Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts.

New Year's Eve, 1929.

Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans... Read more

The Hedgewitch of Foxhall

By: Anna Bright

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Alister Austin & James Meunier

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gorgeous stand-alone cozy fantasy romance perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson and Allison Saft, a rebellious witch undertakes a last-ditch quest to restore magic to medieval Wales—as two princes vie for her heart.Magic is fading from Wales—choked off by King Offa’s Dyke, the enemy earthworks that spans the entire border. Even the... Read more

Breaking Time

By: Sasha Alsberg

Narrated by: Elle Newlands & Joshua Manning

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Perfect for fans of Outlander... A lush story of star crossed lovers and time traveling assassins." —Laura Sebastian, New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess

Fate brought them together. Time will tear them apart.

When a mysterious Scotsman suddenly appears in the middle of the road, Klara thinks the biggest problem is whether she hit... 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 Naming of the Birds

By: Paraic O'Donnell

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant who long ago retired to tend his orchids. If the motive... 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

Heart of the Nile

By: Will Thomas

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Antony Ferguson transports listeners to London in late 1983 for a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby, and a murder...The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns."- AudioFile Magazine

London, 1893: deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn... 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

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

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

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 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

The Night Ship

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Fleur De Wit & Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.

1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is... 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 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

We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

Narrated by: Brad Griffith, Jesse Vilinsky, Sharon Freedman,...

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).

On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw... 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

The Risen

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspenseful and evocative tale of two brothers whose lives are altered irrevocably by the events of one long-ago summer—and one bewitching young woman—and the secrets that could destroy their lives.While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in... Read more

The Secret Keeper of Jaipur

By: Alka Joshi

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Ariyan Kassam & Deepa Samuel

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

 A NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HENNA ARTIST,  A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

Good Morning America’s “27 Books for June"
 
PopSugar’s Best Summer Reads of 2021 

In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s intriguing new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character,... 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

Epitaph

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.A deeply divided nation.... 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

Jane Steele

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel

The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety.”
 
“A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and... Read more