Audiobooks Like Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

10 audiobooks for fans of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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   Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

   by Ayn Rand

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.28 ABR Score (427.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.69 Goodreads (408.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (19.3K)

   62h 56m listening time • Released 2008

   Scott Brick's commanding performance transforms Rand's philosophical epic into something genuinely gripping—he gives each character a distinct voice that makes the 63-hour journey feel essential, not exhausting.

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   Scott Brick's commanding performance transforms Rand's philosophical epic into something genuinely gripping—he gives each character a distinct voice that makes the 63-hour journey feel essential, not exhausting.

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   Under the Banner of Heaven

   by Jon Krakauer

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.28 ABR Score (236.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (226.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (9.2K)

   12h 29m listening time • Released 2003

   Krakauer dissects Mormon fundamentalist violence and polygamy through a double murder case, with Scott Brick handling the disturbing details unflinchingly.

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   Krakauer dissects Mormon fundamentalist violence and polygamy through a double murder case, with Scott Brick handling the disturbing details unflinchingly.

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   The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

   by Gabrielle Zevin

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.26 ABR Score (375.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.04 Goodreads (362.9K) ★ 4.37 Audible (12.4K)

   7h 2m listening time • Released 2014

   Scott Brick's narration transforms this book-lover's redemption story into something genuinely moving—his gruff tenderness as A.J. feels earned, not performed.

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   Scott Brick's narration transforms this book-lover's redemption story into something genuinely moving—his gruff tenderness as A.J. feels earned, not performed.

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   Cloud Atlas

   by David Mitchell

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, Richard Matthews, David Mitchell, Gabrielle Zevin

   ★ 4.01 ABR Score (276.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (269.8K) ★ 4.11 Audible (7.1K)

   19h 48m listening time • Released 2004

   Seven narrators make this nested-worlds epic feel like a conversation across centuries, each voice perfectly matched to its era and character. It's the rare audiobook where the medium doesn't just serve the story—it becomes essential to how you experience it.

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   Seven narrators make this nested-worlds epic feel like a conversation across centuries, each voice perfectly matched to its era and character. It's the rare audiobook where the medium doesn't just serve the story—it becomes essential to how you experience it.

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   2666

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   by Natasha [Translator] Bolano, Roberto; Wimmer

   Narrated by Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, Grover Gardner, John Lee, Scott Brick

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (49.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (49.5K) ★ 4.54 Audible (13)

   39h 16m listening time • Released 2025

   Five interconnected novellas spanning literary academics, a sports journalist, and mysterious murders in a Mexican border town create Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece. Multiple narrators handle the ambitious scope beautifully.

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   Five interconnected novellas spanning literary academics, a sports journalist, and mysterious murders in a Mexican border town create Bolaño's sprawling masterpiece. Multiple narrators handle the ambitious scope beautifully.

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   The Holy Bible: King James Version

   by Anonymous

   Narrated by Scott Brick, Prentice Onayemi, Ellen Archer, LJ Ganser, Jennifer Van Dyck, Suzanne Toren

   ★ 4.56 ABR Score (322.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.45 Goodreads (320.9K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.5K)

   82h 53m listening time • Released 2020

   The King James Version's cadence and poetry hit different when spoken aloud by this all-star ensemble cast, making the language feel alive rather than archaic.

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   The King James Version's cadence and poetry hit different when spoken aloud by this all-star ensemble cast, making the language feel alive rather than archaic.

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   The Last Tribe

   by Brad Manuel

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.16 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (4.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (16.6K)

   22h 42m listening time • Released 2016

   Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon survives a global pandemic at boarding school, facing not just physical survival but crushing loneliness as one of humanity's few survivors.

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   Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon survives a global pandemic at boarding school, facing not just physical survival but crushing loneliness as one of humanity's few survivors.

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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   The Hunger Games

   by Suzanne Collins

   Narrated by Jefferson White

   ★ 4.90 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.85 Audible (32.5K)

   12h 48m listening time • Released 2025

   Young Haymitch faces the brutal Quarter Quell with twice the usual tributes in this Hunger Games prequel. Jefferson White captures the desperation beautifully.

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   Young Haymitch faces the brutal Quarter Quell with twice the usual tributes in this Hunger Games prequel. Jefferson White captures the desperation beautifully.

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   Remarkably Bright Creatures

   by Shelby Van Pelt

   Narrated by Marin Ireland, Michael Urie

   ★ 4.83 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M) ★ 4.79 Audible (62.8K)

   11h 16m listening time • Released 2022

   Marin Ireland and Michael Urie breathe warmth into this unlikely story about a widow who forms a bond with a giant Pacific octopus while cleaning the aquarium at night.

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   Marin Ireland and Michael Urie breathe warmth into this unlikely story about a widow who forms a bond with a giant Pacific octopus while cleaning the aquarium at night.

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    The Correspondent

    by Virginia Evans

    Narrated by Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Oppenheimer, Carly Robins, Jeff Ebner, David Pittu, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Mark Bramhall, Petrea Burchard, Robert Petkoff, Kimberly Farr, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, Peter Ganim, Jade Wheeler, Various

    ★ 4.81 ABR Score (383.3K ratings)

    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (364.9K) ★ 4.8 Audible (18.3K)

    8h 36m listening time • Released 2025

    Through discovered letters, the life story of a remarkable woman unfolds across decades of love, loss, war, and artistic passion. This epistolary novel examines how written words preserve and transform our understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary lives.

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    Through discovered letters, the life story of a remarkable woman unfolds across decades of love, loss, war, and artistic passion. This epistolary novel examines how written words preserve and transform our understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary lives.

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