Historical Fiction audiobooks

Empire

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 23 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" —USA Today on Roma

Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus... Read more

Clockwork Angel

By: Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. Discover the “compulsively readable” (Booklist) first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series! Clockwork Angel is a Shadowhunters novel.

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her... Read more

An Impartial Witness

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Tending to the soldiers in the trenches of France during the First World War, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford can’t help but notice the photo of a young pilot’s wife every time she tends to him. But then at the railway station, in a mob of troops leaving for the front, Bess glimpses a familiar face—the pilot’s wife? Back in France, Bess sees a... Read more

Lost Empire - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of a dictator who uses false facts about Aztec history to further his claim to power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off... Read more

Rebellious Desire

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome—and most arrogant. And of all London’s ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one—Caroline Richmond.She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his... Read more

Rebellious Desire - Abridged

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome—and most arrogant. And of all London’s ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one—Caroline Richmond.She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his... Read more

A Murderous Procession

By: Ariana Franklin

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Tess Garritsen calls this one “my favorite book of the year!”In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer’s... Read more

All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final... Read more

The Black Prism

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 21 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series.

Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile... Read more

Percival's Planet

By: Michael Byers

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has... Read more

Juliet

By: Anne Fortier

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers.

Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman... Read more

The Sonderberg Case

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.

Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions he’s... Read more

Ride With Me

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ride With Me tells the story of an unusual soldier who has been allowed to drop out of sight. Read more

The Black Rose

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter of Gurnie, bastard son of an English peer, is forced to flee from Oxford for his part in the university riots of 1273. Inspired by Friar Bacon, he determines to travel to China. With his friend Tristam, he fights his way to the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire, and returns famous, to find that he must choose between the first love he... Read more

The Tontine

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 40 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tontine is a form of gambling - part lottery, part insurance. It begins with the Day the Battle of Waterloo was fought and ends at the closing of the 19th Century. Read more

The Silver Chalice

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 23 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ and His disciples drank from at the Last Supper, and plans to sculpt their likenesses upon it. As he seeks out these followers of... Read more

The Hellion and the Highlander

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Marianna Palka

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t help but fall in love with Lynsay Sands!”
—Christina Dodd Once again, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lynsay Sands displays another side of her extraordinary talent with The Hellion and the Highlander, a sensuous and wonderfully witty love story set in the breathtaking countryside of Scotland. The tremendously popular... Read more

Dracula, My Love

By: Syrie James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective—as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth.



Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?



Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to... Read more

The Sword of the Templars

By: Paul Christopher

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After a lifetime on the front lines, Army Ranger John Holliday has resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point. But when his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a mysterious medieval sword—wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. Then someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve the sword, and... Read more

That Perfect Someone - Abridged

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers away on a seductive adventure with the "wickedly witty, lusciously sensual" (Booklist) Malory family when a detested marriage contract turns childhood enemies into passionate lovers.Nine years ago, Richard Allen fled England and his controlling father. Determined to live his own... Read more

Shift

By: Tim Kring & Dale Peck

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A new caliber of thriller set at the collision of ’60s counterculture and the rise
of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic what-if.
 
Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged... Read more

The Devil's Heiress

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo Beverley continues her winning streak with this brilliantly woven tale of romantic intrigue. Returning home from the battle of Waterloo, Major George "Hawk" Hawkinville discovers his father has squandered away the family estate. To keep his home, Hawk decides to marry Clarissa Greystone, a contemptuous gold-digger, who's vast fortune isn't... Read more

When the Lights Go On Again

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Vicky Mills

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The tide is turning, but on the home front, the battle is far from over for the Campions… Autumn 1944, the allies are invading Italy. At home in Britain, along with everyone else, the Campion family are doing their bit – working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight. Lou, separated from her... Read more

Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post

An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

... Read more