Historical Fiction audiobooks

Telegraph Days

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Annie Potts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, Unabridged

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.

When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage... Read more

Sense and Sensibility - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Winslet

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The reduced circumstances of the Dashwood family cast a shadow over the romantic aspirations of daughters Elinor and Marianne - who must learn to mix sense with sensibility in approaching their problems with both money and men.

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The Dante Club

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: John Seidman

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields -- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston... Read more

The Foreign Correspondent - Abridged

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense Read more

The Poe Shadow

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL'S EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE TRUTH BEHIND POE'S DEATH!

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end -- except for a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer... Read more

The Death Collector

By: Justin Richards

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie “Dipper” Hopkins steals George Archer’s wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a dark world of grave robbers, assassins, and zombies.
Because George Archer is no ordinary citizen. He is the newest and youngest member of the Department of Unclassified Artifacts at the... Read more

The Poe Shadow - Abridged

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

INCLUDES MATTHEW PEARL'S EXCLUSIVE AUDIO AFTERWORD ON THE TRUTH BEHIND POE'S DEATH!

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. Everyone seems to accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end -- except for a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer... Read more

Water for Elephants

By: Sara Gruen

Narrated by: David Ledoux & John Randolph Jones

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Janowski's luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was the Great Depression and for Jacob the circus was both... Read more

Malinche

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Maria Conchita Alonso

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Like Water for Chocolate, an extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs between the conquistador Cortés and his interpreter, Malinalli.

A brilliant and multilingual woman, Malinalli has been reviled throughout Mexican history for the betrayal of her people—but... Read more

A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime.

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming... Read more

Rebel Angels

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in 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.

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city,... Read more

Kiowa Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom... Read more

Across the Years - Abridged

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds—first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfather and raising her daughter, Ashley Reynolds has finally found an element of peace while working as... Read more

Mad Jack

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth book in the Bride Saga from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.Winifrede disguises herself as a male valet to Grayson St. Cyre’s aunts, but when Grayson discovers the truth, he uncovers feelings he never imagined he possessed. Read more

Mischief - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood.Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the eight-seven with riddling clues for solving a... Read more

Kiss - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her. Read more

The Da Vinci Code

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.

“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times

“A pulse-quickening,... Read more

Paradise Alley

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: Kevin Baker

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Civil War, word spreads through the poorest quarters of New York City that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son can buy an exemption. The outrage this inspires escalates into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Down in the waterfront slum of Paradise Alley, three... Read more

Dreamland - Abridged

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

This is Dreamland, a uniquely fierce and magical tale that delivers both a sweeping chronicle of America at the turn of the century and an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of the lives of its denizens. Among the thousands of immigrants who arrive in New York harbor is an Eastern European stowaway called Kid Twist, who soon earns his keep as an... Read more

The Da Vinci Code - Abridged

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.

“Blockbuster perfection.... A gleefully erudite suspense novel.” —The New York Times

“A pulse-quickening,... Read more

Shadows of the Canyon - Abridged

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 1 of the Desert Roses series. Working as a Harvey Girl at the luxury resort of El Tovar, located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Alexandra Keegan feels she is in a dream come true. But when her father's indiscretions come to light and her mother is suspected of murder, Alex finds herself the center of some unwelcome attention. Will... Read more

The Minotaur

By: Barbara Vine

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her “charge,” John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man... Read more

The Secret Supper

By: Javier Sierra

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.

Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling—and blasphemous—message that he is driven to... Read more

The Secret Supper - Abridged

By: Javier Sierra

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.

Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling—and blasphemous—message that he is driven to... Read more