Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Liaison with Her Leading Lady & The Duke's Sister and I

By: Lotte R. James & Emma-Claire Sunday

Narrated by: Beatrix Ayliff

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Liaison with Her Leading Lady
Lose yourself in this grumpy/sunshine historical sapphic romance! A love story onstage And one waiting in the wings?

Ruth Connell’s beloved theater is under threat! In desperation, she approaches reclusive playwright Artemis Goode. If Artemis can write a hit, Ruth can save her troupe from financial ruin. Yet it’s... Read more

The Highlander's Return

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Angus King

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold warrior who never expected to marry meets his match in a fiery young widow in this latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’s Highland Brides series, perfect for fans of Outlander.Graeme Gunn is a warrior through and through. A second son, he left home years ago to battle his way through Scotland as a... Read more

The Trouble with Inventing a Viscount

By: Vivienne Lorret

Narrated by: Faye Adele

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Vivienne Lorret returns with the second book in her Liars’ Club series with a sparkling romance about the spirited middle sister, a dashing rogue, and a very real engagement…except he’s not the viscount he’s pretending to be.Honoria Hartley enjoys flirting far too much to consider marrying. And besides, she’s been... Read more

While the Town Slept

By: William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The latest blazing, breakneck adventure in the Tim Colter Western series by the bestselling legends of historical Westerns in which the assassination of President Grant is on the line.



Wyoming Territory, 1873. Tim Colter and his trusted guide, mountain man Jed Reno, are on the trail of a vicious gang of train robbers when they happen upon a... Read more

The Cold Light of Day

By: Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

June 1920, Ireland: The streets of Dublin seethe with revolution as the Irish Republican Army clashes with British authorities. Roving assassination squads mean nowhere is truly safe, particularly for Verity Kent and her war hero husband, Sidney. Given their celebrity as society darlings and intrepid sleuths, they must tread carefully to go... Read more

Otobong's Gift

By: A Wilson Steele

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

American Alana Eastwood is researching her family tree. Remarkably, Alana traces her Eastwood lineage to an African child, living at Wortley Hall Manor on England's 1801 census. The boy is known as Otobong.



Alana believes Otobong to be her earliest traceable ancestor and plans to visit her distant relatives still living in Nottingham. Discovering... Read more

Beinahe Duchess

By: Emmi West

Narrated by: Sven Macht & Viola Müller

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Euphemia Gordon, nicht mehr die Jüngste, ist entschlossen, dem Altjungferndasein zu entkommen. In einem verzweifelten Plan will sie ihren Schwarm Charles in der Bibliothek küssen und ihn so mehr oder minder zur Heirat zwingen.
Doch statt Charles trifft sie auf den arroganten Duke of Silverthorn – finster, gefährlich, so hassenswert wie eh... Read more

Double Doctrine (A Tyler Wolf Espionage Thriller—Book 4)

By: Jack Mars

Narrated by: Hades (synthesized voice)

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced by Jack Mars, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. “Thriller writing at its best.” --Midwest Book Review (Any Means Necessary) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ From the #1 bestselling and USA Today bestselling author Jack Mars (with over 10,000 five-star reviews) comes a groundbreaking new... Read more

Hamlet's Children

By: Richard Kluger

Narrated by: Paul Woodson

Length: 21 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When grave misfortune leaves thirteen-year-old Terry Sayre without relatives to care for him in the summer of 1939, his only option to elude foster care is to accept asylum abroad with his mother's Danish kin, people he met only briefly as a child. Terry begins life anew in his grandparents' home, but within months of his arrival, the Second... Read more

Family Mistakes

By: Beth Farrar

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Can you ever go back, make up for lost time?



When Ellie's good friend Ruth appears on her doorstep, drenched and disoriented, clutching a packet of mysterious old letters, Ellie knows she must help. Ruth has stumbled upon hidden diaries in her attic—diaries written by the person she trusted most in the world. The shocking revelations within turn... Read more

Of Gold and Shadows

By: Michelle Griep

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The shadows hold secrets darker than they ever imagined . . .



