Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shades of Milk and Honey

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fantasy novel you've always wished Jane Austen had written

Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we could expect from Jane Austen if she had been a fantasy writer:Pride and Prejudice meets Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It is an intimate portrait of a woman, Jane, and her quest for love in a world where the manipulation of glamour is... Read more

The Scorpion’s Bite

By: Aileen G. Baron

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1943 and the world is at war. Archaeologist Lily Sampson has been sent by the OSS to survey Trans-Jordan, along with Gideon Weil, the famous director of the American School of Archeology in Jerusalem. In the beautiful, silent, Trans-Jordanian desert, they become stranded in the Wadi Rum and their Bedouin guide is murdered. When Gideon is... Read more

The Red Queen

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.

Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her... Read more

Black Mamba Boy

By: Nadifa Mohamed

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings to search for his missing... Read more

The Red Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.

Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her... Read more

Scarlet Nights - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Rick Holmes

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if you learned that your fiancé was not who he claimed to be?

Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the... Read more

Provocative in Pearls

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 10 hours

Read by Polly Lee

New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter continues her delicious new quartet of regency romances with this novel about the passion that ignites when fate brings two unlikely souls together. Read more

Ravishing in Red

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 10 hours

Read by Polly Lee

From acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter comes this dazzling new tale of erotic passion, the first in a delicious quartet of Regency romance... Read more

Desire

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon her father's death, beautiful, headstrong Lady Clare knew that she must wed, for the protection of the Isle of Desire now fell to her. Yet when her guardian's choice of prospective husband rode through her castle gates, she felt utterly betrayed. All sinewy muscle and savage steel, Sir Gareth of Wyckmere was not the poet she'd requested but... Read more

The Viognier Vendetta

By: Ellen Crosby

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lucie Montgomery visits Washington, DC, she doesn't expect that her reunion with old friend Rebecca Natale is a setup. But Rebecca disappears into thin air after running an errand for her boss, billionaire philanthropist and investment guru Sir Thomas Asher. Also missing: an antique silver wine cooler looted by British soldiers before they... Read more

Wicked Intentions

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author who Lisa Kleypas hails as "too good to be true" comes the first book in her beloved Maiden Lane series.

A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . .

Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed... Read more

The Two Mrs Abbotts

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross, but is happily surprised when she turns out to be an old friend from her previous life as Miss Buncle, infamous writer. Of course, she's now far too busy with her children to write, not to mention helping out in the lives of the villagers. And with a possible spy in... Read more

Stay a Little Longer

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For Rachel Watkins, the armistice has brought anything but peace. She struggles to run her family’s Minnesota boardinghouse, keep her grief-shattered family together, and fend off the man who is using any means necessary to take her property. But now a shell-shocked stranger takes refuge with the Watkins family as he tries to heal and salvage... Read more

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From C. W. Gortner, acclaimed author of The Last Queen, comes an ambitious and gripping new novel about the dramatic, tragic, and misunderstood life of one of history’s most powerful and influential women: Catherine de Medici.To some, she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others, she was the passionate... Read more

Honor's Splendour - Abridged

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the feuding English court, gentle Lady Madelyne suffered the cruel whims of her ruthless brother, Baron Louddon. Then, in vengeance for a bitter crime, Baron Duncan of Wexton — the Wolf — unleashed his warriors against Louddon's domain. Exquisite Madelyne was the prize he captured...but when he gazed upon the proud beauty, he pledged to... Read more

Dark Power Collection

By: Bill Myers

Narrated by: Bill Myers

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world—a world fraught... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime—to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?

So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological... Read more

People of the Longhouse

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a time of violent upheaval, young Odion and his little sister, Tutelo, live in fear that one day Yellowtail Village will be attacked. When that day comes, and Odion and Tutelo are marched away as slaves, Odion's only hope is that his parents are coming to rescue them.



They are. But War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda think they are... Read more

The Scarlet Contessa

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased.

Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in reading the "triumph... Read more

Let the Dead Lie

By: Malla Nunn

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to her much-acclaimed debut, A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn's Let the Dead Lie takes listeners back to 1953 South Africa. When Cooper discovers the body of a young child on the Durban docks, he resists the urge to figure out what happened and leaves it for the local police. But after he is accused of the crime, he has 48... Read more

The Doctor and the Diva

By: Adrienne McDonnell

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking novel of romantic obsession, longing and one woman's choice between motherhood and her operatic callingIt is 1903. Dr. Ravell is a young Harvard-educated obstetrician with a growing reputation for helping couples conceive. He has treated women from all walks of Boston society, but when Ravell meets Erika-an opera singer whose... Read more

Tokyo Year Zero

By: David Peace

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 15th, 1946, the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender, the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Z┼ìj┼ìji Temple in central Tokyo. They have been raped and strangled—and they are only the first. More will be found killed in the same way—and, it will become clear, by the same hand.Narrated by the... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey’s best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it.In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious... Read more

Excavation

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“A real page-turner….Rollins keeps the story in overdrive, with plenty of twists and turns before the final shocker.”
—Douglas Preston, co-author of The Monster of Florence  A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling... Read more