10 audiobooks for fans of A Dangerous Fortune
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A Place Called Freedom
by Ken Follett
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 4.23 BLT Score (59.9K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (47.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (12.9K)More about this pick
Simon Prebble's performance transforms Follett's sprawling tale of Scottish miners and aristocrats into something visceral—his voice work across class lines and accents makes the divide between Mack and Lizzie feel like destiny colliding with social law.
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The Evening and the Morning
Kingsbridge
by Ken Follett
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.67 BLT Score (149.2K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (136.4K) ★ 4.71 Audible (12.8K) -
Fall of Giants
The Century Trilogy • Book 1
by Ken Follett
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.52 BLT 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 Pillars of the Earth
Kingsbridge • Book 1
by Ken Follett
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.69 BLT Score (874.8K ratings)★ 4.35 Goodreads (838.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (36.3K) -
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
Narrated by Ann Marie Gideon, Nancy Peterson
★ 4.86 BLT Score (319.9K ratings)★ 4.54 Goodreads (284.0K) ★ 4.76 Audible (35.9K) -
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark T. Sullivan
Narrated by Will Damron
★ 4.81 BLT Score (445.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (396.0K) ★ 4.73 Audible (49.7K)More about this pick
Will Damron captures a teenager torn between survival and conscience, risking everything to save lives while serving the Nazis in this devastating true story.
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by Dominic Hoffman
★ 4.70 BLT Score (421.5K ratings)★ 4.47 Goodreads (410.6K) ★ 4.67 Audible (10.9K)More about this pick
Dominic Hoffman makes this three-century family saga intimate and inescapable, each voice carrying slavery's weight across generations with haunting clarity.
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A Land Remembered
by Patrick D. Smith
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.69 BLT Score (20.2K ratings)★ 4.48 Goodreads (14.8K) ★ 4.79 Audible (5.4K)More about this pick
George Guidall's gravelly voice turns this multigenerational Florida saga into something hypnotic—you'll hear the dust and sweat of frontier life settle into your bones over nearly 15 hours.
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Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.66 BLT Score (51.0K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (44.4K) ★ 4.76 Audible (6.6K)More about this pick
George Guidall's voice transforms this Thermopylae epic into something operatic—his measured intensity makes the brutal final stand feel inevitable and intimate, like a dying man's confession.
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The Killer Angels
The Civil War Trilogy • Book 2
by Michael Shaara
Narrated by Stephen Hoye
★ 4.57 BLT Score (99.2K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (92.5K) ★ 4.68 Audible (6.7K)
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