Historical Fiction audiobooks

Balm

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Narrated by: Lisa Renee Pitts

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history—the trauma of the War and the end of slavery—in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future.The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp... Read more

Orphan #8

By: Kim van Alkemade

Narrated by: Andi Arndt & Ginny Auer

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today BestsellerIn this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before.In 1919, Rachel... Read more

Newport

By: Jill Morrow

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Following in the steps of Beatriz Williams and Amor Towles, this richly atmospheric, spellbinding novel transports readers to the dazzling, glamorous world of Newport during the Roaring Twenties and to a mansion filled with secrets as a debonair lawyer must separate truth from deception.Spring 1921. The Great War is over, Prohibition is in full... Read more

Rare Objects

By: Kathleen Tessaro

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Depression-era Boston, a city divided by privilege and poverty, two unlikely friends are bound by a dangerous secret in this mesmerizing work of historical fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfume Collector.Maeve Fanning is a first generation Irish immigrant, born and raised among the poor, industrious Italian... Read more

The Devil's Bag Man

By: Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Erik Bergmann

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling sequel to The Dead Run, New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach mixes horror, the supernatural and gritty suspense to deliver a high-octane, high-concept adventure filled with nasty bad guys, fearsome magic, and an unlikely hero caught in the dangerous terrain of the Tex-Mex borderland.Locked in a Mexican jail for a... Read more

A Pattern of Lies

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Question of Honor and An Unwilling Accomplice.An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has... Read more

The Duke and the Lady in Red

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd & James Adams

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerSparks fly in the finale of the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James Place series, as the last wicked rogue meets his match.When Rosalind Sharpe gains the attention of the deliciously wicked Duke of Avendale, she’s torn between her distracting attraction to the notorious rogue and the knowledge that he—rich as Croesus—is the... Read more

Dukes Prefer Blondes

By: Loretta Chase

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerBiweekly marriage proposals from men who can't see beyond her (admittedly breathtaking) looks are starting to get on Lady Clara Fairfax's nerves. Desperate to be something more than ornamental, she escapes to her favorite charity. When a child is in trouble, she turns to tall, dark, and annoying barrister Oliver... Read more

All the Ways to Ruin a Rogue

By: Sophie Jordan

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerFirst friends, then enemies . . .Lady Aurelia hasn't always hated Max, Viscount Camden, her brother's best friend. In fact, as a besotted girl, she thrived under his kind attention— sure that he was the most noble and handsome man in the land. Until her young heart discovered what manner of rogue he really was. Now, though... Read more

The Highlander Takes a Bride

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Penelope Nederhorst

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay SandsSword fighting, swearing, and riding astride come naturally to Saidh Buchanan. Simpering and holding her tongue— definitely not. Raised alongside seven boisterous brothers, Saidh has little interest in... Read more

Church of Marvels

By: Leslie Parry

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all.New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself,... Read more

The Festival of Insignificance

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Slender but weighty. . . . What is moving about this novel is its embrace of what has always driven Kundera, the delicate state of living between being and nothingness.”— Boston GlobeFrom the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an entertaining and enchanting novel—""a fitting capstone on an... Read more

Crooked Heart

By: Lissa Evans

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee.When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge—a... Read more

Speak

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Adrienne Rusk, Joe Ochman, Jennifer Page, Chris...

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence—illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the seventeenth century, to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the... Read more

Trigger Mortis

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: David Oyelowo

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Incorporating original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz returns literary legend James Bond to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating and dashing thriller.The world's most famous spy, James Bond, has just returned victorious from his showdown with Auric Goldfinger in... Read more

After Alice

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic.When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world... Read more

Front Lines

By: Michael Grant

Narrated by: Erin Mallon & Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Code Name Verity, New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant unleashes an epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for service. The... Read more

The Girl from the Garden

By: Parnaz Foroutan

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti—the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in... Read more

A Line of Blood

By: Ben McPherson

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Whose secrets cut deeper?
Your family's.Whose secrets do you fear?
Your neighbor's.Whose secrets can kill?
Your own.For Alex Mercer, his wife, Millicent, and their precocious eleven-year-old son, Max, are everything—his little tribe that makes him feel all's right with the world. But when he and Max find their enigmatic next-door neighbor dead in... Read more

All the Stars in the Heavens

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller • Publishers Weekly Bestseller People's Book of the WeekAnnual Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominee for FictionAdriana Trigiani, the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife, returns with her biggest and boldest novel yet, a hypnotic tale based on a... Read more

Golden Lion

By: Wilbur Smith & Giles Kristian

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Game of Thrones, Ken Follett, and Clive Cussler:an epic adventure spanning land and sea...time and distance...courage, revenge, and everything in between.GOLDEN LIONHe saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth avenging that death. And now Henry 'Hal' Courtney is a man with a ship – and a family – of his own.But fate... Read more

Scotsman of My Dreams

By: Karen Ranney

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Karen Ranney's second novel in her breathtaking series, an unconventional woman and a former scoundrel embark on a daring mission of desireOnce the ton's most notorious rake, Dalton MacIain has returned from his expedition to America during the Civil War— wounded and a changed man. Instead of returning to his... Read more

When a Scot Ties the Knot

By: Tessa Dare

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today BestsellerOn the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shy, pretty, and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she... Read more

Forever Your Earl

By: Eva Leigh

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eva Leigh's irresistible new series introduces the Wicked Quills of London: a group of bold, brilliant female writers whose spirited allure is beyond seductive . . .Eleanor Hawke loves a good scandal. And readers of her successful gossip rag live for the exploits of her favorite subject: Daniel Balfour, the notorious Earl of Ashford. So when the... Read more