 hours 39 minutes to 67 hours 33 minutes.

The Maude translation in Project Gutenberg eBook #2600 has 561,870 words, the figure in our guide to how long audiobooks run. At 151 words a minute, the median pace we measured for LibriVox solo readers, that is:

• 1x: 62 hours 1 minute
• 1.25x: 49 hours 37 minutes
• 1.5x: 41 hours 21 minutes
• 2x: 31 hours

Among the 12 complete recordings on sale, Christopher Preece's is the shortest at 50 hours 39 minutes and Zach Barrett's the longest at 67 hours 33 minutes. The main editions run from 55 hours 30 minutes (Edoardo Ballerini) to 67 hours 13 minutes (Penguin). Mark Nelson's free LibriVox reading takes 62 hours 27 minutes, about 150 words a minute. A 20.6-hour figure that circulates online is not the whole novel: no complete recording we found runs under 50 hours. Nor do all complete recordings take 60 hours or more: Ballerini, Philippe Duquenoy, Keith Brown and Jonathan Keeble all finish sooner (see the table below).

Chapters: 365 in Maude, 361 in the Russian. Tolstoy's novel has 4 volumes, 15 parts and a two-part epilogue, 361 chapters in all. The Maude text has 15 books and two epilogues with 365 chapters, because it splits two long chapters of Book One into five and makes a short chapter of its own at the end of Book Five. So after Book One, Chapter 3, the chapter numbers in a Maude recording do not match a Russian-numbered edition. By our count of the Russian text on ilibrary.ru, the original has 448,184 words, so Maude's English runs about 25% longer.

Most chapters are short. By our count the average Maude chapter is 1,541 words, about 10 minutes at 1x, and 206 of the 365 chapters take under 10 minutes. The longest, Book Ten, Chapter 4, takes about 27 minutes; the shortest, Book Five, Chapter 22, about 1 minute.

Days to finish, our calculation at 151 words a minute, rounded up to whole days:

These figures hold for recordings of the Maude text; other translations have their own lengths, which we did not measure. For choosing a speed, see what speed to listen at.

How do the unabridged War and Peace audiobooks compare?

We found 12 complete recordings on sale by named human narrators; LibriVox adds two complete free ones and a free set that stops halfway.

Ratings are Audible US stars with the number of ratings in brackets, as of November 11, 2026. Runtimes are Audible's for the paid editions and LibriVox's for the free ones.

How we know the translation. Many store pages name no translator, so we checked by ear. We transcribed 24 Audible samples with speech recognition and compared each, six words at a time, with three public domain texts: the Maude translation (Project Gutenberg #2600) and Internet Archive scans of Garnett's and Dole's. Two different translations of this book share 0 to 19% of their six-word runs; a recording of a text matches 60 to 98% of it. Every Maude recording in the table matched Maude's text on at least 69% of the runs in its first 250 words, and Frederick Davidson's matched Garnett's at 98%. The Penguin recording matched neither (7.8% Maude, 3.7% Garnett), which fits Audible's and Penguin's credit to Anthony Briggs.

Two facts often get mixed up. Neville Jason reads the Maude translation, not Garnett's or Andrew Bromfield's: Naxos, its booklet and Audible all credit the Maudes, and his Volume 2 sample matched Maude at 96.2%. Frederick Davidson's recording runs 61 hours 6 minutes, not 58, and it is the only complete recording of Garnett's translation we found.

Years are the publisher's where it gives one: Davidson's recording carries a 1997 Blackstone copyright line, though Audible lists 2005. Spotify for Neville Jason comes from the Naxos page's link, and Kobo, Libro.fm, Spotify and Google Play for the Penguin edition come from Penguin UK's list of stores.

Listings we left out. Audible also carries a 60-hour reading by Harry Shaw labelled "abridged", partial and part-by-part listings, and two machine-voiced "Virtual Voice" editions, one of them a rewrite. Apple Books and Kobo list a paid Mark Nelson reading from Parolita Libro; we could not confirm whether it is his LibriVox recording.

Who is the best War and Peace narrator, Thandiwe Newton or Neville Jason?

Both read the Maude translation and both rate 4.6 or higher; Newton's is the award winner and one purchase, and Jason's has the steadiest praise from listeners and sits in public libraries.

On Reddit, across 14 threads from 2017 to 2024, Neville Jason drew the most consistent praise. One listener two-thirds of the way through wrote that they "have really enjoyed his narration and the character voices he uses" (r/audiobooks, 2023). The one complaint that recurs is his young women: AudioFile wrote that "Only his very young women ring a bit false". Newton's release thread on r/audible in November 2021 scored 78 points, the most of any War and Peace audiobook thread we found, and one reader on r/ayearofwarandpeace chose the Maude translation "because of Thandiwe Newton's narration".

