Audiobooks Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

10 audiobooks for fans of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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   Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

   by Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Katie McCabe

   Narrated by Bahni Turpin

   ★ 3.90 ABR Score (269 ratings)

   ★ 4.49 Goodreads (224) ★ 4.89 Audible (45)

   11h 37m listening time • Released 2019

   Bahni Turpin's narration transforms this memoir into an intimate conversation—her voice carries the quiet steel of a woman who fought systemic racism in courtrooms when that was genuinely dangerous, making every legal victory feel like a personal triumph.

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   Educated

   by Tara Westover

   Narrated by Julia Whelan

   ★ 4.84 ABR Score (2.0M ratings)

   ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.9M) ★ 4.78 Audible (128.2K)

   12h 10m listening time • Released 2018

   Julia Whelan's narration transforms this memoir into something almost unbearable to pause—her voice carries you through Westover's harrowing escape with such intimacy that you feel the weight of every decision she made to survive and think for herself.

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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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   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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   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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   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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   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

    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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