Historical Fiction audiobooks

Appomattox

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The exciting conclusion to Reasoner's Civil War Battle SeriesWith the conclusion of the ten-volume saga, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. Members of the Brannon family are involved in battles spread across the country. In the Shenandoah Valley, Mac and Titus fight alongside Fitzhugh Lee. Nathan Hatcher wears... Read more

Savannah

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army led by General William Sherman is marching to the coastal city of Savannah, laying waste to the territory through which it passes. Behind enemy lines on the Brannon family farm,... Read more

The Sultan’s Seal

By: Jenny White

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the unsolved murder of another Englishwoman, a governess, ten years before. A magistrate in the new secular courts, Kamil Pasha, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and... Read more

The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his... Read more

Fall of a Philanderer

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday—but Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent... Read more

We Look like Men of War

By: William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man.” Thus begins the poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master’s cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight... Read more

By the Grand Canal

By: William Rivière

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the First World War, Hugh Thurne, a British diplomat involved in the peace negotiations, seeks solace in his rented palazzo in Venice rather than returning to his wife and the charade of his marriage in London. Although profoundly disturbed by the grim long-term prospects for peace, he has faith in the city’s power to raise... Read more

The Hope Before Us

By: Elyse Larson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Contending valiantly against the Nazi threat in war-torn Europe, two sisters unite to thwart a sinister plan, in this third book in Elyse Larson’s Women of Valor series.When Marge Emerson uncovers a diabolical Nazi plot she is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector whose outspoken belief in God... Read more

Addie

By: Lee Thompson

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the mid-1880s, when Florida south of St. Augustine is a virtual wilderness and Daytona, Miami, and Tampa are little more than dots on the maritime charts. Addie is a “beanery queen” who ekes out a living from her canteen at the convergence of two primitive railroads. She is popular with the train crews but is disdained by most of the... Read more

Bloodlist

By: P. N. Elrod

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Flavoring the hard-boiled detective story with a taste of the supernatural, this is the first book in the highly entertaining Vampire Files series."I've always had a weak spot for strange ladies. One very beautiful girl had even warned me that she was—get this—a vampire. But did I listen? No."Before you know it, I'm being chased by an ugly thug... Read more

Men of Iron

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days of chivalry, when men were made of iron, young Myles Falworth, a lord’s son, is forced to make his own fortune when his father is unjustly disgraced for treason. How he enters the service of a powerful lord, rises to knighthood, defeats his father’s old enemy in thrilling combat, and at last wins the friendship of the king is told... Read more

The Call of the Canyon

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. Carley Burch, a young orphaned woman, is living a life of leisure in her family's New York City home. When her fianc├®, Glenn Kilbourne, returns from France ill and broken after fighting in World War I, he heads west, drawn to the mountains and canyons of Arizona.... Read more

The Vanishing American

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of Zane Grey’s best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey’s empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the... Read more

Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 25 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of the youthful Molly Gibson, raised by her doctor father. When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly’s quiet life, the loveable but worldly and troubling Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and... Read more

The Lion of St. Mark

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Francis, an English lad, lives in fourteenth-century Venice, during a period when the city’s strength and splendor were put to the severest of tests by a war with Hungary, Padua, and Genoa. This young hero displays wisdom and manliness in the face of conflict, and such traits carry him safely through an atmosphere of intrigue, crime, and... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Cranford is Elizabeth Gaskell’s gently comic picture of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s. It describes the small adventures in the lives of two middle-aged sisters in reduced circumstances, Matilda and Deborah Jenkyns, who do their best to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. At the center... Read more

The Talisman

By: Walter Scott

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Encamped in the Holy Land, the crusaders are torn by the dissensions and jealousies of their leaders. The army’s impotence is accentuated by the illness of their chief, Richard I of England. Meanwhile, a poor but doughty Scottish crusader known as Sir Kenneth, on a mission far from the camp, encounters a Saracen Emir. After an inconclusive... Read more

The Deerslayer

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the French and Indian Wars, The Deerslayer vividly captures the violence and rugged beauty of the American frontier. In the wilds of New York, where tensions rage between tribal Indians and white pioneers, a white hunter known as Deerslayer is initiated into the moral codes of wilderness society. When he and his loyal Mohican friend... Read more

Under Drake’s Flag

By: G. A. Henty

Narrated by: Fred Williams

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea, a young lad sails with Sir Francis Drake, the daring sixteenth-century privateer, in this action-packed story based on true historical events. Drake’s superb navigational skill enabled him to outrun or outmaneuver his incessant pursuers. He escaped so often and so... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither... Read more

Ben-Hur

By: Lew Wallace

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most popular American novels of all time, Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the oppressive Roman occupation of ancient Palestine and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is both a vivid historical adventure and a powerful story of one man’s religious awakening.Born... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly,... Read more

Percival Keene

By: Frederick Marryat

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Frederick Marryat of the Royal Navy knew well both the thunder of the broadside and the laughter of the gun room. In Percival Keene, he takes us on a thrilling and authentic ride through the naval world of the Napoleonic wars.This is the gripping tale of the mischievous young midshipman Percival Keene, whose adventures begin when he... Read more

Captain Blood

By: Rafael Sabatini

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1685, Irish physician Peter Blood is happily settled in a small English town when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth interrupts the peace. After saving the life of a wounded nobleman who turns out to be a rebel, Blood is charged with treason and sentenced to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies.On the islands, Blood... Read more