Audiobooks Like The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

10 audiobooks for fans of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

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   Carson McCullers: A Life

   by Mary V. Dearborn

   Narrated by Barrie Kreinik

   ★ 3.72 ABR Score (316 ratings)

   ★ 4.03 Goodreads (310) ★ 4.67 Audible (6)

   15h 14m listening time • Released 2024

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   Shoe Dog

   by Phil Knight

   Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (428.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (53.5K)

   13h 21m listening time • Released 2016

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   Know My Name

   by Chanel Miller

   Narrated by Chanel Miller

   ★ 4.81 ABR Score (271.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.68 Goodreads (262.6K) ★ 4.82 Audible (9.3K)

   15h 24m listening time • Released 2019

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   The Choice: Embrace the Possible

   by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

   Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh

   ★ 4.79 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.57 Goodreads (132.9K) ★ 4.91 Audible (6.0K)

   12h 26m listening time • Released 2017

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   The Autobiography of Malcolm X

   by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

   Narrated by Laurence Fishburne

   ★ 4.76 ABR Score (307.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (293.7K) ★ 4.9 Audible (13.5K)

   16h 52m listening time • Released 2020

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   Nobody's Girl

   by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

   Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Gabra Zackman

   ★ 4.73 ABR Score (78.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.55 Goodreads (70.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (7.4K)

   13h 39m listening time • Released 2025

   The dual narration cuts between Giuffre's voice and Plummer's, creating an intimate testament that demands to be heard rather than read—a survivor's reckoning told with devastating clarity.

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   A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

   by Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

   Narrated by Robertson Dean

   ★ 4.64 ABR Score (37.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (28.1K) ★ 4.85 Audible (9.8K)

   13h 22m listening time • Released 2013

   Robertson Dean's narration transforms this true WWII encounter into pure cinematic tension—two enemy pilots' humanity cuts through the chaos in ways that feel both intimate and epic.

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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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   Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

   by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, Fred Sanders

   Narrated by Fred Sanders

   ★ 4.53 ABR Score (11.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (1.5K)

   16h 15m listening time • Released 2019

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    Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

    by David Kushner

    Narrated by Wil Wheaton

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (20.3K) ★ 4.67 Audible (5.5K)

    12h 43m listening time • Released 2012

    Wil Wheaton's narration brings genuine humanity to this obsessive rivalry between gaming's two Johns—his pacing captures both the euphoria of creation and the slow burn of betrayal that split an empire.

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