Historical Fiction audiobooks

Samuel Pepys - After the Fire - Abridged

By: Samuel Pepys & Hattie Naylor

Narrated by: Full Cast, Katherine Jakeways & Kris Marshall

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kris Marshall (My Family) stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the famous diarist's account of the aftermath of the Great Fire of London.

Following on from the acclaimed radio dramatisation of Pepys' complete diaries, this further instalment of his chronicles focuses on events following the cataclysmic inferno that destroyed much of the... 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

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

Krondor: Tear of the Gods - Abridged

By: Raymond E. Feist

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Return now to a kingdom in constant peril: a scarred land, both magical and wonderous. New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist continues his extraordinary Riftwar Legacy with a sweeping tale of conflict and intrigue. The vile sorcerer Sidi sets the murderous pirate Bear upon the high seas in pursuit of the kingdom's most holy object,... Read more

Die Chroniken des Zeitlosen - Abridged

By: Christian Reisböck

Narrated by: Simone Strohmeier

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Edward war schon alt, als ich geboren wurde. Uralt, als ich ihm das erste Mal begegnete…" Edward wird im viktorianischen London als Sohn eines Earls geboren. Er erlebt eine unbeschwerte Kindheit und ist nie ernsthaft krank. Als das 20. Jahrhundert anbricht, wird ihm klar, dass er nicht ist wie andere Menschen: Er altert kaum. Mehr und mehr... Read more

Nicola and the Viscount - Abridged

By: Meg Cabot

Narrated by: Amanda Root

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicola could feel Lord Sebastian's heart beating. It was the most delightful feeling in the world. Surely it meant that The God liked her. More than simply liked her--loved her even. It had to! It just had to!

Miss Nicola Sparks has fallen in love, big time. The object of her dreams is the fabulously rich Lord Sebastian, he of the ice-blue... Read more

Мария Стюарт (радиопостановка) - Abridged

By: Фридрих Шиллер

Narrated by: А. Тарасова & А. Степанова

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Мария Стюарт - радиоспектакль МХАТа им. М.Горького по одноименной пьесе. В ролях: А. Степанова, А. Тарасова и др. Read more

Sons of Texas - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild... Read more

Бег (радиопостановка) - Abridged

By: Михаил Булгаков

Narrated by: Аремен Джигарханян & Светлана Немоляева

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Бег – радиопостановка по одноименному роману. В ролях: С. Немоляева, А. Ромашин, Е. Лазарев, Н. Гундарева, А. Джигарханян и др. Read more

Spartan Gold - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo must out-pace a self-made millionaire in pursuit of a fortune that could prove his family ties to a centuries-old dynasty in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.


Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the... Read more

Keiner von euch - Abridged

By: Felix Mitterer

Narrated by: Felix Holm

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FELIX MITTERERS ERSTER ROMAN: ÜBER DAS LEBEN EINES AFRIKANERS AM WIENER HOF DES 18. JAHRHUNDERTS. ANGELO SOLIMAN: EIN LEBEN ZWISCHEN EMANZIPATION UND ASSIMILATION MITTE DES 18. JAHRHUNDERTS wird ein Junge von Afrika nach Europa verschleppt und fortan "Angelo Soliman" genannt. Im SIZILIANISCHEN MESSINA tauft man ihn katholisch und erzieht ihn... Read more

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

Der Junge auf dem Berg - Abridged

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Boris Aljinovic

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als Pierrot seine Eltern verliert, muss er Paris verlassen und ein neues Leben bei seiner Tante beginnen, die in einem wohlhabenden deutschen Haushalt dient. Aber dies ist keine gewöhnliche Zeit: Der zweite Weltkrieg steht vor der Tür. Und es ist kein gewöhnliches Haus: Es ist der Berghof – Adolf Hitlers Sommerresidenz. Fassungslos muss der... Read more

Deutsche Geschichte von 1871 bis zur Gegenwart - Abridged

By: Peter Zolling

Narrated by: Peter Zolling, Sabine Kastius & Friedhelm Ptok

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deutsche Geschichte seit 1871 – das ist die Geschichte der Wege und Irrwege, die ein schwieriges Vaterland zurücklegte, bis es doch noch zu Einheit und Freiheit in einem demokratischen Staatswesen fand. Peter Zolling erzählt diese Geschichte fesselnd, konzentriert aufs Wesentliche und mit Gespür für das erhellende Detail. Dieses Hörbuch ist ein... Read more

The Saboteurs - Abridged

By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The welcome, all-new return of Griffin's New York Times-bestselling series about the OSS in World War II.

Abridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours Read more

The Serpent on the Crown - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as powerful as ancient Egypt.The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in... Read more

Springwater Wedding - Abridged

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Jenna Stern

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the twenty-first century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches once rolled along muddy roads, the Internet is now the newest highway in town. But heartbreak is still... Read more

Alchemist of Eternity - Abridged

By: A.L. Helland

Narrated by: Saegis Abbott, Chris Frederic, Daniel Helland, ...

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The epic Paradox saga begins here, in small-town Angel, Nebraska. Ever since his wife and child died, Jett King has spent his life avoiding change. But when his best friend invents time-travel and a mysterious stranger claims his son is alive, Jett must choose to face a world he never knew existed. Follow his journey as he meets the... Read more

White Doves at Morning - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE

1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and... Read more

Towards Zero & Ordeal by Innocence - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! TOWARDS ZEROOne of Agatha Christie’s own ten favorite novels, Towards Zero puts Superintendent Battle and Inspector Leach on the case as they investigate the murder of an elderly widow.What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and... Read more

Shark Mutiny - Abridged

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is the year 2007, and the Chinese are poised to challenge America's superiority on the open sea and upset the delicate balance of oil power in the Middle East and the free passage of the world's giant tankers.The Chinese Navy, in partnership with Iran, has laid a minefield clean across the Strait of Hormuz, holding the world's oil supply... Read more

New York: The Novel - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

Mountain Laurel - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West!

Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most... Read more

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Polly Holliday

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more