Where to Start with Harry Turtledove
- Best entry point → American Front
- Best standalone → 366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
- Start the Settling Accounts series → Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (American Empire)
- What fans keep coming back to → The Center Cannot Hold
- Best narrator for Harry Turtledove → The Victorious Opposition
- Highest rated by listeners → Three Miles Down
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The Great War: Breakthroughs
Great War (Turtledove) • Book 3
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.24 ABR Score (485 ratings)★ 4.73 Audible (485)23h 34m listening time • Released 2010Guidall's measured, authoritative narration transforms Turtledove's sprawling alternate history into something genuinely gripping—he makes you believe in this fractured America through sheer vocal conviction.
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The Center Cannot Hold
American Empire • Book 2
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.09 ABR Score (3.3K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.68 Audible (400)24h 36m listening time • Released 2009George Guidall's measured, authoritative voice transforms Turtledove's intricate alternate-history politics into something genuinely gripping—he makes you feel the weight of every backroom deal and ideological clash across 24 hours that fly by.
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The Victorious Opposition
American Empire • Book 3
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.05 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.61 Audible (446)23h 58m listening time • Released 2008George Guidall's measured, authoritative performance transforms Turtledove's intricate alternate history into something genuinely gripping—he makes every political maneuver and moral compromise feel like personal betrayal.
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American Front
Great War • Book 1
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.03 ABR Score (4.8K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (4.2K) ★ 4.53 Audible (616)24h 16m listening time • Released 2010George Guidall's measured, authoritative voice transforms this alternate-history epic into something grander than the sum of its parts—he makes you believe in a fractured America locked in mechanized total war.
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Settling Accounts: Return Engagement (American Empire)
Settling Accounts • Book 1
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.92 ABR Score (3.4K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.43 Audible (495)24h 31m listening time • Released 2008George Guidall's measured, authoritative narration transforms Turtledove's sprawling alternate-history epic into something genuinely gripping—24+ hours that feel earned, not bloated.
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366 Days in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency: The Private, Political, and Military Decisions of America's Greatest President
by Stephen A. Wynalda, Harry Turtledove
Narrated by Joe Barrett
★ 3.76 ABR Score (171 ratings)★ 3.91 Goodreads (127) ★ 4.55 Audible (44)15h 33m listening time • Released 2013 - 7
Three Miles Down
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.70 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 3.64 Goodreads (1.1K) ★ 4.3 Audible (113)10h 26m listening time • Released 2022George Guidall's measured, authoritative voice transforms this 1974 alien-contact thriller into a genuinely tense Cold War paranoia fest—he makes you feel the claustrophobia and conspiracy creeping in from every angle.
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Alpha and Omega
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 3.58 ABR Score (924 ratings)★ 3.69 Goodreads (725) ★ 3.93 Audible (199)14h 46m listening time • Released 2019George Guidall's measured, gravitas-laden narration transforms Turtledove's apocalyptic thriller into something genuinely unsettling—he makes you believe the end times are actually unfolding.
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