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

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If you loved The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't by Nate Silver, 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 Mike Chamberlain's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

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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 cover

    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 cover

    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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    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

    4.37 BLT Score (195.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (189.8K) ★ 4.47 Audible (5.9K)
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    Our Crime Was Being Jewish cover

    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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    Code Girls cover

    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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    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers cover

    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

    by Robert M. Sapolsky

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    4.13 BLT Score (19.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (17.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (2.0K)
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    Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will cover

    Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

    by Robert M. Sapolsky

    Narrated by Kaleo Griffith

    4.12 BLT Score (9.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (8.3K) ★ 4.39 Audible (986)

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