Audiobooks Like The Evening and the Morning

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If you loved The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of John Lee's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Evening and the Morning

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    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)
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    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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    A Place Called Freedom

    by Ken Follett

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    ★ 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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    The Reformatory

    by Tananarive Due

    Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt

    ★ 4.68 ABR Score (81.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (78.1K) ★ 4.79 Audible (3.2K)
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    Twelve-year-old Robbie faces the living and dead horrors of a Jim Crow reform school in this haunting blend of historical injustice and supernatural terror.

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    The Caine Mutiny

    by Herman Wouk

    Narrated by Kevin Pariseau

    ★ 4.44 ABR Score (31.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (27.2K) ★ 4.61 Audible (4.2K)
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    An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

    World War II Liberation Trilogy • Book 1

    by Rick Atkinson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    ★ 4.44 ABR Score (25.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (23.2K) ★ 4.64 Audible (2.7K)
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    George Guidall's measured, authoritative voice transforms Atkinson's Pulitzer-winning narrative into something that feels less like history and more like sitting across from a brilliant military strategist who actually lived through it.

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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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    Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942

    The Pacific War Trilogy • Book 1

    by Ian W. Toll

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (14.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.61 Goodreads (10.4K) ★ 4.82 Audible (4.2K)
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    Grover Gardner's measured, authoritative narration transforms Toll's meticulous battle accounts into a gripping you-are-there experience—22 hours that feel essential, not exhausting.

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