Audiobooks Like Fall of Giants

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Dan Stevens narrates Ken Follett's WWI family saga with an actorly range that keeps five interconnected families distinct across the 13-hour sweep of two revolutions and a world war — his voice shifts register between the Welsh miners and Russian aristocrats and American observers without ever losing the thread that connects them. He appears again for one other title in the recommendations, and the list pulls toward other highly rated historical epics with the same appetite for lives lived across political upheaval.

10 audiobooks for fans of Fall of Giants

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    The Pillars of the Earth

    Kingsbridge • Book 1

    by Ken Follett

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.69 ABR Score (874.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (838.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (36.3K)
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    The Evening and the Morning

    Kingsbridge

    by Ken Follett

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 4.67 ABR Score (149.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (136.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (12.8K)
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    Set in 997 CE England, three lives intersect during Viking raids and political chaos as a new town rises. Lee's commanding voice spans decades of medieval intrigue in this Kingsbridge prequel about power, faith, and survival.

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    A Place Called Freedom

    by Ken Follett

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

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    Ken Follett's signature blend of sweeping historical narrative and intricate plotting carries over seamlessly, with Simon Prebble's narration delivering the same immersive quality that makes the author's intricate mysteries unfold across centuries of human struggle and ambition.

    ★ 4.23 ABR Score (59.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (47.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (12.9K)
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    Prebble's rich narration follows Scottish coal miner Mack McAsh's brutal journey from bondage to the American colonies, seeking freedom alongside highborn Lizzie Hallim.

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    A Dangerous Fortune

    by Ken Follett

    Narrated by Michael Page

    ★ 4.21 ABR Score (65.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (57.6K) ★ 4.38 Audible (8.4K)
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    Michael Page brings devastating clarity to Follett's most interconnected narrative: three decades of financial treachery and family ruin built on one fatal secret.

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    Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove • Book 1

    by Larry McMurtry

    Narrated by Will Patton

    ★ 4.69 ABR Score (251.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (250.9K) ★ 4.87 Audible (537)
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    Will Patton captures the epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana with voices that match McMurtry's unforgettable characters across the frontier.

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    By Any Other Name

    by Jodi Picoult

    Narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown, Laura Benanti, Jodi Picoult, Jayne Entwistle, Andrew Fallaize, Joe Jameson, John Lee, Nicholas Guy Smith, Simon Vance, Steve West

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (128.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (125.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (3.0K)
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    Two women centuries apart—Elizabethan Emilia Bassano and modern playwright Melina Green—fight for recognition in male-dominated theater worlds. A stellar cast led by Billie Fulford-Brown explores this dual narrative about hidden female genius.

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    Pompeii

    by Robert Harris

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 3.85 ABR Score (56.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (54.4K) ★ 4.2 Audible (2.5K)
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    Knowing Vesuvius erupts doesn't spoil this: Harris builds genuine dread watching an engineer frantically solve a crisis as catastrophe nears.

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    The Swan Thieves

    by Elizabeth Kostova

    Narrated by John Lee, Treat Williams, Sarah Zimmerman, Anne Heche, Erin Cottrell

    ★ 3.29 ABR Score (36.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.58 Goodreads (35.6K) ★ 3.73 Audible (1.1K)
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    A full cast brings depth to this multi-timeline mystery about a psychiatrist obsessed with his patient's fixation on a mysterious French impressionist painting and the woman within it.

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    Outlander

    Outlander • Book 1

    by Diana Gabaldon

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 4.65 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.6 Audible (80.1K)
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    Davina Porter handles both Claire's modern sensibility and 18th-century Scottish dialect as a WWII nurse gets trapped 200 years in the past.

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    Crash Dive

    Crash Dive Series • Book 1

    by Craig DiLouie

    Narrated by R.C. Bray

    ★ 4.62 ABR Score (4.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.66 Goodreads (692) ★ 4.87 Audible (4.2K)
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    Submarine warfare in the Pacific comes alive through Charlie Harrison's eyes as he battles the Imperial Japanese Navy. R.C. Bray's commanding performance puts you in the claustrophobic depths of a WWII sub.

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