Audiobooks Like A Dangerous Fortune

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If you loved A Dangerous Fortune 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 Michael Page's narration will find familiar voices here too.

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)
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    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)
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    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)
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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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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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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