Historical Fiction audiobooks

Always

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: India Baldwin

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns with the unforgettable story of a reluctant bride and groom who soon find common ground in the bedroom . . .Bastard daughter to the king, Rosamunde was raised in a convent and wholly prepared to take the veil . . . until King Henry declared she would wed Aric, one of his most valiant... Read more

The Rogue Not Taken

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Sophie’s Society SplashWhen Sophie, the least interesting of the Talbot sisters, lands her philandering brother-in-law backside-first in a goldfish pond in front of all society, she becomes the target of very public aristocratic scorn. Her only choice is to flee London, vowing to start a new life far from the aristocracy. Unfortunately, the... Read more

The Match of the Century

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell's glittering new series, wedding bells are ringing… until the return of a rake throws a bride's plans— and heart—into a tailspinEvery debutante aspires to snag a duke. Elin Morris just happens to have had one reserved since birth. But postponements of her marriage to London's most powerful peer... Read more

Scandal Takes the Stage

By: Eva Leigh

Narrated by: Mandy Williams

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Together they may create a scandal worthy of the stage, but can their love last after the final curtain falls…?Successful playwright Maggie Delamere has no interest in the flirtations of noblemen like Cameron, Viscount Marwood. She once paid dearly for a moment of weakness…and vows to rebuff the wildly persistent—and irritatingly... Read more

The Spinster's Guide to Scandalous Behavior

By: Jennifer McQuiston

Narrated by: Lana J. Weston

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston's enticing new Seduction Diaries entry, a mysterious journal may provide a potential spinster with instruction—or lead her to her heart's desireFree-spirited Lucy Westmore isn't yet a spinster, although she fully intends to be. Fortunately, an eccentric aunt has left her both a diary... Read more

Lone Star

By: Paullina Simons

Narrated by: Lauren Saunders

Length: 21 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling, acclaimed author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman comes the unforgettable love story between a college-bound young woman and a traveling troubadour on his way to war—a moving, compelling novel of love lost and found set against the stunning backdrop of Eastern Europe.Chloe is just weeks away from heading off to college and... Read more

The Uninvited

By: Cat Winters

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds comes a stunning new novel—a masterfully crafted story of love, loss, and second chances. Set during the fear and panic of the Great Influenza of 1918, The Uninvited is part gothic ghost-story, part psychological thriller, perfect for those who loved The Thirteenth Tale by Diane... Read more

A Little Thing Called Love

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Grandmother, grandmother, who shall it be
Who shall it be who will marry me?
Duke, Earl, a powerful marquess?
When my heart is given to Fyclan Morris…In New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell's new novella, beautiful Jennifer Tarleton has no lack of noble suitors, but the only man who captures her attention is the one her father will never... Read more

Territory

By: Emma Bull

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.You think you know the story. You don't.Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.Above the ground, power is also... Read more

Dreadnought

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River.... Read more

Derby Day

By: D. J. Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all of England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day.... Read more

A Pale Horse

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the devil. Instead, they stumble over the devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered... Read more

Lincoln’s Billy

By: Tom LeClair

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Abraham Lincoln trusted and confided in his law partner William “Billy” Herndon, but his still-influential 1889 biography was censored by his collaborator and publisher. In Lincoln’s Billy, Tom LeClair imagines Herndon’s deathbed autobiography and the “real life” of his partner, revealing secrets about a randy and “rasslin’” Lincoln on his... Read more

The Night John Lennon Died … so did John Doe

By: Louisa Burns-Bisogno & Saundra Shohen

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie has just started her new job as emergency room administrator at Roosevelt Hospital. In her wildest dreams, she never expects December 8, 1980, to be her baptism by fire when John Lennon’s bloodied body is carried into the ER over the shoulder of a policeman. Nor could she anticipate, moments later, the suspicious death of an elderly John... Read more

Summertime Splendor

By: M. C. Beaton, Cynthia Bailey-Pratt, Sarah Eagle...

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartwarming stories of summer romance from four acclaimed Regency authorsFrom the zestful tale of the mistress of a manor masquerading as a servant girl—and its surprising consequences—to the story of a love that blossoms at a royal birthday fete, here's a collection of romantic summer regencies sure to delight. Stories include "The Summer of... Read more

Night Life

By: David C. Taylor

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

With a pulse-pounding murder plot and a protagonist caught between police and Mafia ties, Night Life is the first in a transporting historical crime fiction series set in 1950s New York City.New York City, 1954. The Cold War is heating up, Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for communists in America, the newly formed CIA is fighting a... Read more

The Fair Fight

By: Anna Freeman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre & Steve West

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club in this page-turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late-eighteenth-century England.Moving from a filthy brothel to a fine manor house, from the world of street fighters to the world of champions, The Fair Fight is a vivid, propulsive historical novel announcing... Read more

Tai-Pan

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 32 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell“There can only be one Tai-Pan.”Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He... Read more

The Westerby Sisters

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Betty has no interest in the Duke of Collingham. She doesn't care that he's fabulously wealthy, or devastatingly handsome, or impeccably well-dressed. All she sees is an arrogant nobleman with an abrasive personality and an annoyingly persistent streak.And the Duke of Collingham is persistent. He can have any woman in the whole of... Read more

Enchanting Pleasures

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

People magazine named Eloisa James' novel Midnight Pleasures "Page Turner of the Week" and raved, "Romance writing does not get much better than this." Now the acclaimed author returns with another sumptuous tale of passion and misadventure in Regency England.Gabrielle Jerningham cherishes the portrait of her betrothed, the perfect Peter Dewland... Read more

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok

By: Ben Waggoner

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Although based on historical persons from the ninth century, Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons are the subjects of compelling legends dating from the Viking era. Warriors, raiders, and rulers, Ragnar and his sons inspired unknown writers to set down their stories over seven centuries ago. This volume presents new and original translations of the three... Read more

The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lady's mission …Known for her beauty and boldness, Abigail MacGregor must preserve her clan's dangerous secret: that her mother is the true heir to the English Crown. If the wrong people find out, it will mean war for her beloved Scotland. To keep peace, she embarks for London, unprepared for the treachery that awaits—especially from her... Read more

A Love like Blood

By: Marcus Sedgwick

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel for adults by hugely acclaimed YA writer Marcus Sedgwick is a gripping saga of love, revenge, and obsession—and vampires.In 1944, just days after the liberation of Paris, Charles Jackson sees something horrific: a man in a dark tunnel, apparently drinking the blood of a murdered woman. Terrified, he does nothing, telling himself... Read more

Milady in Love

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when he'd fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place!Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss from schoolroom to marriage mart that he had sworn off women altogether.The current ward was far and... Read more