Historical Fiction audiobooks

Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a child, Elizabeth Tradd witnessed the horror of war and as a young girl, she learned the worst that men can do. As a woman, she discovers the breathtaking excitement that comes to but a lucky few. Here is the story of a Charleston family and the courage, love, and passion that bind them to each other and their vibrant South Carolina city.... Read more

Dance with the Devil - Abridged

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Kirk Douglas

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and... Read more

On Leaving Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga— begun in the bestselling Charleston— traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking... Read more

Hornet Flight - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Byron Jennings

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follet-the master of suspense-follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of the early days of World War II.

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El alma de las piedras - Abridged

By: Paloma Sánchez-Garnica

Narrated by: Diego Rousselon & Laura Carrero

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una sorprendente novela que descubre los secretos ocultos del Camino de Santiago Corre el año 824 d. C. El ermitaño Paio, el obispo Teodomiro y su ayudante Martín de Bilibio hallan una tumba cuyos restos, aseguran, pertenecen a Santiago Apóstol. Crean así, cerca de la tierra del fin del mundo, el Lugar Santo Jacobeo para atraer a la cristiandad.... 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

Helle Tage, dunkle Schuld - Kriminalinspektor Carl Bruns, Band 1 (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Eva Völler

Narrated by: Steffen Groth

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine Frau, die sich in der Nachkriegszeit einen Platz im Leben erkämpft, ein Mann, der gegen das Unrecht kämpft und ein historischer Kriminalfall, der auf Tatsachen beruht. Der erste große Spannungsroman der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Eva Völler - authentisch, aufwühlend und packend. Ruhrgebiet, 1948. Der Kriminalbeamte Carl Bruns arbeitet für... Read more

Das Spiel der Nachtigall (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Tanja Kinkel

Narrated by: Katrin Fröhlich & Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ende des 12. Jahrhunderts beginnt ein Junge aus ärmsten Verhältnissen seinen unaufhaltsamen Aufstieg an die Spitze der Minnesänger, um den sich die Fürstenhöfe streiten - und das, obwohl Walther von der Vogelweide mit allen Konventionen bricht und dem Minnesang die Keuschheit nimmt. Was keiner seiner Gönner ahnt, die ihn als "Nachtigall"... Read more

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

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Auf Bischof Bernwards Spuren - Abridged

By: Doris Carla Doussemer

Narrated by: Doris Carla Doussemer

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Doris Carla Doussemer erzählt das Aufwachsen, Leben und Wirken Bischof Bernwards aus heutiger Perspektive. Sie stützt sich dabei auf historische Quellen und Literatur, fügt aber auch imaginäre Details und fiktive Geschichten an. Auf diese Weise wird Bernward als Mensch und Geistlicher lebendig und sein Denken und Handeln nicht nur als... Read more

The Castle in the Forest - Abridged

By: Norman Mailer

Narrated by: Harris Yulin

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A MAJOR NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEN OF LETTERS

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe,... Read more

Die Rose der Welt (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Peter Prange

Narrated by: Reinhard Kuhnert

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert und Paul sind jung und arm, doch sie haben einen Traum. Sie wollen studieren, an der Sorbonne in Paris - genannt die "Rose der Welt". Doch die beiden Freunde geraten mitten in den Konflikt zwischen Gottesfurcht und der Freiheit des Denkens, zwischen Kirche, Krone und neuen Ideen. Und beide kämpfen um die Liebe derselben Frau. Read more

Savannah {or} a Gift for Mr. Lincoln - Abridged

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers sets his sights on the jewel of the South-Savannah-and brings it to life in his inimitable style.
Georgia, 1864: Sherman's army marches from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah where the Lester ladies -- attractive widowed Sara and her feisty... Read more

La Soñadora - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Virtual Voice Narrator

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

 Trilogía del Tesoro de las Highlands- Libro 1     Comenzando con El soñador, la trilogía Tesoro de las Highlands, May McGoldrick captura las vidas y los amores de tres hermanas escocesas.     Cada una de las hermanas Percy tiene una pista sobre el tesoro de su familia y la llave del corazón de tres guerreros de las Highlands...     Cuando su... Read more

The Scarlet Letter - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real... Read more

Ivanhoe - Abridged

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Brian Cox

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the 12th century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric’s ward. Cedric intends Rowena for the oafish Athelstane, and banishes his son. 'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the mêlée is the breath of... Read more

Søfolkene - Abridged

By: Vivian Stuart

Narrated by: Jesper Bøllehuus

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Den tyvende bog i den spændende og dramatiske beretning om Australiens kolonisering – et land skabt af blod, passion og drømme.  Jon Fisher og Harry Ryan vender tilbage til Australien.  Da de vender tilbage, finder Jon Fisher ud af, at hans familie er på kanten af konflikt med de velhavende besættere og de såkaldte 'vælgere'. Familien står nu... Read more

Mules and Men - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of... Read more

Code to Zero - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that...[Follett is] a hell of storyteller."—Entertainment Weekly Read more

Wolfsgrund - Abridged

By: Gerda Stauner

Narrated by: Claus Thomas & Melanie Rainer

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein einsamer Wolf. Ein verlassenes Dorf. Zwei Menschen am Scheideweg. Der Journalist Melchior Beerbauer steht vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Er ringt mit der Frage, ob er das Geheimnis um seinen unehelichen Sohn lüften soll, denn damit würde er seinen besten Freund verlieren. Zeitgleich beginnt er mit der Recherche über die ungeheuerliche Enteignung... Read more

Olympian Games [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Tom Doyle

Narrated by: Richard Rohan, Lynette Rathnam, Laura C. Harris...

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Secret agents Samuel and Mehrnaz are back in a new supernatural adventure in the ancient world! Imperial spymaster Croesus is sending his top team to Greece on a personal assignment: find out why the Oracle of Delphi betrayed him and how it engineered the death of his son and heir.
But to reach Delphi, Samuel and Mehrnaz will first have to fight... 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

The English Assassin - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva, comes a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.

The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national... Read more

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more