In a recent profile, The New York Times called Edoardo “a master in his field… at the forefront of a new kind of celebrity.” Oprah Daily said, "As a narrator, Edoardo Ballerini is in a class by himself." Over the past few years Edoardo's work as a narrator has garnered unique media attention, with articles on his work and career appearing in The Guardian (UK), The Wrap (US), Aftenposten (Norway),  MediaPost (US), Il Giornale (Italy), The CBC (Canada), The Week (US) and The Week (UK), among others. He has also been named to "best of" lists in Elle Magazine, USA Today, Slate, Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Newsday, The A/V Club, and People Magazine, and is widely regarded as one of audiobook's brightest stars.

His list of over 500 audiobook titles includes classics by Dante, T.S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Faulkner, Camus, Fitzgerald, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Kafka, Jack London, Turgenev, Calvino, Oscar Wilde, Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as modern day best-sellers by Cormac McCarthy, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Richard Powers, Joyce Carol Oates, John McPhee, Amor Towles, Jess Walter, Hanya Yanagihara, David Baldacci, Cynthia Ozick, James Patterson, Hernan Diaz, Dean Koontz, and Isabel Allende . He has also recorded several spiritual titles by Thich Nhat Hahn and The Dalai Lama, and an unabridged version of The Hebrew Bible.

In 2021, Edoardo teamed up with Best-Selling author Jess Walter to create the Audible Original The Angel of Rome, a fictional tale based on Edoardo's own experience as a recent college graduate studying Latin with a Vatican priest. The piece was named one of Audible's "Best of 2021." Also that same year, he was commissioned by the Estate of T.S. Eliot and Faber & Faber to record the Centenary Edition of Eliot's landmark poem, The Waste Land, an honor he counts among his highest achievements.

Edoardo is also a frequent narrator of the best of long form journalism, having voiced countless articles for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Wired and several other publications. He is also the voice of several "Sleep Stories" on the Calm app.

In 2023 he was invited to teach a guest course on the Spoken Word at his alma mater Wesleyan University, and he is a frequent speaker and moderator at Literary Festivals.