Audiobooks Like Liar's Poker

10 audiobooks for fans of Liar's Poker

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   The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

   by Michael Lewis

   Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris

   ★ 4.17 ABR Score (77.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (64.4K) ★ 4.47 Audible (13.2K)

   10h 18m listening time • Released 2016

   Dennis Boutsikaris brings warmth and intimacy to Lewis's portrait of two geniuses whose friendship rewired how we think about thinking. You'll hear the human story behind behavioral economics, not just the theory.

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   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   Narrated by Viola Davis

   ★ 4.91 ABR Score (228.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K) ★ 4.94 Audible (43.9K)

   9h 15m listening time • Released 2022

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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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   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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   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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   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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   Finding My Way

   by Malala Yousafzai

   Narrated by Malala Yousafzai

   ★ 4.45 ABR Score (14.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (13.6K) ★ 4.89 Audible (319)

   8h 57m listening time • Released 2025

   Hearing Malala's own voice narrate her private struggles—the anxiety, the humor, the messy adolescence behind the icon—transforms this from inspiration porn into something genuinely intimate and real.

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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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