Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Return

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Putting them to use, he... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Since Doyle created the immortal Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, no other mystery writer has come close to eclipsing him as the standard bearer in crime fiction. A brilliant London-based “consulting detective,” Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive... Read more

Dressed for Death

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call... Read more

Scandal

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitive, intelligent, and high-minded, her noble pen pal seems to embody everything Emily has ever dreamed of in a man.... Read more

Etta

By: Gerald Kolpan

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Philadelphia debutante Lorinda Jameson’s bankrupt father commits suicide, the infamous Black Hand mafia is dispatched to collect his debts—or her head. The young orphan rechristens herself “Etta Place” and goes west to earn her keep as a waitress in a remote railroad outpost. But fate and murder soon intervene, and Etta joins forces with... Read more

The Sky Took Him

By: Donis Casey

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a sad duty that brings Alafair Tucker and her two daughters to Enid, Oklahoma, in the fall of 1915. Her sister Ruth Anne’s husband, Lester, is not long for this world, and the family is gathering to send him to his reward. But her niece’s irresponsible husband, Kenneth, has disappeared at a most inconvenient time. When it comes to light... Read more

The Twentieth Wife

By: Indu Sundaresan

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India’s most controversial empresses, a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles and whose love shaped the course of the Mughal Empire.Skillfully blending the textures of historical reality with the rich... Read more

The Splendor of Silence

By: Indu Sundaresan

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author Indu Sundaresan comes a heartrending tale of tragic love and clashing cultures in World War II India.In 1942, Sam Hawthorne, a young US Army captain, arrives in a tiny princely state in western India. He carries combat wounds and several secrets, one of which is the real reason behind his visit: to find... Read more

The Sharing Knife, Vol. 4: Horizon

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets—and themselves—from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farm girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to... Read more

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.

Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls... Read more

Child of Storm, with eBook

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love, Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm," seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage.



Fortunately, Quatermain sees through her witchcraft. The Zulu king declares... Read more

Beau Geste, with eBook

By: Percival Wren

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A column of French Legionnaires finds one of their fortresses manned by dead men. It looks like the sergeant was killed by one of his own troops. Who could have done it?



A flashback then unravels the mystery of the three English Geste brothers. The brothers, orphaned early in life, are raised by an aunt. Their raucous youths are filled with the... Read more

The Devil's Queen

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful family, and one day came to rule France?

In her latest historical fiction bestseller, Jeanne Kalogridis tells the... Read more

The Devil's Queen - Abridged

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence's most powerful family, and one day came to rule France?

In her latest historical fiction bestseller, Jeanne Kalogridis tells the... Read more

Eric Brighteyes, with eBook

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of betrayal, blood-gorged blades, and the pursuit of heart's desire, Eric Brighteyes follows the adventures of a young man raised on Coldback farm—a lonely place to be found where the Westman Isles rise from the sea.

Plagued by misfortune, the golden-haired youth finds himself outlawed and exiled—even as he wins Whitefire, the... Read more

Michael Strogoff, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian... Read more

A Pale Horse

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the devil. Instead, they stumble over the devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered... Read more

The Ginseng Hunter

By: Jeff Talarigo

Narrated by: Jaeson Ma

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter, who lives alone in the valley, spending his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is little aware of the world... Read more

Sacred Hearts

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the... Read more

The Mistress

By: Philippe Tapon

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

She is called Simone. She is the illicit lover of Dr. Emile Bastien, who practices medicine on the rue de Maubeuge, treating Parisians and Germans alike. However, Simone is more than his mistress—she is the guardian of all of his most dangerous family secrets. Still, there is one secret the mistress has not been let in on: an ingenious scheme... Read more

The Believer

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Will a forbidden love destroy all they know?  Elizabeth Duncan has nowhere to turn. In charge of her younger brother and sister after their parents die, her options are limited: she can give in to the unwanted advances of an odious landowner—or she can flee. When Elizabeth hears that the Shaker community in the next county takes in orphans, she... Read more

Louise de La Vallière

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Vallière, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with The Vicomte de Bragelonne and will end with The Man in the Iron Mask. Filled with... Read more

Dawn On A Distant Shore

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have settled into their life together at the edge of the New York wilderness in the winter of 1794. Soon word reaches them that Nathaniel's father has been arrested by crown officials in British Canada. Nathaniel sets out, determined to see his father freed. Instead, Nathaniel is imprisoned and finds himself in... Read more

Into the Wilderness

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 30 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving a vibrant tapestry of fact and fiction, Into the Wilderness sweeps us into another time and place . . . and into the heart of a forbidden, incandescent affair between a spinster Englishwoman and an American frontiersman. Here is an epic of romance and history that will captivate readers from the very first page.

When Elizabeth Middleton,... Read more