Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Courtship

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned.Lanie’s strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousands who can prove their father’s innocence. Nothing Lanie says can deter Maeva from her mission.Even... Read more

The Endless Forest

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 22 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With a master storyteller’s skill and a historian’s precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers and critics alike with her bestselling novels of the nineteenth-century New York frontier. Now she brings us The Endless Forest, set in the remote village of Paradise, where the Bonner family that readers first met in Into the Wilderness make their... Read more

The Swan Thieves

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: John Lee, Treat Williams, Sarah Zimmerman, Anne...

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a... Read more

Alice I Have Been

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.


But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does... Read more

A Brief History of Montmaray

By: Michelle Cooper

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”

Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is... Read more

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The heroines of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series have engaged in espionage all over nineteenth-century Europe. In the sixth stand-alone volume, our fair English heroine travels to India, where she finds freedom—and risk—more exciting than she ever imagined.

Everyone warned Miss Penelope Deveraux that her unruly behavior would... Read more

Captain of Rome

By: John Stack

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is a young upstart whose position has been purchased rather than earned. Bound to... Read more

Mr. American

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth. Read more

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically... Read more

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel... well, American history might have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and Flash Harry himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only...... Read more

Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

 A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. 

On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift:... Read more

Unfinished Desires

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.

It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.... Read more

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 25 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success... Read more

Celia's House

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In name and by birth, Celia was a Dunne. She had inherited the beautiful old family home by the Rydd Water – but was she bound to live her life by the principles of her predecessors? Was there some hidden restraint that compelled her to heed the past? Celia's house is a moving and poignant story of the struggle between old and young: the older... Read more

The Red Door

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lancashire, England: June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even... Read more

Showdown at Hole-In-the -Wall

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the publication of his first novel in 1994, Ralph Cotton has impressed readers and critics alike with gritty tales of the Old West. Some time ago, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack caught a bullet in the back. After a winter spent healing, he's now traveling to meet Memphis Beck, leader of the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall gang and the man who saved... Read more

Altar of Eden

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Paula Christensen

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Every James Rollins delivers mach-speed mayhem, throat-clutching suspense, high-style adventure, and a terrific story told terrifically.”
—Steve Berry, author of The Romanov Prophecy

The thriller king praised for his “edge-of-your-seat excitement” (San Francisco Chronicle), James Rollins storms the New York Times bestseller list with every novel... Read more

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Tom is a high-minded, devoutly Christian black slave to a kind family, the Shelbys. Beset by financial difficulties, the Shelbys sell Tom to a slave trader. Young George Shelby promises to someday redeem him. The story relates Uncle Tom’s trials, suffering, and religious fortitude.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its... Read more

Days of Gold - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summerhouse brings her signature “marvelously compelling” (Houston Chronicle) prose to the second historical romance in the charming Edilean series.

Angus McTern is respected by the men of his clan and adored by the women. He takes his duties as laird seriously and has everything he wants in life—until... Read more

The Prize

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In the resplendence of William the Conqueror's London court, the lovely Saxon captive, Nicholaa was forced to choose a husband from the assembled Norman nobles. She chose Royce, a baron warrior whose fierce demeanor could not conceal his chivalrous and tender heart. Resourceful, rebellious and utterly naive, Nicholaa vowed to bend Royce to her... Read more

The Goodbye Season

By: Marian Hale

Narrated by: Georgette Perna

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mercy Kaplan doesn’t want to be like her mother, saddled with crying kids and failing crops for the rest of her life. Mercy longs to be on her own—until her wish comes true in the worst possible way. It is 1918 and a deadly flu epidemic ravages the country, leaving her utterly alone and penniless.

Mercy soon finds a job with Mrs. Wilder. But... Read more

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon

By: Diana L. Paxson

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Epic in its sweep and peopled by the remarkable women who have always inhabited Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon expands the legendary saga that has enchanted millions of readers over the years and is sure to please Bradley's loyal readership and anyone who loves wonderfully told stories of history, myth, and fantasy.

A boy... Read more

An Excellent Mystery

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Two monks seeking refuge bring with them a troubling mystery that will test Brother Cadfael’s beliefsIn the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war—and a mystery.The strangers tell how the strife between the... Read more

The Leper of Saint Giles

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearing December-May marriage between a wealthy merchant and a resigned bride has one of the lepers at Saint Giles nursing bitter plans for revenge. Read more