Historical Fiction audiobooks

Defender of Rome

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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This riveting and action-packed historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson is real edge of your seat stuff! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.

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The Eleventh Plague

By: Jeff Hirsch

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn... Read more

The Ronin’s Mistress

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder a man who stood at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro,... Read more

A Terribly Strange Bed

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winning streak at a downmarket gambling den in Paris leads to a lavish drinking spree. The offer of coffee to help sober up is not all that it first seems. Our protagonist finds himself in a strange bed for the night in a house of thieves and murderers. And it turns out to be a very strange bed indeed... a bed cunningly designed with murder in... Read more

Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens! Fans adore Laurens’s irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. In Laurens’s sensational new Cynster historical romance, it’s Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue when... Read more

The Ballad of Tom Dooley

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Shannon McManus & Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ballad of Tom Dooley is a literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley...The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio,... Read more

Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011

From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more

Tales of Troy and Greece

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount Homeric legends of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons, and the Trojan Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are... Read more

The Frasers-Clay

By: Ana Leigh

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Romantic Times award-winning author, Ana Leigh writes Western romances that are USA Today best-sellers. The Frasers: Clay is first in an exciting series that follows four Southern brothers in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lovely widow Rebecca Elliot needs a husband in order to join a wagon train west. Desperate, she chooses handsome Clay... Read more

Kurs auf Spaniens Küste

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Leutnant, später Kapitänleutnant Jack Aubrey, Seemann und Offizier, der das Befehlen gewohnt ist und Dr. Stephen Maturin, der schmächtige Zweifler und Kritiker mit sozialem Gewissen, lernen sich auf Menorca kennen. Sie spielen Geige und Cello, was sie verbindet. Es entwickelt sich trotz aller Gegensätzlichkeit Achtung und schließlich... Read more

To Die For

By: Sandra Byrd

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

With this brilliant foray into historical fiction, Christy Award finalist Sandra Byrd delivers a fresh look at Anne Boleyn through the eyes of her lifelong friend Meg Wyatt. As Anne finds favor with Henry VIII, Meg basks in the glow of Anne's glory. But when Anne falls out of favor, the childhood friends are plunged into a maelstrom of slander... Read more

Daring Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, heard the urgency in her voice, as he recalled the passion with which she had told him her reason... Read more

Hero's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Reneé Raudman & Renee Raudman

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?" Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cemetery, the one that had made such a lasting impression on her: "What I gave, I have; what I spent,... Read more

Courageous Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. Years ago another young woman-perhaps her mother- had stood in the same place, a baby in her... Read more

Belonging

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the high desert town of Frenchman’s Bluff, Idaho, Felicia Kristoffersen has set out to create a future for herself that is better than her painful past. Alone in the world with only her faith to sustain her, she must prove herself as this tiny community’s new school teacher. She cannot, must not, fail. But, there are those who never wanted... Read more

The Hawk

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Robert McNab

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LEGEND OF THE HIGHLAND GUARD CONTINUES …Handpicked by Robert the Bruce to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule, the elite warriors of the Highland Guard face their darkest days. When Bruce is forced to flee, his bid for freedom rests on the shoulders of one extraordinary warrior.Erik MacSorley is a brilliant seafarer who... Read more

How to Seduce a Scoundrel

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With this captivatingly witty debut, Vicky Dreiling immediately established herself as an author of note in the world of Regency romance. How to Seduce a Scoundrel introduces readers to Miss Julianne Gatewick, a comely lass who finds herself seduced by a rake's sensual waltz. But when the unapologetic lothario leaves her all aflutter-and moves... Read more

The Traitor's Emblem

By: J.G. Jurado

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan GOmez-Jurado is the award-winning and international best-selling author of The Moses Expedition. Here GOmez-Jurado pens an epic thriller sure to win him an expansive fan base. In 1940, a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways near the Strait of Gibraltar. In return for their safe passage to Portugal, one of the Germans gives the... Read more

A Wedding Wager

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 25 historical romances to her credit, New York Times best-selling author Jane Feather is a revered weaver of passionate tales that resonate with her avid fans. The second in her exhilarating Blackwater Brides trilogy, A Wedding Wager features one Blackwater brother's search for a bride in Georgian England. Read more

The Lantern

By: Deborah Lawrenson

Narrated by: Kristine Ryan & Gerianne Raphael

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the lush countryside of Provence, Deborah Lawrenson’s The Lantern is an atmospheric modern gothic tale of love, suspicion, and murder, in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca. Drawn to a wealthy older man, Eve embarks on a whirlwind romance that soon offers a new life and a new home—Les Genévriers, a charming hamlet amid the... Read more

The Twelfth Enchantment

By: David Liss

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill owner. But just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome... Read more

Becoming Marie Antoinette

By: Juliet Grey

Narrated by: Juliet Grey

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.
 
Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?

Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress... Read more

Ingenue

By: Jillian Larkin

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.
Power . . . love . . . scandal . . . there’s never enough to go around.
 
In the city that never sleeps, Lorraine Dyer is wide awake. Ever since she exposed Clara Knowles for the tramp she was—and lost her closest confidante in the process—Lorraine has spent every second... Read more

Holy Warrior

By: Angus Donald

Narrated by: Graham Padden

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Arrows will fly. Swords will swing. Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same.

1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the cruel Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham,... Read more