Audiobooks Like 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

10 audiobooks for fans of 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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   The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

   Die Henkerstochter • Book 3

   by Oliver Pötzsch, Grover Gardner, Lee Chadeayne - translator

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.06 ABR Score (17.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (15.9K) ★ 4.42 Audible (1.3K)

   15h 40m listening time • Released 2013

   Grover Gardner's narration transforms this 17th-century Bavarian thriller into immersive dark theater—his shift between tortured hangman, scheming monks, and desperate daughter creates a visceral experience that print can't match.

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   The Poisoned Pilgrim

   Die Henkerstochter • Book 4

   by Oliver Pötzsch

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.04 ABR Score (12.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (11.3K) ★ 4.43 Audible (1.1K)

   16h 25m listening time • Released 2013

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   Simon the Fiddler

   by Paulette Jiles

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.96 ABR Score (12.9K ratings)

   ★ 3.84 Goodreads (11.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (1.0K)

   11h 39m listening time • Released 2020

   Grover Gardner's warm, unhurried narration captures the fiddle player's journey through Civil War Texas with such genuine charm that you'll feel the dust and hear the music alongside him.

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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

   ★ 4.74 ABR Score (14.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.61 Goodreads (10.4K) ★ 4.82 Audible (4.2K)

   22h 6m listening time • Released 2011

   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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   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)

   42h 58m listening time • Released 2004

   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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   Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

   by Frederick Lewis Allen

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.92 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.99 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.4 Audible (389)

   11h 35m listening time • Released 2006

   Grover Gardner's measured cadence transforms Allen's snappy 1920s journalism into something hypnotic—you'll absorb a decade of American excess and upheaval without feeling lectured.

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   1876

   Narratives of Empire • Book 3

   by Gore Vidal

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.87 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)

   ★ 3.86 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (205)

   16h 7m listening time • Released 2019

   Grover Gardner's measured, conspiratorial delivery transforms Vidal's razor-sharp political novel into something that feels like overhearing dangerous secrets at a Manhattan dinner party—16 hours of gilded corruption you won't want to pause.

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   Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847

   by Winston Groom

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.81 ABR Score (487 ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (428) ★ 4.42 Audible (59)

   12h 5m listening time • Released 2022

   Grover Gardner's steady, commanding presence makes this sprawling military epic feel inevitable rather than just historical—you're riding with Kearny across impossible terrain toward a destiny that reshapes America.

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   Washington, D.C.

   Narratives of Empire • Book 6

   by Gore Vidal

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 3.81 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)

   ★ 3.74 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.51 Audible (78)

   14h 57m listening time • Released 2019

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    Barksdale's Charge: The True High Tide of the Confederacy at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.70 ABR Score (127 ratings)

    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (91) ★ 4.25 Audible (36)

    11h 32m listening time • Released 2014

    Grover Gardner's steady, commanding delivery transforms this overlooked second-day battle into the real turning point of Gettysburg, making Tucker's revisionist argument impossible to ignore.

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