Historical Fiction audiobooks

Empire of Ivory

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Temeraire * Book 4

Tragedy has struck His Majesty’s Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks–forcing the hopelessly stricken into... Read more

Empire of Ivory - Abridged

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the fourth volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars bring Will Laurence and Temeraire to Africa in search of aid.

“Temeraire is a dragon for the ages.”—Terry Brooks

Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and... Read more

The Air We Breathe

By: Andrea Barrett

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1916, Americans are debating whether to enter the First World War. There are “preparedness parades,” and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure... Read more

Soul Catcher

By: Michael White

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cain is a scarred but proud man haunted by a terrible skill—the ability to track people who don't want to be found.

Rosetta is a runaway slave fueled by the passion and determination only a mother can feel. And she will risk everything for the promise of freedom.

In the perilous years before the Civil War, their fates will intertwine in an... Read more

Interred with Their Bones

By: Jennifer Lee Carrell

Narrated by: Kathleen McNenny

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A feverishly paced action adventure” (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard’s most bloody murders

Jennifer Lee Carrell’s highly acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant, breathlessly paced literary adventure. The action begins on the eve of the Globe’s production of Hamlet when Shakespeare scholar... Read more

The Bone Garden

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student... Read more

The Bone Garden - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder.

Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, medical student... Read more

The Spanish Bow

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he... Read more

The Spanish Bow - Abridged

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he... Read more

The Janissary Tree

By: Jason Goodwin

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Janissary Tree, the first book in a new series, is set in a most extraordinary world and features a most extraordinary sleuth.



It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind... Read more

Under Enemy Colors

By: S. Thomas Russell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to an English father and a French mother, lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden's career is damned by his "mixed" heritage. Assigned to the HMS Themis, an aging frigate under the command of a captain reviled by his crew for both his brutality towards his men and his cowardice in battle, Hayden is torn between honor and duty, as the British... Read more

Lust, Caution

By: Eileen Chang

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.

In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the... Read more

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

By: Ying Chang Compestine

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable with her life; her parents are both dedicated doctors in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s political officers, moves into a room in their apartment, Ling begins to witness the gradual disintegration of her world. In an atmosphere of increasing mistrust, Ling fears for the safety... Read more

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Abridged

By: Ron Hansen

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Recalls the literature of Americana by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland . . . Hansen has broadened our perception of the West in much the same way as the best historians . . . and proven himself one of our finest stylists of American historical fiction.” —Christian Science MonitorBestselling author Ron Hansen... Read more

The Land of the Silver Apples

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Like the druidic life force Jack taps, this hearty adventure, as personal as it is epic, will cradle readers in the ‘hollow of its hand’ (Booklist, starred review).

Jack has caused an earthquake. He was trying to save his sister Lucy from being thrown down a well, but sometimes the magic doesn’t quite work out. Not only does Jack demolish a... Read more

The Sanctuary

By: Raymond Khoury

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

After centuries of destruction, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever in this thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Templar.

Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an ancient, half-burnt book to his young inquisitor. Keeping... Read more

Consequences

By: Penelope Lively

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Consequences is a love-story-times-three that opens on the eve of the Second World War, with a chance meeting in St. James's Park, London. Wholly in love, Lorna and Matt leave the city for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together is shattered when the war begins and by Matt's tragic death in action.

Twenty years... Read more

The Grafton Girls - Abridged

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Elizabeth Conboy

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart and Some Sunny Day is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on... Read more

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

By: Laurie Viera Rigler

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Jane Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern L.A. girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time. Read more

Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife

By: Linda Berdoll

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 28 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy–beautiful, gracious, universally admired, strong, daring and outspoken–a thoroughly modern woman in crinolines.

And every woman will fall madly in love with Mr. Darcy–tall, dark and handsome, a nobleman and a heartthrob whose virility is matched only by his utter devotion to his wife.

Their passion is... Read more

Nefertiti

By: Michelle Moran

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “compulsively readable” (Diana Gabaldon) novel teeming with love, betrayal, and religious conflict that brings ancient Egypt to vivid life, from the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter and Maria

“Meticulously researched and richly detailed . . . an engrossing tribute to one of the most powerful and alluring women in... Read more

The River Wife

By: Jonis Agee

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee, THE RIVER WIFE is a sweeping, panoramic story that ranges from the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 through the Civil War to the bootlegging days of the 1930s.

When the earthquake brings Annie Lark’s Missouri house down on top of her, she finds herself pinned under the massive roof beam, facing certain death.... Read more

Deus Lo Volt! - Abridged

By: Evan S. Connell

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magisterial work of historical imagination-a stunningly immediate, first-person account of one soldier's experience of the defining war of Christendom. Read more

Someone to Love - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Dagmara Dominczyk

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux brings a “wonderful addition” (Booklist) to her Montgomery/Taggert Family series with this supernatural romance in which, with the help of a feisty ghost, a man uncovers the secrets that led to the tragic death of his fiancée.

After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée... Read more