Audiobooks Like Bossypants

10 audiobooks for fans of Bossypants

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   Man's Search for Meaning

   by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. Winslade, Isle Lasch

   Narrated by Theo Solomon

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (894.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (892.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.8K)

   5h 43m listening time • Released 2024

   Theo Solomon's measured, unflinching delivery transforms Frankl's Holocaust testimony into something you can't stop listening to—his voice honors the weight without performing it, letting the meaning land harder.

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   In the Dream House

   by Carmen Maria Machado

   Narrated by Carmen Maria Machado

   ★ 4.33 ABR Score (166.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (164.6K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.8K)

   5h 29m listening time • Released 2019

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   Raising Hare

   by Chloe Dalton

   Narrated by Louise Brealey

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (29.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (586)

   6h 26m listening time • Released 2025

   Louise Brealey's narration transforms this intimate memoir into something almost magical: her voice captures both the wonder of raising a wild hare and the quiet devastation of loving something you can't keep.

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   Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

   by Martin Lings

   Narrated by Sean Barrett

   ★ 4.42 ABR Score (14.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.57 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.67 Audible (894)

   6h 3m listening time • Released 2007

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   The Last Lecture

   by Randy Pausch

   Narrated by Eric Singer

   ★ 4.35 ABR Score (370.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (365.2K) ★ 4.53 Audible (5.7K)

   4h 36m listening time • Released 2008

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   Rare The Audacity of Hope

   by Barack Obama

   Narrated by Barack Obama

   ★ 4.25 ABR Score (180.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.84 Goodreads (170.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (9.9K)

   6h 10m listening time • Released 2006

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   Why Not Me?

   by Mindy Kaling

   Narrated by Mindy Kaling, Greg Daniels, B. J. Novak

   ★ 4.12 ABR Score (242.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.9 Goodreads (227.2K) ★ 4.42 Audible (15.7K)

   4h 57m listening time • Released 2015

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   Convicted: A Crooked Cop, an Innocent Man, and an Unlikely Journey of Forgiveness and Friendship

   by Jameel Zookie McGee, Andrew Collins, Mark A. Tabb

   Narrated by Calvin Robinson, Adam Verner

   ★ 4.04 ABR Score (753 ratings)

   ★ 4.48 Goodreads (685) ★ 4.91 Audible (68)

   6h 35m listening time • Released 2018

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   Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

   by Mindy Kaling

   Narrated by Mindy Kaling, B. J. Novak, Michael Schur, Brenda Withers

   ★ 4.01 ABR Score (531.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (514.9K) ★ 4.29 Audible (16.9K)

   4h 37m listening time • Released 2011

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    Women In War : A Gripping Collection of the Untold True Stories of History's Bravest Women Warriors

    by David Yuzuk

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    ★ 3.89 ABR Score (396 ratings)

    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374) ★ 4.91 Audible (22)

    5h 38m listening time • Released 2025

    Julia Whelan's measured, unflinching narration transforms these twenty untold true stories of female warriors into something visceral and impossible to forget—each account hits harder because she lets the women's own words breathe.

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