Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lost Roses

By: Martha Hall Kelly

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker & ...

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.

“A nuanced tale that speaks to the... 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

Band Sinister

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He's a rake and an atheist, and the rumours about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It's orgies.)



Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks her leg in a riding accident, she's forced to recuperate... Read more

The Bird King

By: G. Willow Wilson

Narrated by: Elmira Rahim

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition.G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary... 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

The Last Thing You Surrender

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?



Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.



An... Read more

The Lost Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace ...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Three women. One daring mission.

1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the... Read more

At the Wolf's Table

By: Rosella Postorino

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Polly Stone gives us a believable depiction of Rosa Sauer...The story is compelling, and the performance memorable." — AudioFile Magazine

At the Wolf's Table is a moving audiobook based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler’s food tasters, from internationally bestselling author Rosella Postorino.

"They called it... Read more

The Gilded Wolves

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel & P. J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

"[P. J. Ochlan and Laurie Catherine Winkel] animate a large cast of well-rounded characters, a complicated plot, and rich descriptions...Their strong characterizations as well as their use of accents and judicious timing suggest an exciting new series ahead." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a... Read more

The Orphan of Salt Winds

By: Elizabeth Brooks

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents―practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh,... Read more

Tony's Wife

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • People’s Book of the Week“A heartfelt tale of love too stubborn to surrender to human frailties."" — Kirkus ReviewsSet in the lush Big Band era of the 1940s, this spellbinding saga from beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani tells the story of two talented working class kids who marry and become a... Read more

Empire of Sand

By: Tasha Suri

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy.

"An ode to the quiet, fierce strength of women. . .pure wonder." -- Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"Stunning and... Read more

Little

By: Edward Carey

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

"An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity that I... Read more

A Well-Behaved Woman

By: Therese Anne Fowler

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller

"More than a rewriting of history, this is history reimagined from a fresh angle, delivered here with energy, sensitivity, and flair." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a bonus interview with the author.

A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her... Read more

Trinity

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more

Killing Commendatore

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 28 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally... 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

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction“Wonderful… completely transporting.”  —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ""Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors... Read more

The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See). 

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of... Read more

Musashi

By: Eiji Yoshikawa

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 53 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find... Read more

The Sea Queen

By: Linnea Hartsuyker

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating Viking saga filled with the rich history, romantic adventure and political intrigue that have made Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, as well as Phillippa Gregory’s historical fiction and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology popular bestsellers. Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson... Read more

An Ocean of Minutes

By: Thea Lim

Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the ALA 2019 Reading List for Science Fiction

“Thea Lim’s An Ocean of Minutes is that rare thing—a speculative novel that is as heartfelt as it is philosophical. In lucid prose, Lim lays bare the complexities of migration and displacement, while offering a clear-eyed meditation on... 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

The Lost Vintage

By: Ann Mah

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you enjoyed my Sarah’s Key and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you.” -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret... Read more