Historical Fiction audiobooks

City of Fading Light

By: Jon Cleary

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The time is the last two weeks of peace in the summer of 1939. The place is Berlin, the most brilliantly lit city in Europe. Cathleen O'Dea has come from Hollywood to Germany to star in a film. But that is not the real purpose of her visit. She is in Berlin to trace her missing mother. As Europe plunges towards war, we become enthrallingly... Read more

The Faraway Drums

By: Jon Cleary

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1911 in Delhi, King George V is on the brink of being crowned emperor of India. While on duty near Simla, a handsome British intelligence officer, Clive Farnol, finds a plot to assassinate His Majesty. Meanwhile, a young Bostonian reporter, Bridie O'Brady, is in town to write about the coronation. In this exotic tale of romance and intrigue,... Read more

Nemesis

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father has disappeared. They had an old feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen, the Claudii, who terrorize the neighborhood. When a mutilated corpse turns up, Falco and his friend Petronius investigate.... Read more

The Sound of His Horn

By: John William Wall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A horrifying masterpiece of science fictionThe Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the war. Against a sylvan backdrop, the legend of the wild huntsman is revived and genetic... Read more

Gai-Jin

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 50 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellThis epic novel by master writer James Clavell, loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and Anglo-Satsuma War that took place in the late 1800s, is a richly... Read more

Prudence

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Chris Patton

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From a rising Native American writer comes a haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II–era AmericaOn a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier headed for the darkened skies over Europe.... Read more

West of Sunset

By: Stewart O’Nan

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December of 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack.Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life,... Read more

Shadow of the Raven

By: Tessa Harris & Simon Vance

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"CSI meets the Age of Reason with a well-drawn, intriguing cast of characters" (Karen Harper) in Tessa Harris' superbly plotted historical mystery series, featuring eighteenth-century anatomist and pioneering sleuth Dr. Thomas Silkstone.In the notorious mental hospital known as Bedlam, Dr. Thomas Silkstone seeks out a patient with whom he is on... Read more

What the Lady Wants

By: Renée Rosen

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto, "Give the lady what she wants." His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.The night of the Great Fire, as seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames... Read more

A Spider in the Cup

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

At dawn one morning in 1933, an amateur dowsing team digging the banks of the Thames for precious metals unearths the body of a young woman with a missing toe and a priceless gold coin in her mouth. The case falls on Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard Joe Sandilands' turf, but he's been given another assignment—and a very high-profile one.... Read more

Cattle Kate

By: Jana Bommersbach

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it "range-land justice" when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a filthy whore. But history was wrong. It was all a lie. Her real name was Ella Watson. She wasn't a rustler. She wasn't a whore. And she'd never... Read more

His Wicked Reputation

By: Madeline Hunter

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

She was a sensible woman, he was a man who could drive a woman senseless with desire …Gareth Fitzallen is celebrated for four things: his handsome face, his notable charm, his aristocratic connections, and an ability to give the kind of pleasure that has women begging for more. Normally he bestows his talents on experienced, worldly women. But... Read more

The Bad Miss Bennet

By: Jean Burnett

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, n├®e Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husband.Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and... Read more

The Detour

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernst Vogler is twenty-six-years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned... Read more

The Missing Italian Girl

By: Barbara Corrado Pope

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sultry night in June 1897, a young Russian by the name of Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades." They... Read more

Master and God

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Lindsey Davis’ Master and God is a vastly entertaining historical novel set in the reign of the Emperor Domitian in First Century Rome. It is on the one hand a love story between Gaius Vinius Clodianus, a valiant but reluctant member of the Praetorian Guard, whose military career is as successful as his marital history is disastrous, and Flavia... Read more

Lehrter Station

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be asking him to undertake some low grade espionage on their behalf—assessing the strains between different... Read more

Death’s Door

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Billy Boyle could have used a rest after his last case, but when his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, a British spy, goes missing in the Vatican, where she was working undercover, he insists on being assigned to a murder investigation there so he can try to help her. Read more

Not My Blood

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he... Read more

The American People, Vol. 1

By: Larry Kramer

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Traber Burns...

Length: 38 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited new novel by America’s master playwright and activist—a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fearsForty years in the making, The American People embodies Larry Kramer’s vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively... Read more

The Anchoress

By: Robyn Cadwallader

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells & Steve West

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever?Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as... Read more

American Meteor

By: Norman Lock

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on... Read more

The Devil’s Breath

By: Tessa Harris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Eighteenth-century anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone travels to the English countryside to unravel a tangled web of mystery, medicine, and murder in this captivating new novel from Tessa Harris.A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and... Read more

The Roving Party

By: Rohan Wilson

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man—this is the roving party, and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants, and money,... Read more