Audiobooks Like The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

10 audiobooks for fans of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

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   Becoming

   by Michelle Obama

   Narrated by Michelle Obama

   ★ 4.93 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.89 Audible (183.2K)

   19h 3m listening time • Released 2018

   Michelle Obama reading her own story is the rare case where the narrator's voice becomes inseparable from the intimacy of the memoir—you're getting her reflections in her own cadence, which hits different over 19 hours.

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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 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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   Elon Musk

   by Walter Isaacson

   Narrated by Jeremy Bobb

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (86.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (77.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (9.3K)

   20h 39m listening time • Released 2023

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   Open

   by Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer

   Narrated by Erik Davies

   ★ 4.55 ABR Score (157.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (149.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (8.3K)

   18h 4m listening time • Released 2009

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   Master of the Senate

   The Years of Lyndon Johnson • Book 3

   by Robert A. Caro

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.52 ABR Score (25.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.43 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.6K)

   18h 29m listening time • Released 2005

   Grover Gardner's steady, commanding voice transforms Caro's dense political narrative into riveting storytelling—18 hours that feel essential once you grasp how Johnson actually bended the Senate to his will.

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   [A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2 (Knausgaard)] [By: Knausgaard, Karl Ove] [November, 2013]

   Min kamp • Book 2

   by Karl Ove Knausgård

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.26 ABR Score (24.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (24.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (464)

   21h 4m listening time • Released 2015

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   Will

   by Will Smith, Mark Manson

   Narrated by Will Smith

   ★ 4.70 ABR Score (134.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.24 Goodreads (75.6K) ★ 4.87 Audible (59.1K)

   16h 16m listening time • Released 2021

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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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    Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

    by Thich Nhat Hanh

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (8.1K ratings)

    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (7.1K) ★ 4.87 Audible (1.0K)

    16h 39m listening time • Released 2016

    Ballerini's unhurried narration transforms Thich Nhat Hanh's retelling into something meditative rather than distant—you don't just learn Buddha's life, you inhabit it alongside him across 16 immersive hours.

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