Historical Fiction audiobooks

Where Eagles Dare - Abridged

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Alun Armstrong

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy. A special team of... Read more

Beauty of a Lifetime

By: Lian Qing Xi Xue

Narrated by: Yiqiao Wang

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The emperor sought to make his own daughter empress, but this violates the Mandate of Heaven! The empress endured humiliation for eleven years only to be deposed, unthinkable! It's lamentable that countless heroes of the realm were defeated by a frail woman! War is imminent, yet you say I triggered it? How can you be so heartless! The unity and... Read more

Beauty of a Lifetime

By: Lian Qing Xi Xue

Narrated by: Yiqiao Wang

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The emperor sought to make his own daughter empress, but this violates the Mandate of Heaven! The empress endured humiliation for eleven years only to be deposed, unthinkable! It's lamentable that countless heroes of the realm were defeated by a frail woman! War is imminent, yet you say I triggered it? How can you be so heartless! The unity and... Read more

Deception

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Once Olympia Wingfield had been free to devote all her time to her true passion: the study of ancient legends and long-lost treasure. But now, with three hellion nephews to raise, the absentminded beauty has very little time for research. Which makes it seem all the more serendipitous when a handsome stranger strides into Olympia’s library... Read more

A Murder of Crows

By: P. F. Chisholm

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As wild as the American West, P. F. Chisholm's witty historical detections are also elegantly crafted and historically accurate as theyre-imagine the life of a real Elizabethan gunslinger.It's September 1592, and the dark streets of London are full of people up to no good. The redoubtable Sergeant Dodd and that dashing Elizabethan gunslinger Sir... Read more

End of the Beginning

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on... Read more

Captive

By: Heather Graham

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spirited romance, New York Times best-selling author Heather Graham draws on her love for Florida and its rich history. This lusty tale of intrigue and passion, set in the tumultuous years of the Indian Wars, shimmers with the colorful energy of Florida's vibrant landscapes. Teela Warren is a southern beauty, raised in the gentility of a... Read more

Three Day Road

By: Joseph Boyden

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister & Robert Ramirez

Length: 15 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Joseph Boyden makes his debut as a novelist with this Today Book Club pick set during World War I. Moving and tragic, Three Day Road is a profound work that exposes the lasting traumas of war.Cree Indians Xavier Bird and Elijah Whiskeyjack are lifelong best friends from the wilderness of Hudson Bay. Together, they enlist in the Canadian... Read more

The Confession of Katherine Howard

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE. ‘England: firelight and fireblush; wine-dark, winking gemstones and a frost of pearls. Wool as soft as silk, in leaf-green and moss; satins glossy like a midsummer night or opalescent like winter sunrise…Little did we know it but that night we were already ghosts... Read more

Days of Grace

By: Catherine Hall

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter, Grace, are like no one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and... Read more

The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale. It also marks the transformation of British writer W. Somerset Maugham from celebrated playwright to accomplished novelist.



In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a... Read more

Dragon House

By: John Shors

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed novelist John Shors' travels in Asia add texture to this affecting tale of two Americans in Vietnam. A tale of sacrifice, rebirth, and above all inspiration, Dragon House connects with readers on the most human of all levels. When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter... Read more

Supreme Justice

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A master of plot and pacing—and one of those rare authors who can create a genuinely surprising ending.” — Lisa Scottoline  “It takes a really crafty storyteller to put people on the edge of their seats and keep them there. Phillip Margolin does just that.” — Chicago Tribune The crew from the New York Times bestseller Executive Privilege is... Read more

The Creation of Eve

By: Lynn Cullen

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed historical novelist Lynn Cullen comes a lush and compelling tale of intrigue and longing, set in the 16th-century Spanish court. After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenage... Read more

My Name Is Mary Sutter

By: Robin Oliveira

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning historical novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrongmidwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becominga surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against womenin medicine—and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tendthe legions of Civil War wounded.... Read more

To Desire a Devil

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is more intoxicating or dangerous than surrendering to a devil.Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: no real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle's home. Suddenly, that very man, thought to be murdered years ago, is here in the flesh,... Read more

The Day of the Scorpion

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in The Raj Quartet: the arrest by British police of Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quit India movement, signifies a further deterioration in Anglo-India relations. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the immediate social and political realities are both... Read more

The Towers of Silence

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume follows the fates of the Laytons and a retired missionary teacher, all of whom can foresee the end of the Raj--and both welcome and lament its passing. Read more

Staying On

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj... Read more

The Jewel in the Crown

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape. Read more

The Ark

By: Boyd Morrison

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In nationally bestselling author Boyd Morrison’s debut, the unraveling of one of the greatest archeological mysteries from the bible—Noah’s Ark—could threaten civilization itself in this blockbuster hailed by James Rollins as “a stunning thriller.”

When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who... Read more

A Division of the Spoils

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 28 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. Read more

Only a Duke Will Do

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the School for Heiressess series, by New York Times bestselling historical romance author Sabrina Jeffries, is a delightfully sexy regency-era romance. Lady Venetia Campbell's visit to her childhood home in Scotland takes a dramatic turn when she's kidnapped at pistol point by her father's sworn enemy. Sir Lachlan Ross is... Read more

Gettysburg

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate moral was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Union army was in retreat. In less than a year, the Federals had been pushed back from the outskirts of Richmond and, now, virtually out of Virginia.Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in... Read more