Historical Fiction audiobooks

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 20 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a... Read more

Tales from the Trail

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Grub Line Rider" Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight. When cattleman Jim Targ challenges Sartain's right to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow, Sartain decides he'll do better than ride through; he'll put down... Read more

Dark Star

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author and historian Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels, such as Blood of Victory and Kingdom of Shadows. In Dark Star, André Szara is a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Through Szara’s character, the beginnings of World War II are revealed.Some of the events Szara sees... Read more

Uprising

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the disaster, which brought attention to the labor movement in America, is part of the curriculum in classrooms throughout the country.

Told from... Read more

The Undertaker's Wife

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Loren D. Estleman has won four Golden Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, as well as the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Also a Pulitzer Prize nominee, he pens a dramatic tale set in the early 1900s about a retired undertaker, Richard Connable, and his wife Lucy. In... Read more

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga, brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey. Here Gabaldon weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives-a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the... Read more

Falling in Love Again

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Vanessa Maroney

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Cathy Maxwell's popular romance novels are appreciated for their proud, yet passionate heroines and strong, roguish heroes. Falling in Love Again is set amongst the castles and woodlands of 18th-century England. Born into wealthy family, heiress Mallory Edwards honorably marries John Barron to fulfill a family obligation. Although he... Read more

The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for literature ever awarded to a woman, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York.In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is... Read more

First Test

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Kel will not allow this first test to be her last. Her adventure begins in the New York Times bestselling series from the fantasy author who is a legend herself: TAMORA PIERCE.
 
Keladry of Mindelan is the first girl who dares to take advantage of a new rule in Tortall—one that allows females to train for knighthood. After years in the Yamani... Read more

Tipperary

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary novel—a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape... Read more

The Drop Edge of Yonder

By: Donis Casey

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One August evening in 1914, a bushwhacker ends a pleasant outing by blowing a hole in Bill McBride, kidnapping and ravaging Bill's fianc├®e, and wounding Alafair Tucker's daughter, Mary. All Mary knows is that the crime had something to do with the Fourth of July.Or is there more? Trauma has locked away Mary's memory of the event, but the answer... Read more

The Bathhouse

By: Farnoosh Moshiri

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail—a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive. These women range in age from adolescence to eldery, their mental states from stoic... Read more

On Canaan’s Side

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the two-time Man Booker short–listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere’s life over seventeen days, On Canaan’s Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back... Read more

The Company

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 41 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. Master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA—""The Company"" to insiders—and a spectacular mole hunt that involves Mossad, MI6, and the KGB.The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in... Read more

Hornblower and the "Hotspur"

By: C Forester

Narrated by: Nicolas Coster

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Only twenty-seven years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries, but the danger is not over. In the meantime, misgivings... Read more

Louis L’Amour’s Desert Tales

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

These two tales set in the wild desert pit the forces of fierce nature against the sturdy character of the Western man."Law of the Desert"Shad Marone is a lone gunman on the run from the law. He shot a man in a fair fight, but the man was the sheriff's brother, and Shad knows he'll never get a fair trial. He is being tracked by a man named... Read more

The Company - Abridged

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In this breathtaking thriller, a spectacular mole hunt is under way, one that involves not just the CIA—"The Company" to insiders—but Mossad, MI6, and the KGB as well. Robert Littell, master of the espionage novel, has crafted an exciting story of agents... Read more

Mister B. Gone

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City StarFrom Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and... Read more

A Christmas Beginning

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Superintendent Runcorn—who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss—is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's... Read more

Gentlemen of the Road

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Andre Braugher

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“A picaresque, swashbuckling adventure.”—The Washington Post Book World

They’re an odd pair, to be sure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerant physician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, a gray-haired giant of a... Read more

Everlasting - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once Abrielle was a proud, exceptional lady coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, and her beauty. But when her stepfather is denied his rightful title and the wealth that accompanies it, Abrielle finds herself suddenly disgraced. Only one would still have her, the oafish and grotesque Desmond de Marlé. Yet no one else can rescue her... Read more

The Eight

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 25 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1972–A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client... Read more

The Eight - Abridged

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client... Read more

The Last Legion (Film tie-in) - Abridged

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Last Legion opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped and protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family and take the young... Read more