Best Will Durant Audiobooks

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6 audiobooks in collection
4.06 avg ABR rating
Historical Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Mystery

Best Will Durant Audiobooks

  1. 1
    Caesar and Christ cover

    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.

  2. 2
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    The Age of Voltaire

    The Story of Civilization • Book 9

    by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.18 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (994) ★ 4.74 Audible (415)
    42h 55m listening time • Released 2015

    Grover Gardner's measured, conversational delivery makes this sprawling intellectual history feel like a brilliant friend walking you through Enlightenment Europe—43 hours that vanish because you're too captivated by Voltaire's world to stop.

  3. 3
    The Lessons of History cover

    The Lessons of History

    by Will Durant, Ariel Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.05 ABR Score (25.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (20.8K) ★ 4.39 Audible (4.2K)
    5h 35m listening time • Released 2004

    Grover Gardner's measured, thoughtful delivery transforms this distilled wisdom from four decades of historical scholarship into something that feels like sitting with a genuinely wise friend—making the big patterns of human civilization actually stick with you.

  4. 4
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    The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

    by Will Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.97 ABR Score (20.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (18.2K) ★ 4.28 Audible (1.9K)
    19h 27m listening time • Released 2010

    Grover Gardner's measured, conversational delivery transforms Durant's dense philosophy survey into something genuinely graspable—he makes centuries of ideas feel like a brilliant friend breaking down what actually matters.

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    Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God

    by Will Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.92 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.3K) ★ 4.43 Audible (516)
    5h 18m listening time • Released 2014

    Grover Gardner's warm, measured delivery transforms Durant's final philosophical reflections into an intimate conversation—the perfect vessel for a historian's hard-won wisdom on life's biggest questions.

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    Heroes of History

    by Will Durant

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    3.82 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.38 Audible (560)
    12h 15m listening time • Released 2004

    Grover Gardner's warm, authoritative voice transforms Durant's sweeping historical sketches into intimate character studies that make ancient figures feel like people you actually knew.

All Will Durant Audiobooks (6)

The Story of Civilization (2)

#3 Caesar and Christ narrated by Grover Gardner
4.41 36h 31m
#9 The Age of Voltaire narrated by Grover Gardner
4.42 42h 55m

Standalone Titles (4)

The Lessons of History narrated by Grover Gardner
4.05 5h 35m
3.92 5h 18m
Heroes of History narrated by Grover Gardner
3.88 12h 15m