Historical Fiction audiobooks

Jamrach's Menagerie

By: Carol Birch

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident... Read more

West of Rehoboth

By: Alexs Pate

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and Essence best-selling author Alexs D. Pate is also a professor of African American studies at the University of Minnesota. Set in the turbulent 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the story of 12-year-old Edward Massey's summertime coming of age in the resort town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Edward and his family have escaped the heat... Read more

Escape Artist

By: Ed Ifkovic

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1904, the future bestselling writer Edna Ferber, then a nineteen-year-old fledgling reporter in Wisconsin, teams up with famed escape artist Harry Houdini to solve the baffling murder of a girl who has mysteriously disappeared from a locked room at the local high school.Edna Ferber is a reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Crescent, an... Read more

The Rock Hole

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a whole other country out there.In 1964, when Ned Parker, farmer and part-time constable, is summoned to a cornfield one hot morning to examine the remains of a tortured bird dog, he discovers that there is a dark presence in their quiet community of Center Springs, Texas. Ned is usually confident handling moonshiners, drunks, and instances... Read more

In His Arms

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Inga,I’m thinking it is not good for my baby and me to stay much longer in Whistle Creek, Idaho. The sheriff is showing altogether too much interest. I suppose I should feel flattered, for Carson Barclay is not only strikingly handsome, but a man of character and faith who has shown Keary and me considerable kindness. But I’m afraid his... Read more

Nowhere Near Respectable

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Mary Jo Putney has claimed two RITAs, two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards and four Golden Leaf Awards. Her mastery of the historical romance is evident in every word of Nowhere Near Respectable. Damian Mackenzie is an incorrigible gambler just honorable enough to save Lady Kiri Lawford from dangerous... Read more

Hannibal: Enemy of Rome

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 19 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage, their only serious rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge. Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus,... Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 31 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothea Brooke is a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life. Enamored of a man whom she believes is setting this example, she unwittingly traps herself into a loveless marriage.Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a visionary young doctor from the city, whose passionate ambition to spread the new science... Read more

Perfect Shadow

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. 

Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the... Read more

Centuries of June

By: Keith Donohue

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as... Read more

Just Like Heaven

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn transports her readers to historical romance heaven! Quinn’s Just Like Heaven is the dazzling first installment of a delightful quartet of Regency Era-set tales featuring the romantic exploits of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians—in this case, a... Read more

Dreams of Joy

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and... Read more

The Mermaid Garden

By: Santa Montefiore

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the magnificent Tuscan villa just outside her small village. She likes to spy into the gardens and imagine that one day she'll live there. When Dante, the son of the villa's powerful owner, invites her inside and shows her the enchanting Mermaid Garden, she knows that her destiny is there, with Dante. But... Read more

Stonehenge

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that created the mysterious Stonehenge.

One summer’s day, a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn.

The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each perceive the great gift in a different way.

The eldest,... Read more

The Accidental Countess

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Rebecca De Leeuw

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

RITA Award Finalist Michelle Willingham pens gripping romances that fans just can't put down. The Accidental Countess whisks listeners away to 19th-century England for a tale of passion and intrigue. Stephen Chesterfield, the Earl of Whitmore, cannot recall the past three months of his life-much less that he has a wife. And Emily Chesterfield... Read more

Ironfire

By: David Ball

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 31 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author David Ball has won widespread critical and popular acclaim for his sweeping novels, including Empires of Sand. With Ironfire Ball delivers a stirring historical epic of the Crusades. In the 16th century, only the Knights of Malta stand against the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent and his 40,000 brutal warriors.... Read more

Children and Fire

By: Ursula Hegi

Narrated by: Ursula Hegi

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by book groups.

Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi's Children and Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever transform the... Read more

Shadow Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For Rod it was a moment out of a thousand dreams. Yet the reality was more than he could have imagined. "Blythe!" He said her name and in his voice was all the hope he'd thought was lost. The woman he saw was even lovelier than the girl he remembered. She was still as beautiful -- tall, slender, the glorious auburn hair, the soft, vulnerable... Read more

Destiny's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Even while Randall was speaking, it was Pietro I saw, the tenderness in his dark eyes looking at me, the caress in his soft voice. In Randall's voice there was not a shred of emotion; nor was there any in his expression. How should I respond? What should I say? I knew this was the hardest decision I would ever have to make. Either choice would... Read more

Gallant Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Blythe gazed into his eyes. It seemed as if she were looking into his very soul. Could she read genuine repentance there . . . or just regret that he had brought shame to himself, disgraced his family? Suddenly, she knew. This was the real Malcolm -- before the War, before Rose died, before his life became a wasteland. She saw the Malcolm who... Read more

Folly's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away," Lucie hissed through the keyhole on the locked bedroom door. "Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what you've done!" "I haven't done anything! It's not my fault if those two hotheads decide to fight... Read more

Sons of Texas - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild... Read more

Sharpe’s Company

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age of heroes and death before dishonor, one man stands above the rest.It is January 1812. Captain Richard Sharpe has one mission: to thwart Napoleon’s dreams of an empire. To accomplish that goal, Sharpe and the fighting men of the Light Company must seize the fortress of Badajoz, which looms on the border of Portugal and Spain. To lead... Read more

Parnassus on Wheels

By: Christopher Morley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Roger Mifflin is part pixie, part sage, part noble savage, and all God’s creature. With his traveling book wagon named Parnassus, he moves through the New England countryside of 1915 on an itinerant mission of enlightenment.Mifflin’s delight in books and authors is infectious—with his singular philosophy and bright eyes, he comes to represent... Read more