Historical Fiction audiobooks

Queen of America

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world.

Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea,... Read more

A Burial at Sea

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Eighteen seventy-three is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission.

Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds himself using... Read more

The Maid

By: Kimberly Cutter

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages
on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the
countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the
uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army.
And in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl... Read more

The News From Paraguay

By: Lily Tuck

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and ahorse named Mathilde. Ella follows Franco to AsunciOn and reigns there as his mistress. Isolated and estranged in this new world, she embraces her... Read more

The Price of A Child

By: Lorene Cary

Narrated by: Lorene Cary

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lorene Cary has been praised by the American Library Association for her honest style that brings African American history to life. Ginnie Pryor finally has the chance to escape slavery-but to do so, she must leave her youngest child behind. With her new found freedom come responsibilities and a new identity as abolitionist Mercer Gray. But she... Read more

A Land Remembered

By: Patrick Smith

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this best-selling novel, Patrick D. Smith tels the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life,... Read more

Come a Little Closer

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

With both the guilty and innocent alike in harm's way, Tyler and Christina must face all their fears . . . or never live to see the future.
America's Heartland, 1946. World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise with fresh energy and hope. Newly-arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker now dares to... Read more

The Third Reich

By: Roberto Bolaño

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in... Read more

The Other Guy's Bride

By: Connie Brockway

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Determined to prove her worth as a budding archeologist, Ginesse Braxton vows to solve one of the world’s greatest mysteries—to find the location of the lost city of Zerzura. Unfortunately, no man dares take the risk of escorting the resolute young scholar across the open desert. But on her way to Egypt, Ginesse engages in a daring deception:... Read more

To Wed a Wild Lord

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Like everything daredevil Gabe Sharpe does, wooing Virginia Waverly is a high-stakes game. Ever since her brother, Roger, died racing Lord Gabriel, Virginia has yearned to take her revenge on the reckless lord by beating him at his own sport. But when she challenges Lord Gabriel to a race, the hellion called the “Angel of Death” counters with a... Read more

A Stranger in Mayfair

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated.



Going into the... Read more

Nanjing Requiem

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Ha Jin's celebrated works have claimed several top literary awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. In Nanjing Requiem, the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. The dean of Jinling Women's College, Minnie Vautrin mistakenly believes her American citizenship will protect the school. But Vautrin's life becomes a daily struggle as the... Read more

The Wandering Falcon

By: Jamil Ahmad

Narrated by: Piter Marek

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Jamil Ahmad has received worldwide acclaim for his stunning debut novel, The Wandering Falcon/. Here, Ahmad transports listeners to the oft-misunderstood region where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet-the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)-for a gripping portrait of an honor-bound people shaped and defined by ancient traditions... Read more

Mrs. Nixon

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Ann Beattie

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife: 'interchangeable with a Martian,' she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious... Read more

Praetorian (Eagles of the Empire 11)

By: Simon Scarrow

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!

PRAETORIAN is the gripping eleventh novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. 'A new book in Simon Scarrow's series about the Roman army is always a joy' The Times

AD 51. Legionaries Cato and Macro have... Read more

A Dark and Lonely Place

By: Edna Buchanan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dark and Lonely Place poses the question: can we change our destiny, or must our lives always end the same way? In Miami, Police Detective Sgt. John Ashley hunts a woman linked to a murdered millionaire and finds she is the girl who's haunted his dreams since childhood. A century ago on America's southern frontier, John Ashley's ancestor was... Read more

The Ionia Sanction

By: Gary Corby

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Athens, 460 B.C. Life's tough for Nicolaos, sole investigating agent in Athens. His girlfriend's left him and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. The case takes Nico, with a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will... Read more

Neon Mirage

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but he’s in for the biggest surprise of his career.Demonstrating once again... Read more

The Time In Between

By: Maria Duenas

Narrated by: Zilah Mendoza

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.

Between youth and adulthood...

At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a... Read more

The Fleet Street Murders

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have just met with violent deaths—one shot, one throttled. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case but must leave it behind to... Read more

Sonderling

By: James Sinnott

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, young Franz saw his father go off to fight in the Great War. As a young man, Franz and his young wife Fani dare to begin a family under the shadow of Hitler’s Germany. While the New Order closes in around their Austrian homeland, Catholic students are recruited to help hunt out Jews. At the same time, Franz’s trusted parish priest,... Read more

The Fiery Cross

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 55 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Gabaldon is the New York Times bestselling author of Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn. A masterful novel of passion and a love spanning centuries, The Fiery Cross is the highly anticipated, triumphant continuation of the phenomenally popular Outlander series.Eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his... Read more

The Viscount's Scandalous Return

By: Anne Ashley

Narrated by: Emerald O'Hanrahan

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Blazing a trail to the top of the romance best-seller lists, Anne Ashley's scintillating novels set her devoted fans' hearts aflame. The Viscount's Scandalous Return stars Viscount Blackwood, a man who spent nine years in exile after being accused of killing his father and brother. He was saved from the gallows thanks only to the testimony of a... Read more

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Jenny Sterlin & Paul Hecht

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you'll enjoy Peter Ackroyd's special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating portrait of a savage murderer, the terror that rippled... Read more