Historical Fiction audiobooks

Untethered

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . .In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her care, harboring a longing for children of her own.... Read more

Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and... 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

City of Women

By: David R. Gillham

Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men away at the front, Berlin has become a city of women.

On the surface, Sigrid Schröder is the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully... Read more

A True Account

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.

In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her... Read more

The Fountains of Silence

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Maite Jáuregui, Ruta Sepetys, Richard Ferrone, ...

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood... Read more

Our Woman in Moscow

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Nicola Barber & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""A captivating Cold War page-turner."" — Real SimpleThe New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion.In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked... Read more

Mischling

By: Affinity Konar

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.

Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and... Read more

Counting Backwards

By: Binnie Kirshenbaum

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A middle-aged couple struggles with the husband’s descent into early-onset Lewy Body dementia in this profound and deeply moving novel shot through with Kirshenbaum’s lacerating humor. It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the street. Initially, Leo... 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

Loyalty

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Lisa Scottoline

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily.

Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one.

    Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily... Read more

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. 

Lily is... Read more

Hell with the Lid Blown Off

By: Donis Casey

Narrated by: Pam Ward & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secrets can come back from the grave.In the summer of 1916, a big twister brings destruction to the land around Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one is going to mourn for Jubal Beldon, who made it his business to know the ugly secrets of everyone in town.... Read more

Vengeance Is Mine

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In October of 1967, the Summer of Love is history, rock and roll is dark and revolutionary, and people in the small east Texas community of Center Springs simply want to live their lives as quietly as possible. But a handsome darkness in the form of Las Vegas gangster Anthony Agrioli has left the business to hide out in their tiny backwater... Read more

Mortal Coils

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, "The Giaconda Smile," is a short murder story. "Permutations among the Nightingales" is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. "The Tillotson Banquet" tells of an old artist who was thought to be... Read more

The Age of Desire

By: Jennie Fields

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

They say that behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nuturing friend. When at the age of forty-five Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it... Read more

Back in Society

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is finally looking up for the poor relations. The Prince of Wales’ coat of arms gleams over the hotel entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by the open-handed Prince Hugo and his entourage. The owners have taken on a new partner, Mr. Jason Davy, a popular actor. Even curmudgeonly Sir Philip hasn’t uttered anything loathsome for... Read more

Emily Goes to Exeter

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling Traveling Matchmaker series begins with a Regency tale of seductive subterfuge—from the author of the Agatha Raisin novelsA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But the adventure soon... Read more

Belinda Goes to Bath

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin novels, the audacious Hannah Pym is at it again in this charming second installment in the Traveling Matchmaker seriesA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by... Read more

Cascade

By: Maryanne O’Hara

Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Cascade, Massachusetts, 1935. Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a promising young artist, abandoned her dreams of working in New York City to rescue her father. Two months later he is dead and Dez is stuck in a marriage to reliable but child-hungry Asa Spaulding. Dez also stands to lose her father’s legacy, the Cascade Shakespeare Theater, as the... Read more

Penelope Goes to Portsmouth

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who give her an opportunity to test her expert matchmaking... Read more

Beatrice Goes to Brighton

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Join matchmaker Miss Hannah Pym for a romantic seaside adventure in the delightful fourth installment in the Traveling Matchmaker seriesA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed charming spinster Hannah Pym to give up her housekeeping work and to travel the English countryside, where she encounters adventure and many... Read more

The Ghost and the Gold Louis

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

After a ghost tells her great-granddaughter the tale of the gold coins that purchased her as a slave in 1810, it leads her on the trail to recover the gold Louis coins, which were donated to the Confederate war effort by one of her twin sons. The granddaughter has inherited a museum in New Orleans that her cousins bankrupted while she was... Read more

Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This short-story collection contains ten tales based on a diverse range of subjects, from true crime to historical fiction and fantasy. The title story, "Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky," is based on Native American folklore. "A Dark Quiet Place" is based on a true-crime incident involving a troubled boy and gun violence. In "Adirondak Mountains... Read more