10 audiobooks for fans of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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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 -
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 2026Bunnie 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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God's Smuggler
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 2009Simon 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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HOUSE TO HOUSE - An Epic Memoir of Urban War
by STAFF SERGEANT DAVID with BRUNING JOHN R BELLAVIA
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.50 ABR Score (12.7K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (7.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (5.0K)9h 20m listening time • Released 2007Ray Porter's narration transforms this brutal house-to-house account into something visceral and unforgettable—you're not just reading about Fallujah, you're inside it with Bellavia's Third Platoon.
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I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
by Bilquis Sheikh, Richard Schneider
Narrated by Lorna Raver
★ 4.46 ABR Score (11.4K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.82 Audible (1.9K)7h 5m listening time • Released 2011 -
Finding My Way
by Malala Yousafzai
Narrated by Malala Yousafzai
★ 4.45 ABR Score (14.0K ratings)★ 4.53 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.89 Audible (319)8h 57m listening time • Released 2025Hearing Malala's own voice narrate her private struggles—the anxiety, the humor, the messy adolescence behind the icon—transforms this from inspiration porn into something genuinely intimate and real.
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Strangers
by Belle Burden
Narrated by Belle Burden
★ 4.44 ABR Score (24.4K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (22.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (1.6K)7h 3m listening time • Released 2026Belle Burden's unflinching performance of her own marriage unraveling cuts deeper than any third-party narrator could—you're hearing the rawness and hard-won clarity directly from someone still making sense of betrayal.
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Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
Narrated by Louise Brealey
★ 4.43 ABR Score (29.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (586)6h 26m listening time • Released 2025Louise Brealey's narration transforms this intimate memoir into something almost magical: her voice captures both the wonder of raising a wild hare and the quiet devastation of loving something you can't keep.
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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 -
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by Matthew McConaughey
★ 4.74 ABR Score (653.6K ratings)★ 4.2 Goodreads (468.7K) ★ 4.82 Audible (184.9K)6h 51m listening time • Released 2020McConaughey narrating his own life philosophy is the audio equivalent of sitting down with him over a beer—conversational, genuine, and way more thoughtful than you'd expect.
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