Audiobooks Like The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

10 audiobooks for fans of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   Narrated by Viola Davis

   ★ 4.93 BLT Score (228.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (44.0K)

   9h 15m listening time • Released 2022

   Viola Davis tells her raw, unflinching story in her own voice, and the performance itself becomes inseparable from the power of what she survived.

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   Viola Davis tells her raw, unflinching story in her own voice, and the performance itself becomes inseparable from the power of what she survived.

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   Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

   by David Goggins

   Narrated by David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner

   ★ 4.78 BLT Score (80.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.9 Audible (32.2K)

   11h 6m listening time • Released 2022

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3. 3

   

   God's Smuggler

   by Unknown Author

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.65 BLT Score (50.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K) ★ 4.9 Audible (2.6K)

   8h 48m listening time • Released 2009

   Simon 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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   Simon 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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   The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

   Elephant Whisperer • Book 1

   by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.63 BLT Score (41.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.76 Audible (7.9K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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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

   ★ 4.63 BLT 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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   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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   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

   Maya Angelou's Autobiography • Book 1

   by Maya Angelou

   Narrated by Maya Angelou

   ★ 4.61 BLT Score (596.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (586.4K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.9K)

   10h 11m listening time • Released 2011

   The memoir that reshaped American literature; hearing Maya Angelou narrate her own story of finding freedom through language is essential and irreplaceable.

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   The memoir that reshaped American literature; hearing Maya Angelou narrate her own story of finding freedom through language is essential and irreplaceable.

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   Tell Me Everything

   by Minka Kelly

   Narrated by Minka Kelly

   ★ 4.51 BLT Score (36.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (34.7K) ★ 4.83 Audible (1.4K)

   8h 40m listening time • Released 2023

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   Born a Crime

   by Trevor Noah

   Narrated by Chumel Torres

   ★ 4.49 BLT Score (817.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.49 Goodreads (817.0K) ★ 4.86 Audible (169)

   9h 25m listening time • Released 2021

   Chumel Torres inhabits every voice in Noah's childhood with such precision that you're not just hearing a memoir, you're overhearing a life unfold across South Africa's darkest years, with his mother stealing every scene.

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   Chumel Torres inhabits every voice in Noah's childhood with such precision that you're not just hearing a memoir, you're overhearing a life unfold across South Africa's darkest years, with his mother stealing every scene.

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   Finding My Way

   by Malala Yousafzai

   Narrated by Malala Yousafzai

   ★ 4.48 BLT Score (14.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.89 Audible (319)

   8h 57m listening time • Released 2025

   Hearing 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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   Hearing 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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    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

    ★ 4.45 BLT Score (32.1K ratings)

    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (30.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.6K)

    8h 51m listening time • Released 2015

    Caitlin and Martin narrating their own letters transforms this six-year correspondence into the sound of a friendship forming in real time.

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    Caitlin and Martin narrating their own letters transforms this six-year correspondence into the sound of a friendship forming in real time.

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