Historical Fiction audiobooks

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Brontë

Narrated by: Sara Nichols

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wuthering Heights" is author Emily Brontë's masterpiece, a haunting and disturbing romance novel with dark themes, a brooding and often cruel protagonist and a tragic, powerful love story.
An epic study of love, loss, revenge and obsession, "Wuthering Heights" is the tale of Heathcliff and Catherine; he, an orphan taken in by a kindly... Read more

The Bereaved

By: Julia Park Tracey

Narrated by: Aven Shore

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on her research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.



In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha—bereaved and... Read more

Only Exceedingly Shy

By: Jann Rowland

Narrated by: Harry Frost

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Disheartened and convinced by Elizabeth's assertion of Miss Bingley's character, Jane Bennet insists Elizabeth return to London with the Gardiners after Christmas to provide her with a reprieve from their mother, who has not accepted Elizabeth's rejection of Mr. Collins's suit.

What Elizabeth could never have imagined was her chance meeting... Read more

Devil's Garden

By: Ace Atkins

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.

San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel—girls, jazz, bootleg hooch … and a dead actress... Read more

False Mistress

By: Amy Licence

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With dangerous plots afoot, can Thomasin keep her position—and her honor intact?



1528: Thomasin Marwood is one of Queen Catherine's ladies-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII, and she does not trust Lady Anne Boleyn.



But when an accident forces Thomasin and her family to take refuge at the Boleyn family home at Hever Castle, Thomasin is... Read more

To Kill a King

By: David Gilman

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth gripping adventure in David Gilman's critically acclaimed Master of War series set in fourteenth-century Europe.



Bordeaux, 1367. Having angered the bloodthirsty Don Pedro, King of Castile, Sir Thomas Blackstone is thoroughly sick of his mission for the Prince of Wales but must remain true to his oath.



But this is the Hundred Years' War,... Read more

One Dangerous Night

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell’s humorous and heartwarming series The Gambler’s Daughters, in which three aristocratic Irish sisters are determined to make their ways in Regency London...only to learn the path to making a brilliant society marriage isn’t easy—especially when Love gets in the way. Here, a... Read more

The Duchess

By: Sophie Jordan

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of... Read more

Arpalippu

By: Salme Setälä

Narrated by: Johanna Kuuva

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Saammeko esitellä: 1920-luvun Bridget Jones! Arkkitehti Irma Saareks asustaa kimppakämpässä eikä uhraa ajatustakaan seurustelulle – tai kenties yhden tai kaksi silloin tällöin. Varsinkin kun vastaan tulee muuan varatuomari Antti Kotra. Mies on melkoinen vekkuli, mutta Irma ei saa tätä mielestään. Kun Irma voittaa arpajaisissa matkalipun... Read more

Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny

By: Mark Cecil

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau, Ari Fliakos & JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization.

Paul Bunyan—legendary larger-than-life American lumberjack—is a man down on his luck. With a... Read more

To Slip the Bonds of Earth

By: Amanda Flower

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is... Read more

All the World Beside

By: Garrard Conley

Narrated by: Pete Cross & Garrard Conley

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality.” —People Magazine

From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.

Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel... Read more

Of Gold and Deceit

By: Nicole Zoltack

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

An imp named Ryszard Poppart can spin straw into gold, but can he outsmart the evil king who wishes to marry the miller's daughter?



Ryszard loves Saxonia and desires to save the kingdom from the evil king. The miller's daughter, Galiana Mueller, agrees to help expose the king's terrible, selfish ways. As Ryszard spins gold for her to tempt the... Read more

Ragtown

By: Kelly Stone Gamble

Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick & Preston Geer

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen lives in her father's Model T in the harsh Nevada desert, surrounded by thousands of desperate souls trying to endure the hardships of the Great Depression. When her father dies while working on the Hoover Dam diversion tunnels, she finds herself alone. In this unforgiving landscape where marriage, prostitution, and starvation seem to be... Read more

Double Lives

By: Mary Monroe

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever …Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar... Read more

Secrets of a Scottish Isle

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, spirited American Jane Wunderly must investigate a secret society where esoteric rituals blur the line between what’s real, what’s illusion, and what’s deadly …Isle of Iona, 1927: Cast away on a remote locale, Jane’s latest assignment depends on concealing her identity and blending in at an... Read more

The Wicked and the Dead

By: J. A. Johnstone & William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: Neill Thorne

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As hardworking families and ambitious dreamers set down roots across the American West, others swooped down to prey upon them. And after the smoke cleared, those who lived by the gun found themselves facing justice—and vengeance . . .

It was supposed to be a simple robbery. A fortune in gold for the taking. What Hack Long and his outlaws... Read more

Guns of the Vigilantes

By: William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Johnstone Country. Vigilante Justice.



A thrilling new series from the legendary Western author William W. Johnstone where justice is very personal.



It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself—an entire family murdered—he... Read more

If the Tide Turns

By: Rachel Rueckert

Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid, gorgeously written novel inspired by a captivating true story combines high-seas adventure, star-crossed longing, and the emotionally satisfying tale of one strong-willed young woman determined to choose her own path. 1715, Eastham, Massachusetts:... Read more

Laura, The Tycoon's Daughter

By: Sara R. Turnquist

Narrated by: Becky Brabham

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

She is in a hopeless situation. He has sworn off love. Can they find hope in each other and, possibly, a way out of their personal prisons?Laura Millington is the daughter of a prominent railroad tycoon, but that luxury comes at a price. Her father’s intentions are to use her as a pawn, steal her choices, and press her into a mold she can’t seem... Read more

La clave de Agatha

By: Alejandra de San Cristóbal

Narrated by: Marta Begué

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

El tres de diciembre de mil novecientos veintiséis, Reino Unido se vio sacudido por la noticia de la desapariciónde la célebre novelista Agatha Christie.Tras haber mantenido en vilo al mundo entero durante once días, reapareció alegando una amnesia inexplicabley poco creíble. Años después, el secreto de lo ocurrido se fue con ella a la tumba.Una... Read more

A Wallflower's Christmas Kiss

By: Dawn Brower

Narrated by: Donna Vaughan

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever dreamed of a Christmas wedding? Spinsterhood has never looked so good, but unfortunately even that won’t save Lady Juliette Brooks. Her father’s arranged a betrothal for her to a brute of a man. She has one choice left—force the Duke of Kissinger to honor a long ago promise to save her. Grayson Abbot, the Duke of Kissinger, does... Read more

Peacekeepers

By: James Rosone & Miranda Watson

Narrated by: BJ Harrison

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It isn’t the only time……a US presidential election has been disputed.But this time, it might lead to war.For the first time in history, UN peacekeeping troops are amassing at the northern border. Marshall Tate has set up his new headquarters in Canada. The world watches. Tensions run high across the country.Will a second civil war tear the... Read more

La Cripta dei Cappuccini

By: Joseph Roth

Narrated by: Rolando Ravello

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Austria 1914. Il giovane Trotta, nobile per nomina, conduce la stessa vita leggera e vuota del resto della decadente nobile gioventù viennese, finché non conosce il cugino caldarrostaio Joseph Branco e l'amico di questi, il vetturino ebreo Manes Reisiger. Persuaso di trovare in loro la concretezza che ritiene gli manchi, allo scoppio della... Read more