Audiobooks Like Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

10 audiobooks for fans of Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

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   Elon Musk

   by Walter Isaacson

   Narrated by Jeremy Bobb

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (86.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (77.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (9.3K)

   20h 39m listening time • Released 2023

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   Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

   Long Walk to Freedom #1-2

   by Nelson Mandela, Michael Boatman, Sharon Gelman

   Narrated by Michael Boatman

   ★ 4.58 ABR Score (100.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.36 Goodreads (94.9K) ★ 4.79 Audible (5.0K)

   27h 39m listening time • Released 2011

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   [A Man in Love: My Struggle: 2 (Knausgaard)] [By: Knausgaard, Karl Ove] [November, 2013]

   Min kamp • Book 2

   by Karl Ove Knausgård

   Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

   ★ 4.26 ABR Score (24.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (24.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (464)

   21h 4m listening time • Released 2015

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   Means of Ascent

   The Years of Lyndon Johnson • Book 2

   by Robert A. Caro

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.51 ABR Score (30.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.29 Goodreads (27.8K) ★ 4.82 Audible (2.9K)

   22h 8m listening time • Released 2013

   Grover Gardner's measured, penetrating narration transforms Caro's meticulous biography into a gripping portrait of raw ambition—you hear LBJ's desperation and cunning come alive across 22 hours in a way that makes his ruthlessness feel inevitable, not distant.

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   A Piece of Cake

   by Cupcake Brown

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 4.44 ABR Score (41.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.26 Goodreads (38.9K) ★ 4.74 Audible (2.9K)

   21h 2m listening time • Released 2006

   Bahni Turpin's raw, unflinching narration transforms this harrowing survival story into something you can't stop listening to—she finds humanity in every dark corner without softening the brutality.

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   Einstein: His Life and Universe

   by Walter Isaacson

   Narrated by Edward Herrmann

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (219.9K ratings)

   ★ 4.17 Goodreads (204.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (15.7K)

   21h 30m listening time • Released 2007

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   The Six Wives of Henry VIII

   by Alison Weir

   Narrated by Simon Prebble

   ★ 4.30 ABR Score (76.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.12 Goodreads (73.2K) ★ 4.62 Audible (3.1K)

   22h 26m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Prebble's measured, aristocratic delivery transforms these six women from historical footnotes into fully realized people—you'll hear the desperation, ambition, and tragedy that Weir unearths in each marriage to a monster.

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   Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

   by Walter Isaacson

   Narrated by Nelson Runger

   ★ 4.27 ABR Score (160.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.05 Goodreads (151.3K) ★ 4.55 Audible (9.2K)

   24h 40m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Nightmare Years 1930-1940

   20th Century Journey • Book 2

   by William L. Shirer

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.23 ABR Score (2.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.85 Audible (314)

   26h 56m listening time • Released 2020

   Grover Gardner's steady, measured narration transforms Shirer's firsthand account of 1930s Europe into an unnervingly intimate front-row seat to history's darkest decade—you're not just learning what happened, you're there with a witness who saw it coming.

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    Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

    by H.W. Brands

    Narrated by John H. Mayer

    ★ 4.00 ABR Score (18.0K ratings)

    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (16.6K) ★ 4.45 Audible (1.3K)

    25h 57m listening time • Released 2005

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