Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mine Till Midnight

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A revised and updated edition of the first book in legendary New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas’s beloved historical romance series featuring the unforgettable Hathaways: a family of misfits trying to navigate their way through the hazards of the British aristocracy Miss Amelia Hathaway, a beautiful and strong-willed spinster, has... Read more

Lady in the Lake

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV!A New York Times Bestseller2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Thriller/SuspenseThe revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the... Read more

Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection

By: Daphne du Maurier

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Cathryn Harrison, Adam Go...

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive collection of dramatisations of Daphne du Maurier’s works

'Containing performances from well-known actors from past and present, Daphne du Maurier: The BBC Radio Collection is a rich feast for all fans of the writer's work.' - Entertainment Focus

Daphne du Maurier was one of the 20th century’s most popular writers. Extraordinarily... Read more

To Have and to Hoax

By: Martha Waters

Narrated by: Anais Inara Chase & Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Romance of April by Goodreads, Popsugar, Bustle, and more!

“A laugh out loud Regency romp—if you loved the Bridgertons, you’ll adore To Have and to Hoax!” —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author

In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in... Read more

The Cryptic Clue

By: Amanda Hampson

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their assistance to help solve a plot that... Read more

The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel

By: Alyssa Palombo

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel enchants with a concoction of love, longing, and loss plucked from the bones of one of our most enduring and haunting legends." - Erin Lindsay McCabe, USA Today bestselling author of I Shall Be Near to You

When Ichabod Crane arrives in the spooky little village of Sleepy Hollow as the new schoolmaster, Katrina... Read more

The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

Narrated by: Emma Jones

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

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

"Such a large cast of characters would normally be difficult to keep straight in an audiobook without tedious backtracking, but McFarlane’s skill in evoking their distinct inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing them in manner and accent keep them perfectly distinct." —The Washington... Read more

A Witch in Time

By: Constance Sayers

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Claire Christie, Brittany W...

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.

Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930's Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles -- only she doesn't know it. Until she meets a strange man... Read more

The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence & Louise Brealey

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A “beautifully written” (Hilary Mantel), “fascinating” (The Washington Post) story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renowned 1700s English painter Thomas Gainsborough, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.

Peggy and Molly Gainsborough—the daughters... Read more

Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

Narrated by: Sara Vickers

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“A bruising tale of passion, ambition, power, vengeance, and desire . . . a stunning retelling.” —Entertainment Weekly, Most Anticipated Books of Fall“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that Isabelle Schuler conjures up where only the most ruthless can survive. A thoroughly enjoyable... Read more

One Blood

By: Denene Millner

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Tina Lifford

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration. It also includes a poem, book club reading guide, and acknowledgments, all read by the author.

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestseller Denene Millner.

Raised by her beloved grandmother in... Read more

Only Killers and Thieves

By: Paul Howarth

Narrated by: David Linski

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power in this riveting debut novel—a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia—reminiscent of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and the novels of Cormac McCarthy.An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and... Read more

A Prayer for Vengeance

By: Leanne Schwartz

Narrated by: Natalie Duke

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer—a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.



Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and... Read more

The Actual Star

By: Monica Byrne

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Kareem Ferguson & Gisela Chipe

Length: 19 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we’re going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.""A stone-cold... Read more

Wolf on a String

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power/

"...outstandingly read by Simon Vance, whose versatility with voices and intonations brings the cast to life." — Fran Wood, NJ.com

Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist,... Read more

One Thousand White Women

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on an actual historical event, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a... Read more

Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

* Winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History * Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, The New York Times, Fresh Air (top 10 pick), NPR, the Los Angeles Times (top 15 pick),The Washington Post, and more!

The bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill... Read more

The Twelve-Mile Straight

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field... Read more

In Another Time

By: Jillian Cantor

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only time can save them…1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna... Read more

Mary Christmas

By: Mary-Anne O'Connor

Narrated by: Ellie Perry

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At the most magical time of the year, will Mary choose independence or love?

It's 1909 and Mary Richards has worked hard to gain an education and become a teacher in her close-knit, picturesque village in the Cotswolds, but not everyone approves of her modern ways.

When her sister Emily becomes engaged to David Christmas, it seems fate will... Read more

The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

Narrated by: Werner Herzog

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review

The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog.

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of... Read more

Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Narrated by: Melinna Bobadilla

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina
 
“Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re... Read more

Varina

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Molly Parker

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He... Read more

The Women in the Castle

By: Jessica Shattuck

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New... Read more