Where to Start with Harry Turtledove
- Best entry point → American Front
- Best standalone → 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- Start the Settling Accounts series → Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (American Empire)
- What fans keep coming back to → The Center Cannot Hold
- Best narrator for Harry Turtledove → The Victorious Opposition
- Highest rated by listeners → Three Miles Down
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The Great War: Breakthroughs
Great War (Turtledove) • Book 3
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.24 ABR Score (485 ratings)★ 4.73 Audible (485)More about this pick
Turtledove's alternate WWI expands from Europe to North America as long-simmering hatreds explode into global conflict. George Guidall's authoritative voice suits this sweeping historical reimagining.
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American Front
Great War • Book 1
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.02 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (4.2K) ★ 4.53 Audible (616)More about this pick
World War I divides North America as the US allies with Germany while the Confederacy joins Britain and France. Guidall handles Turtledove's massive alternate history expertly.
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The Victorious Opposition
American Empire • Book 3
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.05 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.61 Audible (446)More about this pick
Seventy years after the South won the Civil War, North America remains a powder keg of competing politics and moralities. George Guidall's seasoned narration navigates Turtledove's complex alternate timeline where the Great War's aftermath threatens continental explosion.
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The Center Cannot Hold
American Empire • Book 2
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.09 ABR Score (3.3K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (400)More about this pick
1924 brings reconstruction and social upheaval in Turtledove's alternate America, where familiar monuments rise from different ruins and cities rebuild from alternate devastation.
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Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (American Empire)
Settling Accounts • Book 1
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.92 ABR Score (3.4K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.43 Audible (495)More about this pick
Turtledove's alternate 1941 features Confederate-US tensions erupting while Japan dominates the Pacific and Russia controls Alaska. George Guidall's seasoned delivery suits this epic scope.
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Three Miles Down
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.69 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 3.64 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.3 Audible (113)More about this pick
Turtledove drops first contact into 1974 Watergate-era America, where a marine biology grad student stumbles onto humanity's biggest discovery. George Guidall's authoritative narration anchors the period details while building tension around the alien revelation.
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
by Stephen A. Wynalda, Harry Turtledove
Narrated by Joe Barrett
★ 3.79 ABR Score (171 ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (127) ★ 4.55 Audible (44)More about this pick
Day-by-day breakdown of Lincoln's presidency reveals both monumental decisions like the Homestead Act and intimate family moments like son Willie's death. Joe Barrett's narration should provide gravitas to this unique chronological approach.
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