Historical Fiction audiobooks

City of Light - Abridged

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made... Read more

The Historian - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Jim Ward, Martin Jarvis, Dennis...

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). 

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets... Read more

Mischief - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Harriet Walter

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That's why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap?



Her scheme is... Read more

Song of Redemption - Abridged

By: Malika J. Stevely

Narrated by: K. Javai & Clif St. Laurent

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Celebrated by book clubs and inspired by true events, Song of Redemption unveils a devastating mystery. In 1932, a media frenzy erupted when the body of Danielle, a gifted and enslaved songstress, was discovered hidden within the walls of an abandoned mansion on the Soileau Plantation. Through her sister, who returns to the English and... Read more

Un Mundo Feliz - Abridged

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Armando Hernandez

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Un mundo feliz es un clásico de la literatura del siglo XX, una sombría metáfora sobre el futuro. La novela describe un mundo en el que finalmente se han cumplido los peores vaticinios: triunfan los dioses del consumo y la comodidad, y el orbe se organiza en diez zonas en apariencia seguras y estables. Sin embargo, este mundo ha sacrificado... Read more

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

Slightly Shady - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amanda Quick's bestselling trademark is a combination of suspense and passion in historical tales alight with sparkling wit and brimming with dangerous intrigue. Now she serves up the most tantalizing novel of her career as an enterprising woman allies herself with a mysterious spy, only to be caught in a seething brew of treachery — and... Read more

Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows - Abridged

By: Jane Austen & August Kotzebue

Narrated by: a full cast, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Den...

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The unlikely heroine of this novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule for the young Bertram sisters (Maria and Julia), and is relentlessly bullied by her manipulative and penny-pinching aunt,... 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

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

Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more

The Boleyn Inheritance - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Dagmara Dominczyk, Ruthie Henshall & Bianca Amato

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) comes this New York Times bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.

After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. The Boleyn... Read more

The Forest - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum

From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their... 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

La spia della regina - Abridged

By: Clare Marchant

Narrated by: Angela Ricciardi

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

UNA MISSIONE PERICOLOSA. UN TRADIMENTO IMPERDONABILE. UN SEGRETO NASCOSTO NEI MEANDRI DEL TEMPO. 1584 Da poco arrivato in Inghilterra dalla Francia, Tom Lutton, giovane erborista sordomuto, viene ingaggiato come assistente dallo speziale di corte e per una serie di circostanze fortuite entra nelle grazie della sovrana. Donna di acuta... 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

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

The Good German - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.

With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the... Read more

Медный всадник - Abridged

By: Паулина Саймонс

Narrated by: Алла Човжик

Length: 25 hours

Abridged: Yes

22 июня 1941 года, когда радиоэфир взорвала весть о начале войны, Татьяна Метанова поступила скорее как легкомысленная француженка, чем рассудительная советская девушка. Надев белое с красными розами платье и радуясь летнему дню, она вышла на улицу родного Ленинграда навстречу своей судьбе. Да, такое могло случиться только с Татьяной. Из всех... Read more

Midnight Circus - Requiem of Dreams - Abridged

By: B.E. Pfeiffer

Narrated by: Fanny Bechert & Kai Hochhäusler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wenn deine Träume zum Greifen nahe sind – würdest du alles dafür opfern? Néeira träumt davon, eine Primaballerina an der Pariser Oper zu werden. Als der berühmte Midnight Circus ihr eine Stelle anbietet, nimmt sie an, denn jede bisherige Tänzerin dort hat es nach Paris geschafft. Allerdings verlangt ihr die Trapeznummer, die sie dafür... 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

Half A Heart - Abridged

By: Rosellen Brown

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson & LisaGay Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980's. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her... Read more

Shadow Song - Abridged

By: Terry Kay

Narrated by: Terry Kay

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more

Fortune's Favorite - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more