Historical Fiction audiobooks

The The Sackett Brand: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.

Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to... Read more

Wish You Well

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Norma Lana

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of... Read more

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Josh Heine

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.

The book’s power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing... Read more

The Fig Eater

By: Jody Shields

Narrated by: Patricia Kilgarriff

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When a young woman's body is discovered in the summer of 1910 Vienna, the Inspector's wife is certain the figs found in her stomach during the autopsy are the clue to the identity of the murderer -- for there are no fresh figs in Vienna at this time of year. Read more

Sea Glass

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Judith Ann Gantly

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how... Read more

Wish You Well - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of... Read more

Cane River - Abridged

By: Lalita Tademy

Narrated by: Shari Belafonte, Edwina Moore & JoMarie Payton

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.

Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four... Read more

Every Tongue Got to Confess

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant... Read more

Some Enchanted Evening - Abridged

By: Christina Dodd

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once upon a time . . . in a kingdom high in the Pyrenees, three young princesses were forced to flee the chaos in their land—vanishing without a trace and lost to their people . . . until the day a courageous prince can bring the princesses home.One of Scotland's most dangerous men, Robert MacKenzie is dazzled by the enchanting beauty who rides... Read more

Mules and Men - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of... Read more

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume 3

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.

The essence of Louis L'Amour's timeless appeal can be found in these unforgettable short stories. This third volume includes Shandy Takes the Hook,... Read more

The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations: Volume 1

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Chick Bowdrie's adventure in these classic westerns by America's favorite storyteller, Louis L'Amour.

Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle... Read more

Farmer Giles of Ham

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then... Read more

The Hobbit - Abridged

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he... Read more

Fan-Tan

By: Marlon Brando & Donald Cammell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Anatole "Annie" Doultry is in his early fifties, with an imposing physical presence and a reputation to match. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison where, on a whim, he saves the life of a Chinese prisoner.



The prisoner's employer happens to be Madame Lai Choi San. Beautiful, ruthless, and shrewd, she is one of the most... Read more

Das Gotteslehen

By: Ludwig Ganghofer

Narrated by: Ernst Krammer-Keck

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ganghofers historisierender Roman ?Das Gotteslehen" spielt im 13. Jahrhundert, einer sehr bewegten Zeit. Die Kirche erlebt die Zeit der Kreuzzüge ins Heilige Land, eine permanente Auseinandersetzung tobt überdies zwischen der klerikalen und der weltlichen Herrschaft.Was im Großen darin gipfelt, daß der Staufer Friedrich II. vom Papst als... Read more

Schloss Hubertus

By: Ludwig Ganghofer

Narrated by: Ernst Krammer-Keck

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Der verwitwete Graf Egge-Sennefeld hat sich für seine vier Kinder Tassilo, Robert, Willy und Kitty nie Zeit genommen, denn er pflegt nur eine Leidenschaft: Sommer und Herbst verbringt er bei der Jagd auf seiner Hütte, im Winter und Frühling unternimmt er Jagdreisen in Polen. Als Kitty einmal ihren Vater besucht, gerät sie auf dem Weg zu seiner... Read more

Schloss Hubertus

By: Ludwig Ganghofer

Narrated by: Ernst Krammer-Keck

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Der verwitwete Graf Egge-Sennefeld hat sich für seine vier Kinder Tassilo, Robert, Willy und Kitty nie Zeit genommen, denn er pflegt nur eine Leidenschaft: Sommer und Herbst verbringt er bei der Jagd auf seiner Hütte, im Winter und Frühling unternimmt er Jagdreisen in Polen. Als Kitty einmal ihren Vater besucht, gerät sie auf dem Weg zu seiner... Read more

Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest Ludwig Thoma - Abridged

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Paul Ernst Rattelmüller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der bekannte Rundfunkautor und -moderator Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest auf unverkennbare Weise beliebte und bekannte Geschichten von Ludwig Thoma, u.a. "Die Dachserin", "Assessor Karlchen", "Monika", "Die Wilderer" und viele andere mehr. Paul Ernst Rattelmüller (* 27. März 1924 in Regensburg; † 12. Januar 2004 in Starnberg) war ein deutscher... Read more

Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest Ludwig Thoma - Abridged

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Paul Ernst Rattelmüller

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der bekannte Rundfunkautor und -moderator Paul Ernst Rattelmüller liest auf unverkennbare Weise beliebte und bekannte Geschichten von Ludwig Thoma, u.a. "Die Dachserin", "Assessor Karlchen", "Monika", "Die Wilderer" und viele andere mehr. Paul Ernst Rattelmüller (* 27. März 1924 in Regensburg; † 12. Januar 2004 in Starnberg) war ein deutscher... Read more

Der Kölner Dom - Abridged

By: Albert Fetzer

Narrated by: Christian Brückner, Joachim Kerzel, Matthias Ha...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im Auditorium Maximum der Universität zu Köln findet der internationale Kongreß für Mediävistik und Kirchengeschichte statt. Der Gastredner, Professor A. H. Riman, hält einen Vortrag über den ersten Dom-baumeister Gerhard von Rile und den Bau des Kölner Domes. Dabei überrascht Riman sein Auditorium immer wieder mit intimen Details zum... Read more

Magic in the Wind

By: Christine Feehan

Narrated by: Karina Galt

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

First in the Drake Sisters series from the "reigning queen of the paranormal romance"--#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Carpathian and Sea Haven novels.

The story of Sarah, the eldest of the extraordinary—and magical—Drake sisters, now rewritten and expanded, in this very special collector’s edition…

“Sarah Drake has come home.” Ever... Read more

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Anand’s mentor and spiritual guide, the Master Healer Abhaydatta, seems to be in grave danger. Should he simply convey this information to his elders and waste precious time or should he take matters into his own hands?

Readers familiar with Anand from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s acclaimed novel, The Conch Bearer, will know what choice he makes.... Read more