Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Other Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato, Dagmara Dominczyk & Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots.

Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat... Read more

The Shadow of the Pomegranate

By: Jean Plaidy

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The marriage of Katharine of Aragon and King Henry VIII was a right royal match. England loved the young lovers, but hardly were they wed when powerful people in Henry’s court were spinning webs of intrigue around the innocent royal pair. Spanish spies, the Pope’s men, the Queen’s seductive ladies-in-waiting, and especially the King’s brilliant... Read more

An Old Man’s Love

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields of South Africa. Gordon’s sudden return... Read more

Say You Love Me

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Her parents' death has left Kelsey Langton penniless - and responsible for the well-being of her younger sister, Jean. Kelsey knows that the only way to avert their doom is to allow herself to be sold at auction. Resigned to becoming the plaything of a well-heeled gentleman, she gets more than she bargained for. Lord Derek Malory is the... Read more

The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Captain Chris Baldry, a World War I soldier, is sent home with a severe case of shellshock amnesia, he is a stranger to his wife, Kitty, and his adoring cousin, Jenny. Recoiling from the horrors of war and disillusioned with years of superficial married life, his mind has regressed fifteen years, where his heart may take refuge once again... Read more

The Heretic's Daughter

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely guarded for six decades: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not.

Sarah's story begins more than a year before the trials, when she and her family arrive in a New England community already... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more

Summerhills

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Summerhills continues the story of the lives and loves of the Ayrton family, in particular that of Major Roger Ayrton M.C., his brother and three young half-sisters. Roger has made the Army his career. Anne has settled down as housekeeper to old Mr Orme, the rector. Nell looks after the old house, and it is upon her that the comfort and... Read more

Gabriel's Story

By: David Anthony Durham

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In his acclaimed debut novel, Durham adds a new dimension to the frontier narrative. Gabriel, the teenaged son of an emancipated slave, travels west with his mother, who is lured by the promise of unclaimed land. Despising life as a farmer, Gabriel runs away with a dangerous band of cowboys. But hindered by youth and inexperience, he must escape... Read more

The Door of No Return

By: Sarah Mussi

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Of course, Zac brushes this off as a tall tale -- until his grandfather is murdered and their apartment is completely ransacked. Clearly somebody is after something.
Heeding his... Read more

Angie's Delight

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story with a cruel twist, about a lawyer and a criminal. Read more

The Last Sin Eater

By: Francine Rivers

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Garnering three RITAs and a Christy Award, Francine Rivers is acclaimed for classics like Atonement Child. Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, this Gold Medallion-winner tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin... Read more

Canaan

By: Donald McCaig

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, Alyssa Bresnahan & Carine Mon...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th... Read more

Genghis

By: Conn Iggulden

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Conn Iggulden's Genghis Khan novels are infused with action, adventure, and rich historical details further fleshing out the great warlord's world. Having risen from his tribal upbringing, Genghis now leads a horde of fellow countrymen on a mission of conquest throughout Asia. Escaping the Gobi Desert, he faces... Read more

Forbidden

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Sarah Scott

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

ForewarnedThroughout the Disputed Lands she is called "Amber the Untouched"—a chaste, golden-haired beauty fleeing the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth…and the death that must inevitably follow.ForeseenHe comes to her in darkness, as had been foretold—a wounded warrior with no memory…a promised lover seared by passion's fire,... Read more

Man in the Dark

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books

From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence... Read more

Love Letters of Great Men

By: Ursula Doyle & Ursula Doyle (Ed.)

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.

For some of these great men, love is a ‘delicious poison’ (William Congreve); for others, ‘a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music’ (Charles... Read more

Katharine, the Virgin Widow

By: Jean Plaidy

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eyes of the world, Katharine of Aragon was a precious object to be disposed of for the glory of Spain. Her parents, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, send her to England to become the bride of Arthur, Prince of Wales. But soon her frail husband was dead, and a fateful question loomed: Was the marriage consummated, or was the young widow... Read more

The Little Book

By: Selden Edwards

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A marvelous debut novel about love and basketball, time travel and rock'n'roll. 

Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day... Read more

Dschingis Khan - Sohn der Wölfe - Dschingis Khan Saga, Band 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Conn Iggulden

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Er kam aus der Steppe - und erschütterte die Welt! Nach dem Tod seines Vaters wird der junge Temujin mit seiner Familie verbannt, wie es die strengen Gesetze seines Volkes verlangen. Doch entgegen aller Erwartungen gelingt es ihnen, ohne den Schutz der Sippe in der mongolischen Steppe zu überleben. Mehr noch: Temujin schart weitere Geächtete... Read more

People of the Whale

By: Linda Hogan

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in a small Native American village by the sea, Thomas Witka Just has just married his childhood sweetheart when an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever. Cut off from his community and traumatized by war, he finds refuge in another tribal village there and fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home... Read more

Forsaken Soul

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, except in the village of Tyndal, where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn. Martin had enough enemies, so the killer could be anyone. It could be his usual whore, who is about to be tossed aside for another woman; it could be the innkeeper's niece, who has secret reasons for... Read more

The Man with the Iron Heart

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the real world, Reinhard Heydrich—the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the holocaust—was assassinated in Czechoslovakia in May 1942. Eulogized by Hitler himself as "The Man with the Iron Heart," Heydrich—also known as "The Butcher" and "The Hangman"—was one of the most ruthless and calculating of the Nazi elite.



In The Man with the... Read more

The 19th Wife

By: David Ebershoff

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey & D...

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.

Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her... Read more