Historical Fiction audiobooks

Unafraid

By: Jeff Golden

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Two dates burn fiercely in the memory of millions of Americans: November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001. These two tragedies bracket Unafraid, a story grounded in a simple question: What if the fatal bullet fired on that sunny Dallas afternoon had veered three inches off target? Unafraid lays out a compelling answer, rich with the public... Read more

Hunted Down

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Hunted Down is a detective story by Charles Dickens. The astute Sampson suspects that a certain Mr. Julius Slinkton who turns up in his office one morning is not all that he seems. As Slinkton crops up more and more frequently in Sampson's life, he realises that a monstrous crime is about to be committed. But a counter plot is hatched and the... Read more

The Hangman's Daughter

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of... Read more

The Wild Rose

By: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 24 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. Into this volatile time,... Read more

The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses

By: Sharon Ewell Foster

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand,... Read more

Katherine's Marriage

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Wentworth has married her hero, Alec Macfarlane. On their honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands, she can scarcely believe that the four previous lonely years can have been replaced by so much joy. But her unclouded happiness does not last long. The return to Edinburgh brings her into conflict with her old school friend, Alec's sister... Read more

Sarum

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 45 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd weaves a compelling saga of five English families whose fates become intertwined over the course of centuries. While each family has its own distinct characteristics, the successive generations reflect the changing character of Britain. We become drawn not only into the fortunes of the individual family members, but... Read more

Where Shadows Dance

By: C.S. Harris

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing upon her background in ancient history and her experiences on archaeological digs, author C.S. Harris crafts authentic, compelling novels that appear regularly on best-seller lists and have won numerous awards. In 1812, surgeon Paul Gibson discovers a stiletto wound in the base of a corpse's skull and immediately contacts Sebastian St.... Read more

Gun Country

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton has more than 1.5 million copies of his books in print and has been likened to authors such as John Steinbeck and Mark Twain. Still disoriented from a recent gunshot wound, Fast Larry Shaw happens across the Dexter Lowe Boys on their way to steal some weapons. Knowing he can't take these guys on alone... Read more

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration—and whose... Read more

Next to Love

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.
 
Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose... Read more

Daughter of Providence

By: Julie Drew

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer, 1934: Anne Dodge was raised by her old-money, New England Protestant father in the small coastal town of Warwick, Rhode Island. She has always been told that her Portuguese mother abandoned them when Anne was a small child, and died without ever contacting them again. After her mother's death, Anne learns that she has a half-sister,... Read more

Though The Heavens May Fall

By: E. V. Thompson

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1856. When three men are murdered in Cornwall, Amos Hawke, a Cornish detective working from London's Scotland Yard, is sent to investigate. He finds lodgings with one of the murdered men's wives - and her daughter, Talwyn. But while Amos's relationship with Talwyn gets off to a bad start, she is to prove crucial in helping him bring her... Read more

The Warsaw Anagrams

By: Richard Zimler

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Evil will flourish even when good men fight it.In this gripping and deeply moving mystery thriller set in the Warsaw ghetto of 1941, an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben—can see him and hear him. Heniek... Read more

The Vagrant King

By: E. V. Thompson

Narrated by: Glen McCready

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle's loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded - his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future Charles II. And when Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most tumultuous period ever - the war between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians and the dawning of an entirely new era . . .

Ralf's duties oblige... Read more

Cat's Eye

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid... Read more

Reilly's Luck

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the glittering cities of Belle Époque... Read more

How the West Was Won

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited... Read more

Conquistadora

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican.

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with... Read more

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

By: Jenny Wingfield

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as... Read more

Poison

By: Kathryn Harrison

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this richly textured historical novel, best-selling author Kathryn Harrison spins a mesmerizing tale of forbidden passion and terrifying superstition in 17th-century Spain. As the Spanish Inquisition conducts its ruthless reign of terror, the lives of two women-one, the free spirited daughter of a poor silk farmer; the other, the French... Read more

The End of Everything

By: Megan Abbott

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom—presumably—there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for... Read more

Suspicious Minds

By: Mary Larkin

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

To her neighbours in Belfast, Maura Brady looks like she has it all - an attractive husband, a comfortable home and a gorgeous little boy, Danny. But behind closed doors, things are far from idyllic. Maura has long harboured doubts that her husband Adam only married her because he was quickly trying to mend a broken heart. Years ago, Adam's... Read more

Shameless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A long string of tragic loves haunts Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan. Cool and cynical, he's weary of life's fickle games and wants a prim and proper wife he can ignore while indulging his sensual appetites.



Lady Melisande Carstairs is nothing less than a tornado storming into Benedick's measured life. Possessed of boundless energy and... Read more