Historical Fiction audiobooks

Vera

By: Carol Edgarian

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian delivers “an all-encompassing and enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel featuring an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the aftermath of catastrophe, and her quest for love and reinvention.

Meet Vera Johnson, fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco’s... Read more

The Magnetic Girl

By: Jessica Handler

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In rural North Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father’s bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural... Read more

The Fallen Fruit

By: Shawntelle Madison

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Adenrele Ojo

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler's Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she... Read more

Fortune Favors the Dead

By: Stephen Spotswood

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages.

“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of... Read more

The Empusium

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review

The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed... Read more

Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

Island Queen

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 21 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of... Read more

The Witch of Willow Hall

By: Hester Fox

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author

In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise.

New Oldbury, 1821

The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me…

Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is.

Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her... Read more

Universe of Two

By: Stephen P. Kiernan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker’s Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption—a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician... Read more

The Paris Daughter

By: Kristin Harmel

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby & Kristin Harmel

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times bestseller!

“A gorgeous, gut-wrenching” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) historical novel about two mothers facing unthinkable choices as the Nazis invade France—from the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel.

Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in... Read more

Salvación

By: Sandra Proudman

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"A heartfelt, swashbuckling, standout novel." - Kirkus (starred review)

In this Latinx YA fantasy inspired by El Zorro, Lola de La Peña becomes the masked heroine Salvación in order to save her family and town from a man who would destroy it for the magic it contains...if she doesn't fall in love with a boy in his company first.

Lola de La Peña... Read more

In This Moment

By: Gabrielle Meyer

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night, she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives—and everyone she knows in them—forever.

In 1861, Maggie is the daughter... Read more

Queen of the Conquered

By: Kacen Callender

Narrated by: Krystel Roche

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An ambitious and unflinching tale of colonialism, conquest, and revenge, Queen of the Conquered starts a fantasy series perfect for readers of S. A. Chakraborty, Ken Liu, and Tasha Suri.

*Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Book Of All Time
* World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, winner

On the islands of Hans Lollik, Sigourney Rose was the only... Read more

The German House

By: Annette Hess

Narrated by: Nina Franoszek

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’s international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation’s past.If... Read more

On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more

White Houses

By: Amy Bloom

Narrated by: Tonya Cornelisse

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real Simple

Lorena... Read more

The Plot against America

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Ron Silver

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In an astonishing feat of empathy and narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history.In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected president. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a... Read more

The Downstairs Girl

By: Stacey Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically-acclaimed author of Under a Painted Sky and Outrun the Moon and founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.



By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo... Read more

The Houseboat

By: Dane Bahr

Narrated by: William DeMeritt, Anna Caputo, Stacy Carolan & ...

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion.

Local outcast Rigby Sellers lives in squalor on a dilapidated houseboat moored on the Mississippi River. With only stolen mannequins and the river to keep him... Read more

Magic Lessons

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Sutton Foster

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “ bewitching” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.

Where does the story of the... Read more

Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a “spellbinding” (The Washington Post) novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”

Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans... Read more

Let's Call Her Barbie

By: Renée Rosen

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fresh and fun take on Barbie lore…clever and satisfying.” – Shelby Van Pelt, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures


She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom... Read more

A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two friends reunite and discover hidden feelings while investigating a murder in this sensual, witty historical romance—perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore and Netflix's Bridgerton!

Jane Halliwell once dreamed of a home of her own—but those dreams (and her dowry) died with her father. Now, she works as a governess, preparing her charge for a... Read more

A True Account

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.

In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her... Read more