Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven ladies and three gentlemen escape the dying, corrupt city of Florence to pass ten days in the hills of Fiesole telling each other stories. Reveling in their enchanted dreamworld of beauty and luxury, they take turns playing king or queen for the day, with the designated ruler naming the stipulations... Read more

Schachnovelle (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Christoph Maria Herbst

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Auf einem Passagierdampfer, der von New York nach Buenos Aires unterwegs ist, fordert ein Millionär gegen Honorar den mit einer Art mechanischer Präzision spielenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic zu einer Partie heraus. Der mitreisende Dr. B., ein österreichischer Emigrant, greift beratend ein und erreicht so ein Remis für den... Read more

The Kindly Ones

By: Jonathan Littell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 39 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — TimeA literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and... Read more

The King's Grace

By: Anne Easter Smith

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 24 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

All that history knows of Grace Plantagenet is that she was an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of two attendants aboard the funeral barge of his widowed queen. Thus, she was half sister of the famous young princes, who–when this story begins in 1485–had been housed in the Tower by their uncle, Richard III, and are presumed dead.

But... Read more

Valley of the Sun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common... Read more

Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he... Read more

Temptation and Surrender

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephanie Laurens continues her bestselling Cynster series with Temptation and Surrender, the story of Jonas Tallent, brother-in-law of Lucifer Cynster, who leaves the ballrooms of London to manage his family’s estate, and his romance with lady innkeeper Emily Beauregard. Read more

Luke's Story

By: Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of readers made the Left Behind series bestsellers. Now the third in the authors' bestselling Jesus Chronicles is available in trade paperback.

This biblically inspired novel, third in the bestselling Jesus Chronicles, tells the story of Luke-the Gospel writer whose belief was built on the power of faith alone. Luke, who hadn't met... Read more

Born Bad - Abridged

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE POWERFUL NEW BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF THE NATION’S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS AVAILABLE ON AUDIO. Harry always knew he would go back one day … Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the pace he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved... Read more

Pictures at an Exhibition

By: Sara Houghteling

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling’s sweeping and sensuous debut novel tells the story of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.

Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from entering the family business for reasons he cannot... Read more

Among the Mad

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the thrilling next novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.

It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives... Read more

The Fetch

By: Laura Whitcomb

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of three Kay Snow Writing Awards, Laura Whitcomb pens a dark and fabulous tale sure to capture the imagination of fantasy fans everywhere. In the role of death escort, a Fetch is not supposed to step from Heaven back to Earth. A Fetch is not supposed to fall hopelessly in love with a mortal either. But Calder is a Fetch like no other.... Read more

Shannon

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. A Marine chaplain, he was present at the frightful Battle of Belleau Wood, and he still suffers from shell shock. His mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make to find his family roots will restore his equilibrium and his vocation.... Read more

The Help

By: Kathryn Stockett

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spence...

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.
 
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her... Read more

The Women

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T. C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright.Boyle’s account of Wright’s life, as told through the experiences of the four women who... Read more

Drood - Abridged

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double... Read more

The Secret Countess - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eva Ibbotson's charming and warm-hearted tale, The Secret Countess, was originally published as A Countess Below Stairs.

Anna, a young countess, has lived in the glittering city of St Petersburg all her life in an ice-blue palace overlooking the River Neva. But when revolution tears Russia apart, her now-penniless family is forced to flee to... Read more

Mistress Shakespeare

By: Karen Harper

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark-haired and strong-willed, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley takes up her pen to divulge the intimate details of her daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton was betrothed to Will just days before he was forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. Their secret... Read more

Daughters of Liverpool

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Evocative and heartrending saga of Liverpool during World War Two, from the author of AS TIME GOES BY – rising star Annie Groves Katie’s full of trepidation as she arrives in Liverpool. It’s her first posting and her work will be so secret that she can’t even speak about it to the family she’s billeted with. She makes it... Read more

Without Warning

By: John Birmingham

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of the US invasion of Baghdad, as the world waits for war, a miles-high wave of incredible power cordons a vast area from southern Canada to northern Mexico, wiping 99 percent of the US population from the face of the earth in the blink of an eye. In Seattle, at the very edge of the phenomenon, heroes must rise to meet the... Read more

Eve

By: Elissa Elliott

Narrated by: Sandra Burr, Tanya Eby Sirois & Ellen Grafton

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In their world they are alone…a family haunted by banishment, struggling for survival in a harsh new land. A woman who has borne and buried children, Eve sees danger shadowing those she loves, while her husband drifts further and further from the man he was in the Garden, blinded by his need to rebuild a life outside of Eden. One daughter,... Read more

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more

Grail

By: Stephen R. Lawhead

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Drought, plague and war have left the Isle of Mighty battered and the beloved King Arthur grievously injured. But astonishingly, the High King lives, his wounds healed by a sacred and secret relic: the Holy Grail. Now, in this time of rampant disease and death, the great king wants to share the Grail’s curative powers with all who require it.... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic novel has been thrice adapted for the screen by the BBC. Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Witty, poignant, and often ironic, Cranford is the tale of what these two women will do to remain respectable, proper, and kind with only moderate means. "... an extremely... Read more