Audiobooks Like Nobody's Girl

10 audiobooks for fans of Nobody's Girl

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   Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

   by Robert Kurson

   Narrated by Ray Porter, Robert Kurson

   ★ 4.63 ABR Score (14.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.84 Audible (2.7K)

   12h 20m listening time • Released 2018

   Ray Porter's narration transforms this into a nail-biting thriller about three men gambling their lives on an insane four-month sprint to the Moon, capturing both the engineering desperation and the human courage that makes Apollo 8 feel impossibly dramatic.

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   Ray Porter's narration transforms this into a nail-biting thriller about three men gambling their lives on an insane four-month sprint to the Moon, capturing both the engineering desperation and the human courage that makes Apollo 8 feel impossibly dramatic.

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   Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

   by Maureen Callahan

   Narrated by Gabra Zackman

   ★ 4.25 ABR Score (25.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.09 Goodreads (23.8K) ★ 4.62 Audible (1.8K)

   11h 18m listening time • Released 2024

   Zackman's sharp delivery cuts through decades of Kennedy mythology to expose the women who paid the price for Camelot's carefully constructed image.

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   Zackman's sharp delivery cuts through decades of Kennedy mythology to expose the women who paid the price for Camelot's carefully constructed image.

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   Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

   by Frank Brady

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (12.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (11.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (957)

   13h 29m listening time • Released 2011

   Ray Porter's narration captures Fischer's unraveling brilliance with uncanny precision—you hear the genius and the paranoia colliding in real time. Brady's intimate access makes this feel less like biography and more like bearing witness to a mind's descent.

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   Ray Porter's narration captures Fischer's unraveling brilliance with uncanny precision—you hear the genius and the paranoia colliding in real time. Brady's intimate access makes this feel less like biography and more like bearing witness to a mind's descent.

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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)

   13h 21m listening time • Released 2016

   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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   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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   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)

   12h 26m listening time • Released 2017

   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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   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

   by Unknown .

   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)

   13h 58m listening time • Released 2013

   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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   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

   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)

   11h 6m listening time • Released 2022

   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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   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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   Just as I Am

   by Cicely Tyson, Michelle Burford

   Narrated by Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles

   ★ 4.72 ABR Score (18.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.51 Goodreads (11.6K) ★ 4.9 Audible (6.7K)

   16h 8m listening time • Released 2021

   Cicely Tyson narrates her own extraordinary journey from shy church girl to groundbreaking actress spanning six decades. Viola Davis and Robin Miles contribute additional voices to this intimate memoir.

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   Cicely Tyson narrates her own extraordinary journey from shy church girl to groundbreaking actress spanning six decades. Viola Davis and Robin Miles contribute additional voices to this intimate memoir.

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   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)

   13h 22m listening time • Released 2013

   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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   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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    Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

    by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson

    Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

    ★ 4.63 ABR Score (118.1K ratings)

    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (101.7K) ★ 4.76 Audible (16.4K)

    14h 17m listening time • Released 2012

    Collins delivers Luttrell's harrowing account of the Afghanistan mission where four SEALs entered Taliban territory but only one returned.

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    Collins delivers Luttrell's harrowing account of the Afghanistan mission where four SEALs entered Taliban territory but only one returned.

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