Best Gore Vidal Audiobooks

The best audiobooks by Gore Vidal — 7 titles spanning Historical Fiction, averaging 3.90 ABR stars.

Gore Vidal's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is Lincoln, narrated by Grover Gardner (4.37 ABR stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Gore Vidal

  1. 1
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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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  2. 2
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    Creation

    by Gore Vidal, Anthony Burgess

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (5.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (5.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (231)
    27h 8m listening time • Released 2020
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    Empire

    Narratives of Empire • Book 4

    by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.95 ABR Score (2.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (2.5K) ★ 4.69 Audible (113)
    23h 28m listening time • Released 2019

    Grover Gardner's steady, authoritative narration anchors Vidal's sprawling Gilded Age saga, making 23 hours of political intrigue and dynastic ambition feel essential rather than exhausting.

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    1876

    Narratives of Empire • Book 3

    by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (3.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (205)
    16h 7m listening time • Released 2019

    Grover Gardner's measured, conspiratorial delivery transforms Vidal's razor-sharp political novel into something that feels like overhearing dangerous secrets at a Manhattan dinner party—16 hours of gilded corruption you won't want to pause.

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    Washington, D.C.

    Narratives of Empire • Book 6

    by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.81 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.74 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.51 Audible (78)
    14h 57m listening time • Released 2019
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    Hollywood

    Narratives of Empire • Book 5

    by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    ★ 3.70 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.64 Goodreads (1.5K) ★ 4.25 Audible (92)
    21h 31m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Golden Age

    Narratives of Empire • Book 7

    by Gore Vidal

    Narrated by Anne Twomey

    ★ 3.52 ABR Score (1.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 3.79 Audible (164)
    17h 30m listening time • Released 2001
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