22 must-read audiobook books like The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe

Cover of The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It

By: Mike Rowe

4.18

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating col…

"My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He’s also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns."

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He’s also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns."

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm you twice!"

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm you twice!"

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America by Glenn Beck

1. Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America

By: Glenn Beck

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck. TH… read more

Similar categories in Glenn Beck's Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Crocodile Hunter: A Father and Son Legacy by Bob Irwin, Amanda  French

2. The Last Crocodile Hunter: A Father and Son Legacy

By: Bob Irwin , Amanda French

4.53

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Bob Irwin's extraordinary life as a wildlife pioneer, father to wildlife warrior Steve and founder … read more

Similar categories in Bob Irwin's The Last Crocodile Hunter: A Father and Son Legacy book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill

3. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

4.27

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

A rare and fascinating portrait of the American presidency from the #1 New York Times bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Clint Hill's Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business."

-Clint Hill, Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Cover of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict by Kent Zimmerman, Keith Zimmerman, Alice  Cooper

4. Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict

By: Kent Zimmerman , Keith Zimmerman , Alice Cooper

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his th… read more

Similar categories in Kent Zimmerman's Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir by Garry Marshall

5. My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir

By: Garry Marshall

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movie… read more

Similar categories in Garry Marshall's My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella

6. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

7. A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion

By: Anthony Bourke , John Rendall , George Adamson

4.50

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an interna… read more

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8. Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

By: None , None

4.33

Format: 300 pages,

The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at SeaJuly 30, 1945--The USS "Indi… read more

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9. Gazelles, Baby Steps and 37 Other Things Dave Ramsey Taught Me about Debt

By: Jon Acuff

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Jon Acuff's hilarious thoughts on all things "Dave Ramsey." Perfect for the Dave fan who has everyt… read more

Similar categories in Jon Acuff's Gazelles, Baby Steps and 37 Other Things Dave Ramsey Taught Me about Debt book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

10. Five Days in November

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Meshare the stories behind the five infam… read more

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11. Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention

By: Peggy Rowe

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at her writing career. Peggy Ro… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's Vacuuming in the Nude: And Other Ways to Get Attention book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

12. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

Similar categories in Douglas Brunt's The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Cover of Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond by Henry Winkler

13. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

Similar categories in Henry Winkler's Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Cover of The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe

14. The Way I Heard It

By: Mike Rowe

4.18

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating col… read more

Similar categories in Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"My father has a tendency to start conversations in the middle of sentences. He’s also suspicious of anything modern - like nouns."

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"The fact that we heated most of the old farmhouse with nothing but a woodstove was a source of great pride for my father and endless inspiration for witticisms like, “Chop your own wood it’ll warm yo…"

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"Personally, I don’t mind being corrected, even when I’m right. It’s nice to know that people are paying attention. But when I am corrected, I prefer it to be in the style of Lieutenant Dixon. He didn…"

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

"If you ask the other John and Peggy (my parents) how they’ve managed to stay married for well over half a century, they’ll credit an uncompromising level of honesty with each other. If you press them…"

-Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It

Cover of Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage

15. Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

By: Adam Savage

4.18

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—… read more

Similar categories in Adam Savage's Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When we say we need to teach kids how to “fail,"

-Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

"The completeness in me would not let this [missing of the lunchbox] stand. Once I caught the bug to fill out the frame of the 2001 Heywood Floyd tabloid that I have in my head, I couldn't shake off m…"

-Adam Savage, Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

Cover of If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

16. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World by David Spade

17. A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World

By: David Spade

3.61

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Fifty-something David Spade is letting it all hang out. Older (yes), wiser (debatable), in A Polaro… read more

Similar categories in David Spade's A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind by Riley Gaines

18. Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind

By: Riley Gaines

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

America’s most sought-after voice in the fight to save female sports from woke destruction shares h… read more

Similar categories in Riley Gaines's Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Entrances and Exits by Michael    Richards

