Historical Fiction audiobooks

My Plain Jane

By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Move over, Charlotte Brontë. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with an irreverent spin on Jane Eyre—a tale of mischief, romance, and supernatural mayhem perfect for fans of The Princess Bride or A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life... Read more

Salt to the Sea

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Will Damron, Cassandra Morris &...

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller! "Masterly crafted"—The Wall Street Journal

For readers of Between Shades of Gray and All the Light We Cannot See, bestselling author Ruta Sepetys returns to WWII in this epic novel that shines a light on one of the war's most devastating—yet unknown—tragedies.

World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and... Read more

You're the Problem, It's You

By: Emma R. Alban

Narrated by: Chris Devon & Will Watt

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The enemies-to-lovers queer Victorian romance follow-up to Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend, in which a young lord and a second son clash, but find themselves thrust together again and again by their meddling cousins.“That man is, without a doubt, the absolute most obnoxious…Bobby Mason is sick of being second best: born the spare, never... Read more

Black Powder War

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Temeraire * Book 3

After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul... Read more

The Librarian of Burned Books

By: Brianna Labuskes

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt, Eleanor Caudill & Karissa Vacker

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war. 
Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation... Read more

The Fragile Threads of Power

By: V. E. Schwab

Narrated by: Kate Reading, Marisa Calin & Michael Kramer

Length: 21 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran narrators Michael Kramer and Kate Reading return to this fantastical world, along with a new POV portrayed by Marisa Calin.

"As the threads converge, all three narrators strive to remain as consistent as possible to each other's stylistic choices, creating a nearly flawless whole."- AudioFile

V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Dictionary of Lost Words

By: Pip Williams

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress.”—Geraldine Brooks, New York... Read more

Wolf Hall

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Ben Miles

Length: 25 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

“[Ben] Miles’ charming, yet dastardly narration makes Cromwell an anti-hero worth rooting for no matter how hard you try not to.”—TIME on Wolf Hall

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK... Read more

Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Harrison Knights

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing... Read more

Romancing the Duke

By: Tessa Dare

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities.And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one.Ugly duckling turned swan?　Abducted by handsome highwayman?　Rescued... Read more

The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Erin Bennett & Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and a New York Times bestseller!
 
“A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife 

In New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest... Read more

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

By: Hazel Gaynor

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.”1838: Northumberland, England.... Read more

The Keeper of Happy Endings

By: Barbara Davis

Narrated by: Robin Siegerman & Hope Newhouse

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls.Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the... Read more

The Known World

By: Edward P. Jones

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his... Read more

Empire of Shadows

By: Jacquelyn Benson

Narrated by: Alex Picard

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities.One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions.When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to... Read more

Lies We Sing to the Sea

By: Sarah Underwood

Narrated by: Saffron Coomber, Ioanna Kimbook & Sebastian Hum...

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller—and a legendary YA debut!This dazzling sapphic fantasy inspired by Greek mythology will captivate fans of Circe and The Song of Achilles.Each spring, Ithaca condemns twelve maidens to the noose. This is the price vengeful Poseidon demands for the lives of Queen Penelope’s twelve maids, hanged and cast into... Read more

Velvet Was the Night

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, The... Read more

A Column of Fire

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 30 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Absorbing . . . impossible to resist.” —The Washington Post

As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. A thrilling... Read more

The Signature of All Things

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 21 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure, and discovery. Spanning much of the... Read more

Daughter of the Merciful Deep

By: Leslye Penelope

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. 

“Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.”

Jane Edwards hasn’t spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Mortal Follies

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material.

“Fresh and delightful . . . All the interpersonal drama of Jane Austen meets all the complex treachery of Greek mythology.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK... Read more

The Last Kingdom

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The first installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series.In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils... Read more

Gods of Jade and Shadow

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Yetta Gottesman

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

“A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read... Read more