Historical Fiction audiobooks

As the Crow Flies - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.

Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit... Read more

Children of the Storm - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Once again, the New York Times bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody novels “kicks up a desert storm.”—PeopleThe “grande dame of historical mystery” (Washington Post) is back with a thrilling new tale featuring America’s favorite archaeologist turned sleuth. At last the Great War is over. Amelia Peabody, her distinguished Egyptologist... Read more

Sandstorm - Abridged

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the... Read more

Guardian of the Horizon - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A lost journal of Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the ""missing years"" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding light on an already exceptional career...and an unexpected terror.Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at... Read more

Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann

Narrated by: Simon Callow & Michael Cunningham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to... Read more

The Hundred Days

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, critics have celebrated best-selling author Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures for their magnificent blend of swashbuckling excitement and historical accuracy. With The Hundred Days, he transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era when the French demagogue is making a desperate attempt to control the European world. While... Read more

Fire Along the Sky

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.

The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has... Read more

People of the Raven

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 17 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this newest installment of the bestselling Prehistoric North America series, animals and humans are struggling for survival amidst massive environmental change. Mammoths, mastodons, and giant lions have become extinct, and Rain Bear, the chief of Sandy Point Village, knows his struggling Raven People may be next. One day a beautiful... Read more

Grant Comes East - Abridged

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grant Comes East, the second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg.

Across 140 years, nearly all historians have agreed that after the defeat of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, the taking of Washington, DC, would end the war. But was it... Read more

He Shall Thunder in the Sky

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. Peters' mysteries are so irresistible, The Washington Post Book World says, "the public library needs to keep her books under lock and key." This, the 12th Amelia... Read more

Folly and Glory

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review).

As... Read more

Shadowmancer

By: G.P. Taylor

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spine-chilling tale set on the 1700's Yorkshire coast, Obadiah Demurral is a vicar set on gaining control of the highest power in the universe. The only people in his way are two children, Kate and Thomas, and their mysterious friend Raphah, a shipwrecked sailor who has come from his home in Africa to reclaim a stolen icon and who offers... Read more

Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer... Read more

Victorine - Abridged

By: Catherine Texier

Narrated by: Jurian Hughes

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, leaves her husband and children for another man. Naturally, Victorine's motives are soulful, and yet... Read more

Lord John and the Private Matter

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic, multivolume Outlander saga is the starting point for a brilliant new series that begins with the novel Lord John and the Private Matter. Filled with intrigue and mystery and starring one of the most popular Outlander characters, Lord John Grey, this fresh new tale is utterly captivating. In a richly drawn 18th-century London, Scottish... Read more

Divining Women

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster
Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop -- cold... Read more

The Thieves of Ostia

By: Caroline Lawrence

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to embark on a thrilling adventure. Set in a graveyard, marketplace, and courtyards of a Roman city, this fast-paced mystery paints a vivid picture of the life in ancient times.

When the dogs on Flavia's street start dying, she is determined to find... Read more

Sunset and Sawdust - Abridged

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Joe R. Lansdale

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He has been called “hilarious . . . refreshing . . . a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country-boy wit” (Washington Post Book World), and praised for his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail and [his] front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (New York Times Book Review). Now, Joe R. Landsdale gives us a fast-moving, electrifying new... Read more

The Truelove

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey... Read more

The Ionian Mission

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Shoved into a temporary command in "that rotten old Worcester," Aubrey is off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockade of the French port of Toulon, where he will be dispatched by Admiral Harte (unfortunately the same Admiral Harte he cuckolded years ago) on a secret mission that promises to embroil Aubrey in political conflict.... Read more

A Great and Terrible Beauty

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence,... Read more

Montmorency

By: Eleanor Updale

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When a petty thief falls though a glass roof in his attempt to escape from the police, what should have been the death of him marks the beginning of a while new life. After his broken body is reconstructed by an ambitious young doctor, he is released from prison, and--with the help of Victorian London's extensive sewer system--he becomes the... Read more

Galloway: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate stand. . .

Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him.

But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more