10 audiobooks for fans of Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
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The Murder of King Tut
by James Patterson, Martin Dugard
Narrated by Joe Barrett
★ 3.21 ABR Score (11.3K ratings)★ 3.4 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 3.67 Audible (239)More about this pick
Patterson and Dugard investigate the Boy King's mysterious death after nine controversial years on Egypt's throne, exploring palace rivalries and the subsequent erasure of his name from history.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Narrated by Michael Lewis
★ 4.44 ABR Score (172.4K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (172.2K) ★ 4.88 Audible (188)More about this pick
Lewis follows the few investors who saw the 2008 housing collapse coming and bet against the entire system. His own narration adds immediacy to these portraits of financial outsiders who understood what Wall Street refused to see.
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell
★ 4.40 ABR Score (217.2K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (192.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (24.6K)More about this pick
Gladwell reexamines the biblical story and modern examples to argue that disadvantages often become advantages in disguise. His own narration adds personal conviction to case studies ranging from dyslexic entrepreneurs to civil rights activists who turned weakness into strength.
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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 ABR Score (478.4K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (454.9K) ★ 4.44 Audible (23.5K)More about this pick
Oil wealth made the Osage Nation the richest people per capita in 1920s America, then made them targets for systematic murder. The multi-narrator approach helps Grann's investigation unfold like a true-crime podcast, revealing how greed and racism enabled genocide.
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
by Susan Cain
Narrated by Susan Cain
★ 4.37 ABR Score (27.5K ratings)★ 3.96 Goodreads (25.7K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.8K)More about this pick
Cain's own narration adds intimate weight to her exploration of how melancholy and yearning fuel creativity, connection, and meaning in our relentlessly upbeat culture.
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Chase Darkness with Me
by Karen Kilgariff
Narrated by Karen Kilgariff, Billy Jensen
★ 4.36 ABR Score (28.0K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.8K)More about this pick
Billy Jensen reveals how social media and crowdsourcing can solve cold cases that stumped police for decades, with his own narration adding personal urgency to each breakthrough.
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Narrated by Simon Jones
★ 4.35 ABR Score (144.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.7K)More about this pick
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely reveals why we pay more for expensive placebos and splurge on lavish meals while clipping grocery coupons.
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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
by Adam M. Grant
Narrated by Adam Grant, Maurice Ashley, R.A. Dickey, Evelyn Glennie, Sara Maria Hasbun, Francis Idehen, Alison Levine, Benny Lewis, Kari Louhivuori, Nelli Louhivuori, Brandon Payne, Richard Pine, Gil Winch, Various
★ 4.34 ABR Score (50.9K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (48.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
Multiple narrators including Grant himself explore how character skills like proactivity and determination matter more than raw talent for long-term success in any field.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Narrated by Dion Graham, David Grann
★ 4.29 ABR Score (226.1K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (219.4K) ★ 4.42 Audible (6.7K)More about this pick
An 18th-century British warship wrecks on a desolate island, leading to murder, cannibalism, and competing survival stories. Dion Graham and David Grann guide listeners through this harrowing true tale of imperial ambition gone catastrophically wrong.
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Freakonomics • Book 2
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner
★ 4.22 ABR Score (140.7K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (134.6K) ★ 4.45 Audible (6.1K)More about this pick
Levitt and Dubner return with more counterintuitive economic insights, from why chemotherapy might be overused to how prostitutes set prices. Dubner's own narration maintains the conversational tone that makes complex economics accessible.
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