Historical Fiction audiobooks

My Wicked Earl

By: Linda Needham

Narrated by: Vanessa Maroney

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Earl of Everingham investigates a bloody political confrontation called the Perloo Massacre, he is criticized in scathing broadsides published by a Captain Spindleshanks. Once the Earl takes the Captain as a captive, however, he finds that his enemy is actually a beautiful woman. Although both harbor dangerous secrets, they are... 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

The Last Town on Earth

By: Thomas Mullen

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

During World War I, the influenza pandemic ultimately killed more people around the world than the war itself. The Last Town on Earth takes as its launching point a striking historical footnote: some uninfected towns were so terrified of the surrounding flu that they closed their entrances, posted signs warning strangers not to enter, and even... Read more

Bethlehem Road

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 15 million copies of Edgar Award winner Anne Perry's historical mysteries have been sold. In Bethlehem Road, Inspector Pitt and his wife investigate the murder of a Member of Parliament. Before they can begin to piece together what happened to Sir Lockwood Hamilton, one of his colleagues is discovered murdered-on the exact same spot. Read more

The Historian

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Paul Michael

Length: 26 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of--a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an... Read more

Letters From an Age of Reason

By: Nora Hague

Narrated by: Mary Peiffer

Length: 31 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An eloquent debut novel set amid two historical hotbeds of racial tension, moral hypocrisy, and shifting sexual convention

Miss Arabella Leeds, the high-spirited teenage daughter of a prominent New York family, and Aubrey "Brie" Paxton, the "high yellow" pampered house servant of wealthy French-American slave-holders, are destined to fall in... Read more

Lake in the Clouds

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the... Read more

Life Mask

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time of approaching war and terrorism, spectacular wealth and financial disasters, the private world of three famous Londoners becomes a public scandal. Lord Derby - unhappily married and the richest as well as the ugliest man in the House of Lords - is the relentless suitor of England's reigning queen of comedy, Eliza Farren. His chief... Read more

Redeeming Love

By: Francine Rivers

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Story of Love That Won’t Let Go—No Matter What Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Nina Dobrev, with Logan Marshall Green and Eric Dane, special appearance by Famke Janssen.

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their... Read more

Lady Beware

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Jo Beverley imbues her Company of Rogues series with passion and intrigue. Horatio Cave, home from war, is looking to clear his now tarnished family name. His first move is to seduce Lady Theodosia Debenham, who in turn needs his help-but she is unprepared for his charms. "Risk, deception, and desire all come... Read more

The James Boys

By: Richard Liebmann-Smith

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone once said that the entire story of America in the nineteenth century is encompassed in the saga of the James brothers: psychologist William and novelist Henry James in the east, and outlaws Frank and Jesse James in the west. This inspired humorist Richard Liebmann-Smith to wonder: what if William and Henry’s actual troubled younger... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 46 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous prison at the French Chateau d’If.... Read more

Unsere liebe Sisi ...

By: Gabriele Praschl-Bichler

Narrated by: Sissy Höfferer

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Bild der bösen Schwiegermutter ist ein historischer Irrtum! Erzherzogin Sophie und ihre Schwiegertochter Kaiserin Elisabeth lebten in Wirklichkeit sehr harmonisch zusammen, wie ihre humorvolle Korrespondenz beweist. Darin entsteht ein völlig neues Bild vom Privatleben der Kaiserfamilie, das weder steif noch höfisch-zeremoniell war, sondern... Read more

Buried Too Deep

By: Jane Finnis

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The spring of AD 98 is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia. Business is brisk at the mansio (inn) that Aurelia Marcella runs with her twin brother, Lucius, on the road to York. Then, a wagon arrives bearing a local farmer who is dying of a grievous sword wound. The twins head for the coast to return the man to his... Read more

The Spies of Warsaw

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction"
-- Houston Chronicle

Autumn 1937: War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-François Mercier, a decorated hero of the... Read more

Death and Honor

By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

June 1943. Many Germans—some of them high-ranking officers—believe the tides of war have turned against them.

Increased activity suggests there may be truth to whispers heard by Office of Strategic Services spies: that the Nazis are extorting Jews outside Germany to buy their relatives’ freedom from extermination camps, then smuggling the ransom... Read more

Resolution

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times—bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.

I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon... Read more

Mistress of the Sun

By: Sandra Gulland

Narrated by: Diana Leblanc

Length: 15 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who—against all odds—became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King.

Set against the magnificent decadence of the 17th century... Read more

Lonigan - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this exciting short story, Louis L'Amour, the legendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breed of men who worked the great cattle ranches. In this classic story, hard riding Danny Lonigan faces a group of rustlers without fear--or mercy. Read more

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's novel of seduction and abandonment introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, the unworldly maiden Tess. On her morning journey to earn money for her impoverished family, Tess' horse has an accident, forcing her to seek assistance from some newly rich relatives. There, she is vigorously pursued by Alec, who corners her in a... Read more

Deep in the Heart of Trouble - Abridged

By: Deeanna Gist

Narrated by: Brooke Sanford Heldman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Texas-Sized Tale of Unexpected Love. Essie Spreckelmeyer is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catching a man's eye. And the last man who seems willing to give her a second glance is Tony Morgan, newly... Read more

The Door in the Wall

By: Marguerite de Angeli

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the fourteenth century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs. Read more

Fall of Frost

By: Brian Hall

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In his most recent novel, I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Brian Hall won acclaim for the way he used the intimate, revelatory voice of fiction to capture the half-hidden personal stories of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In his new novel, Hall turns to the life of Robert Frost, arguably America's most well-known poet. Frost, as... Read more

Wolf Totem

By: Jiang Rong

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize

Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the... Read more