Historical Fiction audiobooks

Caesar - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 54 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping through Gaul. While his victories in the name of Rome are epic, the conservative leaders of the Republic are not pleased -- they are terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier stop? He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government and install himself as... Read more

The Real Education of TJ Crowley - Abridged

By: Grant Overstake & May Wuthrich

Narrated by: Dani Martineck, Dion Graham, Tavia Gilbert, Joh...

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in 1968 after the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this immersive audio dramatization, inspired by the author’s own experiences, features an award-winning cast of 15 actors, in a fast-paced, suspenseful coming-of-age story.With his father’s mysterious disappearance and his brother Ronnie enlisting in the Vietnam War, 13-year-old TJ... Read more

Tage des Lichts - Die große Seidenstadt-Saga, Band 3 (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Ulrike Renk

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Hoffnung dieser Tage. England, 1939. Ruth hat es geschafft - sie hat die nötigen Papiere für ihre Familie besorgt, die endlich nach England ausreisen darf. Zusammen wollten sie alles in Bewegung setzen, um ihre Verwandten noch nachzuholen. Aber dann erklärt England Deutschland den Krieg. Ruth wähnte sich bislang in Sicherheit, aber was... Read more

Tess and the Highlander - Abridged

By: May McGoldrick & Jan Coffey

Narrated by: Anya VirtualVoice

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Macpherson Clan Novel  Tess Lindsay has spent most of her life on the remote Isle of May, uncertain of her identity. Raised by the two sole inhabitants of the island, she is left to fend for herself after their deaths, until a stranger washes ashore in a storm. Tess pulls him from the surf, not knowing that in saving the Highlander she is... Read more

Horizon’s West - Abridged

By: Old Time Radio

Narrated by: Armed Forces Radio Service

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges’ historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. This well-written and well-performed program includes the complete set of thirteen half-hour broadcasts performed for Armed Forces Radio, and documents the exploration of America by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The storylines... Read more

Treason's Harbour - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 9th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series

All of Patrick O'Brian's strengths are on parade in this novel of action and intrigue, set partly in Malta, partly in the treacherous, pirate-infested waters of the Red Sea. While Captain Aubrey worries about repairs to his ship, Stephen Maturin assumes the center stage; for the dockyards and... Read more

Heul doch nicht, du lebst ja noch - Abridged

By: Kirsten Boie

Narrated by: Jodie Ahlborn

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Von einem Leben nach den Schrecken des Krieges. Hamburg, Juni 1945: Die Stadt liegt in Trümmern. Mittendrin leben Traute, Hermann und Jakob. Der nennt sich allerdings Friedrich, denn niemand soll erfahren, dass er Jude ist. Als Hermann ihm dennoch auf die Spur kommt, will er nichts mehr mit Jakob zu tun haben. Schuld, Wahrheit, Angst und Wut... Read more

Kiss - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An 87th Precinct novel -- Certain that someone is trying to kill her, Emma Bowles turns to another killer for protection, and only a dedicated cop trapped in a defective legal system can save her. Read more

Duchess - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux captures the thrill of an American beauty's Highlands wedding, where a royal title is at stake—and where love wins the day.

Claire Willoughby risked losing millions in her inheritance if, as decreed by her grandfather, she did not wed an "acceptable" man. Harry Montgomery, the eleventh Duke of... Read more

Mischief - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this 87th Precinct thriller, Detective Steve Carella must track down a killer who's systematically rubbing out all the city's graffiti artists, leaving each victim mischievously splashed with paint and blood.Foul play takes another form when an old nemesis, the Dead Man, taunts Carella and the eight-seven with riddling clues for solving a... 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

The Other Boleyn Girl - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Ruthie Henshall

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestseller from “the queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family.

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of the... Read more

Tides of War - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: Yes

Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general.

A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory.

But like the heroes in a great... Read more

Die Päpstin (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Donna W. Cross

Narrated by: Gabriele Blum

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Johanna wächst im Frankenreich des 9. Jahrhundert auf. Ihr gelingt, was anderen Frauen verwehrt bleibt: Sie erhält eine heilkundliche Ausbildung. Doch sie weiß, dass sie als gelehrte Frau kaum überleben kann. Als Mönch verkleidet, zieht sie erst ins Kloster Fulda, dann nach Rom. Dort steigt sie zum Leibarzt des Papstes auf. Dann geschieht das... Read more

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

Die Spionin (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Imogen Kealey

Narrated by: Ulrike Kapfer

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Für die Alliierten ist sie ihre beste Agentin, eine gefürchtete Kämpferin, die ihre Gegner mit einem Handschlag zu töten vermag. Für die Nazis ist sie die meistgesuchte Person Frankreichs, ein gefürchtetes Phantom, auf dessen Kopf fünf Millionen Francs ausgesetzt sind. Ihr Name ist Nancy Wake - und sie kämpft für die Liebe. Marseille, 1940:... Read more

The Hobbit - Abridged

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he... Read more

The Commoner - Abridged

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more

The Dark Frigate - Abridged

By: Charles Boardman Hawes

Narrated by: Dominick Allen

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland.

Philip's bold spirit and knowledge of the sea soon win him his captain's regard. But when the "Rose of Devon" is... 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

Dreamers of the Day - Abridged

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel

“Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history.”—The Washington Post
 
Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old... Read more

The Russian Cage [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Colleen Delany, Dani Stoller, Robbie Gay, Steph...

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Charlaine Harris is at her best in this alternate history of the United States where magic is an acknowledged but despised power in this third installment of the Gunnie Rose series.
Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes... Read more

A Place Called Freedom - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Victor Garber

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his waking hours.  Bound to his employer for life, Mack burns with an insatiable desire to escape.  

He finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie Hallim, the beautiful, willful young aristocratic... Read more

A Column of Fire - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#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