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

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If you loved The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore, 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 Angela Brazil's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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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

    4.96 BLT Score (189.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (177.7K) ★ 4.78 Audible (12.1K)
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    Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    by Lori Gottlieb

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

    4.91 BLT Score (456.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (411.2K) ★ 4.72 Audible (45.1K)
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    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    by Gabor Maté

    Narrated by Daniel Maté

    4.75 BLT Score (25.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.5K)
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    The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture cover

    The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    by Gabor Maté MD, Daniel Maté

    Narrated by Daniel Maté

    4.61 BLT Score (39.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (36.7K) ★ 4.69 Audible (2.8K)
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    All the President's Men

    by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

    Narrated by Richard Poe

    4.50 BLT Score (60.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (2.1K)
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    Our Crime Was Being Jewish

    by Anthony S. Pitch, Michael Berenbaum

    Narrated by Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge

    4.36 BLT Score (1.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (881) ★ 4.73 Audible (618)
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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder cover

    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

    Incerto • Book 4

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Narrated by Joe Ochman

    4.35 BLT Score (66.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.49 Audible (8.2K)
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    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures cover

    What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

    by Malcolm Gladwell

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

    4.18 BLT Score (112.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (105.3K) ★ 4.44 Audible (7.1K)
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    Code Girls

    by Liza Mundy

    Narrated by Erin Bennett

    4.14 BLT Score (34.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (30.6K) ★ 4.42 Audible (3.7K)
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    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction cover

    Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded): The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

    by Jeff Vandermeer

    Narrated by Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner

    4.04 BLT Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 4.75 Audible (28)

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