Frederick Davidson divides people most: one listener called his narration "brilliant and helpful in keeping each character distinct", another wrote "avoid Frederick Davidson". For a cast of voices instead of one, the Penguin edition has five readers.

Is there a Pevear and Volokhonsky War and Peace audiobook?

No: on November 11, 2026 we found no audiobook of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation in any store or library catalogue we checked.

We searched Audible's US, UK, Canadian and Australian catalogues, Apple Books, OverDrive at five library systems, Kobo US and hoopla. There was no recording of Pevear and Volokhonsky's 2007 translation, and none of Ann Dunnigan's, Rosemary Edmonds's or Amy Mandelker's revised Maude either. Lists online that credit a 63-hour Pevear and Volokhonsky recording or a 60-hour solo Briggs recording describe recordings that appear in none of those catalogues.

The only modern translation on audio is Penguin's 2020 Briggs recording with five readers. The top answer on a 2023 r/audible thread still holds: "There's only audiobooks versions of Maude, Anthony Briggs and Constance Garnett."

Which translation of War and Peace is best for listening?

The Maude translation, for choice: ten of the twelve complete recordings on sale read it, and so do both complete free ones. Anthony Briggs's is the only modern translation you can hear.

Five English translations are in the US public domain: Clara Bell's (1885 to 1886, made from a French version), Nathan Haskell Dole's (1889), Leo Wiener's (1904), Constance Garnett's (1904) and Louise and Aylmer Maude's (1922 to 1923). Every translation from Rosemary Edmonds's in 1957 onward is in copyright. The Maude is the only complete War and Peace on Project Gutenberg, which is why the free recordings read it.

Here is what named critics said about the three translations you can hear:

• Louise and Aylmer Maude (1922 to 1923). Lesley Herrmann, in the Claremont Review of Books in 2008, wrote of "Their faithful translation, which the Maudes revised in 1933". Oxford University Press, which publishes a revised edition, says it "has long been considered the best English version". James Wood, in The New Yorker in 2007, grouped the Maudes with Garnett and Edmonds as translators who "have tended to be somewhat activist, sidestepping difficult words, smoothing the rhythm of the Russian".
• Constance Garnett (1904). Orlando Figes, in The New York Review of Books in 2007, said she "translated into graceful late-Victorian prose seventy major Russian works". David Remnick reported in The New Yorker in 2005 that Hemingway could not finish the novel "until I got the Constance Garnett translation."
• Anthony Briggs (2005). Herrmann called it "a fluid, enjoyable, colloquial" and "definitely modern" British version. Robert A. Maguire, quoted by the publisher, called it "The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English".

The translation critics praise most has no audio. Figes said Pevear and Volokhonsky's 2007 version stands out for "its absolute fidelity to the language of Tolstoy"; Janet Malcolm, in a 2008 letter to the London Review of Books, called it "wooden".

Some editions sell the Maude as the translation Tolstoy approved. The praise is real but older: Aylmer Maude quoted Tolstoy in a letter to The Saturday Review dated January 1, 1905, saying "Better translators both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated could not be invented". Their War and Peace appeared in 1922 to 1923, after Tolstoy died in 1910.

Hear the difference in one sentence. Herrmann set four versions of the line where old Prince Bolkonsky moves to Moscow (Maude Book Eight, Chapter 2) side by side:

Herrmann's verdict: "All four translations get the point across, and each has its strengths." She judged Pevear and Volokhonsky the most accurate, and noted that Briggs writes "old Prince Bolkonsky" to avoid the name and patronymic, "a problem that flummoxes so many first-time readers in English." For modern English by ear, pick the Penguin recording; for a free recording or the widest choice of voices, the Maude.

Do War and Peace audiobooks read the French?

Mostly in English: every complete recording reads a translation that puts almost all of Tolstoy's French into English.

Tolstoy wrote whole conversations and letters in French. Figes and Pevear both estimated the French at about 2 percent of the novel; Russian Wikipedia gives 2.52%, citing a 1978 study. By our count of the Russian text, 3.4% of the words are in Latin script, which also catches some German and Latin. The French is front-loaded: 11.0% of Volume 1, Part 1, the first five hours of listening, against 2.7% in the rest. Two chapters are more than half French: Princess Mary's and Julie's letters (Maude Book One, Chapter 25) and Bilibin's letter to Prince Andrew (Maude Book Five, Chapter 9, about 9 minutes in English).

The novel opens in French: "Eh bien, mon prince. Gênes et Lucques ne sont plus que des apanages, des поместья, de la famille Buonaparte." The Maude translation, and so both complete free recordings, opens: "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes."

