Audiobooks Like The Guns of August

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If you loved The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Wanda McCaddon's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Guns of August

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    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants cover

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    ★ 4.88 BLT Score (189.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (177.7K) ★ 4.78 Audible (12.1K)
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    Botanist and Citizen Potawatomi member Robin Wall Kimmerer reads her own work, weaving together Western science and indigenous knowledge about our relationship with the natural world.

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    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    by Gabor Maté

    Narrated by Daniel Maté

    ★ 4.68 BLT Score (25.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.5K)
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    Daniel Maté's intimate narration of his father's work adds emotional weight to stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where addiction meets compassion.

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    Facing the Mountain

    by Daniel James Brown

    Narrated by Louis Ozawa

    ★ 4.63 BLT Score (14.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (12.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.5K)
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    Brown follows Japanese-American soldiers fighting in Europe while their families suffer in internment camps back home. Louis Ozawa's narration brings profound dignity to this story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team's heroism.

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    Shadow Divers

    by Robert Kurson

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

    ★ 4.59 BLT Score (41.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (36.9K) ★ 4.66 Audible (5.0K)
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    Two weekend divers discover a mysterious WWII German U-boat off the New Jersey coast and risk everything to solve its deadly secrets. Michael Prichard's narration captures every claustrophobic descent.

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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter FitzSimons

    Narrated by Michael Carman

    ★ 4.56 BLT Score (3.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (2.2K) ★ 4.83 Audible (1.3K)
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    Peter FitzSimons retells the famous 1789 mutiny with fresh historical detail, and Michael Carman's narration captures both the tropical paradise and human drama that led to rebellion.

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    Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker

    Narrated by Arthur Morey

    ★ 4.47 BLT Score (39.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (32.6K) ★ 4.62 Audible (7.3K)
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    Pinker argues against doomsday thinking by marshaling data showing humanity's steady progress in health, longevity, and freedom, with Arthur Morey's clear delivery making complex statistics accessible.

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    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women cover

    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

    by Kate Moore

    Narrated by Angela Brazil

    ★ 4.33 BLT Score (195.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (189.8K) ★ 4.47 Audible (5.9K)
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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Narrated by Joe Ochman

    ★ 4.31 BLT Score (66.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.49 Audible (8.2K)
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    Taleb argues that some systems actually thrive on chaos and volatility rather than merely surviving them.

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    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers cover

    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

    by Robert M. Sapolsky

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    ★ 4.10 BLT Score (19.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (17.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (2.0K)
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    Sapolsky explains how chronic stress from modern life damages our bodies in ways that zebras fleeing lions never experience.

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    The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't cover

    The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

    by Nate Silver

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

    ★ 4.00 BLT Score (57.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (52.6K) ★ 4.3 Audible (5.1K)
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    Baseball stats guru turned election prophet Nate Silver dissects why weather forecasters beat Wall Street analysts, and Mike Chamberlain's clear delivery helps navigate the data maze.

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