Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Irish Healer

By: Nancy Herriman

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

1830s London is rich with promise. And fraught with peril. Rachel Dunne and James Edmunds are about to discover that love is too. Rachel Dunne has always been a healer... until she’s accused of causing the death of a child under her care. Acquitted but shunned, she flees Ireland in search of a new life, convinced that she’ll be fine so long as... Read more

The Believer

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Will a forbidden love destroy all they know?  Elizabeth Duncan has nowhere to turn. In charge of her younger brother and sister after their parents die, her options are limited: she can give in to the unwanted advances of an odious landowner—or she can flee. When Elizabeth hears that the Shaker community in the next county takes in orphans, she... Read more

Dragon Seed

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocent people. Ling Tan and... Read more

The Christmas Angel

By: Jane Maas

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, heartwarming Christmas tale about the power of family, tradition, and love — sure to delight fans of Debbie Macomber and Richard Paul Evans.In 1875, Owen Thomas, a poor Welsh coal miner, falls in love with a beautiful London actress, Jessica Lavery. He builds her a cottage in his village and enchants her with the promise of the... Read more

The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony

By: Sharon Ewell Foster

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sparked by an indigo sun, Nat Turner stormed into history with a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other. Thirty years before the advent of the Civil War—in the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, commanding a small army of slaves, Nat Turner led a bloody fight for freedom that shined a national spotlight on slavery and left more than fifty... Read more

Mark of Distinction

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Victorian society, where even a whisper of scandal can ruin a life, Julia Elliston much watch her step.

London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself, but to Julia Elliston, it is a city of shadows. Now under the protection of Lord Pierson, she is caught up in his desperate plan and thrust into the public eye as his... Read more

Grave Consequences

By: Lisa T Bergren

Narrated by: Jaimee Draper

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic romance continues. For Cora Kensington, the journey of a lifetime has taken unexpected turns. And her future — her very life — depends on the decisions she’ll make at each crossroad. As the Grand Tour with her newfound family winds through France, Austria, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind. And a forbidden love continues to... Read more

The Seeker

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped by obligation, one woman longs for the freedom of true love. It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop’s life is a tangled mess. When circumstances move Lacey to a nearby Shaker village, she is not prepared for the new life that awaits her. In the midst of her deep loneliness, Lacey works to fit in with this odd group. But everything shifts when she... Read more

Born of Persuasion

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

She never imagined securing her future would require delving into the past.

The year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to... Read more

Pavilion of Women

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame... Read more

The Pursuit of Lucy Banning

By: Olivia Newport

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

She has a secret to keep. But will she give her heart away? Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work and squeeze herself into the mold of the... Read more

Imperial Woman

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In this audio book, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rules during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become... Read more

The Bracelet

By: Dorothy Love

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
-Jean RacineSavannah, Georgia – 1858Celia Browning dreams of the day when her childhood sweetheart Sutton Mackay comes home to Savannah after two years in Jamaica managing his family’s shipping interests. Sutton has all but proposed, and their marriage will unite two of the city’s most prominent... Read more

Gideon's Call

By: Peter Leavell

Narrated by: Barrie Buckner

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Leavell’s award-winning debut novel is a touching and inspiring tale of surprising heroism amid the horrors of the Civil War. Tad, a slave boy of exceptional hidden gifts, comes of age just as the Civil War erupts in coastal South Carolina. An unlikely deliverer, the young man’s hopes remain buried under a crushing weight of abuse and... Read more

The Fifth Heart

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first seemed; the suspected foul play may involve... Read more

Paradise Sky

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick.

Young Willie is on the run, having fled his small Texas farm when an infamous local landowner murdered his father. A man named Loving takes him in and trains him in the fine arts of shooting, riding, reading, and gardening. When Loving dies,... Read more

Early One Morning

By: Virginia Baily

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.

Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family. Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands his return; only as the trucks depart does she realize... Read more

The Rising

By: Ian Tregillis

Narrated by: Chris Kayser

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war.

Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden.

Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of... Read more

Providence and the Butler

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Dearest Rogue

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

HE CAN GUARD HER
Lady Phoebe Batten is pretty, vivacious, and yearning for a social life befitting the sister of a powerful duke. But because she is almost completely blind, her overprotective brother insists that she have an armed bodyguard by her side at all times-the very irritating Captain Trevillion.

FROM EVERY DANGER
Captain James... Read more

A God in Ruins

By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.

"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next... Read more

The Black Snow

By: Paul Lynch

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The startling novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann on Red Sky in Morning).

In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle... Read more

Saint Mazie

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a childhood rooted in poverty, and her diary, always... Read more

Trailer Park Fae

By: Lilith Saintcrow

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with a new series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.
Jeremiah Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but some things cannot be erased. Like the tattoos on his arms that... Read more