Historical Fiction audiobooks

The King of Ragtime

By: Larry Karp

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and time’s running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and secure his place in musical history.Joplin has written a musical drama, and his young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his... Read more

Murder at Fenway Park

By: Troy Soos

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Troy Soos' entertaining whodunit hits a home run with a perfect blend of mayhem and early baseball lore! He takes you back to 1912 where the days are full of sunshine, players use homemade wooden bats, the legendary Ty Cobb captivates fans, and a young rookie stumbles into a web of danger and deceit. Reporting for his first day as a Boston Red... Read more

The Return of the Dancing Master

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow, as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is... Read more

Mudbound

By: Hillary Jordan

Narrated by: Joseph Collins, Ezra Knight, Brenda Pressley, P...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The International BestsellerNow a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place... Read more

The Tsarina’s Daughter

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Susan Jameson

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in rural western America in the 1980s. What her neighbors and even her children don’t know, is that she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. The Tsarina’s Daughter centers around young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in... Read more

Lawless

By: Matt Bondurant

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and... Read more

Greener Grass

By: Caroline Pignat

Narrated by: Jacklyn Francis

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the farmers can no longer make their payments much... Read more

Mount Vernon Love Story

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after... Read more

Charlotte Fairlie

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Hilary Neville

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Fairlie is a successful, elegant career woman. Still in her 20s, she has landed a job as headmistress of her old school. She is admired and liked by both staff and pupils – but she begins to feel there is something missing in her well-organised life. Then one summer she goes to stay with a young pupil on the remote Scottish Isle of... Read more

The Whiskey Rebels

By: David Liss

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes calling when Saunders’s old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the creation of the Bank... Read more

Company of Liars

By: Karen Maitland

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.

The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun... Read more

The Magic of You

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung for piracy.Warren Anderson is shocked by the brazen advances of his despised enemy's beautiful niece.... Read more

The Lantern Bearers

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When the last of the Roman Auxiliaries leave Britain forever, they abandon the country to internal strife and the menace of invasion by Saxons. These are dark days indeed for Aquila, a young Roman officer who returns to his family villa to find all that he loves destroyed by the invaders. He escapes slavery only to learn that his sister has... Read more

Lavinia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story” from the iconic, award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin (Cleveland Plain Dealer).In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never... Read more

A Scandalous Marriage

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Cathy Maxwell's popular romances deliver irresistible tales of forbidden desire between exalted people who refuse to be trapped by conventions. In A Scandalous Marriage, just as a beautiful debutante enters London society, dishonor drives her to the isolated countryside. While in hiding, Leah Carrollton encounters the dashing and noble Devon... Read more

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Loren D. Estleman has garnered heaps of praise for his stylish novels, which are charged with razor-sharp wit and sparkling dialogue. The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association, reminiscent of the author's Mister St. John and The Stranglers, is an engrossing story of California's colorful past. In 1913, Dmitri Pulski wants to be the next Jack... Read more

McKettrick's Choice

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times best-selling author Linda Lael Miller's colorful tale of frontier romance, Holt McKettrick leaves a mail-order bride at the altar in Arizona and rides hard for Texas to help two desperate friends. But he doesn't count on meeting Lorelai Fellows-who just called off her own nuptials and is burning her dress in public. "Intrigue,... Read more

Keeper of the Grail

By: Michael P. Spradlin

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Washed up on a foreign shore, Tristan is lucky to be alive. As before, it seems to be a miracle– the Holy Grail the young Templar squire is protecting has saved his life yet again. But now he is lost in a strange land, and he doesn’t know if his friends, the fiery archer Robard Hode and the Saracen assassin maid Maryam, still survive. Tristan’s... Read more

Washington's Lady

By: Nancy Moser

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nancy Moser, Christy Award-winning author of Mozart's Sister, distills the life of Martha Washington into a revealing first-person historical novel. As a financially secure widow who has felt death's sting six times, 26-year-old Martha determines not to remarry. And then into her life strides a heroic colonel, and she dares to love again. But... Read more

The Secret Scripture

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at a mental hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life but hides the manuscript.Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating which patients can return to... Read more

Foxfire - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jane Gabbert

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. 

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Mark McKerracher

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure... Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Aidan Gillen

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown,... Read more