Historical Fiction audiobooks

Fall of Giants

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 30 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. 

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new... Read more

Sinful in Satin

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Celia's quiet life ends when her mother, a famed London courtesan, dies, leaving her a small house in town-and a darkly handsome, reputedly dangerous tenant. Read more

Fall of Giants - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. 

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new... Read more

Ein Sommer, der bleibt

By: Peter Kurzeck & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Peter Kurzeck

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ausgezeichnet als "Hörbuch des Jahres 2008" Hören und Sprechen nicht als Derivat des Geschriebenen zu begreifen, sondern ihm als eigenständiger Form Gehör zu verschaffen - das war von Anfang an das besondere Anliegen von supposé. Mit "Ein Sommer, der bleibt" gehen wir auf diesem Weg einen bedeutenden Schritt weiter: In langen... Read more

The Glass Room

By: Simon Mawer

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Simon Mawer's The Glass Room brilliantly evokes six decades of Eastern European history, beginning in 1930s Czechoslovakia. Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of... Read more

Naomi and Her Daughters

By: Walter Wangerin Jr.

Narrated by: Walter C. Kaiser Jr. & Walter Wangerin Jr.

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From master storyteller Walter Wangerin, Jr. comes this familiar biblical saga told in a fresh, transfixing way. You’ll feel you’ve never heard it before! Melding historical accuracy with imaginative detail, Wangerin uses the biblical books of Judges and Ruth to explore themes of love, faith, grief and community set against a backdrop of war and... Read more

A Hellion in Her Bed

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A gentleman gambler wagers his luck and his heart in the second of the Hellions of Halstead Hall series from the New York Times bestselling "grand mistress of storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) and author of the Duke Dynasty books.Mired in scandal after his parents' mysterious deaths, the notorious Lord Jarret Sharpe agrees to run the family... Read more

La Libellula

By: Bert D'Arragon

Narrated by: Marco Scala

Length: 20 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Un romanzo storico che non sembra parlare di storia, ma di persone: la vita di due ragazzi che nel 1924, ancora adolescenti, scoprono l'amore e lasciano il piccolo borghetto toscano in cui sono cresciuti. La fuga attraverso l'Italia fascista che si intrec Read more

To Taste Temptation

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Even the most refined lady craves an untamed man to release her passion.Britain's high society—le bon ton—loves nothing more than a good scandal, and they're giddy with the appearance of wealthy Samuel Hartley. Not only is he self-made, American, and in the habit of wearing moccasins, but he is also notorious for fleeing a battle in which... Read more

The Bells

By: Richard Harvell

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Dazzling, enchanting, and epic, The Bells is the confession of a thief, kidnapper, and unlikely lover—a boy with the voice of an angel whose exquisite sense of hearing becomes both his life's tragic curse and its greatest blessing.Moses Froben was born in a belfry high in the Swiss Alps, the bastard son of a deaf-mute woman, banished to the... Read more

The Things a Brother Knows

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a young marine’s return from war in the Middle East and the psychological effects it has on his family.

Finally, Levi Katznelson’s older brother, Boaz, has returned. Boaz was a high school star who had it all and gave it up to serve in a war Levi can’t understand. Things have been on hold since Boaz left. With the help of his two... Read more

O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to... Read more

Tongues of Serpents

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more than just perennial bestsellers—they are a worldwide phenomenon. Now, in Tongues of Serpents, Naomi Novik is... Read more

A Rogue of My Own - Abridged

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

How does an innocent lady find herself forced to wed a royal spy who seduced her—by mistake? For Lady Rebecca Marshall, a whirlwind of passion and excitement begins when, to her mother’s great delight, she becomes a maid of honor at the court of Queen Victoria. Rebecca’s mother sees this appointment as a golden opportunity for Rebecca to make a... Read more

Die silberne Burg (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hätte der Medicus eine Frau sein dürfen? Sie ist Ärztin, sie ist Jüdin, und sie ist auf der Flucht vor ihrem brutalen Ehemann: Sara hat viele Geheimnisse, die sie vor den Gauklern verbirgt, mit denen sie 1415 den Rhein entlang zieht. Auch der junge Ritter Ezzo schweigt über den Auftrag der ungarischen Königin, der ihn zu den Gauklern geführt... Read more

A Blessing on the Moon

By: Joseph Skibell

Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi,... Read more

Another Chance to Dream

By: Lynn Kurland

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lynn Kurland, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nine Kingdom series.

With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave. But he would always have her heart. The two are kindred souls...Rhys, a knight with far too many notions of chivalry for his own good. And Gwen, a lover of minstral tales, waiting... Read more

A Vintage Affair

By: Isabel Wolff

Narrated by: Violet Mathieson

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.
 
In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.
 
Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in... Read more

Lady in Waiting

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar & Donna Rawlins

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is a choice you make every day.

Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay never expected to watch her husband, Brad, pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him, or the course of events that follow Brad’s departure.

Jane finds an old ring... Read more

Ravished by a Highlander

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Forbidden love, undeniable desire…Davina Montgomery is no ordinary English lady. For her own protection, she’s been locked away from society, her true identity the Crown’s most closely guarded secret. Until a shocking betrayal—and a bold rescue—land her in the arms of a fierce Highlander, a powerful warrior whose searing gaze and tantalizing... Read more

Russian Winter

By: Daphne Kalotay

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“A soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern-day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving, and unexpected.” —Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club In Russian Winter, a famed ballerina’s jewelry auction in Boston... Read more

Immanuel's Veins

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Chris Andrews

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover. With a kiss, evil... Read more

Pirates of the Levant

By: Arturo Perez-Reverte

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote—and wretched—outposts of the empire: Morocco, Algeria, and finally to Malta for a stunning and bloody battle on the high seas that will... Read more

Emily Hudson

By: Melissa Jones

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson—an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever—finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete... Read more