Audiobooks Like Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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If you loved Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb, 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 Brittany Pressley's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

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    Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough cover

    Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough

    by Lori Gottlieb

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

    3.74 ABR Score (9.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (8.8K) ★ 4.31 Audible (1.0K)
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    Gottlieb's provocative argument about romantic expectations gets personal as she questions whether perfect is the enemy of good.

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    Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest cover

    Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

    by Stephen E. Ambrose

    Narrated by Tim Jerome

    4.95 ABR Score (151.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (140.3K) ★ 4.87 Audible (11.4K)
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    Ambrose chronicles Easy Company's journey from D-Day to Hitler's Eagle's Nest through interviews with the paratroopers themselves—the definitive account of ordinary soldiers in extraordinary circumstances.

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup cover

    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    by John Carreyrou

    Narrated by Will Damron

    4.94 ABR Score (323.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (283.7K) ★ 4.8 Audible (39.3K)
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    Carreyrou exposes how Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos on completely fake blood-testing technology, defrauding investors and endangering patients for years. Will Damron's steady narration matches the methodical investigation, letting the shocking facts speak for themselves without sensationalism.

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    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants cover

    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

    by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    Narrated by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    4.88 ABR Score (189.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (177.7K) ★ 4.78 Audible (12.1K)
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    Botanist and Citizen Potawatomi member Robin Wall Kimmerer reads her own work, weaving together Western science and indigenous knowledge about our relationship with the natural world.

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    Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History cover

    Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S.C. Gwynne

    Narrated by David Drummond

    4.72 ABR Score (84.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (68.9K) ★ 4.75 Audible (15.9K)
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    Gwynne chronicles the forty-year war between Comanches and settlers through Quanah Parker's incredible story. David Drummond's narration matches the epic scope of this sweeping history.

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    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts cover

    In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

    by Gabor Maté

    Narrated by Daniel Maté

    4.68 ABR Score (25.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.48 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (1.5K)
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    Daniel Maté's intimate narration of his father's work adds emotional weight to stories from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where addiction meets compassion.

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    Shadow Divers

    by Robert Kurson

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

    4.59 ABR Score (41.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (36.9K) ★ 4.66 Audible (5.0K)
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    Two weekend divers discover a mysterious WWII German U-boat off the New Jersey coast and risk everything to solve its deadly secrets. Michael Prichard's narration captures every claustrophobic descent.

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    Digest of The Boys in the Boat cover

    Digest of The Boys in the Boat

    by A Reader's Companion

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann

    4.49 ABR Score (43.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.44 Goodreads (9) ★ 4.83 Audible (43.6K)
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    Nine working-class teenagers from Depression-era Seattle row toward Olympic glory in Nazi Germany. Edward Herrmann's authoritative voice matches the story's historical weight perfectly.

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    All the President's Men cover

    All the President's Men

    by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

    Narrated by Richard Poe

    4.44 ABR Score (60.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.65 Audible (2.1K)
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    The Washington Post reporters who toppled a presidency detail their investigation from hotel break-in to White House resignation.

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    Bloody Ridge and Beyond cover

    Bloody Ridge and Beyond

    by Marlin Groft, Larry Alexander

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

    4.38 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (272) ★ 4.83 Audible (1.3K)
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    A veteran of Edson's battalion recounts the brutal fight for Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Joe Barrett's weathered voice suits this gritty Pacific War memoir perfectly.

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