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

10 audiobooks for fans of The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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   Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

   by Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 3.90 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.12 Goodreads (10.4K) ★ 5 Audible (4)

   7h 12m listening time • Released 2025

   Ray Porter's measured, thoughtful delivery transforms this memoir into something urgent without ever raising his voice—the perfect match for a visionary banker quietly explaining how he upended global finance to fight poverty.

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   Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

   by Sean Parnell, John R. Bruning

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.60 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (13.3K) ★ 4.84 Audible (7.4K)

   10h 18m listening time • Released 2012

   Ray Porter's gravelly delivery cuts through the chaos of combat and the raw intimacy of brotherhood—he makes you feel the weight of command decisions that haunt you long after the final mission ends.

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   Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

   by Robert Kurson

   Narrated by Ray Porter, Robert Kurson

   ★ 4.60 ABR Score (14.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.84 Audible (2.7K)

   12h 20m listening time • Released 2018

   Ray Porter's narration transforms this into a nail-biting thriller about three men gambling their lives on an insane four-month sprint to the Moon, capturing both the engineering desperation and the human courage that makes Apollo 8 feel impossibly dramatic.

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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 2007

   Ray 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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   The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism

   by Edward Follis, Douglas Century

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 3.98 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.75 Goodreads (452) ★ 4.68 Audible (625)

   7h 27m listening time • Released 2014

   Ray Porter's gravelly intensity matches Follis's unflinching firsthand account of infiltrating drug cartels tied to terrorist networks—this is genuine danger narrated by someone who can make you feel the weight of every decision.

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   Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life on Tour

   by Elton John, David Furnish - foreword

   Narrated by Richard Armitage, Vikas Adam, Daniel Henning, Ray Porter, Jesse Einstein, Fred Berman, Edoardo Ballerini, Mark Boyett, Kevin T. Collins, Peter Ganim, Mike Cooper, John Lee, Oliver Wyman

   ★ 3.78 ABR Score (462 ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (314) ★ 4.33 Audible (148)

   6h 11m listening time • Released 2024

   Richard Armitage anchors this memoir with a gravitas that matches Elton's reflective tone, making decades of touring stories feel like a confidence shared with an old friend rather than celebrity spectacle.

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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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   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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    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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