Audiobooks Like Eat, Pray, Love

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If you loved Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, 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 Elizabeth Gilbert's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Eat, Pray, Love

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    Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage cover

    Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

    by Elizabeth Gilbert

    Narrated by Elizabeth Gilbert

    3.73 ABR Score (58.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.45 Goodreads (56.4K) ★ 4.31 Audible (2.5K)
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    Gilbert's candid narration turns a philosophical investigation into marriage into an intimate conversation about love and commitment after divorce trauma.

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    Educated

    by Tara Westover

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

    4.87 ABR Score (2.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.78 Audible (128.2K)
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    Westover recounts her journey from Idaho survivalist compound to Cambridge PhD, with Julia Whelan capturing both her initial naivety and hard-won wisdom.

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    Shoe Dog

    by Phil Knight

    Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz

    4.86 ABR Score (428.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (53.5K)
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    Knight's memoir reveals how Nike nearly collapsed multiple times before becoming a global empire, fueled by obsession with running shoes and Japanese manufacturing. Norbert Leo Butz brings energy and authenticity to Knight's self-deprecating storytelling style.

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    Unbroken

    by Laura Hillenbrand

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann

    4.78 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.78 Audible (51.5K)
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    Olympic runner Louis Zamperini survives 47 days on a life raft, then endures brutal Japanese POW camps during WWII. This incredible true story of resilience and forgiveness reads like fiction but happened to one remarkable man.

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    The Glass Castle

    by Jeannette Walls

    Narrated by Jeannette Walls

    4.53 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.4M) ★ 4.58 Audible (18.5K)
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    Walls' childhood with brilliant but destructive alcoholic parents comes to vivid life through her own narration of this harrowing yet loving memoir.

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    The Choice: Embrace the Possible

    by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

    Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh

    4.82 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (132.9K) ★ 4.91 Audible (6.0K)
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    Holocaust survivor Edith Eger's journey from Auschwitz prisoner forced to dance for Mengele to renowned psychologist becomes profoundly intimate through Tovah Feldshuh's compassionate narration.

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    Rare WITH THE OLD BREED by E.B. Sledge -1st/1st HCDJ 1981 - Peleliu & Okinawa marines unknown

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    Narrated by Marc Vietor, Joe Mazzello, Tom Hanks (introduction)

    4.79 ABR Score (60.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (48.6K) ★ 4.9 Audible (11.5K)
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    Sledge's unflinching memoir of fighting as a Marine mortarman in the Pacific's bloodiest battles strips away war's heroic mythology. Tom Hanks introduces this harrowing firsthand account.

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    Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within cover

    Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

    by David Goggins

    Narrated by David Goggins, Adam Skolnick, Jacqueline Gardner

    4.78 ABR Score (80.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.9 Audible (32.2K)
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    Goggins continues his brutal honesty about mental toughness, sharing strategies from his 'Mental Lab' for pushing past perceived limitations and comfortable mediocrity.

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    Nobody's Girl

    by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Gabra Zackman

    4.75 ABR Score (78.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.55 Goodreads (70.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (7.4K)
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    The memoir that brought down Jeffrey Epstein gets the raw, unflinching narration it deserves from Théèse Plummer and Gabra Zackman.

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    A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II cover

    A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

    by Adam Makos, Larry Alexander

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

    4.66 ABR Score (37.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (28.1K) ★ 4.85 Audible (9.8K)
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    Robertson Dean's narration transforms this true WWII encounter into pure cinematic tension—two enemy pilots' humanity cuts through the chaos in ways that feel both intimate and epic.

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