Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By: Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, Jo...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there... Read more

The Last Queen

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

One of history’s most enigmatic women tells the haunting, passionate story of her tumultuous life. Juana of Castile is just thirteen when she witnesses the fall of Moorish Granada and the uniting of the fractured kingdoms of Spain under her warrior parents, Isabel and Fernando. Intelligent, beautiful, and proud of her heritage, Juana rebels when... Read more

Gentle Rogue

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartsick and desperate to leave her sorrows on England’s shores, innocent Georgina Anderson seeks passage on the “gentleman’s ship,” Maiden Anne, disguised as a cabin boy. The captain, however, is no gentleman; he’s the ex-pirate and irrepressible rake, James Malory.The black sheep of a proud, tempestuous family, Malory soon sees through... Read more

Those Who Save Us

By: Jenna Blum

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family’s role in World War II in this harrowing, unforgettable novel about lost love and inherited shame.For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother... Read more

Beast

By: Judith Ivory

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Ivory's tantalizing romances are a hit with critics, readers, and fellow writers alike. "Judith Ivory is irresistible," hails best-selling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. When the brainy, luminous Louise Vandermeer embarks on a transoceanic quest to marry an aristocrat, she dives into a scorching affair with a stranger on the ship. Their... Read more

A Christmas Visitor

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of the success of A Christmas Journey comes this festive mystery. The joyful tranquility of a snowbound estate in the Lake District of England is overturned in a moment by a shocking murder. Renowned mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone—long known to readers of Perry's bestselling Victorian series featuring William Monk—must... Read more

Eva’s Cousin

By: Sibylle Knauss

Narrated by: Kim Edwards-Fukei

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1944, twenty-year-old Marlene is thrilled to visit her older cousin, Eva Braun—Adolf Hitler’s mistress—at the Führer’s Bavarian mountain retreat. There, Marlene finds herself in a strange paradise, a world of opulence and imminent danger, of freedom and surveillance.The two women sneak off and skinny-dip in a nearby lake, watch... Read more

Heyday

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 26 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. He also meets her brother Duff, a... Read more

Saturnalia

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness—then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Marcus Didius... Read more

Hasty Death

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents’ home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn’t quite what Rose had imagined—long hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women’s hostel are not very empowering when you’re poor, cold, and tired. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery... Read more

A Christmas Journey

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel... Read more

Snobbery with Violence

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful mystery from the New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murderWhen a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful—if rebellious—Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor’s intentions are honorable. He calls on... Read more

A Christmas Secret

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are... Read more

Our Lady of Pain

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harry’s latest client, Dolores Duval—a vision... Read more

A Christmas Guest

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest—an outcast from her own... Read more

Sick of Shadows

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience so Rose can avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Her sharp intellect and radical ideas have served to repel her would-be suitors. Rose's parents are hardly thrilled that their only child is marrying a man in trade, but Harry... Read more

El palacio azul de los ingenieros belgas

By: Fulgencio Arguelles

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Un dia de septiembre de 1927, Nalo entro a trabajar en el palacio azul de los ingenieros belgas como aprendiz de jardinero. Las primaveras y las revoluciones llegaron al palacio antes que a ningun otro lugar e iniciaron al joven en la amistad y el amor, en la comprension y el analisis. Fulgencio Arguelles, a traves de un narrador certero que... Read more

Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Laureate Rudyard Kipling provides a rare study of the exotic opulence and the political conflict of British-ruled India in this classic story of the friendship between a British boy and an Indian priest. This is Kipling's only full-length novel, and it offers young adults an excellent study of the Oriental landscape, the literary style,... Read more

The Enchantress of Florence

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most revered literary masters, with a Booker Prize and two Whitbread Awards among his accolades. His unique brand of magic realism is particularly effective in The Enchantress of Florence, the story of a European traveler and the extraordinary tale he shares with 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great.... Read more

Victory of Eagles

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Novik’s triumphant debut, His Majesty’s Dragon, introduced a dynamic new pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will Laurence. Now in the latest novel, they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant imagination.

It is a grim time for the dragon... Read more

The Lady in the Tower

By: Jean Plaidy

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

One of history’s most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy.Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful, but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord, Anne was sent to France to marry well and raise the family’s fortunes. She soon... Read more

The Aviary Gate

By: Katie Hickman

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Staveley sits in the Bodleian library, holding in her trembling hands a fragment of ancient paper. It is the key to a story that has been locked away for four centuries—the story of a British sea captain's daughter held captive in the sultan's harem.



Constantinople, 1599. There are rumors and strange stirrings in the sultan's palace.... Read more

Under the Northern Lights

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author of more than 70 best-selling books, Tracie Peterson crafts an inspiring story of Arctic adventure and selfless love. Set amidst the savage beauty of 1915 Alaska, Under the Northern Lights is a compelling tale of abduction, despair, and hope. Hidden in Alaska's vast wilderness, a ruthless murderer holds two ladies hostage:... Read more