10 audiobooks for fans of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Narrated by Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
★ 4.38 BLT Score (478.4K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (454.9K) ★ 4.44 Audible (23.5K)More about this pick
Grann's investigation reads like a thriller, and Will Patton's narration captures the slow horror of a real conspiracy unraveling.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Narrated by Michael Lewis
★ 4.44 BLT Score (172.4K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (172.2K) ★ 4.88 Audible (188) - 3
Outliers: The Story of Success
Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell
★ 4.74 BLT Score (923.0K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (873.6K) ★ 4.68 Audible (49.4K) - 4
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by Robert Petkoff, Bill O'Reilly
★ 4.74 BLT Score (32.2K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.78 Audible (10.3K)More about this pick
The Pacific's island-by-island escalation grips like a thriller, and Petkoff's narration alongside O'Reilly himself ensures you feel the brutal weight of every moment.
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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by Bill O'Reilly
★ 4.51 BLT Score (71.5K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (62.5K) ★ 4.66 Audible (9.0K)More about this pick
O'Reilly narrating his own investigation of Kennedy's assassination brings newsman's precision to a pivotal tragedy that fractured the nation's certainty.
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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
by Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Narrated by Bill O'Reilly
★ 4.45 BLT Score (120.2K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (109.0K) ★ 4.6 Audible (11.2K)More about this pick
O'Reilly's narration of his own account of Lincoln's assassination has the propulsive urgency of a thriller, even though you already know how it ends.
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell
★ 4.40 BLT Score (217.2K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (192.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (24.6K)More about this pick
Gladwell narrating his own ideas about underdogs is conversational mastery. It's the listening experience that rewrites how you think about advantage.
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Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell, Barry Fox, Irina Henegar
Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell
★ 4.37 BLT Score (651.5K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (624.9K) ★ 4.49 Audible (26.7K)More about this pick
Gladwell narrating his theory of snap judgments is audiobooks at their best: a brilliant thinker explaining his own breakthrough directly, unfiltered.
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
Narrated by Susan Cain
★ 4.37 BLT Score (27.5K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (25.7K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.8K)More about this pick
She makes a counterintuitive case for why sadness and longing matter, and her narration of it feels like quiet wisdom from someone who's lived it.
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 4.35 BLT Score (144.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.7K)
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