10 audiobooks for fans of Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
Narrated by Will Damron
★ 5.00 BLT Score (323.1K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (283.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (39.3K) -
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly
★ 4.81 BLT Score (32.2K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.78 Audible (10.3K) -
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Narrated by Michael Lewis
★ 4.49 BLT Score (172.4K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (172.2K) ★ 4.88 Audible (188) -
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Narrated by Will Damron
★ 4.65 BLT Score (90.9K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (80.7K) ★ 4.7 Audible (10.2K) -
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
by Gabor Maté
Narrated by Daniel Maté
★ 4.61 BLT Score (37.2K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (36.0K) ★ 4.8 Audible (1.2K) -
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided
by Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by Jonathan Haidt
★ 4.58 BLT Score (79.9K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (66.9K) ★ 4.62 Audible (12.9K) -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
by Jon Meacham
Narrated by Fred Sanders, Jon Meacham
★ 4.54 BLT Score (21.8K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (16.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (5.5K) -
All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
Narrated by Richard Poe
★ 4.50 BLT Score (60.4K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (2.1K) -
Quiet
by Susan Cain
Narrated by Kathe Mazur
★ 4.47 BLT Score (498.5K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (478.1K) ★ 4.51 Audible (20.3K) -
The Democrat Party Hates America
by Mark R. Levin
Narrated by Jeremy Lowell
★ 4.45 BLT Score (1.7K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.86 Audible (467)
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