Audiobooks Like The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

10 audiobooks for fans of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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   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)

   16h 44m listening time • Released 2015

   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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   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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   Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

   by Lori Gottlieb

   Narrated by Brittany Pressley

   ★ 4.85 ABR Score (456.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.37 Goodreads (411.2K) ★ 4.72 Audible (45.1K)

   14h 21m listening time • Released 2019

   Gottlieb reveals what happens when therapists need therapy themselves, with Brittany Pressley capturing both professional insight and personal vulnerability beautifully.

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   Gottlieb reveals what happens when therapists need therapy themselves, with Brittany Pressley capturing both professional insight and personal vulnerability beautifully.

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   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)

   16h 26m listening time • Released 2018

   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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   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)

   15h 37m listening time • Released 2004

   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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   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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   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)

   15h 9m listening time • Released 2016

   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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   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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   Facing the Mountain

   by Daniel James Brown

   Narrated by Louis Ozawa

   ★ 4.63 ABR Score (14.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.48 Goodreads (12.6K) ★ 4.77 Audible (1.5K)

   17h 40m listening time • Released 2021

   Brown follows Japanese-American soldiers fighting in Europe while their families suffer in internment camps back home. Louis Ozawa's narration brings profound dignity to this story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team's heroism.

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   Brown follows Japanese-American soldiers fighting in Europe while their families suffer in internment camps back home. Louis Ozawa's narration brings profound dignity to this story of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team's heroism.

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   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)

   14h 24m listening time • Released 2013

   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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   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

   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)

   12h 55m listening time • Released 2012

   The Washington Post reporters who toppled a presidency detail their investigation from hotel break-in to White House resignation.

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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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   Our Crime Was Being Jewish

   by Anthony S. Pitch, Michael Berenbaum

   Narrated by Malk Williams, Fenella Fudge

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (881) ★ 4.73 Audible (618)

   13h 8m listening time • Released 2015

   576 Holocaust survivor memories told in their own words, preserving insider stories of teenagers who watched families disappear. Malk Williams and Fenella Fudge handle these testimonies with the reverence and clarity such accounts demand.

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   576 Holocaust survivor memories told in their own words, preserving insider stories of teenagers who watched families disappear. Malk Williams and Fenella Fudge handle these testimonies with the reverence and clarity such accounts demand.

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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

    Incerto • Book 4

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Narrated by Joe Ochman

    ★ 4.31 ABR Score (66.5K ratings)

    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (58.3K) ★ 4.49 Audible (8.2K)

    16h 14m listening time • Released 2012

    Taleb argues that some systems actually thrive on chaos and volatility rather than merely surviving them.

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    Taleb argues that some systems actually thrive on chaos and volatility rather than merely surviving them.

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