Historical Fiction audiobooks

Crooked

By: Austin Grossman

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning novelist Austin Grossman reimagines the Cold War as an epic battle against the occult waged by the ultimate American antihero: Richard Nixon.

Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the twentieth century. Our thirty-seventh president's political career spanned the button-down fifties, the Mad Men sixties,... Read more

The Mortal Tally

By: Sam Sykes

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Sam Sykes returns with the second thrilling novel in his Bring Down Heaven series.

The heart of civilization bleeds.
Cier'Djaal, once the crowning glory of the civilized world, has gone from a city to a battlefield and a battlefield to a graveyard. Foreign armies clash relentlessly on streets laden with the bodies of innocents... Read more

No. 4 Imperial Lane

By: Jonathan Weisman

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From post-punk Brighton to revolutionary Angola, an incredible coming-of-age story that stretches across nations and decades, reminding us what it really means to come home.

"Weisman has written a tragedy of rare power and richness...If lately you've been shuffling through too many novels that feel a little unambitious, vaguely sentimental, even... Read more

Reign of Iron

By: Angus Watson

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

WARRIOR QUEENS AND ROMAN INVADERS DO BATTLE IN THE FINAL VOLUME OF THIS THRILLING EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY.

Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain -- with them are an unstoppable legion of men twisted by dark magic. Somehow Queen Lowa must repel... Read more

Battlemage

By: Stephen Aryan

Narrated by: Matt Addis

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"I can command storms, summon fire and unmake stone," Balfruss growled. "It's dangerous to meddle with things you don't understand."

Balfruss is a battlemage, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears and despises his kind.

Vargus is a common soldier -- while mages shoot lightning from the walls of the city, he's down in the front lines... Read more

A.D. 33

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who... Read more

A Dance of Chaos

By: David Dalglish

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish Fear comes from the hands of prophets. . .

The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to... Read more

Villa America

By: Liza Klaussmann

Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.

When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society life in New York City. They packed up their children and... Read more

Legends and Liars

By: Julia Knight

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Legends and Liars is the second book in the Duelist's trilogy -- a fast-paced adventure from one of the most exciting new talents in fantasy.

Vocho and Kacha are brother and sister, and between them they've got quite a reputation. They were once know for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. The only problem is, ever since they were thrown... Read more

Delicious Foods

By: James Hannaham

Narrated by: James Hannaham

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.

Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband.... Read more

Lamentation

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 25 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart.

Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical... Read more

Soulbound

By: Kristen Callihan

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Once two souls are joined . . .
When Adam's soul mate rejected him, there was more at stake than his heart. After seven hundred years of searching, his true match would have ended the curse that keeps his spirit in chains. But beautiful, stubborn Eliza May fled-and now Adam is doomed to an eternity of anguish, his only hope for salvation gone... Read more

Inspector of the Dead

By: David Morrell

Narrated by: Matthew Wolf

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assisinate Queen Victoria.

The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey,... Read more

The Dynamite Room

By: Jason Hewitt

Narrated by: Will Thorp

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Accomplished, resonant and surprising (Guardian) -- a debut for fans of Summer of My German Soldier.

In July 1940, eleven-year-old Lydia escapes life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives home to her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty. Lydia settles in though, determined to... Read more

Prudence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a witty adventure about a young woman with rare supernatural abilities travels to India for a spot of tea and adventure and finds she's bitten off more than she can chew.

When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any... Read more

A Scoundrel by Moonlight

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman seeks revenge by posing as a housemaid and taking down the rogue that broke her sister's heart in this character-driven, sinful, historical romance.

A woman seeks revenge by posing as a housemaid and taking down the rogue that broke her sister's heart in this character-driven, sinful, historical romance. Justice. That's all Nell Trim... Read more

Twice in a Lifetime

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Widdi Turner

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Sunset, Missouri, 1954. As hope flourishes in postwar America, a young widow dares to dream of a second chance at a forever love . . .

Clara Sinclair has learned to live one lonely day at a time. It was the only way she managed to survive her husband's death in World War II and raise their young son alone. But now she's at a loss as to how to... Read more

Clash of Iron

By: Angus Watson

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in Angus Watson's epic Iron Age fantasy trilogy.

Leaders are forged in the fires of war.br>
Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they must defend it.

A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather than uniting to defend their home, the British tribes go to battle with each other... Read more

Under Tiberius

By: Nick Tosches

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw.

Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The... Read more

The Book of Lost and Found

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From London to Corsica to Paris — as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List. 

Kate Darling's enigmatic mother — a once-famous ballerina — has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When... Read more

Swords and Scoundrels

By: Julia Knight

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Two siblings.

Outcasts for life. . .. together.

What could possibly go wrong?

Vocho and Kacha are champion duelists: a brother and sister known for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. Or at least they used to be-until they were thrown out of the Duelist's Guild.

As a last resort, they turn reluctant highwaymen. But when they pick the... Read more

Cleopatra's Shadows

By: Emily Holleman

Narrated by: Katy Sobey

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Page-turning historical fiction that reimagines the beginnings of Cleopatra's epic saga through the eyes of her younger sister.

Before Caesar and the carpet, before Antony and Actium, before Octavian and the asp, there was Arsinoe.

Abandoned by her beloved Cleopatra and an indifferent father, young Arsinoe must fight for her survival in the... Read more

Sweetest Scoundrel

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

SHE'S TAKING CHARGE

Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother's investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London's premier pleasure garden, Harte's Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can't be controlled.

HE'S RUNNING THE SHOW

... Read more

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

By: Oscar Hijuelos

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a novel inspired by the friendship between famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley—"surely among the best books Oscar ever wrote" (Paul Auster).

Acclaimed novelist Oscar Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and... Read more