Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

Lord of the Silent - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Irresistible….Amelia is still a joy.”
 —New York Times Book Review The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more... Read more

Jubal Sackett: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land.

Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far... Read more

Zipporah, Wife of Moses

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah comes the riveting story of the remarkable woman who walked beside Moses. 

Although she is a Cushite by birth—one of the people of the lands to the south—Zipporah grew up as the beloved daughter of Jethro, high priest and sage of the Midianites. But the color of Zipporah’s skin sets her apart,... Read more

Zipporah, Wife of Moses - Abridged

By: Marek Halter

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah comes the riveting story of the remarkable woman who walked beside Moses. 

Although she is a Cushite by birth—one of the people of the lands to the south—Zipporah grew up as the beloved daughter of Jethro, high priest and sage of the Midianites. But the color of Zipporah’s skin sets her apart,... Read more

Gerald and Elizabeth

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerald Brown is a handsome and brilliant young engineer - wrongfully accused of stealing diamonds from his South African firm. Why has he been framed? Elizabeth Burleigh is a beautiful and talented West End actress – compelled to deny herself what marriage could bring her. What is the secret that impairs her love? Gerald and Elizabeth are... Read more

The Pirates of Pompeii

By: Caroline Lawrence

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It is late August of ad 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red, and the sea gives up corpses of the dead.

At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities around Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. When children begin to go... Read more

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. 

Lily is... Read more

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. 

Lily is... Read more

Shenandoah

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The last half of 1863 has taken a toll on the Brannon family, but winter has finally forced the armies to suspend campaigning. The lull in the fighting allows Mac to take leave from Jeb Stuart's cavalry, and Will comeshome from a Richmond hospital to convalesce.What little calm Christmas brings, however, is shattered with the sudden... Read more

Death at Wentwater Court

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This first installment of a delightful cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is... Read more

Chickamauga

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For members of the Brannon clan, the action ranges from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Georgia, Mississippi, and Illinois in this seventh of ten volumes in Reasoner's Civil War series. Two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and one, Cory, was at Vicksburg while the other, Mac, assists in protecting the Army of Northern Virginia. They still... Read more

The Legend of the Wandering King

By: Laura Gallego García

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The most dangerous magical object in the history of the world waits quietly in the treasury of a decaying Arabian palace. It knows your name and home and history and fate: it knows the past and future of the entire human race. It is a carpet, an impossible, dazzling carpet, and though a glance at it can drive a man mad, many will risk their... Read more

A Personal Devil

By: Roberta Gellis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberta Gellis, the acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, is in top medieval form with this second tale of life—and death—in twelfth-century London.Magdalene la B├ótarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. Together with the handsome Sir Bellamy of Itchen, she solved the murder of Baldassare the Messenger, but this... Read more

Tappan’s Burro

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Quite by chance, as he was looking for his burros, he struck his pick into a place no different from a thousand others there, and hit into a pocket of gold. He cleaned out the pocket before sunset, the richer for several thousand dollars.“‘You brought me luck,’ said Tappan, to the little gray burro staggering round its mother. ‘Your name is... Read more

Eagle’s Cry

By: David Nevin

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, whose thirst for power cannot be quenched, has gained control of New Orleans, a move that gives him potential mastery of the Mississippi River Valley. A country as strong as France could stop America’s free-trade market from growing along the great waterway. American businesses have begun to thrive on the... Read more

The Sibyl

By: Pär Lagerkvist

Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Kristoffer Tabori & Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away, but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the... Read more

Arch of Triumph

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravic is a German doctor and refugee living in Paris in 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, he has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic... Read more

Paladin of Souls

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons.Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family’s castle at Valenda. Yet her newfound... Read more

The Big Fifty

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a... Read more

Time’s Fool

By: Leonard Tourney

Narrated by: Tony Jay

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Shakespeare’s London, a world where the stage captures the hearts of every citizen, and where darkness hides dangerous and vengeful creatures. It is in this darkness that Shakespeare finds himself the victim of treachery most foul.When Shakespeare is contacted by his dark mistress, the former love of his life, he is excited to see her... Read more

In the Shadow of the Ark

By: Anne Provoost

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The rumor of the flood to come was too terrible to be true, and like most, Re Jana does not believe it. How could a god—anyone's god—determine who deserves to live and who to die? It was the rising waters that chased Re Jana's family from their home in the marshes. To the desert they fled, following the trail of animals and people who had gone... Read more

Vicksburg

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicksburg is the fifth in a ten-book series spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one Southern family.In the waning months of 1862, as the Union army advances closer and closer, Cory Brannon must abandon the supply train in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to undertake a vital mission for Confederate General John Pemberton, the commander... Read more

Mozart’s Wife

By: Juliet Waldron

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Giddy sugarplum? Calculating shrew? Mozart's biographers show disdain for his Konstanze, and she aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her; his friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her “failures” as wife to the world’s first superstar. Maturing from child, to wife, to... Read more