Historical Fiction audiobooks

Fallen Land

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine

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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

Loving Day

By: Mat Johnson

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons; his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home,... Read more

The Invention of Wings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Adepero Oduye & Sue Monk Kidd

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women
 
 
Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0... 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

How to Romance a Rake

By: Manda Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What's a nice girl like Miss Juliet Shelby doing at a place like Lord Deveril's ballroom? With her shy demeanor, she's a total stranger to the dance floor and a source of mockery for the ton. So imagine her surprise when Deveril gallantly comes to her defense—and offers to teach her to dance! Juliet can hardly believe the most handsome bachelor... Read more

Seraphina

By: Rachel Hartman

Narrated by: Mandy Williams & Justine Eyre

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyrical, imaginative, and wholly original, this New York Times bestseller with 8 starred reviews is not to be missed.  Rachel Hartman’s award-winning debut will have you looking at dragons as you’ve never imagined them before…
 
In the kingdom of Goredd, dragons and humans live and work side by side – while below the surface, tensions and... Read more

Theft of Swords

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 22 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles—until they are hired to pilfer a famed sword. What appears to be just a simple job finds them framed for the murder of the king and trapped in a conspiracy that uncovers a plot far... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
 
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of... 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

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

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
 
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”... Read more

Kalyna the Cutthroat

By: Elijah Kinch Spector

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi & Michael Crouch

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Daughters of Izdihar meets The Foxglove King: An ex-soothsayer and stranded scholar of curses upend a Utopian community that has no love for refugees.Radiant Basket of Rainbow Shells, scholar of curses and magical history, has spent several years on a research expedition abroad in Quruscan, one of the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia. When... Read more

Authority of Rome

By: J. Clifton Slater

Narrated by: Derek Shoales

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the seven years since he crossed the Alps and began his war against the Roman Republic, Hannibal Barca stood unbeaten in battle. However, maintaining a large army was a costly proposition and the government of Carthage proved stingy with its coins.



To intercept the supplies destined for Hannibal, the Senate of Rome stationed Legions in Iberia.... Read more

When the Earl Desired Me

By: Lydia Lloyd

Narrated by: Christy Woods

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

He thought he'd lost her forever . . .



Lord Augustus Carrington, the Earl of Montaigne, is rumored to be the most abandoned rake in England. But the ton would be shocked if they knew the truth. Almost twelve years ago, he fell deeply in love with Olivia Watson, a maid in his family's house, and experienced a passion that changed him body and... Read more

Dirty South

By: Ace Atkins

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When music mogul Teddy Paris, a former teammate from the New Orleans Saints, visits Nick Travers and asks him to help find $700,000 taken from a rap prodigy, Nick can't turn down his friend. The missing money will pay a bounty on Paris's head that was set by a crosstown rival, a street-hard thug named Cash.Nick soon finds himself lost in the... Read more

Highlander in Disguise

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Griffin Lockhart holds the key to his family's fate. Since his brother Liam failed to reclaim the priceless heirloom that could save their ancestral Scottish estate, it's now up to Grif to find it—among the lords and ladies of fashionable London society.



Disguised as a Scottish earl, Grif attends the most glittering balls, hunting for the woman... Read more

The Refugee's Daughter

By: Carolyn Newton

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Nancy Peterson & Michael Crouch

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

What is the price of freedom? Winter 1945.The Soviet army is sweeping into East Prussia, with their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis' reign of terror. Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother,... Read more

The Isolated Séance

By: Jeri Westerson

Narrated by: Noah James Butler

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Watch out, Sherlock! Introducing one-time Baker Street Irregular Timothy Badger and his partner-in-crime Benjamin Watson, two unconventional young consulting detectives, mentored by the great man himself, tackling intriguing and unusual cases in Victorian London.



Sherlock Holmes's protégés Tim Badger and Benjamin Watson are catapulted into a... Read more

Columba's Bones

By: David Greig

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to give away the location of the sacred relics of St Columba, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotland. Following a night of rampage and mayhem, one Viking wakes up the next morning to find himself alone, hungover, and abandoned by his... Read more

The Last Fashion House in Paris

By: Renee Ryan

Narrated by: Hope Newhouse, Gilli Messer & Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heart of occupied WWII Paris, an elegant fashion house is the unlikely headquarters of a daring resistance network. Behind closed doors, courageous women vie to save loved ones and strangers alike from the Nazis in this powerful story of survival, friendship and second chances.

France, 1942

Once, Paulette Leblanc spent her days flirting,... Read more

A Tempest of Desire

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath returns to the fan favorite series, The Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James, with the story of a viscount who has retreated to a small, secluded island only to have a mysterious and beautiful woman wash up on shore.After surviving a horrific railway accident, Viscount Langdon retreats to his private... Read more

Home and Away

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Spanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the baseball’s Negro Leagues, as the great-granddaughter of a former player sets out to tell her family’s story—and redefine her own.Harper Fleming is done with being passed over. As a journalist for... Read more

The Resurrectionist

By: A. Rae Dunlap

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the tradition of The Alienist and Anatomy: A Love Story, a decadently macabre, dark and twisty gothic debutset in 19th century Scotland – when real-life serial killers Burke and Hare terrorized the streets of Edinburgh –as a young medical student is lured into the illicit underworld of body snatching.Historical fiction, true crime, and dark... Read more