Audiobooks Like David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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If you loved David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Malcolm Gladwell's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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    Outliers: The Story of Success cover

    Outliers: The Story of Success

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

    4.80 BLT Score (923.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (873.6K) ★ 4.68 Audible (49.4K)
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    Blink

    by Malcolm Gladwell, Barry Fox, Irina Henegar

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

    4.41 BLT Score (651.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (624.9K) ★ 4.49 Audible (26.7K)
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    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures cover

    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

    4.18 BLT Score (112.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (105.3K) ★ 4.44 Audible (7.1K)
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    Endurance

    by Alfred Lansing

    Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith

    4.81 BLT Score (172.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (170.2K) ★ 4.76 Audible (2.7K)
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    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art cover

    Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

    by James Nestor

    Narrated by James Nestor

    4.68 BLT Score (127.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (118.1K) ★ 4.72 Audible (9.8K)
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    Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot cover

    Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    Narrated by Bill O'Reilly

    4.57 BLT Score (71.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (62.5K) ★ 4.66 Audible (9.0K)
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    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever cover

    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

    Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series

    by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

    Narrated by Bill O'Reilly

    4.50 BLT Score (120.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (109.0K) ★ 4.6 Audible (11.2K)
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    Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions cover

    Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

    by Dan Ariely

    Narrated by Simon Jones

    4.39 BLT Score (144.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.7K)
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    A Brief History of Time cover

    A Brief History of Time

    by Stephen W. Hawking

    Narrated by Michael Jackson

    4.39 BLT Score (491.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (483.3K) ★ 4.43 Audible (7.9K)
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    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything cover

    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    Freakonomics • Book 1

    by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

    Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner

    4.30 BLT Score (913.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (901.6K) ★ 4.4 Audible (12.4K)

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