Audiobooks Like The Wright Brothers

10 audiobooks for fans of The Wright Brothers

1. 1

   

   Brave Companions: Portraits in History

   by David McCullough

   Narrated by David McCullough

   ★ 4.08 BLT Score (9.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.05 Goodreads (8.0K) ★ 4.48 Audible (1.7K)

   11h 19m listening time • Released 2015

   Hearing McCullough tell his own stories, you get what most audiobooks can't: a historian's genuine conviction that each life mattered.

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   Hearing McCullough tell his own stories, you get what most audiobooks can't: a historian's genuine conviction that each life mattered.

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   Truman

   by David McCullough

   Narrated by Nelson Runger

   ★ 4.53 BLT Score (97.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (92.0K) ★ 4.8 Audible (5.5K)

   54h 11m listening time • Released 2011

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3. 3

   

   John Adams

   by David McCullough

   Narrated by Nelson Runger

   ★ 4.46 BLT Score (388.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.09 Goodreads (379.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (9.4K)

   29h 54m listening time • Released 2005

   McCullough's prose sings in Runger's hands: Adams emerges as a brilliant, prickly man whose love for Abigail proved as revolutionary as his politics.

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   McCullough's prose sings in Runger's hands: Adams emerges as a brilliant, prickly man whose love for Abigail proved as revolutionary as his politics.

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4. 4

   

   Mornings on Horseback

   by David McCullough

   Narrated by Nelson Runger

   ★ 4.03 BLT Score (37.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.1 Goodreads (35.7K) ★ 4.34 Audible (1.6K)

   19h 22m listening time • Released 2011

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5. 5

   

   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   Narrated by Viola Davis

   ★ 4.93 BLT Score (228.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (44.0K)

   9h 15m listening time • Released 2022

   Viola Davis tells her raw, unflinching story in her own voice, and the performance itself becomes inseparable from the power of what she survived.

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   Viola Davis tells her raw, unflinching story in her own voice, and the performance itself becomes inseparable from the power of what she survived.

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6. 6

   

   Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

   by David Goggins

   Narrated by David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner

   ★ 4.78 BLT Score (80.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.9 Audible (32.2K)

   11h 6m listening time • Released 2022

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7. 7

   

   God's Smuggler

   by Unknown Author

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.65 BLT Score (50.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K) ★ 4.9 Audible (2.6K)

   8h 48m listening time • Released 2009

   Simon Vance's measured, trustworthy delivery transforms this true account of Bible smuggling into a page-turner that feels both intimate and urgent. A modern classic that still grips because the stakes, and the faith, feel devastatingly real.

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   Simon Vance's measured, trustworthy delivery transforms this true account of Bible smuggling into a page-turner that feels both intimate and urgent. A modern classic that still grips because the stakes, and the faith, feel devastatingly real.

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   The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

   Elephant Whisperer • Book 1

   by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.63 BLT Score (41.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.76 Audible (7.9K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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   Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

   by Sean Parnell, John R. Bruning

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.63 BLT Score (20.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (13.3K) ★ 4.84 Audible (7.4K)

   10h 18m listening time • Released 2012

   Ray Porter's gravelly delivery cuts through the chaos of combat and the raw intimacy of brotherhood—he makes you feel the weight of command decisions that haunt you long after the final mission ends.

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   Ray Porter's gravelly delivery cuts through the chaos of combat and the raw intimacy of brotherhood—he makes you feel the weight of command decisions that haunt you long after the final mission ends.

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    Maya Angelou's Autobiography • Book 1

    by Maya Angelou

    Narrated by Maya Angelou

    ★ 4.61 BLT Score (596.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (586.4K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.9K)

    10h 11m listening time • Released 2011

    The memoir that reshaped American literature; hearing Maya Angelou narrate her own story of finding freedom through language is essential and irreplaceable.

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    The memoir that reshaped American literature; hearing Maya Angelou narrate her own story of finding freedom through language is essential and irreplaceable.

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