Historical Fiction audiobooks

Paperback Jack

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering cheap excitement for the common man and woman. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like... Read more

The London Seance Society

By: Sarah Penner

Narrated by: Lauren Irwin & Alex Wyndham

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"An atmospheric and evocative whodunnit steeped in suspense, mystery, and illusion." —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apothecary comes a spellbinding tale about two daring women who hunt for truth and justice in the perilous... Read more

Something in the Heir

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Sarah Nichols

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Something in the Heir, smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home; and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family’s silly inheritance rules! But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big―and very... 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

Pirates of Sausalito

By: John Byrne Barry

Narrated by: John Byrne Barry & Becky Parker

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test meets Murder, She Wrote.One part hippies grooving on the waterfront and fighting the man, one part murder mystery.It’s the 1970s, and the “houseboat wars” erupt in Sausalito on the site of Marinship, the abandoned World War II shipyard. Hippies and squatters are living free and easy on houseboats in a... 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 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

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

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

Just One Damned Thing After Another

By: Jodi Taylor

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'One of my favourite books of all time' CHARLAINE HARRIS

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL

'Time travel, history and romance - what more could you ask for?' ⭐ ⭐⭐ ⭐⭐ reader review

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They say that History is just one damned thing after another. Welcome to St Mary's... Read more

A Far Wilder Magic

By: Allison Saft

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Jesse Vilinsky offers mesmerizing performances of two odd young folks who are proving their worth to the world and each other" -- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

"An utterly transportive read, unfolding into a world of crumbling manors and ancient forests. Allison Saft crafts a deliberate, intricate romance that will have... Read more

Before Green Gables

By: Budge Wilson

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.



Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her arrival at Green Gables—a heartwarming tale of... Read more

By Any Other Name

By: Erin Cotter

Narrated by: James Meunier

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“A high-stakes, high-drama mystery…led by a plucky, determined hero I would have followed anywhere…[A] romantic, delightful romp!” —Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this... 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

A Murderous Relation

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A royal scandal’s connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

Autumn 1888. Veronica Speedwell and her colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to stop a potential scandal so explosive it threatens... Read more

The Mistress of Bhatia House

By: Sujata Massey

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor.

Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women’s hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways.One daughter, the impetuous Marianne, falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret... Read more

Wake of Vultures

By: Lila Bowen

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Wake of Vultures is, quite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more."―Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author

Supernatural creatures create chaos across an unforgiving western landscape in the first book of a propulsive and cinematic fantasy... Read more

A Catalogue of Catastrophe

By: Jodi Taylor

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL

BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES

For fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.

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Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always... Read more

Frances and Bernard

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more

The Wild Hunt

By: Emma Seckel

Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October.



Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is... Read more

While Paris Slept

By: Ruth Druart

Narrated by: Luke Thompson, Frazer Hadfield, Jane Collingwoo...

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman must make the hardest decision of her life in this unforgettably moving story of resistance and faith during one of the darkest times in history.

Santa Cruz, 1953. Jean-Luc is a man on the run from his past. The scar on his face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now, he has a new life in... Read more

The Murder of Mr. Ma

By: John Shen Yen Nee & SJ Rozan

Narrated by: Daniel York Loh

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he’d known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving... Read more

The Duke Heist

By: Erica Ridley

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel to the Regency era with a New York Times bestselling author's novel of "irresistible romance," in which a woman looking to recover a stolen painting accidentally kidnaps a duke instead (Eloisa James).

Chloe Wynchester is completely forgettable—a curse that gives her the ability to blend into any crowd. When the only father she's ever... Read more