Audiobooks Like Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

10 audiobooks for fans of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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   Educated

   by Tara Westover

   Narrated by Julia Whelan

   ★ 4.87 BLT Score (2.0M ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.78 Audible (128.2K)

   12h 10m listening time • Released 2018

   Julia Whelan's narration transforms this memoir into something almost unbearable to pause—her voice carries you through Westover's harrowing escape with such intimacy that you feel the weight of every decision she made to survive and think for herself.

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   Julia Whelan's narration transforms this memoir into something almost unbearable to pause—her voice carries you through Westover's harrowing escape with such intimacy that you feel the weight of every decision she made to survive and think for herself.

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   Shoe Dog

   by Phil Knight

   Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz

   ★ 4.86 BLT Score (428.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (53.5K)

   13h 21m listening time • Released 2016

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   The Choice: Embrace the Possible

   by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

   Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh

   ★ 4.82 BLT Score (138.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.57 Goodreads (132.9K) ★ 4.91 Audible (6.0K)

   12h 26m listening time • Released 2017

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   Rare WITH THE OLD BREED by E.B. Sledge -1st/1st HCDJ 1981 - Peleliu & Okinawa marines unknown

   by Unknown .

   Narrated by Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)

   ★ 4.79 BLT Score (60.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (48.6K) ★ 4.9 Audible (11.5K)

   13h 58m listening time • Released 2013

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   Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

   by David Goggins

   Narrated by David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner

   ★ 4.78 BLT Score (80.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.9 Audible (32.2K)

   11h 6m listening time • Released 2022

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   Unbroken

   by Laura Hillenbrand

   Narrated by Edward Herrmann

   ★ 4.78 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.78 Audible (51.5K)

   13h 56m listening time • Released 2010

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   Nobody's Girl

   by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

   Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Gabra Zackman

   ★ 4.75 BLT Score (78.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.55 Goodreads (70.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (7.4K)

   13h 39m listening time • Released 2025

   The dual narration cuts between Giuffre's voice and Plummer's, creating an intimate testament that demands to be heard rather than read—a survivor's reckoning told with devastating clarity.

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   The dual narration cuts between Giuffre's voice and Plummer's, creating an intimate testament that demands to be heard rather than read—a survivor's reckoning told with devastating clarity.

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   Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

   by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

   Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

   ★ 4.63 BLT Score (118.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.34 Goodreads (101.7K) ★ 4.76 Audible (16.4K)

   14h 17m listening time • Released 2012

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   Between Two Kingdoms

   by Suleika Jaouad

   Narrated by Suleika Jaouad

   ★ 4.62 BLT Score (135.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.42 Goodreads (130.6K) ★ 4.78 Audible (4.5K)

   13h 2m listening time • Released 2021

   Suleika narrating her own leukemia diagnosis and recovery creates an intimacy no other voice could match. Devastating, raw, and utterly human.

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   Suleika narrating her own leukemia diagnosis and recovery creates an intimacy no other voice could match. Devastating, raw, and utterly human.

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    Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

    by Catherine Gildiner

    Narrated by Deborah Burgess

    ★ 4.62 BLT Score (71.2K ratings)

    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (67.5K) ★ 4.79 Audible (3.7K)

    13h 15m listening time • Released 2020

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