Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Book of Lost Fragrances

By: M. J. Rose

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jac L’Etoile has always been haunted by visions of the past, her earliest memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. These worsened after her mother’s suicide until she finally found a doctor who helped her, teaching her to explore the mythological symbolism in her visions and... Read more

Damned in Paradise

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931, Nate Heller—on a leave of absence from the Chicago P.D.—goes to Hawaii to work as an investigator for family friend Clarence Darrow. One of five Honolulu natives accused of the rape of recent bride Thalia Massie has been murdered; facing murder charges are Thalia’s naval officer husband and her socialite mother. Something doesn’t seem... Read more

A Beginner's Guide to Rakes

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

All of London is abuzz with the return of the utterly alluring, recently
widowed Diane Benchley. Will she remarry? What will she do with her
late husband's fortune? Society is shocked by her announcement—at the
Grand Ball, of all places!—that she plans to open an exclusive
gentleman's gaming club in the family mansion. But no one is more
stunned... Read more

Black Valley Riders

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton pens rough-and-tumble Westerns full of smokin' six-shooters and nefarious outlaws. In Black Valley Riders, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack teams up with two bounty hunters to track the elusive Black Valley bandits. There's just one problem-the only man who knows the secret route to their hideout is Tinnis... Read more

Lust for Life

By: Irving Stone

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Read more

Midnight Star

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Second in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.An heiress from England comes to San Francisco to ruin the man she thinks destroyed her father—only to wind up in his care and in his bed. Read more

Nine for the Devil

By: Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 548, and Empress Theodora is dead of disease. Such is the belief of everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire—everyone except Emperor Justinian, who orders John, his Lord Chamberlain, to find her murderer or suffer the consequences.There is no sign of foul play, but many of the aristocrats at the imperial court had good... Read more

The Agony and the Ecstasy

By: Irving Stone

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 33 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last... Read more

When Maidens Mourn

By: C.S. Harris

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Regency England, August 1812: Sebastian St. Cyr’s plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon with his new bride, Hero Jarvis, are shattered when the murdered body of Hero’s good friend Gabrielle Tennyson is discovered drifting in a battered boat at the site of a long-vanished castle known as Camlet Moat. Missing and also presumed dead... Read more

Enchantments

By: Kathryn Harrison

Narrated by: Julia Emelin & Rustam Kasymov

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire.
 
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at... Read more

The Thief

By: Clive Cussler & Justin Scott

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so... Read more

Midnight Star - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Second in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.An heiress from England comes to San Francisco to ruin the man she thinks destroyed her father—only to wind up in his care and in his bed. Read more

Deception at Lyme

By: Carrie Bebris

Narrated by: Leslie Carroll

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Carrie Bebris earned a Daphne du Maurier Award for her lively mysteries starring the fictional creations of Jane Austen. Here Mr. and Mrs. Darcy investigate a murder in the seaside village of Lyme. "Bebris cleverly entwines the characters from Persuasion in the sixth of her mysteries based on Jane Austen's beloved... Read more

Eruption

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author and "maven of alternate history" (San Diego Union-Tribune) presents a near-future thriller. A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes... Read more

The Flood-Tide

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

1772: Although George III reigns over a peaceful England, his colonies in the Americas are claiming independence and a tide of revolutionary fervour is gripping France. Allen Morland and his beloved wife Jemimas work unstintingly to bring Morland Palce back to its former glory. Their seven children often bring them heartache, but they are... Read more

The Chevalier

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

1689: the Resoration enabled the Morland family to restore their own fortune, but now the Jacobite rebellion brings another threat to their security.

Annuciata Morland, fiercely loyal to the Stuart cause, follows her beloved king, James II, into exile. She leaves her gentle grandson, Matt, to oversee Morland Place in her absence. Without her wise... Read more

The Maiden

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1720: political intrigue besets the kingdom as the Stuarts try to claim the throne occupied by the Hanoverians and the Morlands have to use all their wiles to keep their fortunes intact.

Jeremy Morland, sole heir to his father's will, has no option but to marry to cold-hearted Lady Mary to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his... Read more

Vienna Blood

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud—his friend Dr. Max Liebermann—to... Read more

Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder

By: Gyles Brandreth

Narrated by: Bill Wallis

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

I see murder in this unhappy hand... When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand, she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like... Read more

Three Letters

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father’s love, a little boy’s journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author Josephine Cox. Eight-year-old Casey’s mother Ruth is a cruel woman, with a weakness for other women’s husbands. Casey’s father is gentle and... Read more

The Queen's Head - Nicholas Bracewell - The Dramatic Elizabethan Whodunnit, book 1 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

His name was Will Fowler, an actor in the esteemed theatrical company called Lord Westfield's Men, a vibrant young man flushed from the success of a recent performance at the Queen's Head theatre. So exuberant was he that he persuaded the resourceful manager of the company, Nicholas Bracewell, to quaff a pint or two at a nearby pub. Alas, it was... Read more

May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

By: Peter Troy

Narrated by: various narrators, Allyson Johnson, John Keatin...

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Four unique voices, two parallel love stories, one sweeping novel rich in the history of nineteenth-century America. This remarkable debut draws from the great themes of literature—famine, war, love, and family—as it introduces four unforgettable characters.Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five... Read more

An Invitation to Seduction

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Kitty Robertson has grown up wealthy and influential, and she’s never more at home than when in an English parlor displaying her social graces. When she looks for a husband, of course she seeks a man just as home in his position-hopefully a lofty one-as she is. Nicholas Glenville, Marquess of Greystone, is just such a man. He is so attentive and... Read more

Archive 17

By: Sam Eastland

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Stalin’s most trusted secret agent, the legendary Inspector Pekkala, is on his deadliest mission—one that could save his country . . . or plunge it into the abyss.
 
It is 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his regime, Stalin orders a search for the legendary missing gold of... Read more