Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Scandalous Marriage

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she'd make an excellent clergyman's wife.Her mother had loftier aspirations, however, for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke, more specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. "Lucifer" Wardshire was rumored to be as wicked as the... Read more

The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die

By: Colin Cotterill

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. SiriIn a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw... Read more

The Collector of Lost Things

By: Jeremy Page

Narrated by: Michael Healy

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An arctic adventure story fueled by obsession, passion, and gothic influence, The Collector of Lost Things is a gripping literary suspense novel.The worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place, if there ever was a place, where you could disappear…The year is 1845,... Read more

A Blind Goddess

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

March, 1944. US Army lieutenant Billy Boyle, back in England after a dangerous mission in Italy, is due for a little R&R—and a promotion. But the now-Captain Boyle doesn't get to kick back and enjoy his leisure time because two upsetting cases fall into his lap at once.The first is a personal request from an estranged friend: Sergeant Eugene... Read more

The Big Both Ways

By: John Straley

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

John Straley brings his storytelling abilities to a new level in this completely original period crime story.It's 1935, and Slip Wilson, rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a coworker, has quit his job at a logging camp, hoping to make a clean start in Seattle. But along the way he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in a... Read more

The Sixteen Pleasures

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

I was twenty-nine years old when the Arno flooded its banks on Friday, 4 November 1966. On Tuesday I decided to go to Italy, to offer my services as a humble book conservator, to save whatever could be saved, including myself.The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art... Read more

Projection

By: Risa Green

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Three girls battle a dangerous secret society that will do anything to protect an ancient Greek power in this murder mystery for fans of Dan Brown.In ancient Rome it was whispered that the great philosopher Plotinus could project his soul into another human being in a ritual that hinged on a kiss.In present-day Delphi, California, the sole... Read more

Triptych

By: Margit Liesche

Narrated by: Terri McMahon

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Budapest, 1956. In the darkest year of Hungary's modern history, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Évike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters, armed only with primitive weapons and desperate courage against the heavy... Read more

Painted Veil

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Venice, 1734. Castrato soprano Tito Amato, star of Venice opera, has let fame go to his head. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, Tito finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting singer who usurps his position. But when the murder of scene painter Luca Cavalieri threatens to close the opera house,... Read more

Becoming Clementine

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer 1944, Paris, a secret mission, a dangerous passion—a spellbinding story you will never forgetAfter delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down,... Read more

Conquered by a Highlander

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bound by duty…Colin MacGregor was born to fight—for his beliefs, his king, and his family’s honor. After years away from his beloved Scotland, he yearns to return to its lush, green hills, and he can after he completes one final mission for the king. Sent to infiltrate a traitor’s home, Colin is determined to expose the treasonous plot and... Read more

The Palace of Illusions

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This vivid reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic Mahabharata takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. It is told by Panchaali, wife of the Pandava brothers, a fiery female redefining for us a world of gods and warriors.The novel traces the princess Panchaali’s life, beginning with her birth in fire and... Read more

The Painted Veil

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, this beautifully written character study is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive.The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane, who marries for money rather than love. When her husband, a quiet doctor, discovers her adulterous affair, he forces... Read more

The Black Rock Coffin Makers

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it. The Black Rock Coffin Makers is a tale of suspense and danger, with chases, shootouts, double-crosses and posses, all for possession of the XY ranch. Read more

“Shoot, Minnie, Shoot!”

By: Happy Jack Feder

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1903, over three hundred Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men’s and women’s... Read more

Absolute Truths

By: Susan Howatch

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of bishop of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasoned corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his attractive, unsinkable wife, Ashworth stands against the amorality and decadence of the... Read more

Tappan’s Burro

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Quite by chance, as he was looking for his burros, he struck his pick into a place no different from a thousand others there, and hit into a pocket of gold. He cleaned out the pocket before sunset, the richer for several thousand dollars.“‘You brought me luck,’ said Tappan, to the little gray burro staggering round its mother. ‘Your name is... Read more

The Time In Between

By: Maria Duenas

Narrated by: Zilah Mendoza

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.

Between youth and adulthood...

At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a... Read more

Imperium

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Oliver Ford Davies

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.

In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a... Read more

Charleston

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells -- saints and evil-doers mingled in one unforgettable family -- from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil War and the savage defeat of the Confederacy. Delving into our country's history as only he can, Jakes paints a powerful portrait... Read more

Dark Voyage

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. Only she is not the Santa Rosa, she is the... Read more

Blood of Victory

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black... Read more

Foreign Correspondent

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense Read more

Kingdom of Shadows

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe. Read more