Audiobooks Like Know My Name

Chanel Miller reads her own memoir with a voice that moves between fury and fragility and detached precision without ever losing its authority — she is the one who knows what happened, and the 15-hour listen makes that claim felt. The absence of any mediation between author and material is part of the listen's power. Nine of the recommendations are highly rated titles across memoir and biography, and all of them share Know My Name's quality of a life examined without the softening of distance or genre convention.

10 audiobooks for fans of Know My Name

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    Shoe Dog

    by Phil Knight

    Narrated by Norbert Leo Butz

    ★ 4.83 ABR Score (428.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (374.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (53.5K)
    13h 21m listening time • Released 2016
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    The Choice: Embrace the Possible

    by Edith Eger, Edith Eva Eger

    Narrated by Tovah Feldshuh

    ★ 4.79 ABR Score (138.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (132.9K) ★ 4.91 Audible (6.0K)
    12h 26m listening time • Released 2017
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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X cover

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    by Malcolm X, Alex Haley

    Narrated by Laurence Fishburne

    ★ 4.76 ABR Score (307.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (293.7K) ★ 4.9 Audible (13.5K)
    16h 52m listening time • Released 2020
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    Unbroken

    by Laura Hillenbrand

    Narrated by Edward Herrmann

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.78 Audible (51.5K)
    13h 56m listening time • Released 2010
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    Nobody's Girl

    by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

    Narrated by Thérèse Plummer, Gabra Zackman

    ★ 4.73 ABR Score (78.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.55 Goodreads (70.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (7.4K)
    13h 39m listening time • Released 2025

    The dual narration cuts between Giuffre's voice and Plummer's, creating an intimate testament that demands to be heard rather than read—a survivor's reckoning told with devastating clarity.

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    A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II cover

    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

    ★ 4.64 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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    Open

    by Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer

    Narrated by Erik Davies

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (157.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (149.2K) ★ 4.74 Audible (8.3K)
    18h 4m listening time • Released 2009
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    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz cover

    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

    by Erik Larson

    Narrated by John Lee, Erik Larson

    ★ 4.49 ABR Score (151.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (139.3K) ★ 4.66 Audible (12.3K)
    17h 49m listening time • Released 2020
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    Will

    by Will Smith, Mark Manson

    Narrated by Will Smith

    ★ 4.70 ABR Score (134.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (75.6K) ★ 4.87 Audible (59.1K)
    16h 16m listening time • Released 2021
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    Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon cover

    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

    ★ 4.60 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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