10 audiobooks for fans of The Lady of the Rivers
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Dark Tides
The Fairmile Series • Book 2
Narrated by Louise Brealey
★ 4.08 ABR Score (18.4K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (17.3K) ★ 4.53 Audible (1.2K)More about this pick
Louise Brealey's sharp, layered performance transforms Gregory's tangled mystery of secrets and inheritance into something genuinely unputdownable—she makes you distrust every character's motives at once.
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Tidelands
The Fairmile Series • Book 1
Narrated by Louise Brealey
★ 4.05 ABR Score (35.2K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (33.1K) ★ 4.46 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
Louise Brealey's narration transforms this atmospheric 1648 marsh mystery into something genuinely haunting—she finds the quiet menace in every whispered accusation and builds Alinor's desperation into something unforgettable.
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Dawnlands
The Fairmile • Book 3
Narrated by Louise Brealey
★ 4.11 ABR Score (9.4K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (9.0K) ★ 4.55 Audible (393)More about this pick
As England edges toward civil war in 1685, the Ferryman family splits between rebellion and royalty, with sister Alinor caught between competing loyalties. Brealey navigates the complex family dynamics beautifully.
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Boleyn Traitor: The new thrilling historical Sunday Times bestseller, from the internationally acclaimed author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
Narrated by Gemma Whelan
★ 3.55 ABR Score (1 ratings)★ 5 Audible (1) - 5
Innocent Traitor
by Alison Weir
Narrated by Stina Nielsen, Davina Porter, Bianca Amato
★ 3.97 ABR Score (38.0K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (35.1K) ★ 4.28 Audible (2.9K)More about this pick
Multiple narrators capture the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the fifteen-year-old girl manipulated into claiming England's throne for nine days before facing execution.
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The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
★ 4.85 ABR Score (406.9K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (381.4K) ★ 4.8 Audible (25.6K) - 7
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark T. Sullivan
Narrated by Will Damron
★ 4.81 ABR Score (445.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (396.0K) ★ 4.73 Audible (49.7K)More about this pick
Teenager Pino Lella guides Jews over the Alps then becomes a Nazi general's driver, spying for the Italian resistance. Will Damron captures both Pino's youthful innocence and his growing courage throughout the war.
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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)More about this pick
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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Code Name Hélène
by Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by Barrie Kreinik, Peter Ganim
★ 4.70 ABR Score (90.4K ratings)★ 4.41 Goodreads (82.5K) ★ 4.77 Audible (7.9K) - 10
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)More about this pick
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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