Historical Fiction audiobooks

City of Thieves

By: David Benioff

Narrated by: Ron Perlman

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.

During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the... Read more

The Red Necklace

By: Sally Gardner

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working for a rather foolish magician. That... Read more

The Steel Wave

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 20 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War.

General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His primary subordinates, Omar Bradley and Bernard... Read more

The Steel Wave - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Shaara, America’s premier author of military historical fiction, brings us the centerpiece of his epic trilogy of the Second World War.

General Dwight Eisenhower once again commands a diverse army that must find its single purpose in the destruction of Hitler’s European fortress. His primary subordinates, Omar Bradley and Bernard... Read more

Sovereign

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

C. J. Sansom is an international bestselling author known for riveting suspense and intricately constructed mysteries. His atmospheric prose has earned him an Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, among other accolades.In the third novel in this riveting series, barrister Matthew Shardlake is faced with the most terrifying threat in the age of... Read more

Killing Rommel

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare- Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa,r and The Afghan Campaign- have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military history, a supremely literate and engaging storyteller, and an author with acute insight into the minds of... Read more

Skeletons at the Feast

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines.

Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats.... Read more

The Tenth Gift

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: John Lee & Susan Duerden

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling story of secrets and discovering love where you least expect it, in The Tenth Gift the art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories

In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that changes her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite... Read more

The Pale Criminal

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s... Read more

Secrets - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jude Deveraux brilliantly entwines passion, memory, and a touch of intrigue in this spellbinding New York Times bestseller.

At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother's business conferences. For years, Cassandra held on to this unrequited love in order to cope with her loneliness and... Read more

The Tenth Gift - Abridged

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: Susan Duerden & John Lee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories.

In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite seventeenth-century embroidery patterns belonging to a woman named Catherine Ann Tregenna. Yet... Read more

Casanova: Wiedersehen mit einer großen Liebe - Abridged

By: Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

Narrated by: Mario Adorf

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Casanovas faszinierendes Leben interpretiert von Mario Adorf Er war ein Abenteurer, ein Gelehrter und ein Weltenbummler, vor allem aber war er der größte Liebhaber der Welt. Jede Frau, die ihn verzauberte, eroberte er im Sturm. In "Wiedersehen mit einer großen Liebe" trifft der alte Casanova die einzige Frau, die vor vielen Jahren sein Herz... Read more

Casanova: Bellino - Abridged

By: Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

Narrated by: Sebastian Koch

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Casanovas faszinierendes Leben - interpretiert von Sebastian Koch Er war ein Abenteurer, ein Gelehrter und ein Weltenbummler, vor allem aber war er der größte Liebhaber der Welt. Jede Frau, die ihn verzauberte, eroberte er im Sturm. In "Bellino" begegnet Casanova einem jungen Kastraten, den er wegen seiner lieblichen Anmut für ein Mädchen... Read more

Cathedral of the Sea

By: Ildefonso Falcones

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 22 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, here is a thrilling historical novel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war, set in the golden age of 14th-century Barcelona. Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona and joins the powerful guild of stone-workers building the magnificent cathedral of Santa Maria del Mar,... Read more

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, this great novel of domestic realism sympathetically portrays a young woman’s vain efforts to adapt to her provincial world.Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly... Read more

Amberwell

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Five young Ayrtons all grew up at Amberwell, playing in the gardens and preparing themselves to venture out into the world. To each of these children, Amberwell meant something different, but common to all of them was the idea that Amberwell was more than just where they lived - it was part of them. Amberwell drove one of its children into a... Read more

Days of Infamy

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen return with the second novel in their World War II Pacific Theater series.

Gingrich and Forstchen's now critically acclaimed approach, which they term "active history," examines how a change in but one decision might have profoundly altered American history. In Pearl Harbor... Read more

Tender Rebel

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune-hunting scoundrels who covet her wealth. And Anthony Malory is precisely the sort of handsome rogue she's been warned against.A cunning, ruthless, yet irresistible rake, Anthony's sensual blue eyes speak of pleasures beyond... Read more

The Lady Elizabeth

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 20 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir turns her masterly storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen.

Before she is three, Elizabeth learns of the tragic... Read more

Child 44

By: Tom Rob Smith

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.

Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and... Read more

The Disagreement

By: Nick Taylor

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It is April 17, 1861—the day Virginia secedes from the Union and the sixteenth birthday of John Alan Muro. As the Commonwealth erupts in celebration, young Muro sees his dream of attending medical school in Philadelphia shattered by the sudden reality of war.

Muro's father, believing that the Disagreement will pass, sends his son instead to... Read more

The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: Passage

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold’s Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. In this third volume, Fawn, the young farm girl, and Dag, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, set off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples and encounter new hazards both human and... Read more

The Rosetta Key

By: William Dietrich

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“An utterly captivating romp from the treacherous tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the lost City of Ghosts (Petra, Jordan) to the tumult of revolutionary Paris….Dietrich spins a merry magical mystery tour, winningly intricate and anchored to actual historical figures and events….Mr. Spielberg! Mr. Lucas! It’s your move.”
—Seattle Times
 
Dashing and... Read more

Untamed

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Returning home triumphant from the Crusades, Dominic le Sabre is determined to claim the bride promised to him by the king, but the high-born Celtic beauty is equally determined to resist him. Read more