Historical Fiction audiobooks

Kent State

By: Deborah Wiles

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina Del...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots... Read more

Three Hours in Paris

By: Cara Black

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why.

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after... Read more

The Engineer's Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

She built a monument for all time.Then she was lost in its shadow.Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determinedto make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold and her... Read more

The Animals At Lockwood Manor

By: Jane Healey

Narrated by: Sarah Lambie

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection.

In August 1939, thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor... Read more

Hannah's War

By: Jan Eliasberg

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A "mesmerizing" re-imagination of the final months of World War II (Kate Quinn, author of The Alice Network), Hannah's War is an unforgettable love story about an exceptional woman and the dangerous power of her greatest discovery.
Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th... Read more

Chasing Cassandra

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything has a price . . .Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra... Read more

Hunting for a Highlander

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Joel Froomkin

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Buchanan brothers have found their brides…only three more to go in this scintillating romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands…Lady Dwyn Innes feels utterly out of place among the eligible women who’ve descended on Buchanan Keep, vying for the attention of the last unmarried brothers. She isn’t long-legged and slender... 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

The Clergyman's Wife

By: Molly Greeley

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired debut novel set in Austen’s world.
Charlotte Collins, nee Lucas, is the respectable wife of Hunsford’s vicar, and sees to her duties by rote: keeping house, caring for their adorable daughter, visiting parishioners, and patiently tolerating the... 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

Under Occupation

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling historical spy novel from New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst, two heroic resistance fighters smuggle valuable information to occupied Paris to turn the tide of the World War II and defeat Nazi Germany.

Occupied Paris in 1942, a dark, treacherous city now ruled by the German security services, where French resistance... 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 Accomplice

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian

From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman... Read more

Marley

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

“Marley was dead, to begin... 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

Reticence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bookish and proper Percival Tunstell finds himself out of his depth when floating cities, spirited plumbing, and soggy biscuits collide in this delightful conclusion to NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger's Custard Protocol series.
Percival Tunstell loves that his sister and her best friend are building themselves a family of misfits aboard... Read more

Summerlings

By: Lisa Howorth

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation—surely evidence... Read more

Meet Me in Monaco

By: Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances.Movie stars and... Read more

The Flight Girls

By: Noelle Salazar

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

“I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Heart-breaking, validating, exciting.”—Hypable

“Rich historical detail...this saga has it all.”—Woman’s... Read more

Summer of '69

By: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward... Read more

The Tenth Muse

By: Catherine Chung

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM:
Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment WeeklyThe first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent—and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank... Read more

Call Your Daughter Home

By: Deb Spera

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List

For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.

It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a... Read more

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

Narrated by: Sara Collins & Roy McMillan

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox!“A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment WeeklyA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical... Read more

The Parisian

By: Isabella Hammad

Narrated by: Fiona Button

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile... Read more