Historical Fiction audiobooks

Viktoria

By: Jenny Glanfield

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 27 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin, Germany



Two loves rule Viktoria Jochum-Kraus's life. One is the Hotel Quadriga, built by her father, opened on the day she was born and, in January 1933, the most luxurious hotel in Berlin.



The other is her son, Stefan. Only Viktoria knows that Stefan is the result of a youthful infatuation with her husband's cousin, Count Peter von... Read more

The Conquest

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 23 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When a comet appears in the sky over England in 1066, Ailith, a young Saxon wife, feels sure that it can only bode well, in spite of her husband's fears. With a child on its way, the couple are prosperous and content. Yet, within a year, Ailith's joy turns to heartache as her husband and her child are taken from her and the conquering Normans... Read more

The Incorrigibles

By: Meredith Jaeger

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Barrie Kreinik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An Editor's Choice at The Historical Novel Society

From USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger comes an emotionally resonant novel about two women whose lives intersect as one resists the gentrification of her San Francisco neighborhood, and the other, eighty years earlier, fights for her freedom in nineteenth-century America. . . .

1890,... Read more

A Place Beyond Courage

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes Keeping Your Honor Means Breaking Your Word

In England, the Middle Ages are a time for ambitious men to prosper. Before he becomes the father of William Marshal, John FitzGilbert is a man of honor and loyalty, sworn to royal service. When the old king dies, his successor rewards the handsome and ambitious John with castles and lands.... Read more

Государи Московские. Младший сын

By: Дмитрий Балашов

Narrated by: Иван Литвинов

Length: 29 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

«Государи Московские» — монументальный цикл романов, созданный писателем, филологом-русистом, фольклористом и историком Дмитрием Балашовым. Эта эпическая хроника, своего рода один грандиозный роман-эпопея, уместившийся в многотомное издание, охватывает период русской истории с 1263 до 1425 года и уже многие десятилетия не перестает поражать... Read more

Ion

By: Plato

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues. Read more

Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi.

A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.

Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as... Read more

Highland Surrender

By: Heather McCollum

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With his family’s honor on the line, Norse warrior Erik Halverson has no choice but to follow the orders of the royal house of Denmark. Now he must follow his destiny―and royal command―to sail to Scotland, find his enemy’s weakest link, and abduct her. Their mistake, of course, was thinking the Sinclair lass wouldn’t fight back.From the moment... Read more

Blade of the Realm

By: Ron C. Nieto

Narrated by: Dan Calley

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The enemy stands revealed, but learning how to defeat it might be a different matter . . .



After confronting the ugliest truth and escaping the harrowing events at Fontanil, Oren Trevaine returns to his capital to regroup and find his path forward.



But with faceless enemies lurking in every shadow, the Iron Castle feels less like a stronghold and... Read more

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

Charmides, or Temperance

By: Plato

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance," "self-control," or "restraint." When the boy is unable to satisfy him with an answer, he next turns to the boy's mentor... Read more

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 34 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"""Alone among his contemporaries, Charles Dickens seems to possess that instinctive sympthaty with whatever is human and humane which is the fundamental condition of genial and varied characterization. … in individualities which make us in love with our kind, he is unapproached."" —The Atlantic Monthly, May 1867 The Personal History,... Read more

The Last Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • All will be revealed in this no-holds-barred finale of the Edgar Award–nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer—and possible double agent—Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany’s nuclear program.

“Intrepid Maggie Hope’s high-stakes mission is fraught with danger and... Read more

The Heiress’s Daughter

By: Anne Gracie

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A dashing rake must prove he has changed his scandalous ways to win his one true love from the arms of another, in a witty new Regency romance from the bestselling author of The Rake's Daughter.



Heiress Clarissa Studley yearns to be loved for more than her fortune. Warmhearted, but plain and shy, she wishes to marry, but has two firm rules: no... Read more

Black Seas

By: T.K. Blackwood

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1992. Europe is in flames. Scandinavia is under siege. Only Norway holds out against the Soviet war machine. And now the pride of the Soviet Navy, the Red Banner Northern Fleet, sallies out to finish the job.



With their armies facing annihilation, and World War III at a tipping point, the combined navies of NATO stand ready to receive... Read more

Out of the Darkness

By: David A. Jacinto

Narrated by: David A. Jacinto, Paul Michael & Cassandra Camp...

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliant audiobook was recorded by nationally recognized, award-winning actors Casandra Campbell (Where the Crawdads Sing) and Paul Michael (The DaVinci Code).Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world. It’s the story of greed,... Read more

Un invierno junto al mar

By: Julie Klassen

Narrated by: Sharon López

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ser escritora es el sueño de Emily Summers, lo que quiere de verdad… Hasta que el pasado se presenta en el Sea View y sus convicciones se tambalean. ¿Qué camino tomará? Cuando los duques de Kent alquilan el vecino Woolbrook Cottage para pasar el invierno, las hermanas Summers reciben el encargo de hospedar a tres miembros del personal de los... Read more

Murder at Castle Morse

By: Leena Clover

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Class lines are blurred when a baron's son is accused of killing his groom in this 1920s mystery.



The Nightingales are on a mission, set on solving a twenty year old murder to exonerate Lord Buxley. When the groom at a neighboring estate is bashed to death, the young heir becomes a suspect. Summoned by her fast friend, Lady Bess rushes to Castle... Read more

Una dama independiente

By: Mimi Matthews

Narrated by: Gloria Tarridas

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Finchley es abogado, se ha pasado la vida resolviendo los problemas de los demás y ahora, lo que busca, es un poco de paz. En cuanto a sus propios problemas, con vengarse un poco sería suficiente. Y luego, querría encontrar a una mujer sencilla que quiera llevar una vida tranquila y sin complicaciones. Jenny Holloway, antigua dama de... Read more

Inanna

By: Emily H. Wilson

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories are sly things . . . they can be hard to catch and kill.



Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness.



But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into... Read more

The Prince's Bride

By: Charis Michaels

Narrated by: Morag Sims

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Charis Michaels continues her delicious Hidden Royals series with a rugged prince living in exile and his long-lost bride-to-be, who comes to find him.Lady Marianne “Ryan” Daventry was betrothed to an obscure French prince when she was just a baby. Years later, the young prince entered exile and was never heard from... Read more

The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

Narrated by: Amanda Stribling

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option—to join a wily,... Read more

The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard

By: Michael Callahan

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Helen Laser

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“I was completely captivated by Michael Callahan’s The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard. It’s a history mystery you won’t be able to put down, with strong female characters and plenty of secrets. Plus, it takes you behind the scenes in vintage Hollywood and Martha’s Vineyard. A perfect beach read!”—Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of... Read more

Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, Cassandra Campbe...

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world

In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from... Read more