Audiobooks Like Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

10 audiobooks for fans of Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

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   Man's Search for Meaning

   by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. Winslade, Isle Lasch

   Narrated by Theo Solomon

   ★ 4.57 ABR Score (894.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (892.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.8K)

   5h 43m listening time • Released 2024

   Theo Solomon's measured, unflinching delivery transforms Frankl's Holocaust testimony into something you can't stop listening to—his voice honors the weight without performing it, letting the meaning land harder.

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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 2026

   Belle 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 2025

   Louise 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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   In the Dream House

   by Carmen Maria Machado

   Narrated by Carmen Maria Machado

   ★ 4.33 ABR Score (166.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (164.6K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.8K)

   5h 29m listening time • Released 2019

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   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 2020

   McConaughey 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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   Crying in H Mart

   by Michelle Zauner

   Narrated by Michelle Zauner

   ★ 4.50 ABR Score (625.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.23 Goodreads (612.6K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.8K)

   7h 23m listening time • Released 2021

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   The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

   by Jim DeFede

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.47 ABR Score (70.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (67.2K) ★ 4.75 Audible (3.3K)

   6h 28m listening time • Released 2017

   Ray Porter's warm, measured narration transforms this true story of small-town Canadian kindness into something quietly devastating—the kind of 9/11 story that reminds you humanity showed up that day.

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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

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   Counting the Cost

   by Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

   Narrated by Jill Duggar

   ★ 4.46 ABR Score (164.1K ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (158.0K) ★ 4.81 Audible (6.1K)

   7h 7m listening time • Released 2023

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    Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

    by Martin Lings

    Narrated by Sean Barrett

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (14.5K ratings)

    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.67 Audible (894)

    6h 3m listening time • Released 2007

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