Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

By: H. G. Parry

Narrated by: Andrew Kingston

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in... Read more

Highland Treasure

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Buchanan brother finds a love to treasure in this scintillating historical romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands…After escaping from the English soldiers who attacked her home and imprisoned her in a dungeon, Lady Elysande de Valance is grateful for the rugged Scots who are escorting her to safety in the Highlands. Even... Read more

Find Me in Havana

By: Serena Burdick

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez & Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES, a new historical novel based on the dazzling story of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated Hispanic actresses and her daughter’s search for closure.

“Told in a series of letters, FIND ME IN HAVANA is a beautiful and heart-wrenching story of mothers and daughters, and the American Dream that... Read more

The Children's Blizzard

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes a story of courage on the prairie, inspired by the devastating storm that struck the Great Plains in 1888, threatening the lives of hundreds of immigrant homesteaders, especially schoolchildren.

“A nail-biter . . . poignant, powerful, perfect.” —Kate Quinn, author of The Alice... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derrick Magolski

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Gatsby: An Exquisitely Crafted 1920s American Tale of Life-Long Obsessions & Ceaseless Devotions“So, we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”On the prosperous Long Island shores sit the grand affluence of West Egg and East Egg — places where a sinister Gatsby’s mansion, with his mysterious... Read more

Happily Ever Afters

By: Elise Bryant

Narrated by: Jordan Cobb

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane the Virgin meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with Black Girl Magic. Perfect for fans of Mary H. K. Choi and Nicola Yoon, with crossover appeal for readers of Jasmine Guillory and Talia Hibbert romances. Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life.... Read more

Our Darkest Night

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.

It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming... Read more

The Awakening of Malcolm X

By: Ilyasah Shabazz & Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus interview with the author.

The Awakening of Malcolm X is a powerful narrative account of the activist's adolescent years in jail, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz along with 2019 Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe award-winning author, Tiffany D. Jackson.

No one can be at peace until he has his freedom.

In... Read more

Just One Damned Thing After Another

By: Jodi Taylor

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

Time Travel meets History in this explosive bestselling adventure series.

'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if... Read more

The Arctic Fury

By: Greer Macallister

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband, Lord Franklin, and his lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge.Lady Franklin will disavow all knowledge of the... Read more

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

By: Lori Nelson Spielman

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Kathleen Garrett & Lori Nelso...

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An International Bestseller!

A LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick!

A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life List.
 
Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse... 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 Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family.Beatrice Clayborn is a... 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

Paris Never Leaves You

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." —Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey

Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a... Read more

Crossings

By: Alex Landragin

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.

*To listen to this novel straight through, just play the program from the beginning. To listen to the Baroness Sequence, start with... Read more

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

By: Olivia Waite

Narrated by: Morag Sims

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it’s the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees. But when a beautiful beekeeper... Read more

Nine Shiny Objects

By: Brian Castleberry

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

""In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential."" - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather
A luminous debut novel chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers... Read more

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

By: Zen Cho

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history.A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they... Read more

The Lost Diary of Venice

By: Margaux DeRoux

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America.

“Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the Flowers in Paris

In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin... Read more

More Miracle than Bird

By: Alice Miller

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more

The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts.

New Year's Eve, 1929.

Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans... Read more

Shakespeare for Squirrels

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring Pocket, the hero of Fool and The Serpent of Venice, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff.Set... Read more

Summer Darlings

By: Brooke Lea Foster

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of... Read more