Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Vanished Days

By: Susanna Kearsley

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

I HAVE BEEN PERSUADED NOW TO TAKE MY PEN IN HAND AND TELL THE STORY
AS IT SHOULD BE TOLD …
In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the
Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union
with England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled young
Jacobite king back to Scotland to... Read more

Spice and Wolf, Vol. 6

By: Isuna Hasekura

Narrated by: J. Michael Tatum & Brina Palencia

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As Holo and Lawrence begin the final leg of their journey, Lawrence decides to accompany Holo to her ancient home of Yoitsu, if only to forestall their parting just a bit longer. Boarding a ship from the port of Lenos (much to the chagrin of the wisewolf, who is none too fond of water!), the pair's fate becomes entangled with that of a boy named... Read more

Dressed for Death

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Commissario Guido Brunetti's hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call... Read more

One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

By: Olivia Hawker

Narrated by: Jackie Zebrowski

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis... Read more

Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more

A Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Atossa Leoni

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban... Read more

Ka

By: John Crowley

Narrated by: John Crowley

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author John Crowley comes an exquisite fantasy novel about a man who tells the story of a crow named Dar Oakley and his impossible lives and deaths in the land of Ka.A Crow alone is no Crow.Dar Oakley—the first Crow in all of history with a name of his own—was born two thousand years ago. When a man learns his language, Dar... Read more

The Foundling

By: Georgette Heyer

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents, Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware (Gilly for short) has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling form his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. So when Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling... Read more

Never Rescue a Rogue

By: Virginia Heath

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Regency rom-com, when a Duke and a reporter team up to uncover his family’s secrets, their search brings up more than they bargained for—including their feelings for each other.

Diana Merriwell and Giles Sinclair only tolerate one another for the sake of their nearest and dearest. Everyone believes that the two of them are meant to be... Read more

Loving Frank

By: Nancy Horan

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Masterful.”—People
“A fascinating love story.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Truly artful fiction.”—The... Read more

Murder at the Foundling Hospital

By: Irina Shapiro

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Gemma’s boots slip on uneven ground and her black cape catches in the wind as she runs. “Please, not Lucy,” she prays.

Nurse Gemma Tate is heartbroken when she hears that one of her young charges at the Foundling Hospital has been killed. She knows that police inspector Sebastian Bell will work tirelessly to uncover the truth, but obstructed by... Read more

The Sunflower House

By: Adriana Allegri

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dallin Bradford & Saskia Maarle...

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II.

In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends... Read more

An Old Betrayal

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old protege's client at Charing Cross. But when their cryptic encounter seems to lead, days later, to the murder of an innocuous country squire, this fast favor draws Lenox inexorably back into his old... Read more

The Reverse of the Medal

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage-the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's humiliation and the threatened ruin of his career a... Read more

The Invisible Bridge

By: Julie Orringer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 27 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“fiercely beautiful”—The New York Times; “unbelievably good”—Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives... Read more

Spice and Wolf, Vol. 13

By: Isuna Hasekura

Narrated by: J. Michael Tatum & Brina Palencia

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of short stories from the world of Spice & Wolf features three new vignettes from Lawrence and Holo's journeys, as well as a novella that follows Norah the shepherdess and her faithful sheepdog, Enek, as they put the city of Ruvinheigen behind them and try to forge a new path for themselves... Read more

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece

By: Tom Hanks

Narrated by: Tom Hanks, Peter Gerety, Natalie Morales, Ego N...

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.

"Wild, ambitious and... Read more

Dear Mrs. Bird

By: AJ Pearce

Narrated by: Anna Popplewell

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and inadvertently becomes a secret advice columnist is “a jaunty, heartbreaking winner” (People)—for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Lilac Girls.

Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty... Read more

Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

Narrated by: Katherine Press

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously haunting, “lush, and twist-filled tale” (CrimeReads) that blends gothic mystery with a captivating sapphic romance as two estranged sisters—celebrated (and fraudulent) spirit mediums—come back together for one last con in 19th-century Paris.

Paris, 1866: When Baroness Sylvie Devereux receives a house call from Charlotte Mothe, the... Read more

A Morbid Taste For Bones

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales, where they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics.

Canny, wise and all too worldly,... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more

The Ink Master's Silence

By: C.J. Archer

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerIt should be a happy time for India and Matt, but forces beyond their control conspire to ruin their future. A distraction from their troubles comes in the form of murder.When the editor of The Weekly Gazette is killed, controversial journalist and ink magician Oscar Barratt asks India and Matt to investigate. As the... Read more

The Wartime Book Club

By: Kate Thompson

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour.

The Isle of Jersey was once a warm and neighborly community, but in 1943, German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets,... Read more

The Letter of Marque

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Letter of Marque, Jack is once again aboard his beloved Surprise but stripped of his post captaincy for a crime he did not commit. Bought by Stephen, the Surprise has become a privateer. Sailing into French waters, the two concoct a desperate mission which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from his state of disgrace. A nighttime battle... Read more