Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

Nightwoods

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s.
 
Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human... 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

Red Flags

By: Juris Jurjevics

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of soldiers and spies in the highlands of VietnamArmy cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until he’s sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote highland province.Rider lands in Cheo Reo, home to hard-pressed soldiers, intelligence operatives, and profiteers of all stripes. The tiny US contingent and its unenthusiastic Vietnamese... Read more

Page from a Tennessee Journal

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Daughter of Union County comes an intimate and heart-pounding novel about two families—one black, one white—colliding against the explosive backdrop of the post–Civil War South.It’s been fifty years since the Civil War ended, but the racial divide is as rigid and unforgiving as ever. For two families in the rural South,... Read more

Goliath

By: Scott Westerfeld

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling trilogy that’s “sure to become a classic” (School Library Journal).

Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek’s throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the... Read more

Paris Noire

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Madisun Leigh

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The dawn of postwar Paris in the 1940s: for one family, it’s a time of celebration, danger, and liberating romance in a breathtaking novel by the author of The Daughter of Union County.Paris in 1944 is emerging from a devastating war. So are proud Martinican immigrants Marie-Thérèse Brillard and her two children, Collette and Christophe. In... Read more

Spirit Wolf

By: Gary D. Svee

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award-winner Gary Svee is praised by western fans for his fascinating novels of the 19th-century American frontier. In Spirit Wolf, a mysterious wolf-like animal has been destroying cattle in Montana. In the dead of winter, Nashua Brue ventures into the wilderness to track and kill this vicious beast. Soon he discovers the real killer walks... Read more

Showdown at Buffalo Jump

By: Gary D. Svee

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award-winning author Gary Svee pens Westerns of the highest calibre. Showdown at Buffalo Jump is a rough and tumble thrill ride into the bawdy towns and open plains of the Old West. The word is out. Max Bass wants an able bodied, fullbosomed woman to complete his life. One problem though: when he describes himself, he outright lies about... Read more

The Peacemaker's Vengeance

By: Gary D. Svee

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award-winning author Gary Svee is a favorite of fans looking for a taste of the Wild West. His novels have won many accolades, including an Editors' Choice by Booklist. Sheriff Frank Drinkwalter has faced some unscrupulous men in his time, but Jack Galt, the new blacksmith in town, is among the worst. Although he has no proof, Frank is... Read more

Abilene Gun Down

By: Jory Sherman

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman has been called "a national treasure" by best-selling author Loren D. Estleman. Originally a poet, Sherman crafts his Westerns with a dazzling style of prose that has earned rave reviews from critics and peers alike. Word on the Owlhoot Trail says Jed Brand is a cattle rustler and a murderer of three men-one of... Read more

Reign of Madness

By: Lynn Cullen

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author behind the historical fiction gem The Creation of Eve, Lynn Cullen penned this gripping tale of love and madness, royal intrigue, and marital betrayal set during Spain's Golden Age. Upon the death of Queen Isabella, Juana of Castile ascends to the Spanish throne. But her reign is fraught with danger as her husband, Philippe... Read more

Deuces Wild

By: Dusty Richards

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dusty Richards bases his scores of Western novels on extensive research on the Old West. With an unflinching view of the violence and cruelty that marked both sides of the Indian conflicts, he spins the riveting tale of Apache scout Deuces. Unjustly condemned for murder, he escapes his guard and disappears into the wilderness. Now hot on his... Read more

The Thirteenth Bullet

By: Cotton Smith

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Cotton Smith writes action-packed Westerns with a flair few others can match. In The Thirteenth Bullet, young Irishman Time Carlow has just been inducted into the legendary ranks of the Texas Rangers. With the help of his uncle Kileen, Time runs down a bloodthirsty gang and brings them to justice. But back in town, the... Read more

Lion of the Sun

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Mesopotamia, AD 260, Ballista faces yet another enemy, the man the Syrians call the Lion of the Sun.Betrayed by his most trusted advisor, Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid barbarians. The shame of the vanquished beats down mercilessly like the desert sun as the frail old emperor prostrates himself before Shapur, king of... Read more

True Detective

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mob-choked Chicago of 1932, private detective Nathan Heller may be willing to risk his life to earn a Depression dollar, but he never sacrifices his sardonic wit. Now, author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) reissues the contemporary classic that introduces the wise-cracking Nathan Heller in all his guts and glory.When Mayor Cermak’s... Read more

True Crime

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded mean¬ness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.Full of muscle and oozing Chicago’s... Read more

Wrapped

By: Jennifer Bradbury

Narrated by: Elissa Steele

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings, about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history.

Maybe you think this girl is wearing a pith helmet with antique dust swirling around her.

Maybe you think she is a young Egyptologist who has arrived in Cairo on camelback.

Maybe she would... Read more

Turnback Creek

By: Robert J. Randisi

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author of The Gunsmith series, Robert J. Randisi has over five million copies of his books in print. Fans love his hard-hitting Westerns, and The Widowmaker series features some of his best. Crack-shot gunfighter John Locke has just been hired to guard a payroll wagon stuffed with cash and bound for Turnback Creek. But out on the... Read more

The Taker

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Hunger—hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”—comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.

True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening... Read more

Pirate King

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Laurie R. King's books have received high praise from critics and have earned the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards. As Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark on their 11th adventure together, they find themselves immersed in the world of silent filmmaking. Here, the pirates are real-and... Read more

Juneteenth

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying... Read more

Two for Sorrow

By: Nicola Upson

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences. When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers sentenced to death for a string of newborn murders, she has no idea that... Read more

Vienna Twilight

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt finds that young women are being slain in an unnerving—and ingenious—manner, with a small, almost undetectable, hat pin. For Dr. Max Liebermann, the killer is unique in the annals of psychopathology, one who murders in the midst of consensual love. Is the culprit a patient, one who swears he has a double, a... Read more