Historical Fiction audiobooks

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 Rules of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.

Find your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the... 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

Memoirs of A Geisha

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more

In the Serpent's Wake

By: Rachel Hartman

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Seraphina comes a piercing new fantasy adventure that champions our resilience and humility.

MIND OF THE WORLD,
OPEN YOUR EYES.
 
At the bottom of the world lies a Serpent, the last of its kind.
Finding the Serpent will change lives.
 
Tess is a girl on a mission to save a friend.
Spira is a dragon... Read more

Disturbing the Dead

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Disturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1860s and the other in the present day. The Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.

Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though... Read more

Midnight Rooms

By: Donyae Coles

Narrated by: Georgina Campbell

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan’s Labyrinth upon strange foundations. You’re never really safe here, with Midnight Rooms wondrously defying expectation and refusing obedience. Donyae Coles leads us into a house of sinister magic, full of corners for peeking around, but careful—these walls have claws. A feverish,... Read more

Night Angel Nemesis

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 32 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible return to the New York Times bestselling world of the Night Angel, where master assassin Kylar Stern embarks on a new adventure as the High King Logan Gyre calls on him to save his kingdom and the hope of peace.

"Weeks has been showing other fantasy authors how it's done for over fifteen years." — Peter V. Brett, author of The... Read more

Where the Lost Wander

By: Amy Harmon

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss.The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant... Read more

The Echo of Old Books

By: Barbara Davis

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson, Steve West & Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls.Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the... Read more

The Madonna Secret

By: Sophie Strand

Narrated by: Sophie Strand

Length: 22 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

• Reroots Mary Magdalene and Jesus in the lush ecology and complex spiritual culture of Second Temple Period Judea and Galilee under Roman rule

• Rewilds the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied eroticism of a lovable rabbi with appetites and desires,... Read more

Marion Lane and the Deadly Rose

By: T.A. Willberg

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"What a delight... I found myself so drawn into this world of peculiar crimes that finishing the last page left me disoriented, requiring an extra beat to flash forward and rejoin the current century." – Sarah Weinman, New York Times Book Review

The envelope was tied with three delicate silk ribbons: “One of the new recruits is not to be... Read more

To Die but Once

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Maisie Dobbs—""a female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander"" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II in this poignant entry (#14) in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling series—""a series that seems to get better with every entry"" (Tom... Read more

Devil Makes Three

By: Ben Fountain

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023

"This searing novel is made more powerful by narrator Ron Butler. He passes from speaker to speaker seamlessly, their personalities distinct, their emotions palpable. This is a perfect union of voice and literature." —The Washington Post

"Fountain's audiobook puts listeners in the events as... Read more

A Curious Beginning

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is... Read more

The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 28 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series.1857. In a bid to outrun her past, Carrie Ballentyne accepts a nursing... Read more

Bridgerton Prequels Collection

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 39 hours

Abridged: No

An exclusive collection featuring the four novels of Julia Quinn’s Georgian-set Bridgerton prequel series, following the close friends and neighbors of the charming, powerful Bridgerton family—the Rokesbys.In her inimitable style – full of wit, wisdom, gossip, and romance – Julia Quinn introduces the charismatic Rokesby brothers as they maneuver... Read more

Before We Were Yours

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller

“Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four... Read more

The Windsor Knot

By: SJ Bennett

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.”  – New York Times Book Review“[A] pitch-perfect murder mystery… If The Crown were crossed with Miss Marple…, the result would probably be something like this charming whodunnit.”  – Ruth Ware, author of One by OneThe... Read more

Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

Narrated by: Emana Rachelle

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories... Read more

The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Emma Lowe

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews).

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down... Read more

Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Good Morning America Buzz Pick“Effervescent and cool, Teddy is the perfect read if your trip to Capri gets canceled and your La Dolce Vita itch needs scratching.”—Washington PostLessons in Chemistry meets Mad Men in this wildly entertaining debut novel set in glamorous Rome, which follows the free-spirited wife of an American diplomat as she... Read more