Audiobooks Like Finding Me

10 audiobooks for fans of Finding Me

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   Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

   by Alfred Lansing

   Narrated by Simon Prebble

   ★ 4.70 ABR Score (196.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (169.7K) ★ 4.77 Audible (27.1K)

   10h 21m listening time • Released 2008

   Simon Prebble's measured, unflinching narration transforms this into survival storytelling that feels like you're huddled in the ice with them. The tension never breaks for 10+ hours.

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   God's Smuggler

   by Unknown Author

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.63 ABR Score (50.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K) ★ 4.9 Audible (2.6K)

   8h 48m listening time • Released 2009

   Simon Vance's measured, trustworthy delivery transforms this true account of Bible smuggling into a page-turner that feels both intimate and urgent. A modern classic that still grips because the stakes, and the faith, feel devastatingly real.

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   The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom from a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

   Elephant Whisperer • Book 1

   by Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence

   Narrated by Simon Vance

   ★ 4.61 ABR Score (41.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.5 Goodreads (33.3K) ★ 4.76 Audible (7.9K)

   10h 55m listening time • Released 2012

   Simon Vance's narration transforms this true story into an intimate portrait of grief and redemption, letting you hear the quiet breakthroughs between a man and a traumatized herd he refuses to abandon.

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   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

   Maya Angelou's Autobiography • Book 1

   by Maya Angelou

   Narrated by Maya Angelou

   ★ 4.59 ABR Score (596.3K ratings)

   ★ 4.3 Goodreads (586.4K) ★ 4.74 Audible (9.9K)

   10h 11m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Glass Castle

   by Jeannette Walls

   Narrated by Jeannette Walls

   ★ 4.51 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.4M) ★ 4.58 Audible (18.5K)

   10h 25m listening time • Released 2010

   Hearing Walls narrate her own impossible childhood gives the devastation an intimacy no other narrator could achieve—she's not performing the story, she's finally telling it.

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   Born a Crime

   by Trevor Noah

   Narrated by Chumel Torres

   ★ 4.46 ABR Score (817.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.49 Goodreads (817.0K) ★ 4.86 Audible (169)

   9h 25m listening time • Released 2021

   Chumel Torres inhabits every voice in Noah's childhood with such precision that you're not just hearing a memoir, you're overhearing a life unfold across South Africa's darkest years, with his mother stealing every scene.

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   I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

   by Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch, Martin Ganda, Chukwudi Iwuji

   Narrated by Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer

   ★ 4.43 ABR Score (32.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (30.5K) ★ 4.71 Audible (1.6K)

   8h 51m listening time • Released 2015

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   Just as i am: Cicely Tyson notebook cover

   by just as i am

   Narrated by Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Robin Miles

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (6.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.67 Goodreads (3) ★ 4.9 Audible (6.7K)

   16h 8m listening time • Released 2021

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   Stripped Down

   by Bunnie Xo

   Narrated by Bunnie Xo

   ★ 4.71 ABR Score (12.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.59 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.92 Audible (4.6K)

   8h 25m listening time • Released 2026

   Bunnie narrating her own story gives you the unfiltered voice of someone who's genuinely earned the right to talk about survival and redemption—her raw honesty hits different when you hear it straight from her.

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    Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

    by Sean Parnell, John R. Bruning

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.60 ABR Score (20.7K ratings)

    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (13.3K) ★ 4.84 Audible (7.4K)

    10h 18m listening time • Released 2012

    Ray Porter's gravelly delivery cuts through the chaos of combat and the raw intimacy of brotherhood—he makes you feel the weight of command decisions that haunt you long after the final mission ends.

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