10 audiobooks for fans of The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
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Stripped Down
by Bunnie Xo
Narrated by Bunnie Xo
★ 4.74 ABR Score (12.2K ratings)★ 4.59 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.92 Audible (4.6K)More about this pick
From Vegas trailer parks to Nashville mansions, Bunnie Xo narrates her own brutal journey with unflinching honesty and surprising humor about addiction and redemption.
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Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
by Charlamagne Tha God
Narrated by Charlamagne Tha God
★ 4.58 ABR Score (26.3K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (6.9K) ★ 4.81 Audible (19.5K)More about this pick
Charlamagne's own voice carries his brutally honest memoir, his radio personality adding authenticity to stories of hustling from South Carolina poverty to hip-hop fame.
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Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
Narrated by Kiese Laymon
★ 4.57 ABR Score (51.8K ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (45.6K) ★ 4.71 Audible (6.2K)More about this pick
Laymon confronts his relationship with food, violence, and his mother in this unflinching memoir about surviving as a Black body in Mississippi.
- 4
Tell Me Everything
by Minka Kelly
Narrated by Minka Kelly
★ 4.51 ABR Score (36.2K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (34.7K) ★ 4.83 Audible (1.4K)More about this pick
Minka Kelly chronicles growing up with an exotic dancer mother while navigating poverty, addiction, and Hollywood dreams. Her own narration brings raw authenticity to stories about resilience and the complicated love between mothers and daughters.
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I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God
by Bilquis Sheikh, Richard Schneider
Narrated by Lorna Raver
★ 4.48 ABR Score (11.4K ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (9.5K) ★ 4.82 Audible (1.9K)More about this pick
Bilquis Sheikh's spiritual journey from prominent Muslim woman to Christian convert unfolds through dreams and divine encounters. Lorna Raver conveys the profound personal transformation with appropriate reverence.
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Strangers
by Belle Burden
Narrated by Belle Burden
★ 4.47 ABR Score (24.4K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (22.8K) ★ 4.76 Audible (1.6K)More about this pick
Burden narrates her own memoir about a whirlwind pandemic romance that began and ended with startling speed. Her personal delivery adds raw intimacy to this story of love found and lost during lockdown.
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
by Jonathan Franklin
Narrated by George Newbern
★ 4.46 ABR Score (21.9K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (16.4K) ★ 4.69 Audible (5.5K)More about this pick
Salvador Alvarenga survived 438 days adrift in the Pacific after a fishing trip went catastrophically wrong. The harrowing details of his physical and mental endurance feel viscerally real in audio.
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Raising Hare
by Chloe Dalton
Narrated by Louise Brealey
★ 4.46 ABR Score (29.6K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (586)More about this pick
Louise Brealey's narration transforms this intimate memoir into something almost magical: her voice captures both the wonder of raising a wild hare and the quiet devastation of loving something you can't keep.
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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
by Martin Lings
Narrated by Sean Barrett
★ 4.45 ABR Score (14.5K ratings)★ 4.57 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.67 Audible (894)More about this pick
Lings draws from 8th and 9th-century Arabic sources to chronicle the prophet's life with scholarly precision. Sean Barrett's measured narration respects both the material and listeners.
- 10
Bruchko: The Astonishing True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture
by Bruce Olson
Narrated by Gary Dikeos
★ 4.41 ABR Score (13.8K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (12.9K) ★ 4.76 Audible (909)More about this pick
Bruce Olson's incredible journey from Minnesota teenager to revolutionary missionary among murderous South American tribes reads like adventure fiction but changed missions forever.
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