Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Intelligencer - Abridged

By: Leslie Silbert

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell & Alfred Molina

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment,... Read more

The Music of the Spheres - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Redfern

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same... Read more

The Last Chance Cafe - Abridged

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Nance Williamson

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller—and “the finest in western romance” (RT Book Reviews)—comes a moving and passionate tale of one single mother’s journey to protect her daughters—and her heart.

While fleeing from her ex-husband with her two young daughters, Hallie finds herself trapped in a sudden and violent blizzard with... 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

Throne of Jade - Abridged

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the second novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, the Napoleonic Wars take Captain Will Laurence and his dragon to China on a perilous mission.

“Full of wonderful characters with real heart.”—Peter Jackson

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo—an unhatched dragon's egg—Captain Will Laurence of HMS... Read more

Götterflüstern. Gefundene Liebe - Abridged

By: Jenny Völker

Narrated by: Désirée Singson

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stell dir vor, die Götter spielen ein Spiel und du gerätst zwischen die Fronten. Elli ist Archäologin und gräbt wie jeden Sommer in Delphi aus. Im Zuge dessen findet sie eine kleine Statue der griechischen Göttin Athena, die sich seltsam leicht anfühlt. Kurz darauf überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Ein geheimnisvoller Gutachter taucht auf,... Read more

Deep in the Heart of Trouble - Abridged

By: Deeanna Gist

Narrated by: Brooke Sanford Heldman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Texas-Sized Tale of Unexpected Love. Essie Spreckelmeyer is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catching a man's eye. And the last man who seems willing to give her a second glance is Tony Morgan, newly... Read more

Legend of Oracle - Abridged

By: Ani K. Weise

Narrated by: Irena Neumaier & Andy Feind

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Was wäre, wenn es wahr ist und sie kein Mythos sind? Wenn es sie wirklich gibt? Die Götter in Olympia! Bei Ausgrabungen in Griechenland stößt die Archäologin Kyra Delany mit ihren Kollegen auf einen unglaublichen Fund einer längst vergessenen Zeit. Ein Tempel zu Ehren Ares, dem Gott des Krieges. Aber was Kyra in den Tiefen Griechenlands... Read more

The Machiavelli Covenant - Abridged

By: Allan Folsom

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.

In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust... 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 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

By King’s Command - Abridged

By: Linda Lea Castle

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A full-cast production based on the novel by award-winning, bestselling author Linda Lea CastleThe year is 1208, a time when most heiresses do their duty. But not Elsbeth of Camley, for she would rather join a holy order than be bartered off and expected to breed well and often. Elsbeth flees to Lambeth Abbey with her dower coin and unwittingly... Read more

Drood - Abridged

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double... Read more

The Last Valentine - Abridged

By: James Pratt

Narrated by: Vyto Ruginis

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said goodbye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For half a century, she waited for him to return— until a miracle happened and she received his "Last Valentine." Their son, Neil Thomas, Jr., wants to share the powerful message of his parents' tragic, yet triumphant, 50-year... Read more

Der geflügelte Dolch - Abridged

By: H. J. Mayfield

Narrated by: Simone Strohmeier

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Warum solltest du dieses Buch kaufen? Seien wie ehrlich: Ich bin nicht J. R. R. Tolkien. Ich bin auch nicht George R. R. Martin. Ich bin nicht mal Sam Feuerbach oder Greg Walters. Du hast meinen Namen noch nie gehört und die Titel meiner Bücher auch nicht. Warum solltest du also dein sauer verdientes Geld für meine Bücher ausgeben? Warum... Read more

Dreamland - Abridged

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

This is Dreamland, a uniquely fierce and magical tale that delivers both a sweeping chronicle of America at the turn of the century and an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of the lives of its denizens. Among the thousands of immigrants who arrive in New York harbor is an Eastern European stowaway called Kid Twist, who soon earns his keep as an... 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

Dona de Mim - Abridged

By: Natalie Gerhardt

Narrated by: Natalie Gerhardt

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A escrita da Natalie esbanja carisma e tem aquela sensibilidade que só uma mulher muito dona de si e das suas verdades consegue pôr na página. Dona de mim é divertido, surpreendente e sensual -- o cenário histórico e todas as suas regras sociais servem apenas pra deixar mais interessante a protagonista que quebra todas elas." Beatriz... Read more

Wish You Well - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of... Read more

The Mauritius Command - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the... Read more

The Fortune of War - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and... Read more

Novelas De La Dinastia Ming - Abridged

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Santiago Munevar

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No solo por la construcción de la Gran Muralla China es recordada la dinastía Ming, que reinó en el imperio chino entre 1368 y 1644, sino por que la época marcó un florecimiento de las artes y las letras. Fue además una época de paz y progreso como nunca se había visto en la historia de la humanidad. Esta época vio igualmente la divulgación de... Read more

Magic Mushrooms? From Eve´s Garden to my Granny´s Microdosing - Abridged

By: Angélica Sánchez (Agüita)

Narrated by: Vanessa Weller

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of magic mushrooms told through the voices of women who, with threads of different colors, bordered a tapestry that tells a story of magic mushrooms that has never been told before. Read more

Deus Lo Volt! - Abridged

By: Evan S. Connell

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magisterial work of historical imagination-a stunningly immediate, first-person account of one soldier's experience of the defining war of Christendom. Read more