Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

Warlords and Wastrels

By: Julia Knight

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic conclusion to the fast-paced new adventure fantasy series, the Duelists trilogy, from one of the most exciting new talents in fantasy.
Vocho and Kacha may be known for the first swordplay in the city of Reyes, but they've found themselves backed into a corner too often for their liking.

Finally reinstated into the Duelist's Guild for... Read more

A.D. 30 Abridged Edition

By: Ted Dekker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker offers an exclusive, ebook original novella, an abridgment of A.D. 30, the epic historical novel about a woman who rises to lead her people through following the Way of Jesus. THE FORGOTTEN WAY: A.D. 30 tells the story of Maviah, the outcast daughter of a powerful Arabian sheik who is called to... Read more

Letters to the Lost

By: Iona Grey

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go.

I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks... Read more

The Affinities

By: Robert Charles Wilson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two... Read more

The Patriot Threat

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an innovative new approach, Macmillan Audio and Steve Berry have produced an expanded, annotated Writer's Cut audiobook edition of The Patriot Threat.

Critically-acclaimed, award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns as the voice of dauntless protagonist Cotton Malone and New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry has written and recorded... Read more

The Silver Witch

By: Paula Brackston

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A year after her husband's sudden death, ceramic artist Tilda Fordwells finally moves into the secluded Welsh cottage that was to be their new home. She hopes that the tranquil surroundings will help ease her grief, and lessen her disturbing visions of Mat's death. Instead, the lake in the valley below her cottage seems to spark something... Read more

The Dean’s December

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Corde is a professor of journalism and dean of students at a Chicago university. He and his wife, Minna, travel to Bucharest, Romania, where Minna's mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semiconscious in the local state hospital. As Corde tries to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and cope with her relations and... Read more

The Mangle Street Murders

By: M. R. C. Kasasian

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a charming, evocative, and sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and WatsonAfter her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country's most famous private detective. It is 1882, and London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest... Read more

Bitter Greens

By: Kate Forsyth

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth comes a historical novel that gorgeously interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force.Charlotte-Rose has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs.... Read more

Euphoria

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in... Read more

Painted Horses

By: Malcolm Brooks

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of love and fate, and of heritage threatened by... Read more

Jack of Spies

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city—Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York—he moonlights... Read more

The Iron Sickle

By: Martin Limón

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Early one rainy morning, the head of the US Eighth Army Claims Office in Seoul, South Korea, is brutally murdered by a Korean man in a trench coat carrying a small iron sickle hidden in his sleeve. The attack was a complete surprise, carefully planned and clinically executed. How did this unidentified Korean civilian get into the tightly... Read more

The Goddess of Small Victories

By: Yannick Grannec

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Dawn Harvey

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel—the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the twentieth century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking... Read more

Amaryllis

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Kelly Birch

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

One minute, Amaryllis Duvane is the belle of the London season—a "diamond of the first water," desired by every man and envied by every woman. Even better, she's about to marry the man of her dreams.But when her father dies, Amaryllis loses more than a parent—she loses her fortune. Left penniless, she's forced to depend on the generosity of her... Read more

Crossing Purgatory

By: Gary Schanbacher

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In spring of 1858, Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father's estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief.... Read more

Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy

By: Elizabeth Kiem

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Marina is born of privilege. Her mother, Sveta, is the Soviet Union's prima ballerina: an international star handpicked by the regime. But Sveta is afflicted with a mysterious second sight and becomes obsessed with exposing a horrific state secret. Then she disappears. Fearing for their lives, Marina and her father defect to Brooklyn. Marina... Read more

Masaryk Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American... Read more

The Square of Revenge

By: Pieter Aspe

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful medieval architecture of Bruges belies the dark longings of her residents. When the wealthy and powerful Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, an acid so strong it can even melt gold. In the empty safe is a scrap of paper on which a strange... Read more

The Surfacing

By: Cormac James

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 15 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and... Read more

The Blue Flower

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his... Read more

Madeleine’s War

By: Peter Watson

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsively readable blend of romance and drama based on actual events in Britain and France leading up to D-day in 1944Matthew Hammond is a British military officer posted to the European theater during World War II. He sustained a serious injury on the front lines, so bad, in fact, that it cost him a lung. Now he is back in England, unable... Read more

The Revenge of Moriarty

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds to annihilate his enemies. He murders the leaders of Europe's underworld one by one, then prepares his most hideous revenge for his arch-enemy, Sherlock Holmes. Will he succeed in this most terrible plan? In this vivid, suspenseful novel of London-underworld crime,... Read more