Historical Fiction audiobooks

Jane Slayre

By: Charlotte Brontë & Sherri Browning Erwin

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Brontë’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.Raised by vampyre relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyle’s effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live.... Read more

Elegy for April

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor

April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one... Read more

The Hand That First Held Mine

By: Maggie O’Farrell & Alexis Soto Ramírez

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents’ genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art and artists, to live fully,... Read more

Tamed by a Highlander

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mairi MacGregor hoped to never again lay eyes on Connor Grant. She was ten and one when he promised her he would one day build them a home in her beloved Highlands, spending their lives together. But she was ten and seven and foolishly weeping when he rode out of the Highlands to join the English Royal Army. She wouldn’t be so foolish as to... Read more

Dangerous

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well the risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was why she found herself ushered into Sebastian's forbidding presence at... Read more

A River in the Sky

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Between Amelia Peabody and Indiana Jones, it’s Amelia—in wit and daring—by a landslide.”
—New York Times Book ReviewIntrepid archaeologist and superior sleuth Amelia Peabody returns in A River in the Sky. In this breathtaking new adventure, New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters transports the indomitable Amelia and her family,... Read more

Claude & Camille

By: Stephanie Cowell

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his... Read more

City of Dragons

By: Kelli Stanley

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a thirty-three-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The... Read more

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

By: Kelly O'Connor McNees

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of Loving Frank and March comes a novel for anyone who loves Little Women.

Millions of readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could Louisa May Alcott-who never had a romance-write so convincingly of love and heart-break without experiencing it herself?

Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O'Connor... Read more

Eight for Eternity

By: Mary Reed & Eric Mayer

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 532, mobs rule Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a murderous backdrop lit by raging fires, John, chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those seeking to use the Nika Riots to dethrone the emperor.Porphyrius, the most famous charioteer of his time, may know more than he tells about the mysterious disappearance... Read more

The Ragtime Fool

By: Larry Karp

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1951 in Sedalia, Missouri, and ragtime is making a comeback. When Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, learns of a journal kept by Scott Joplin, he hopes he can use it to convince Sedalia’s movers and shakers to set up a ragtime museum. But plenty of other people also want that journal, including a historian who wants to publish it, an old... Read more

31 Bond Street

By: Ellen Horan

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The skill with which Ellen Horan has braided true crime with thoughtful novelizing is pure pleasure.… Caleb Carr meets Scott Turow. What could possibly be better?”
— Beverly Swerling, author of City of God “An impressive blend of imagination and history as it vividly brings to life one of New York’s City’s most notorious crimes. Ellen Horan has... Read more

The Barbary Pirates

By: William Dietrich

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the assured hand of a master novelist firing on all cylinders. Ethan Gage is a wiry, battle-scarred hero, with great decency, who rings absolutely true.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key “William Dietrich...should be... Read more

Whiter Than Snow

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes a powerful novel about the intersection of redemption, forgiveness, and love....On a spring afternoon in 1920, Swandyke-a small town near Colorado's Tenmile Range-is changed forever. Just moments after four o'clock, a large split of snow separates from Jubilee Mountain high... Read more

Wench

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World as it... Read more

The Crimson Rooms

By: Katharine McMahon

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore, when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears claiming to have mothered... Read more

Matterhorn

By: Karl Marlantes

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 21 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible publishing story—written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times bestseller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next, and a USA Today bestseller—Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war" (New York Times Book Review).Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of... Read more

Tapestry

By: Belva Plain

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The story revolves around wealthy Paul Werner and interweaves with a myriad of other characters as he quests for ultimate happiness and contentment. Belva Plain pulls together the many life-threads entwined with Paul Werner's to form a magnificent tapestry for listening enjoyment. Belva Plain's warmth and sensitivity to her characters is... Read more

Here Burns My Candle

By: Liz Curtis Higgs

Narrated by: Liz Curtis Higgs

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother who cannot face her future.
A daughter who cannot escape her past.
 
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her.

Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the... Read more

An Absence So Great

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart’s emptiness?
 
While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as “water under the bridge,” she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate... Read more

Never Seduce a Scoundrel

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries's enticing new series introduces the spirited graduates of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies—unconventional heiresses who are more than matches for society's most irresistible rogues...."Be careful, Amelia—you know how reckless you can be!"— Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistressLady Amelia Plume has many... Read more

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

By: Alan Bradley

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two... Read more

The Forty Rules of Love

By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message... Read more

The Bridegroom

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Linda Lael Miller whisks listeners away to 1910 Arizona for the fifth romance in her Stone Creek series. Determined to honor an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have... Read more