Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Rising Tide

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 22 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I. Now, The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II.

Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North... Read more

The Rising Tide - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Larry Pine

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War I. Now, The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II.

Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North... Read more

The Gods of Newport - Abridged

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness.

In 1893,... Read more

Measuring the World

By: Daniel Kehlmann

Narrated by: Rider Strong

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt summons the great mathematician Carl Gauss to Berlin before embarking on an ambitious expedition across Russia, determined to measure the world. The story tells of Von Humboldt's focused and robust adventures—as he negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain, counts head lice on native's... Read more

The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations: Volume II

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Chick Bowdrie could have ridden the outlaw trail, but the Texas Rangers recruited him because they didn't want to have to fight against him. Persuing the most wanted men in the Southwest he knew all too well the dusty trails, the bitter cattle feuds, the desperate killers and the quiet, weather-beaten, wind-blasted towns that could explode into... Read more

Thanksgiving

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When it comes to men, Megan Murphy has an aversion to ""I do"". Then she meets irresistible pediatrician Pat Hunter. Add in a cozy colonial cottage, the world's biggest turkey, two hopeful families, and a skirt-chomping rabbit, and you've got a feast of fabulous fun! Read more

The Sowers

By: Henry S. Merriman

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skulduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe.An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped by experienced campaigner... Read more

Bluegate Fields

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When the body of a boy is found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, Inspector Pitt is called to investigate. The boy was clearly upper class, so what was he doing in one of London's most dangerous slums? The boy's parents refuse to answer police queries. What are these proper, prosperous people hiding? With the help of his wife and... Read more

The Sun Also Rises

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: William Hurt

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake... Read more

Die Stefan Zweig Box (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Stefan Zweig

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

'Mir scheint, dass wenige über die Liebe und Freundschaft so tief, mit einem so unermesslichen Mitgefühl für den Menschen geschrieben haben wie Stefan Zweig' (Maxim Gorki) Eine Neuaufname ausgewählter Texte von Stefan Zweig: Alexander Khuon liest Brennendes Geheimnis, Wolfram Koch liest Meistererzählungen und Hanns Zischler liest Essays. Read more

Restless

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Rosamund Pike

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II... Read more

Thirteen Moons

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading... Read more

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

By: Sena Jeter Naslund

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas, she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband... Read more

Thirteen Moons - Abridged

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading... Read more

Restless - Abridged

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Rosamund Pike

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II... Read more

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the luxuries of court to the last gory years of the outsize King Henry when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love. She was the least known of Henry VIII's six wives, but was the cleverest of them all.
Alluring, witty and resourceful, she attracted the king's lust and,... Read more

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Conversation between the author and the editor, David Fickling.

Berlin 1942

When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing... Read more

The Scottish Bride

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Vicar, widower, and father, Tysen Sherbrooke is unprepared for the courageous spitfire who comes into his life when he becomes a Scottish baron. Read more

Imperium

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Oliver Ford Davies

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.

In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a... Read more

Imperium - Abridged

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Oliver Ford Davies

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.

In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a... Read more

The Thirteenth Tale

By: Diane Setterfield

Narrated by: Bianca Amato & Jill Tanner

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Literary Fiction and Finalist for Multi-Voiced Performance

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller

“Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story.”—People

“Eerie and fascinating.”—USA TODAY

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your... Read more

The Thirteenth Tale - Abridged

By: Diane Setterfield

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave & Henshall

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Literary Fiction and Finalist for Multi-Voiced Performance

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller

“Readers will feel the magnetic pull of this paean to words, books and the magical power of story.”—People

“Eerie and fascinating.”—USA TODAY

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your... Read more

The Autobiography of Henry VIII

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 41 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary novel that brings into vivid focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song. This is a readable, entertaining, tour de force that captures the essence of the Sixteenth Century, in all its drama and atmosphere. A can't-miss for readers who delight in wonderful historical... Read more

Dark Angels

By: Karleen Koen

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 17 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England.

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a messy scandal forced her to flee to Louis XIV’s... Read more