What each translation does with the French:

• Maude: puts it into English, leaving 136 short foreign phrases such as "mon cher" in place with an English footnote, by our count.
• Garnett: translates "all but a few words", in Figes's phrase.
• Briggs: translates all of it.
• Pevear and Volokhonsky: keep all of it, with English in footnotes.
• Mandelker's 2010 revision of Maude: "French passages are restored", says its publisher.
• Edmonds: keeps only "Eh bien, mon prince" of the opening speech in French.

The two that keep the French at length have no recording, so the audiobooks you can buy or borrow give you English in those places. A Reddit listener said Neville Jason "reads out the story entirely in English, so I didn't have to keep going to the annotations to translate the French parts". Figes thought the loss matters: "Cutting out the French makes the text much easier to read but it misses an important element of Tolstoy's irony". Tolstoy himself cut all the French from his revised 1873 edition, Figes notes, and later restored it.

Is there a free War and Peace audiobook?

Yes: LibriVox has a complete free recording in one voice, Mark Nelson's four volumes of the Maude translation, 62 hours 27 minutes in all.

Running times, sections and dates come from the LibriVox catalog and API; downloads were read from the Internet Archive on November 11, 2026.

Which one to pick. The Maude Volumes 1 to 4 are one voice and complete. Volume 1 holds Books One to Three (14:34:37), Volume 2 Books Four to Eight (16:08:33), Volume 3 Books Nine to Eleven (17:00:19), and Volume 4 Books Twelve to Fifteen with both epilogues (14:43:44). The 17-book set is complete too, but the reader changes every few chapters; its Book 01 averages 3 stars from 6 reviews on the Internet Archive, and one 2009 reviewer wrote that "multiple people have contributed to reading this novel and there are problems with this for me." The Dole set stops halfway: LibriVox lists a Volume 3 with no recording published.

Our guide to whether LibriVox is free and legal explains why these recordings cost nothing.

Is the BBC War and Peace audiobook abridged?

The BBC War and Peace is a radio dramatisation, not a reading of the novel: the 2015 Radio 4 version runs 9 hours 38 minutes, against at least 50 hours for any complete recording.

Runtimes are Audible's. The 2015 cast includes Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale, Alun Armstrong and Roger Allam; it has 4.7 stars from 112 ratings on Audible US, where its format reads "unabridged" even though it is a dramatisation. The earlier production has Simon Russell Beale as Pierre, Emily Mortimer as Natasha, Gerard Murphy as Andrei and Leo McKern as Kutuzov. Edward Petherbridge's War and Peace is abridged only; his sample matched Garnett's text.

Every complete recording we found runs at least 50 hours 39 minutes; a listing far shorter than that is not the whole novel.

Is War and Peace hard to read?

Not sentence by sentence; the length, the cast and Tolstoy's chapters on history are the hard part.

Project Gutenberg gives the Maude text a reading ease score of 78.3, "7th grade". That formula measures only sentence and word length. Tolstoy himself wrote in 1868 that his book "is not a novel, even less a poem, even less a historical chronicle" (our translation).

What makes it demanding on audio is narration. By our count only 21.8% of Maude's words sit inside quotation marks, against 55.4% for Garnett's Crime and Punishment in our comparison of its audiobooks. One narrator carries long stretches of battle, history and argument. Book Ten, with Borodino, is the longest book at 39 chapters and about 7 hours 9 minutes. The Second Epilogue is Tolstoy's essay on history: 12 chapters, about 1 hour 57 minutes.

For beginners: pick one solo narrator, take a chapter or two at a sitting (most run about 10 minutes), and keep a list of who is who. Our guide on how to read classics without getting bored covers long books in general.

How do you keep track of the names in War and Peace?

Sort the cast by family and expect one person to go by several names: in the Maude translation, "Nicholas" is three different people.

Richard Pevear, while translating it, put the cast at "five hundred historical figures and fictional figures". The main ones belong to five families: the Bezukhovs (Pierre and his father), the Bolkonskys (old Prince Nicholas, his son Prince Andrew and daughter Princess Mary), the Rostovs (Nicholas, Natasha, Petya, Vera and their cousin Sonya), the Kuragins (Prince Vasili, Hélène, Anatole, Hippolyte) and the Drubetskoys (Anna Mikhaylovna and her son Boris).

Here is how often each name form appears, by our approximate count of the Gutenberg text and the Russian text on ilibrary.ru. These roles give nothing away.

