# Recs for any good historical fiction audiobooks?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 26, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recs-for-any-good-historical-fiction-audiobooks/764048 "2016-08-26T19:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recs-for-any-good-historical-fiction-audiobooks/764048/1 "2016-08-26T19:55:00Z")

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Title pretty much says it. My favorite time periods are (what’s now) United States, Contact era to WW1, but not bound to it. I just want something good to listen to that brings an era to life (like Hilary Mantel does for Tudor England).

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recs-for-any-good-historical-fiction-audiobooks/764048/2 "2016-08-26T20:11:28Z")

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Hands down get the unabridged version of “Pillars of the Earth”, by Kenn Follett. Terrific performance !!

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**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recs-for-any-good-historical-fiction-audiobooks/764048/3 "2016-08-26T21:04:50Z")

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If the US-ness isn’t a hard requirement, you can’t do much better than Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels read by Patrick Tull. The man is (ahem, was) an artist.

If fiction isn’t a hard requirement, you might like Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis or Titan by Ron Chernow. Both are sufficiently breezy that you can listen to them without concentrating.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recs-for-any-good-historical-fiction-audiobooks/764048/4 "2016-08-26T21:49:59Z")

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I like Patrick O’Brien, but he sends me to Wikipedia and google more than any other author. (Okay, what kind of knot was that? And the Duke of what?)