Historical Fiction audiobooks

Wicked Widow

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Madeline Deveridge is aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But she has a far more pressing problem than her reputation as the Wicked Widow. It’s impossible to believe that her late husband is haunting her and her aunt, but something odd is happening, and... Read more

The Dressmaker

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
 
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly... Read more

Senator's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Have you any plans for the rest of the day?" he asked. "Plans?" she echoed. "Whatever they were, cancel them." He grinned. Crystal nodded, dazed, knowing somehow that if he had proposed a trip to Mars she would have been helpless to refuse. She had come to Virginia to work, not to fall in love -- certainly not with someone like Kip Montrose.... Read more

The Revenge of Lord Eberlin

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobin Scott has not been back to Hadley Green since Lily Boudine’s childhood testimony helped send his father to the gallows for stealing the valuable Ashwood jewels. Now a wealthy man, he intends to exact his revenge by destroying Ashwood and its lady. He offers Lily a choice between her life and the livelihoods of the people who depend on the... Read more

Watergate

By: Thomas Mallon

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most esteemed historical novelists comes a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs—it falls at last to a... Read more

The Healing

By: Jonathan Odell

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget
 
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a “slave disease.” Insane with grief, Amanda... Read more

Springwater Wedding

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Lael Miller returns to an unforgettable Montana town for a very special occasion....
SPRINGWATER WEDDING
Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the twenty-first century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches... Read more

The Technologists

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.
 
The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will... Read more

My Name Is Not Easy

By: Debby Dahl Edwardson

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Amy Rubinate

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding the shore or wind pounding the tundra…Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can’t say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students—Eskimo, Indian,... Read more

The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this swashbuckling novel set in fifteenth-century England, young Richard Shelton discovers that he has been betrayed by the guardian who raised him—a man involved in the murder of his father. Seventeen-year-old Richard joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow to avenge the death, rescue the woman he loves, and participate in the struggle... Read more

Gates of Fire

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta's finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The time they bought enabled the Greeks to rally-saving, according to ancient historian Herodotus, "Western democracy... Read more

Mischief

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That’s why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap?Her scheme is... Read more

Mistress

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating... Read more

With This Ring

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Drake, the “Mad Monk of Monkcrest,” is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance.The freethinking authoress of “horrid novels,” Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, a mythic treasure she suspects... Read more

The Garden Intrigue

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can't bear to read his work... Read more

The House I Loved

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core.

Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into... Read more

Blood and Thunder

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

1935, Louisiana. Presidential candidate—and force of nature—Huey Long, the “Kingfish,” is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye to investigate death threats from political rivals. Soon Heller runs head-on into an IRS investigation seeking... Read more

Dying in the Wool

By: Frances Brody

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens... Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at... Read more

The Detour

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernst Vogler is twenty-six-years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned... Read more

The Darkening Field

By: William Ryan

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit relationship with the party director. His instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up for murder, and if so, to find her killer. She was working on... Read more

Surrender to the Devil

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Frannie Darling was once a child of London’s roughest streets, surrounded by petty thieves, pickpockets, and worse. But though she survived this harsh upbringing to become a woman of incomparable beauty, Frannie wants nothing to do with the men who lust for her, the rogues who frequent the gaming hall where she works. She can take care of... Read more

The Mountain Valley War

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Trent came to Idaho seeking solitude. He built a cabin, broke a few wild horses, and quietly put his past behind him. Then King Bill Hale began laying claim to all the land around Cedar Bluff. When Hale’s son kills one of Trent’s neighbors, Trent quickly steps forward to lead the fight. Their property had been legally filed on, but Bill Hale has... Read more

Fool for Love

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The WomanLady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her... Read more

Codex

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate... Read more