Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell - Abridged

By: Loraine Despres

Narrated by: Zoe Thomas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1920, prohibition is in full swing, women are clamoring for the vote, and a narrow-minded intolerance is on the rise. Life isn't easy for an unmarried woman, not in a little town like Gentry, Louisiana, especially after she's sent to jail for swimming in an indecent bathing costume with a group of suffragettes.It's not as if Belle... Read more

The Sherbrooke Bride

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in Catherine Coulter's beloved Bride series. Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, marries the wrong woman-only to find himself haunted by a bride of an entirely different kind. Read more

The March

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating... Read more

The Reluctant Suitor - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lady Adriana Sutton has long adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood. As a young girl, she was wounded by Colton's stubborn refusal to comply with his father's wishes and by his angry departure for a life of adventure and danger in the British army.No longer the plain tomboy... Read more

The Last Sacrifice

By: Hank Hanegraaff & Sigmund Brouwer

Narrated by: Doug Lamoreux

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Helius, Nero’s most trusted adviser, anticipates the death of his sworn enemy, the legendary warrior Gallus Sergius Vitas, scheduled to die a gruesome death in the arena. However, the badly beaten man who appears in the amphitheater is not who he seems. Rescued by a stranger and given a mysterious scroll, Vitas is told he must decipher this... Read more

The Chosen

By: Chaim Potok

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Though they've lived their entire lives less than five blocks from each other, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders exist in very different worlds. Reuven blends easily into both his secular Jewish faith and his typical American teen life, while Danny's conservative Hasidic clothes and appearance make him stick out in any crowd. Their improbable... Read more

Thud!

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Start with Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and J.R.R. Tolkien’s alternative worlds, mix in James Ellroy’s gritty realism and Jonathan Swift’s unflinching satire and, if you’re lucky, you’ll get something like Terry Pratchett’s Thud!” —Wall Street JournalCity Watch Commander Sam Vimes must solve the... Read more

The Last Days of Dogtown

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Kate Nelligan

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review).

Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels,... Read more

The Darwin Conspiracy

By: John Darnton

Narrated by: Various

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.What led Darwin to... Read more

Antes de Ser Libres

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Maria Siccardi

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available in Spanish, the book Horn Book called “a realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” 

I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away from your country?

From award-winning author Julia Alvarez comes the story of... Read more

The Painted Drum

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between... Read more

Fallen

By: David Maine

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

A provocative epic of a story we know so well—or do we?



Once expelled from the Garden, Adam and Eve had to find their way past recriminations and bitterness to build a new life in a harsh land.



In Fallen, David Maine has drawn a convincing, enthralling portrait of a family—one driven (and riven) by familiar passions and jealousies. The result is a... Read more

Gunman's Rhapsody

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Robert B. Parker, creator of private detective Spenser, turns his eye to the Old West with his stirring novel. Rendered here are the legendary exploits of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Clanton Gang, and the fateful gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Read more

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette - Abridged

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For more than two centuries Marie Antoinette has been vilified as the heartless, frivolous queen who spent lavishly while her people starved. Now, in the tradition of The Birth of Venus and The Other Boleyn Girl, this moving novel tells her side of the story.

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie... Read more

The Widow of the South - Abridged

By: Robert Hicks

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Tom Wopat, David Chandler & Jo...

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field... Read more

Der Leinwandmesser - Abridged

By: Leo N. Tolstoi

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Held dieser Erzählung ist ein geschecktes Pferd, an dessen wechselvollen Erfahrungen mit seinen moralisch verkommenen Besitzern die Brüchigkeit der Gesellschaft entlarvt wird. Eine ergreifende Parabel über das Anderssein und die Leidensfähigkeit der Kreatur. \n \nAchim Höppner, mit Ausbildung an Kunstakademie, Universität und diversen... Read more

Der letzte Tag eines Verurteilten - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Daniel Friedrich

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Form eines Tagebuchs schildert Hugo die aufrüttelnden Bekenntnisse eines Verurteilten, der weiß, dass er in wenigen Stunden enthauptet wird. Dieses frühe und Aufsehen erregende Plädoyer gegen die Todesstrafe ist bis heute gültig. \n \nDaniel Friedrich spielte u. a. am Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, am Residenztheater München, am... Read more

Die Nacht vor Weihnachten - Abridged

By: Nikolai W. Gogol

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In einem kleinen ukrainischen Dorf kommt es beim jährlichen Weihnachtssingen durch teuflischen Spuk zu allerhand grotesken Episoden, in denen satirisch die Doppelmoral der Dorfbewohner entlarvt wird. Eine turbulente und höchst vergnügliche Weihnachtsgeschichte. \n \nAchim Höppner, mit Ausbildung an Kunstakademie, Universität und diversen... Read more

A Sudden Country

By: Karen Fisher

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.

James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the... Read more

Pardonable Lies

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and... Read more

Pardonable Lies - Abridged

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Jacqueline Winspear

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.

A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and... Read more

The Notebook

By: Nicholas Sparks

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads".

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story -- it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is... Read more

The Jester

By: James Patterson & Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Neil Dickson

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugh De Luc, a poor innkeeper, returns home from the First Crusade wearied from battle and disillusioned by carnage. After journeying from the Holy Land back to his own small village, he finds his nightmare is just beginning.In his absence, Hugh's son has been killed and his beloved wife, Sophie, abducted by a ruthless duke in search of a... Read more

Hard Revolution - Abridged

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Lance Reddick

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. Read more