In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for saving black-market artifacts from falling into the wrong hands, she... Read more

The Duke's Christmas Bride

By: Anna Bradley

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Alarmed by the sound of an intruder, Rose St. Claire fetches her pistol. She's shocked to discover that the trespasser is a handsome gentleman—one who states that the house, which Rose recently inherited from her late benefactor, was stolen from his father decades ago. He claims it is now his. And it is—but not entirely. As it turns out, Hammond... Read more

The Naïve and Sentimental Lover

By: John Le Carré

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“Splendid, original… le Carré shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling.”—The Times (UK)Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, beguiling artist and Helen, his alluring and dazzling wife.... Read more

Masque of Betrayal

By: Andrea Kane

Narrated by: Kim Bretton

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

JACQUELINE HOLT WAS THE CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME. With midnight-blue eyes that could bring a man to his knees and proud ideals that gave no quarter, she openly defied Philadelphia's glittering society. Determined to fight against Federalist rule, the scandalously independent beauty championed her cause in a manner both dangerous and forbidden,... Read more

MURDER IN A SOMERSET VILLAGE

By: Jon Harris

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When an amateur sleuth's pub colleague is bumped off, can she work out who called time at the bar?



Since getting her life back on track after being wrongly accused of murder, Julia Ford is finally realizing her ambition of opening a bookshop in the sleepy English village of Biddle Rhyne.



But, best laid plans and all that, things go awry when she... Read more

The Phantom Patrol

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1944: Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle finds himself in a Paris reeling from the carnage it has endured but hopeful that an end to war is in sight. When Billy finds a rare piece of artwork after a tense shoot out in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, he thinks it could be connected to the Syndicat du Renard, a... Read more

Drake Hall

By: Christina Baehr

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith's ancient home is full of secrets . . . and dragons are the least of them.



As the new dragon keeper in the hidden valley of Ormdale, Edith expects her first dragon mating season to involve venomous bites and amorous wyverns.



She doesn't expect to find herself growing closer to an inconveniently appealing suitor next door, or to stumble upon... Read more

The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

Narrated by: Steven Cree & Samara MacLaren

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Being a woman was her only crime.



Scottish Highlands, 1727.



In the aftermath of a tragic fire that kills her father, Aila and her mother, Janet, move to the remote parish of Loth, north-west of Inverness. Blending in does not come easily to the women: Aila was badly burned in the fire and left with visible injuries, while her mother struggles to... Read more

In the Garden of Monsters

By: Crystal King

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Book of Fall 2024

“A sinister romance and hypnotic Gothic fairytale—surreal and luscious with a fascinating twist on the story of Hades and Persephone.” —Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne

A woman with no past. A man who seems to know her. And a monstrous garden that could be the border... Read more

The Worst Duke in London

By: Amalie Howard

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridgerton meets 10 Things I Hate About You in this spicy enemies-to-lovers Regency romance from a "must-read author" (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author). 

Lady Evangeline Raine prefers animals to people and has no interest in marriage­--much to the dismay of her flirty younger sister, Viola. Because their father has one rule:... Read more

Rebekah

By: Jill Eileen Smith

Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When her father dies and she is left in the care of her conniving brother Laban, Rebekah knows her life has changed forever. Her hope for the future is restored when she falls in love with her cousin Isaac, and their relationship starts strong. But marital bliss cannot last forever, and the birth of their twin sons marks the beginning of years... Read more

What We Sacrifice for Magic

By: Andrea Jo DeWerd

Narrated by: Sara Van Beckum

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1968, and the Watry-Ridder family is feared and respected in equal measure. The local farmers seek out their water charms, and the teenagers, their love spells. The family's charms and spells, passed down through generations of witches descending from the Black Forest, have long served the small town of Friedrich, Minnesota.



Eldest daughter... Read more

Everything Glittered

By: Robin Talley

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this queer historical thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, society girls try to find a murderer in a city filled with secrets and stunted by shame. Perfect for fans of Last Night at the Telegraph Club. It’s 1927 and the strict laws of prohibition have done little to temper the roaring 20s nightlife, even in the nation’s capitol.... Read more

The Overcoat

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Mark Antony Stormrider

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol masterfully weaves a haunting tale of the human condition. Set in the cold, bureaucratic world of 19th-century St. Petersburg, this unforgettable short story follows the life of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin, a lowly government clerk whose existence is defined by routine and ridicule. When his old, threadbare coat... Read more