Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

A Soldier of the Great War

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 31 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient... Read more

Enlightening Delilah

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The third novel in the School for Manners series finds the Tribble sisters, Amy and Effy, once again entangled in the machinations of the marriage mart. The formidable but lovable spinsters, who earn their living by sponsoring young girls and finding them husbands, take on the case of Delilah, a beautiful, mindlessly flirtatious country... Read more

Finessing Clarissa

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Lovely, wealthy, and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother, the Lady Clarendon, has tried to mold Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion, but until the fashions fit tall Clarissa, her mother's efforts are doomed to fail.Enter Amy and Effy... Read more

What Is the What

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three... Read more

Animating Maria

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy and Effy Tribble can’t believe their luck. After four seasons spent molding intractable, wayward, or just plain frumpy young women into marriage material, their fifth season in the chaperone business brings them a dream client.Maria Kendall is beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful, and extremely well-dowered. She is a perfect... Read more

Marrying Harriet

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity—too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable, but Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, feel confident that their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the... Read more

On Desperate Ground

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them—life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fianc├®e and the demons... Read more

One Heart to Win

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, presents a passionate novel of hidden identities, family secrets, and love that transcends a fifty-year feud set in the 1880s in the majestic ranchland of the Montana territory.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love—but Tiffany Warren is... Read more

Plain Jane

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Number 67 Clarges Street—a good address in London’s elegant Mayfair with a dubious past and a lovably eccentric staff—is where the Hart sisters are taking up residence for the season. Beautiful and socially ambitious Euphemia and her younger sister, Jane, enter a world of balls, coming-out parties, and courtship with the hope of finding suitable... Read more

Rainbird’s Revenge

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Duke of Pelham returns to his town house at 67 Clarges Street, he is grimly determined to find a suitable wife—but completely unprepared for what the season has to offer.The duke’s title alone has always brought him more than his share of feminine attention; claiming not to believe in love, he has never been spurned by a lady. The... Read more

Rake’s Progress

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

M. C. Beaton brings you the fourth installment of her witty and charming House for the Season series.Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women, and song in mind when he rents Number 67 Clarges Street for the season. He certainly has no desire for a serious attachment—and never... Read more

Sick of Shadows

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience so Rose can avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Her sharp intellect and radical ideas have served to repel her would-be suitors. Rose's parents are hardly thrilled that their only child is marrying a man in trade, but Harry... Read more

The Adventuress

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Another tenant for London's infamous house for the season, from the New York Times bestselling authorFollowers of the series will notice in this volume some personality changes in the odd assortment of retainers who keep the house at 67 Clarges Street, in London's Mayfair, at the ready for whatever entrepreneur will rent it as a launching pad... Read more

The Education of Miss Patterson

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream—until the specter of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and delicious flirtations.Lord Charles demanded that she act the part of a proper—and perfectly boring—young miss. Even worse,... Read more

The Ides of April

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Lucy Brown

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign... Read more

The Miser of Mayfair

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be... Read more

The Original Miss Honeyford

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Honeyford was sour on romance, but she had been duly dispatched to London to save the family fortune by hunting for—and securing—a wealthy husband and thereby proving her role as a loving, if not entirely dutiful, daughter. Honoraria obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride,... Read more

The Wicked Godmother

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is aghast when a nobleman’s will names her guardian of his snobbish twin daughters when they come out during the next London season. And is she wily enough for the intrigues of the ton—or its two most eligible bachelors, the Marquess of Huntingdon and Lord Vere? Harriet sees them as suitors for the twins,... Read more

A Christmas Beginning

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Superintendent Runcorn—who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss—is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's... Read more

A Christmas Grace

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt’s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, she makes the long journey to her aunt’s home in Connemara, an all-but-forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. Emily soon discovers that a tragic legacy... Read more

A Christmas Guest

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest—an outcast from her own... Read more

A Christmas Journey

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel... Read more