10 audiobooks for fans of Open
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Becoming
by Michelle Obama
Narrated by Michelle Obama
★ 4.93 ABR Score (1.4M ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.89 Audible (183.2K)19h 3m listening time • Released 2018Michelle Obama reading her own story is the rare case where the narrator's voice becomes inseparable from the intimacy of the memoir—you're getting her reflections in her own cadence, which hits different over 19 hours.
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Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
Narrated by Chanel Miller
★ 4.81 ABR Score (271.9K ratings)★ 4.68 Goodreads (262.6K) ★ 4.82 Audible (9.3K)15h 24m listening time • Released 2019 -
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 -
Elon Musk
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 -
Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson • Book 3
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.52 ABR Score (25.9K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (24.3K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.6K)18h 29m listening time • Released 2005Grover Gardner's steady, commanding voice transforms Caro's dense political narrative into riveting storytelling—18 hours that feel essential once you grasp how Johnson actually bended the Senate to his will.
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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 -
[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 -
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 -
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger, Fred Sanders
Narrated by Fred Sanders
★ 4.53 ABR Score (11.9K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (1.5K)16h 15m listening time • Released 2019 -
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.49 ABR Score (8.1K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (7.1K) ★ 4.87 Audible (1.0K)16h 39m listening time • Released 2016Ballerini's unhurried narration transforms Thich Nhat Hanh's retelling into something meditative rather than distant—you don't just learn Buddha's life, you inhabit it alongside him across 16 immersive hours.
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