10 audiobooks for fans of Lonesome Dove
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Dragonfly in Amber
Outlander • Book 2
Narrated by Davina Porter
★ 4.79 ABR Score (434.5K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (387.7K) ★ 4.76 Audible (46.8K)More about this pick
Claire returns to 18th-century Scotland with plans to prevent Culloden, while the 1960s storyline reveals her daughter's search for Jamie Fraser. Davina Porter handles the complex dual timeline and Scottish accents with remarkable skill.
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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) - 3
Fall of Giants
The Century Trilogy • Book 1
by Ken Follett
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.52 ABR Score (370.7K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (350.4K) ★ 4.53 Audible (20.3K)More about this pick
Five families' fates entwine with war, revolution, and history. John Lee's thirty-hour narration proves that epic scope and intimate human drama aren't opposites: they're inseparable.
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The Son
by Philipp Meyer
Narrated by Will Patton, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Shepherd, Clifton Collins
★ 4.09 ABR Score (44.1K ratings)★ 4.03 Goodreads (38.2K) ★ 4.35 Audible (5.9K)More about this pick
Three generations of one Texas family rise from Comanche captivity to oil wealth through violence and land grabbing. Multiple narrators handle the epic's shifting time periods and perspectives.
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Outlander
Outlander • Book 1
Narrated by Davina Porter
★ 4.65 ABR Score (1.2M ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.6 Audible (80.1K)More about this pick
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)More about this pick
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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Once An Eagle
by Anton Myrer
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.55 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (8.1K) ★ 4.75 Audible (2.6K)More about this pick
Military epic spanning decades, following soldiers through multiple wars and the evolution of American military culture. At over 40 hours, Grover Gardner's steady narration becomes essential for the sprawling timeline.
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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume I, Fort Sumter to Perryville
The Civil War • Book 1
by Shelby Foote
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.51 ABR Score (19.1K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (13.7K) ★ 4.63 Audible (5.3K)More about this pick
Grover Gardner's measured, authoritative narration transforms Foote's massive narrative into something unexpectedly intimate—you hear the war through the voices of the people living it, not a distant historian. Nearly 43 hours has never felt more gripping.
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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
The Revolution Trilogy • Book 2
by Rick Atkinson
Narrated by Grover Gardner, Rick Atkinson
★ 4.49 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)★ 4.65 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.85 Audible (379)More about this pick
Atkinson transforms the Revolution's bleakest years into a gripping military narrative where survival itself feels like victory, and Gardner's measured delivery makes every desperate decision hit harder.
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Caesar and Christ
The Story of Civilization • Book 3
by Will Durant
Narrated by Grover Gardner
★ 4.44 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.0K)More about this pick
Grover Gardner's measured cadence transforms Durant's sweeping Roman history into something genuinely gripping—he finds the human drama in empires rising and falling, making 36 hours vanish like a binge-worthy series.
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