Audiobooks Like Drums of Autumn

10 audiobooks for fans of Drums of Autumn

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   The Scottish Prisoner

   Lord John Grey • Book 3

   by Diana Gabaldon

   Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Rick Holmes

   ★ 4.39 ABR Score (41.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.24 Goodreads (35.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (5.2K)

   15h 47m listening time • Released 2011

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   The Count of Monte Cristo

   The Seaside Library • Book 1

   by Alexandre Dumas

   Narrated by Bill Homewood

   ★ 4.82 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.81 Audible (20.5K)

   52h 41m listening time • Released 2011

   Dumas's revenge epic is one of literature's great page-turners — a man wrongly imprisoned who emerges years later with a fortune and a plan for perfect vengeance.

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   The Pillars of the Earth

   Kingsbridge • Book 1

   by Ken Follett

   Narrated by John Lee

   ★ 4.68 ABR Score (874.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.35 Goodreads (838.5K) ★ 4.64 Audible (36.3K)

   40h 56m listening time • Released 2007

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   The Apothecary's Daughter

   by Julie Klassen

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.97 ABR Score (28.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.82 Goodreads (27.3K) ★ 4.42 Audible (939)

   13h 43m listening time • Released 2009

   Davina Porter's voice transforms this historical mystery into something intimate and obsessive—you'll feel Lilly's eidetic memory as a burden, not a gift, as she unravels her mother's disappearance against the glittering backdrop of Regency London.

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   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)

   18h 11m listening time • Released 2007

   Multiple narrators bring distinct voices to Jane Grey's tragedy, making her inner life feel immediate and lived-in across 18 hours of meticulously researched Tudor intrigue that reads like a thriller.

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   The Miniaturist

   The Miniaturist • Book 1

   by Jessie Burton, Unknown Author

   Narrated by Davina Porter

   ★ 3.63 ABR Score (155.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.62 Goodreads (153.6K) ★ 4.07 Audible (1.7K)

   13h 17m listening time • Released 2014

   Davina Porter's narration transforms this atmospheric Dutch Golden Age mystery into pure immersion—her voice captures the claustrophobia and intrigue so completely you'll forget you're listening rather than watching.

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   The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian

   The Civil War • Book 2

   by Shelby Foote

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.68 ABR Score (9.5K ratings)

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (7.7K) ★ 4.86 Audible (1.8K)

   52h 45m listening time • Released 2016

   Grover Gardner's measured, gravitas-laden performance transforms Foote's sprawling narrative into something you can't stop listening to—52 hours that feel necessary, not exhausting.

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   Once An Eagle

   by Anton Myrer

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.55 ABR Score (10.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.4 Goodreads (8.1K) ★ 4.75 Audible (2.6K)

   41h 20m listening time • Released 2011

   Grover Gardner's measured, commanding narration transforms this sprawling military epic into an intimate character study—his voice carries you through decades of ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice with the weight they deserve.

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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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    Caesar and Christ

    The Story of Civilization • Book 3

    by Will Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 4.44 ABR Score (3.2K ratings)

    ★ 4.41 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.81 Audible (1.0K)

    36h 31m listening time • Released 2014

    Grover Gardner's measured cadence transforms Durant's sweeping Roman history into something genuinely gripping—he finds the human drama in empires rising and falling, making 36 hours vanish like a binge-worthy series.

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