13 Top audiobook books like Symposium / The Apology / The Allegory of the Cave by Plato

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Symposium / The Apology / The Allegory of the Cave

By: Plato

3.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

This collection brings together three of Plato's most enduring classics: the Symposium, the Apology…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Symposium / The Apology / The Allegory of the Cave by Plato , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway

1. Across the River and into the Trees

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber! A poignant tale of a revitalizing love … read more

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  • classics
"Ma che cosa posso raccontare a questa ragazza, ora, in questa fredda mattina ventosa al Gritti Palace Hotel? “Che cosa vorresti sapere, Figlia?"

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

"In America, they make such things of wire and of sponge-rubber, such as you use in the sets of tanks. You never know there, whether there is any truth in the matter, unless you are a bad boy as I am."

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

"I don't know. I guess the cards we draw are those we get. You wouldn't like to re-deal would you, dealer? No. They only deal to you once and then you pick them up and play them. I can play them, if I…"

-Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and into the Trees

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2. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

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  • audiobook
"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

Cover of Being Peace (Being Peace, #1) by Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold Kotler

3. Being Peace (Being Peace, #1)

By: Thich Nhat Hanh , Arnold Kotler

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Since its publication in 1987, "Being Peace" has become a classic of contemporary religious literat… read more

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  • philosophy
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4. The Prince

By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more

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  • philosophy
"Is it better to be loved or feared?"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."

-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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5. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • classics
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6. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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7. Plato

By: Charlton Heston , Berel Lang

4.80

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Plato was the first person to organize and record the issues and questions that define philosophy. … read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader by Chi-Young Kim, Haemin Sunim, Youngcheol Lee

8. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: Guidance on the Path to Mindfulness from a Spiritual Leader

By: Chi-Young Kim , Haemin Sunim , Youngcheol Lee

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in ou… read more

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  • philosophy
  • audiobook
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9. Never Never (Detective Harriet Blue, #1)

By: James Patterson , Candice Fox

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue is called into her boss's office, s… read more

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  • audiobook

10. Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more

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11. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity

By: Ryan Holiday , Stephen Hanselman

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully packaged, gifty daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is … read more

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12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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13. Hunger

By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton

4.05

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."

-Knut Hamsun, Hunger

14. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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15. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more

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16. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

By: Michael A. Singer

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can y… read more

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17. Wolves of the Calla

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Roland Deschain and his ka-tetare bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest… read more

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18. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

19. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By: Blaine Harden

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more

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20. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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21. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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22. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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23. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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24. The Night Ship

By: Jess Kidd

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars tha… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone by Edward Dolnick

25. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

By: Edward Dolnick

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more

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  • audiobook
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."

-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone

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26. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • classics
  • audiobook
Cover of Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

27. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller

4.16

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A wondrous debut from an extraordinary new voice in nonfiction, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and … read more

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  • philosophy
  • audiobook
"There is grandeur in this view,"

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"In every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"We are specks, flickering in and out of existence, with no significance to the cosmos."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

"When people have this feeling of personal inefficiency, compulsive collecting helps them in feeling better."

-Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Cover of The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1) by Nghi Vo

28. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • audiobook
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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29. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.06

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more

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  • philosophy
  • audiobook
"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

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30. Eusebius: The Church History

By: Paul L. Maier

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Next to Josephus, Eusebius is the most widely-consulted reference work on the early church. Much of… read more

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  • classics
Cover of Symposium / The Apology / The Allegory of the Cave by Plato

31. Symposium / The Apology / The Allegory of the Cave

By: Plato

3.51

Format: None pages, Audio CD

This collection brings together three of Plato's most enduring classics: the Symposium, the Apology… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • audiobook

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