19. Entrances and Exits

By: Michael Richards

4.12

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more

Similar categories in Michael Richards's Entrances and Exits book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service by Gary Sinise

20. Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service

By: Gary Sinise

4.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller: The moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found h… read more

Similar categories in Gary Sinise's Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls by Steve Rinella

21. MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls

By: Steve Rinella

4.32

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

* 6 hours * Gather around for campfire stories with the MeatEater crew as they share 16 harrowi… read more

Similar categories in Steve Rinella's MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son by Peggy Rowe

22. About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son

By: Peggy Rowe

4.33

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Peggy Rowe is at it again—this time giving a hilarious inside look at growing up Rowe, both before … read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's About Your Father and Other Celebrities I Have Known: Ruminations and Revelations from a Desperate Mother to Her Dirty Son book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of House Love: A Joyful Guide to Cleaning, Organizing, and Loving the Home You’re In by Patric Richardson

23. House Love: A Joyful Guide to Cleaning, Organizing, and Loving the Home You’re In

By: Patric Richardson

3.59

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Patric Richardson is known as “The Laundry Evangelist,” but his genuine love for household chores e… read more

Similar categories in Patric Richardson's House Love: A Joyful Guide to Cleaning, Organizing, and Loving the Home You’re In book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty by Billy Busch

24. Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty

By: Billy Busch

3.65

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

The story of the iconic Anheuser-Busch dynasty, written -- for the first time -- by a Busch heir. A… read more

Similar categories in Billy Busch's Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun by Jimmy Failla

25. Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun

By: Jimmy Failla

4.50

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You may know Jimmy Failla as the best dressed man in cable news.… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Failla's Cancel Culture Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Winning the War on Fun book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age by Sridhar Pappu

26. The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age

By: Sridhar Pappu

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Year of the Pitcher  is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in o… read more

Similar categories in Sridhar Pappu's The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother by Peggy Rowe

27. About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother

By: Peggy Rowe

4.26

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

There’s a Thelma Knobel in everyone’s life. She’s the person taking charge– the one who knows insti… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Rowe's About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward by Kristi Noem

28. No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward

By: Kristi Noem

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author, governor of South Dakota, and former congresswoman shares ey… read more

Similar categories in Kristi Noem's No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
"My dad died in an accident when I was twenty-two years old, married, and pregnant with our first child."

-Kristi Noem, No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward

Cover of Fucking History: 52 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School. by The Captain

29. Fucking History: 52 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School.

By: The Captain

3.81

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

If you disliked learning about history in school, it's because you didn't have a teacher like this.… read more

Similar categories in The Captain's Fucking History: 52 Lessons You Should Have Learned in School. book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Got Warrants?: Dispatches from the Dooryard by Timothy A. Cotton

30. Got Warrants?: Dispatches from the Dooryard

By: Timothy A. Cotton

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

For the hundreds of thousands of followers of the Bangor, Maine, Police Department on social media,… read more

Similar categories in Timothy A. Cotton's Got Warrants?: Dispatches from the Dooryard book and Mike Rowe's The Way I Heard It

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

31. The Illiad

By: Homer

4.08

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

None read more

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"The shining sunlight fell into the Ocean and drew black night across life-giving earth."

-Homer, The Illiad

"Their sturdy necks pulled empty chariots. They missed their drivers, who lay on the earth, more dearly loved by vultures than their wives."

-Homer, The Illiad

10 Best history books like The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe

Transform Your Habits

Dreamers and Deceivers: True Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America

Glenn Beck

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill

4.27

Transform Your Habits

American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

Steven Rinella

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

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18 best-selling audiobook books like MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls by Steve Rinella

Transform Your Habits

Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown

Adam Shoalts

3.93

Transform Your Habits

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

None , None , Sam Keith , Richard L. Proenneke

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Steven Rinella

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

Dan Flores

3.41

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