Audiobooks Like Counting the Cost

10 audiobooks for fans of Counting the Cost

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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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   Strangers

   by Belle Burden

   Narrated by Belle Burden

   ★ 4.44 ABR Score (24.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (22.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (1.6K)

   7h 3m listening time • Released 2026

   Belle Burden's unflinching performance of her own marriage unraveling cuts deeper than any third-party narrator could—you're hearing the rawness and hard-won clarity directly from someone still making sense of betrayal.

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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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   Greenlights

   by Matthew McConaughey

   Narrated by Matthew McConaughey

   ★ 4.74 ABR Score (653.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.2 Goodreads (468.7K) ★ 4.82 Audible (184.9K)

   6h 51m listening time • Released 2020

   McConaughey narrating his own life philosophy is the audio equivalent of sitting down with him over a beer—conversational, genuine, and way more thoughtful than you'd expect.

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   Stripped Down

   by Bunnie Xo

   Narrated by Bunnie Xo

   ★ 4.71 ABR Score (12.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.59 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.92 Audible (4.6K)

   8h 25m listening time • Released 2026

   Bunnie narrating her own story gives you the unfiltered voice of someone who's genuinely earned the right to talk about survival and redemption—her raw honesty hits different when you hear it straight from her.

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   Crying in H Mart

   by Michelle Zauner

   Narrated by Michelle Zauner

   ★ 4.50 ABR Score (625.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.23 Goodreads (612.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.8K)

   7h 23m listening time • Released 2021

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   The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

   by Jim DeFede

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (70.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (67.2K) ★ 4.75 Audible (3.3K)

   6h 28m listening time • Released 2017

   Ray Porter's warm, measured narration transforms this true story of small-town Canadian kindness into something quietly devastating—the kind of 9/11 story that reminds you humanity showed up that day.

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   I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God

   by Bilquis Sheikh, Richard Schneider

   Narrated by Lorna Raver

   ★ 4.46 ABR Score (11.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.82 Audible (1.9K)

   7h 5m listening time • Released 2011

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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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    You with the Sad Eyes

    by Christina Applegate

    Narrated by Christina Applegate

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)

    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (902)

    8h 27m listening time • Released 2026

    Applegate reading her own story transforms a celebrity memoir into something unexpectedly intimate—her voice carries the weight of what she's survived, making the humor land harder and the vulnerability cut deeper.

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