The Maude's "Nicholas" covers Nicholas Rostov, old "Prince Nicholas" Bolkonsky (26 times) and Prince Andrew's son, "little Nicholas" (25 times). The Russian keeps them apart by form. The Maude also anglicises first names, so you can tell a Maude recording within minutes: it says "Prince Andrew" and "Princess Mary", where Pevear and Volokhonsky write Andrei and Marya. The French name forms almost vanish too: André appears 30 times in the Russian and twice in Maude.

The free Project Gutenberg edition has no list of characters. Naxos gives one away: the 36-page booklet for Neville Jason's Volume I, a free PDF on its site, lists "The Characters" by family and gives each chapter a title.

By ear, a name you last heard hours ago is hard to place, and in a 60-hour book a character can return days later. Seeing each word highlighted as the narrator speaks it puts the name in front of you, and that is why we built HushBook. Its free character map keeps every name a person goes by on one card: add Pierre once and keep Monsieur Pierre and Count Bezúkhov in his card's notes. The card also records the chapter and time you first heard him. Our guide on how to keep track of characters has methods that work without any app.

Should you read or listen to War and Peace?

Either works for following the story, but minds wander most when people only listen, and no study has tested a 60-hour book.

• No reliable overall difference. A 2022 meta-analysis by Clinton-Lisell of 46 studies with 4,687 people found no reliable difference between understanding a text by reading and by listening (g = 0.07). Reading did better when readers set their own pace (g = 0.13) and on questions that need inference.
• More mind wandering while listening. In a 2013 study of 211 students, Varao Sousa, Carriere and Smilek found that listening to a passage led to the most mind wandering and the poorest memory, and reading aloud to the least.
• Literary texts. In a 2016 study using The Red-Headed League and Walden, Kopp and D'Mello found that audio alone produced the most mind wandering; following the text while listening produced about as much as reading at your own pace. The abstract gives no sample size.
• Reading along. Clinton-Lisell's 2023 meta-analysis of 30 studies (1,945 people) found a trivial overall benefit of reading while listening over reading only (g = 0.18), and no reliable benefit when readers set their own pace.
• Novel excerpts. In a study published in 2026, Hui and Godfroid had 86 intermediate to advanced Chinese learners of English read, listen to, or read and listen to excerpts of a novel. Both reading conditions beat listening alone; reading while listening scored below silent reading.

None of these studies tested anything longer than a book chapter, and none measured how listeners keep track of names. For War and Peace, that points to a simple rule: listen when it fits your day, and have the text in front of you when the names start to blur.

What we could not verify

• Sound. We did not rank the recordings by listening, and we describe no narrator's accent.
• The French in each recording. No unabridged sample reached a French passage, so how much French each narrator voices is unknown.
• Some stores. Libro.fm and Amazon blocked us, and Spotify needs a login, so their listings are unchecked.
• Free on Audible. Thandiwe Newton's US page showed "Listen for free" to a signed-out visitor; we could not see which membership that means.
• Whispersync. Audible's pages for the Newton and Ballerini editions carry a Whispersync tag; we could not confirm which Kindle edition pairs with them.
• Which Maude text. Project Gutenberg does not say whether eBook #2600 is the 1922 to 1923 text or the Maudes' 1933 revision.
• Your country. Availability and prices vary by region. Prices and ratings above are a snapshot of November 11, 2026.

Is there a War and Peace audiobook with text?

Yes: HushBook, the app we built, highlights each word as the narrator reads the free LibriVox recordings, on iPhone, Android and Windows.

HushBook is free, with no account, and transcription runs on your own device. For this book, open Discover, search "war and peace" and download the four titles named "War and Peace, Volume 1 (Maude translation)" to "War and Peace, Volume 4 (Maude Translation)". Their cards read 14h 35m, 16h 9m, 17h 0m and 14h 44m: together Mark Nelson's 62 hours 27 minutes, about 1.7 GB. Play them in order, 1 to 4. Each arrives as its own book with one chapter per section, from "Book 01 Chapter 01" to "Second Epilogue Chapter 12". The similar "War and Peace Vol. 1 (1805-1806)" is the first volume of the Dole translation. Play a 30-second sample before you download.

HushBook transcribes each volume on your phone, and each chapter is ready to read the moment it finishes. Words fill in as the narrator reads them, with a red underline on the current one. Long-press any line to play from there. Mark a passage to keep it as a highlight, note or quote, and set the speed anywhere from 0.5x to 3x. After the one-time HushBook Engine download, playback and read-along work without an internet connection.

For Briggs's modern translation, read along with a DRM-free MP3 or M4B copy you own; Penguin UK lists Libro.fm among the stores for its recording. HushBook imports MP3, M4B and 13 other audio formats and detects the chapters inside M4B files. The Windows app has Discover too and transcribes on your computer, free and unlimited.

HushBook works with free public domain recordings and audio files you own without DRM.

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