Audiobooks Like Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

10 audiobooks for fans of Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   Narrated by Viola Davis

   ★ 4.91 ABR Score (228.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (43.9K)

   9h 15m listening time • Released 2022

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   God's Smuggler

   by Unknown Author

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.63 ABR Score (50.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K) ★ 4.9 Audible (2.6K)

   8h 48m listening time • Released 2009

   Simon Vance's measured, trustworthy delivery transforms this true account of Bible smuggling into a page-turner that feels both intimate and urgent. A modern classic that still grips because the stakes, and the faith, feel devastatingly real.

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   The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

   Elephant Whisperer • Book 1

   by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.61 ABR Score (41.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.76 Audible (7.9K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

   Maya Angelou's Autobiography • Book 1

   by Maya Angelou

   Narrated by Maya Angelou

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (596.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (586.4K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.9K)

   10h 11m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Glass Castle

   by Jeannette Walls

   Narrated by Jeannette Walls

   ★ 4.51 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.4M) ★ 4.58 Audible (18.5K)

   10h 25m listening time • Released 2010

   Hearing Walls narrate her own impossible childhood gives the devastation an intimacy no other narrator could achieve—she's not performing the story, she's finally telling it.

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   Born a Crime

   by Trevor Noah

   Narrated by Chumel Torres

   ★ 4.46 ABR Score (817.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.49 Goodreads (817.0K) ★ 4.86 Audible (169)

   9h 25m listening time • Released 2021

   Chumel Torres inhabits every voice in Noah's childhood with such precision that you're not just hearing a memoir, you're overhearing a life unfold across South Africa's darkest years, with his mother stealing every scene.

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   I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

   by Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch, Martin Ganda, Chukwudi Iwuji

   Narrated by Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (32.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (30.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.6K)

   8h 51m listening time • Released 2015

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   The Six Wives of Henry VIII

   by Alison Weir

   Narrated by Simon Prebble

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (76.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.12 Goodreads (73.2K) ★ 4.62 Audible (3.1K)

   22h 26m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Prebble's measured, aristocratic delivery transforms these six women from historical footnotes into fully realized people—you'll hear the desperation, ambition, and tragedy that Weir unearths in each marriage to a monster.

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   Educated

   by Tara Westover

   Narrated by Julia Whelan

   ★ 4.84 ABR 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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    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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