Audiobooks Like Elon Musk

Jeremy Bobb narrates Elon Musk with a quality of careful attention — at 21 hours, this is a listen that covers enormous ground, and his performance threads the line between the subject's public mythology and the more complicated human being behind it without losing either. Six of the recommendations come from Isaacson's catalog, most sit in a similar runtime, and all share that same combination of intimate access and the sense of trying to make sense of a figure who resists any single interpretation.

10 audiobooks for fans of Elon Musk

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    Leonardo da Vinci cover

    Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson

    Narrated by Alfred Molina

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (142.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (130.5K) ★ 4.6 Audible (12.2K)
    17h 1m listening time • Released 2017
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    Einstein: His Life and Universe cover

    Einstein: His Life and Universe

    by Walter Isaacson

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (219.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (204.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (15.7K)
    21h 30m listening time • Released 2007
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    The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cover

    The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    by Walter Isaacson

    Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

    ★ 4.28 ABR Score (48.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (40.0K) ★ 4.57 Audible (8.2K)
    17h 28m listening time • Released 2014
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    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life cover

    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    by Walter Isaacson

    Narrated by Nelson Runger

    ★ 4.27 ABR Score (160.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (151.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (9.2K)
    24h 40m listening time • Released 2011
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    Steve Jobs cover

    Steve Jobs

    by Walter Isaacson

    Narrated by Dylan Baker

    ★ 4.57 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (1.4M) ★ 4.7 Audible (35.3K)
    25h 18m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X cover

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

    Narrated by Laurence Fishburne

    ★ 4.76 ABR Score (307.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (293.7K) ★ 4.9 Audible (13.5K)
    16h 52m listening time • Released 2020
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    Open

    by Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer

    Narrated by Erik Davies

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (157.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (149.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (8.3K)
    18h 4m listening time • Released 2009
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    Master of the Senate

    The Years of Lyndon Johnson • Book 3

    by Robert A. Caro

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (25.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.6K)
    18h 29m listening time • Released 2005

    Grover Gardner's steady, commanding voice transforms Caro's dense political narrative into riveting storytelling—18 hours that feel essential once you grasp how Johnson actually bended the Senate to his will.

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    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz cover

    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

    by Erik Larson

    Narrated by John Lee, Erik Larson

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (151.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (139.3K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.3K)
    17h 49m listening time • Released 2020
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    [A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2 (Knausgaard)] [By: Knausgaard, Karl Ove] [November, 2013] cover

    [A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2 (Knausgaard)] [By: Knausgaard, Karl Ove] [November, 2013]

    Min kamp • Book 2

    by Karl Ove Knausgård

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

    ★ 4.26 ABR Score (24.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (24.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (464)
    21h 4m listening time • Released 2015
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