Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Commoner

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, almost hermetically sealed, and longest-running monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more

The Commoner - Abridged

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more

The Other Boleyn Girl - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Ruthie Henshall

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family.

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the... Read more

Sword Song - Abridged

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fourth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon... Read more

The Bride Bed

By: Linda Needham

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author and Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award winner Linda Needham crafts a sumptuous historical novel. The fiery Lady Talia resides in a castle of great strategic importance. With his eye on the castle, King Stephen wants to see Lady Talia tamed. He assigns Lord Alex de Monteneau to protect the maiden and make... Read more

21

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The... Read more

Barely a Bride

By: Rebecca Hagan Lee

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From nationally best-selling author Rebecca Hagan Lee comes a romance set in England during the 1790s. The Earl of Weymouth insists his son marry before going off to fight the French. Lady Tressingham insists her daughter marry as soon as possible as well. The children, however, are very resistant to the institution of marriage. But they do wed... Read more

Beverly Hills Dead

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart Woods returns with the sequel to The Prince of Beverly Hills—a page-turning novel of murder, political intrigue, and betrayal set in 1940s Hollywood, the era of the “Red Scare,” when almost anyone could be suspect...

Rick Barron, a former Beverly Hills cop, has risen to the head of production of Centurion pictures, and he’s at the top of... Read more

March Violets

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a “brilliantly innovative thriller-writer,” Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries set in Nazi-era Berlin that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, MARCH VIOLETS introduces listeners to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he’d seen... Read more

Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.

Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed... Read more

The Sweet Far Thing

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 20 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping conclusion to the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, an exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.

It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father... Read more

The Six Sacred Stones - Abridged

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE

Unlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning...

After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bestseller, 7 Deadly Wonders, supersoldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but-impossible challenge.

A... Read more

The Runner - Abridged

By: Christopher Reich

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rarely has a first novel achieved the kind of breathtaking critical acclaim garnered by Numbered Account, hailed by The New York Times as "smart," "sophisticated," and "wonderful." With The Runner, Reich dazzles us once again. Set against the seething backdrop of post-World War II Germany, The Runner weaves a complex and intricately plotted tale... Read more

Enchantment

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The moment ten-year-old Ivan stumbled upon the clearing in the Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, a beautiful princess lay still as death, but a malevolent presence nearby sent Ivan scrambling for safety.Years later, Ivan is an American graduate student, engaged to be married. Yet he... Read more

Popol Vuh - Abridged

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Yadira Sanchez

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Popol Vuh es una recopilación de narraciones mítico-históricos del reino del Posclásico K'iche 'del altiplano occidental de Guatemala. El título se traduce como "Libro de la Comunidad", "Libro del Consejo", o más literalmente como "Libro del Pueblo". Características prominentes Popol Vuh son su mito de la creación, su sugerencia diluviano, sus... Read more

Novelas De La Dinastia Ming - Abridged

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No solo por la construcción de la Gran Muralla China es recordada la dinastía Ming, que reinó en el imperio chino entre 1368 y 1644, sino por que la época marcó un florecimiento de las artes y las letras. Fue además una época de paz y progreso como nunca se había visto en la historia de la humanidad. Esta época vio igualmente la divulgación de... Read more

Dark Water Rising

By: Marian Hale

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

You’d think every dang person from Lampasas to Houston wanted to go to Galveston this hot August day. Everyone but Seth.

Galveston, Texas, may be the booming city of the brand-new twentieth century, filled with opportunites for all, but to Seth it is the end of a dream. He longs to be a carpenter like his father, yet Papa has moved the family to... Read more

Airman

By: Eoin Colfer

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Conor Broekhart was born to fly. In fact, legend has it that he was born flying, in a hot air balloon at the Paris World’s Fair.

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter,... Read more

Autumn Lover

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the brisk chill of Autumn, ravaged hearts will be reborn.Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War’s end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home, though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who... Read more

Wizard's Daughter

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

With characters from the Sherbrooke novels and a paranormal twist, Catherine Coulter delivers a “beguiling” (Midwest Book Review) novel of a woman at the center of a centuries-old mystery and the man who will help her unravel the secrets of her heart. Read more

Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war - Abridged

By: Peter Rosegger

Narrated by: Wolf Euba

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Klassiker der Kinderliteratur - die Kindheitsgeschichte des großen Heimatdichters Peter Rosegger als Hörbuch für Kinder und Erwachsene. Tief in den steirischen Wäldern führen die Roseggers ein entbehrungsreiches, einfaches und ursprüngliches Leben als Waldbauernfamilie. Vor allem für die Kinder ist es eine Zeit der Arbeit, aber auch der... Read more

The One from the Other

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernie Gunther, the tough, fast-talking noirish detective who made his first appearance in March Violets, takes center stage in this twist-filled thriller that turns Philip Kerr’s German trilogy into a surprise-filled quartet. Fans have had to wait fifteen years for Bernie’s resurrection. They will not be disappointed.

Munich, 1949: Amid the... Read more

Someone Knows My Name

By: Lawrence Hill

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguil­ing heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination.... Read more

We the Living

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state.Of this book, Ayn Rand said, “it is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is... Read more