Historical Fiction audiobooks

Enchanted

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon the loyal has vowed never to love, for love makes a warrior weak. His arranged marriage to a beautiful Norman heiress would be duty and no more. But more than duty stirs his blood when he first sees Ariane. She has known only coldness from men and a betrayal so deep it all but killed her soul. Wanting no man, trusting no man, speaking only... Read more

Notorious

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia Henley's historical romances have won praise for their ability to "illuminate and entertain" (Publishers Weekly). It is 1322, and the Marcher lords are rebelling against King Edward II. Lady Brianna de Beauchamp, daughter of a powerful Marcher, knows she should not involve herself in the battle. But when she meets dangerously handsome... Read more

The Runaway Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this intriguing novel, master quilter Sylvia Compson comes across an heirloom quilt that muddles her heritage. She's always believed her ancestors were active in the Underground Railroad-but perhaps she's been mistaken. "Chiaverini manages to impart a healthy dollop of history in a folksy style, while raising moral questions in a suspenseful... Read more

Children of God

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.

The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls... Read more

The House of Mirth, with eBook

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from becoming one of the many women who will succeed in those circles. Though her desire for a comfortable life means that she cannot marry for love without money, her... Read more

Uncle Tom's Cabin, with eBook

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and... Read more

Sarah's Key

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture!

From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a... Read more

Hell at the Breech

By: Tom Franklin

Narrated by: Larry Pine

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This immensely accomplished novel by the author of the Edgar Award-winning short story collection Poachers is based on a real-life feud in the 1890s that pitted the underclass-poor, mostly white sharecroppers -of Clarke County, Ala., against the land-owning gentry who could and did control their fate. "Franklin may have used history as a... Read more

Blindspot

By: Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore

Narrated by: John Lee & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in boisterous Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, Blindspot is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Peopled not only with the celebrated Sons of Liberty but also with revolutionary Boston’s unsung inhabitants, it tells the story of Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and his spirited apprentice,... Read more

Shutter Island

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post... Read more

Shutter Island - Abridged

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post... Read more

Absolute Truths

By: Susan Howatch

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the... Read more

Sashenka

By: Simon Montefiore

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter, 1917: In St. Petersburg snow is falling, and Russia is on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her young charge to be released from school. But so are the Tsar's secret police.



Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just eighteen years old. In the... Read more

Only You

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell heats things up once again. The Only series, including Only Love, continues with this sensuous tale of fiery passions in the old-time wild West. Desired by many, cardsharp Evelyn Starr Johnson will go to any lengths to recover the... Read more

Sweetsmoke

By: David Fuller

Narrated by: Ezra Knight

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Screenwriter David Fuller spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, in the process discovering that members of his family fought on both sides of the Civil War. Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a... Read more

The Snow Empress

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: James Yaegashi

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Chosen by Publishers Weekly as a Best Book of 2007, The Snow Empress showcases author Laura Joh Rowland's deep understanding of 17th-century Japan and her impeccable gift of storytelling. This thrilling novel finds samurai detective Sano IchirO working to gain freedom for his son by investigating the murder of a lord's beloved mistress. Read more

Another Homecoming

By: Davis Bunn & Janette Oke

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When she learns that her husband is missing in action during World War II, a desperate young wife decides to give up their baby daughter for adoption. By the time she learns that her husband is still alive, the infant belongs to a wealthy couple. Kyle has never been told that she is adopted. But she has always felt that she doesn't quite fit in... Read more

Written on Silk

By: Linda Lee Chaikin

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people … Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-making family, has come back to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown. Recruited into the... Read more

Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member... Read more

The Rose Labyrinth

By: Titania Hardie

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A single sheet of parchment and a silver key. A secret passed down through generations. A mystery waiting to be unlocked.Lucy King, a young documentary-film producer, races through London, France, and New York to decipher the clues that will eventually lead her to the hidden truth at the heart of the rose labyrinth.Will travels to Europe to... Read more

The Last Station

By: Jay Parini

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

A New York Times Notable Book

As Leo Tolstoy’s life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man’s soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth and thirteen children,... Read more

Les Misérables, with eBook

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an Abridged Edition



Victor Hugo began writing Les Misérables twenty years before its eventual publication in 1862. Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a detailed vision of... Read more

Tan Lejos de Dios

By: Ana Castillo

Narrated by: Gy Mirano

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Tome es un pueblito pequeno y aparentemente apacible en Nuevo Mexico central. En las habiles manos de Ana Castillo este asombroso lugar se nos revela como un sitio de maravillas, lleno de vida y conflictos: del pasado con el presente, lo real con lo sobrenatural, lo comico con lo horrifico, las tradiciones nativas con lo latino y lo "anglo," las... Read more

The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time... Read more