Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Hummingbird's Daughter

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 18 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The House of Broken Angels and Good Night, Irene, discover the epic historical novel following the journey of a young saint fighting for her survival.

This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched... Read more

Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River

By: Emily J. Edwards

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

1950, New York. Viviana Valentine—Girl Friday turned partner to New York’s top investigator, Tommy Fortuna—is drawn into a sordid new case when Buster Beacon, a wealthy man of science, beckons them to a party at his mansion north of the city. There, Buster entertains blue-blooded friends as well as investors keen to make a dollar on the many... Read more

How to be both

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: John Banks

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel all about art’s versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.

How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist... Read more

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award–Winning Author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of... Read more

Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Adeel Akhtar, Natalie Simpson, Adrian Scarborou...

Length: 65 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by an ensemble cast which includes the BAFTA award-winning actor Adeel Akhtar (Killing Eve; The Night Manager; Les Miserables), Adrian Scarborough (Gavin and Stacey; The King's Speech), Natalie Simpson (Outlander; Les Miserables), Emma Fielding (Unforgotten; Les Miserables) and John... Read more

The Golem and the Jinni

By: Helene Wecker

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle."" —Entertainment WeeklyA marvelous and absorbing debut novel about a chance meeting between two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. 
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay by a disgraced rabbi knowledgeable in the... Read more

A Power Unbound

By: Freya Marske

Narrated by: Josh Dylan

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.

"Josh Dylan gives a stand-out performance in this stunning conclusion to the Last Binding trilogy...action and romance come together in a richly written and beautifully performed... Read more

The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

Narrated by: Emilia Clarke

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Music, intoxication, and betrayal combine in this “immersive, impassioned” (The Guardian) debut novel inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician—and his biggest muse.

“The Instrumentalist is more than a history lesson—with... Read more

A Lady for a Duke

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Kay Eluvian

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!​
  When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But... Read more

Across the Ages

By: Gabrielle Meyer

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Caroline holds a deep secret. Existing in 1727 and 1927 simultaneously, each night she goes to sleep in one lifeand wakes up in the other. Searching for answers to her unique existence, Caroline stumbles upon a letter fromher mother that hints at her own experiences as a time-crosser, sending Caroline on a quest to uncover thetruth. In 1727,... Read more

The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

Narrated by: Pip Torrens

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Great Passion by James Runcie, read by Pip Torrens.

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach’s writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

In 1727, Stefan Silbermann is a grief-stricken thirteen-year-old, struggling with the death of his mother and his removal... Read more

Night of the Witch

By: Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes, Kirby Heyborne & Gregory Abbey

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Their love could never be forbidden.Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she’s determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenjägers—zealot witch hunters—to justice for the lives they ended. To do this, she will need to take down their leader, the merciless and enigmatic Kommandant Dieter... Read more

Between Shades of Gray

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Emily Klein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!

"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington Post

From New York Times and international bestseller and Carnegie Medal winner... Read more

Messenger of Truth

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Maisie Dobbs investigates the mysterious death of a controversial artist—and World War I veteran—in the fourth entry in the bestselling series

London, 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a famed Mayfair gallery, the controversial artist Nick Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police rule it an accident, but... Read more

Crook Manifesto

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, BookPage

“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New... Read more

The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

“A must-read for booklovers.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London.

In Nottingham, England, widow Emma Taylor finds herself in desperate... Read more

The Colony Club

By: Shelley Noble

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble comes a thrilling historical novel about the inception of the Colony Club, the first women’s club of its kind, set against the dazzling backdrop of Gilded Age New York. When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they don’t cater to... Read more

The Bishop's Villa

By: Sacha Naspini

Narrated by: Michael Brusasco

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Nives, a story of love, redemption, and resistance set in Italy during WWII  Maremma, Tuscany, November 1943. Le Case is a village far from everything. Seen from there, even the war looks different—mostly waiting, prayers, poverty. As a fierce winter looms, an order is issued to arrest all Jews and detain them in the bishop's... Read more

The Henna Artist

By: Alka Joshi

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

"Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at... Read more

Christine Falls

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted,... Read more

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a... Read more

Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith,... Read more

The Wolf Den

By: Elodie Harper

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 London Times Bestseller

“A gripping historical story.” —The Independent

“This powerful . . . trilogy opener beautifully walks the line between gutting and hopeful.” —BuzzFeed, Best Books of March 2022

Sold by her impoverished mother. Enslaved in an infamous brothel in Pompeii. Determined to fight for her freedom at all costs. . . . Enter into... Read more

Hour of the Witch

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Grace Experience, Saskia Maarleveld, Danny Camp...

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: “Historical fiction at its best…. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying” (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The Washington Post).

A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful,... Read more