Audiobooks Like North and South

10 audiobooks for fans of North and South

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   The Glorious Cause (The American Revolutionary War)

   American Revolutionary War • Book 2

   by Jeff Shaara

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.40 ABR Score (9.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (7.9K) ★ 4.69 Audible (1.1K)

   25h 54m listening time • Released 2003

   Grover Gardner's commanding narration transforms Shaara's sprawling Revolutionary War epic into something genuinely gripping—he makes you feel the weight of each general's impossible choices.

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   The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

   The Revolution Trilogy • Book 2

   by Rick Atkinson

   Narrated by Grover Gardner, Rick Atkinson

   ★ 4.50 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)

   ★ 4.65 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.85 Audible (379)

   32h 26m listening time • Released 2025

   Atkinson transforms the Revolution's bleakest years into a gripping military narrative where survival itself feels like victory, and Gardner's measured delivery makes every desperate decision hit harder.

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   Lincoln

   Narratives of Empire • Book 2

   by Gore Vidal

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.37 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)

   ★ 4.25 Goodreads (9.9K) ★ 4.75 Audible (563)

   32h 54m listening time • Released 2019

   Grover Gardner's measured, penetrating delivery transforms Vidal's revisionist Lincoln into something more unsettling than heroic—a ruthless political operator who emerges from the chaos of Civil War Washington as a far more complicated man than the marble monument we think we know.

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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, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox

   The Civil War • Book 3

   by Shelby Foote

   Narrated by Grover Gardner

   ★ 4.70 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)

   ★ 4.55 Goodreads (7.5K) ★ 4.88 Audible (1.7K)

   58h 23m listening time • Released 2017

   Grover Gardner's measured, authoritative narration transforms Foote's sprawling final volume into something genuinely immersive—58 hours that feel essential rather than exhausting as the Civil War's tragic conclusion unfolds.

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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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   On Secret Service

   by John Jakes

   Narrated by Michael Kramer

   ★ 3.73 ABR Score (1.8K ratings)

   ★ 3.84 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.15 Audible (152)

   16h 46m listening time • Released 2007

   Michael Kramer's crisp, intelligent narration transforms this Civil War spy thriller into a genuine page-turner, making the historical intrigue feel urgently contemporary.

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    Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove • Book 1

    by Larry McMurtry

    Narrated by Will Patton

    ★ 4.70 ABR Score (251.4K ratings)

    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (250.9K) ★ 4.87 Audible (537)

    35h 49m listening time • Released 2025

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