Historical Fiction audiobooks

Love and Ruin

By: Paula McLain

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century—from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark

“Romance, infidelity, war—Paula McLain’s powerhouse novel has it... Read more

Promise

By: Minrose Gwin

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart—one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager—fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.“Gwin’s gift shines in the complexity of her... 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

As Bright as Heaven

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Jorjeana Marie, Cassandra Morris...

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone... Read more

The Mitford Murders

By: Jessica Fellowes

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

*Named one of the best audiobooks of 2017 by The Times (UK)*

This program includes a bonus interview with the author

"The pleasures of this English murder mystery, set in 1920, are many. Rachel Atkins's crisp performance is just right...A concluding interview with author Jessica Fellowes, who wrote the "Downtown Abbey" companion books, promises... Read more

Senlin Ascends

By: Josiah Bancroft

Narrated by: John Banks

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon debut fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.

"One of my favorite books of all time" -- Mark Lawrence

The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on... Read more

Rosemarked

By: Livia Blackburne

Narrated by: Angela Lin & Vikas Adam

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A healer who cannot be healed . . . When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art-until a threat to her village creates a need that only she can fill. A soldier shattered... Read more

In the Midst of Winter

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones & Alma...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and worldwide bestselling author Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil that offers “a timely message about immigration and the meaning of home” (People).

During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard... Read more

The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Karen White & Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman’s struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last... Read more

The Ninth Hour

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — AudioFile magazine

A magnificent new audiobook from one of America’s... Read more

The Vengeance of Mothers

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review

The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.

9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jamie Ford

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.

“An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history.”—Kristin Hannah, author... Read more

The Other Alcott

By: Elise Hooper

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Elise Hooper’s debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott—Louisa’s youngest sister and an artist in her own right.We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. Now, it’s... Read more

The World of Tomorrow

By: Brendan Mathews

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal).

June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York... Read more

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires

By: Daren Wang

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption." — AudioFile Magazine

Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon... Read more

The History of Bees

By: Maja Lunde

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Steve West & Gibson Frazier

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their... Read more

The Address

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence.

When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the... Read more

The Half-Drowned King

By: Linnea Hartsuyker

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating saga of the Vikings that conjures a brutal, superstitious, and thrilling ninth-century world and the birth of a kingdom—the debut installment in a historical literary trilogy that combines the bold imagination and sweeping narrative power of Game of Thrones, Vikings, and Outlander.Centuries ago, in a blood-soaked land ruled by... Read more

Lost Boy

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Alice takes readers through a dark tale of Peter Pan, who turns his best friend into his nemesis, Captain Hook. On an island lives a boy called Peter and his band of merry lost boys, young forever. That is, unless they get sick or killed by pirates or eaten by crocodiles or unless-inexplicably-they grow old. For some of them do... Read more

The Traitor's Kiss

By: Erin Beaty

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An obstinate girl who will not be married. 
A soldier desperate to prove himself. 
A kingdom on the brink of war.

With a sharp tongue and an unruly temper, Sage Fowler is not what they’d call a lady―which is perfectly fine with her. Deemed unfit for marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be... Read more

The Shadow Land

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Fred Berman, Barbara Caruso & G...

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.

A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon... Read more

The Day I Died

By: Lori Rader-Day

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Little Pretty Things comes this gripping, unforgettable tale of a mother's desperate search for a lost boy.Anna Winger can know people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired out by companies wanting to land trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find... Read more

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

By: Jennifer Ryan

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we need it most!"
  
As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir... Read more

Devil in Spring

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author LISA KLEYPAS delivers the unforgettable tale of a strong-willed beauty who encounters her match in one of London’s most notorious—yet irresistible—rakes . . .An eccentric wallflower  . . .Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. The ambitious young beauty would much... Read more