Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Empty Land

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight.

In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are... Read more

Showdown at Yellow Butte

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently ... Read more

The Stranger's Child

By: Alan Hollinghurst

Narrated by: James Daniel Wilson

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home... Read more

The Watch That Ends the Night

By: Allan Wolf

Narrated by: Michael Page, Phil Gigante, Christopher Lane, L...

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope--twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum of media scandal. A beautiful Lebanese refugee, on her way to family in Florida, discovers the... Read more

Life

By: Mal Peet

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Clem, a working-class boy living in government-assisted housing, and Frankie, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, must keep their relationship secret. If it’s discovered, their world will be blown apart.But unknown to them, President John F. Kennedy and the Russian leader, Nikita Khruschev, are shaping up to do just that—blow the world apart—as... Read more

Dissolution

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant first novel in the bestselling historical series starring Matthew Shardlake, “the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England.”Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the... Read more

The Forgotten Legion

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman on his way home from a good night out. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity... Read more

A Killing Season

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Baron Herbert’s return from the Crusades should have been a joyous occasion. Instead, he grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife’s bed. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, some ask whether Herbert harbors a dark sin for which God has cursed him. Perhaps there is a malign presence at this... Read more

Chicago Lightning

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Tough, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been called “the perfect private eye,” the best investigator that Chicago (where ‘lightning’ means gunfire) has to offer. Created by New York Times bestselling novelist and Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins, the classic P.I. comes vibrantly to life in this collection of thirteen stories,... Read more

A Sound Among the Trees

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

A house shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but... Read more

The Dovekeepers

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Aya Cash, Tovah Feldshuh, Jessica Hecht & Heath...

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).

Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months... Read more

The Lost Angel

By: Javier Sierra

Narrated by: James Langton & Zilah Mendoza

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heartpounding, apocalyptic thriller about mankind’s most ancient desire—and the modern evil some will unleash to obtain it.

New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heart-pounding thriller about mankind’s most ancient desire—and the modern evil some will unleash... Read more

A Morbid Taste For Bones

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales, where they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics.

Canny, wise and all too worldly,... Read more

Warrior's Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A medieval melody begins in the prequel to the Song series from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Catherine Coulter.Chandra de Avenell might look like a golden princess, but she fights like a warrior, dreams a warrior's dreams, wears a warrior's pride like a suit of armor. She wants to be strong, independent and free. She has no use at all for... Read more

A Christmas Homecoming

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Perry’s latest Christmas novella follows Charlotte Pitt’s mother, Caroline, as she travels up the Yorkshire coast with her husband, Joshua Fielding, and his troupe of actors. Their destination is Whitby, the famed landing site of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s tale; the brooding, windswept fishing village is home to theatrical “Angel”... Read more

Mortal Coils

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, "The Giaconda Smile," is a short murder story. "Permutations among the Nightingales" is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. "The Tillotson Banquet" tells of an old artist who was thought to be... Read more

Warrior's Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A medieval melody begins in the prequel to the Song series from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Catherine Coulter.Chandra de Avenell might look like a golden princess, but she fights like a warrior, dreams a warrior's dreams, wears a warrior's pride like a suit of armor. She wants to be strong, independent and free. She has no use at all for... Read more

One Unashamed Night

By: Sophia James

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Multiple award-winning author Sophia James pens scorching-hot romances her eager fans devour. In One Unashamed Night, reclusive Lord Taris Wellingham shuns the possibility of intimate relationships. His traveling companion, 28-year-old Beatrice-Maude Bassingstoke, on the other hand, doesn't expect to attract a man as handsome as Taris. But when... Read more

Honorable Doctor, Improper Arrangement

By: Mary Nichols

Narrated by: Rebecca De Leeuw

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A prolific author in nearly every genre, Mary Nichols has been thrilling fans of historical and contemporary romance for over 50 years. Here, widowed Kate Meredith, longing for a child of her own, accepts the proposal of stiff, upper-crust Viscount Robert Cranford. But her affections soon become torn when she meets the charming Simon Redfern-a... Read more

The September Society

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically... Read more

Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

By: William Kennedy

Narrated by: William Kennedy

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America’s finest writersWhen journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight.So... Read more

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore

By: Stella Duffy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who was... Read more

His Mistress by Christmas

By: Victoria Alexander

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For three years, Lady Veronica Smithson has been perfectly happy as a widow—and thoroughly independent. Still, the right gentleman could provide the benefits of marriage without the tedious restrictions. And in Sir Sebastian Hadley-Attwater, renowned explorer and rogue, Veronica is sure she has found him.Sebastian will come into his inheritance... Read more

In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Arguably Regency England’s most scandalous family of misbehaving rogues and ladies, the Cynsters are back! New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues her delectable new historical romance series with In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster, focusing on the first of three Cynster sisters, each on a determined quest to find a hero who’s her... Read more