Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Book of Lost Names

By: Kristin Harmel

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday

Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis... Read more

What the River Knows

By: Isabel Ibañez

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Ana Osorio

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mummy meets Death on the Nile in What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez's lush, immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt and filled with adventure, a rivals-to-lovers romance, and a dangerous race.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the... Read more

A Great and Terrible Beauty

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Under the Same Stars.

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school... Read more

Upon a Starlit Tide

By: Kell Woods

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon a Starlit Tide is a dark and enchanting historical fantasy combining elements of "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella" into a wholly original tale of love, power, and betrayal.

*The hardcover edition features beautiful custom endpapers.*

Saint-Malo, Brittany, 1758. To Lucinde Leon, the youngest daughter of a wealthy French shipowner, the high... Read more

Ring Shout

By: P. Djèlí Clark

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In America, demons wear white hoods.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the
darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They
plan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way... Read more

You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season—set in the same universe as We Could Be So Good.The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to... Read more

A Restless Truth

By: Freya Marske

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.

"Narrator Aysha Kala delivers action and romance in this sequel to A MARVELLOUS LIGHT."- AudioFile Magazine

“Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer.”—TJ... Read more

She Who Became the Sun

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by fan-favorite narrator Natalie Naudus

Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy.

To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything

“I refuse... Read more

Once Upon a Wardrobe

By: Patti Callahan

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea and Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories.1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother... Read more

The Giver of Stars

By: Jojo Moyes

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER |  A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
 
“A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon
 
From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of... Read more

The Silence of the Girls

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Michael Fox

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times
 
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s... Read more

The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch & Carlotta Brentan

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

One of the NY Post's Best Beach Reads, an US Weekly pick for "mystery novels to read on the beach”, a Woman's World "captivating beach read you won't be able to put down this summer" ("a riveting saga"), an Eater food-filled beach read for your summer vacation ("an appealing mix of romantic escapism, whodunit intrigue, and... Read more

A Gathering of Shadows

By: V. E. Schwab

Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Four months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift, and into Black London.

In many ways, things have almost returned to normal, though Rhy... Read more

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Martyn Swain

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When Major Rufus d’Aumesty unexpectedly becomes the Earl of Oxney, he finds himself living in a remote Norman manor on the edge of Romney Marsh with his noble, hostile, and decidedly odd family. His position is contested both by his greedy uncle and by unexpected claimant Luke Doomsday, a dashing member of the local smuggling clan. They should... Read more

The Things We Cannot Say

By: Kelly Rimmer

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon & Nancy Peterson

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers... Read more

The Island of Sea Women

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island.

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from... Read more

Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

Narrated by: Harrison Knights

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This bittersweet Pride & Prejudice remix follows a trans boy yearning for the freedom to live openly, centering queerness in a well-known story of longing... Read more

The Duchess Deal

By: Tessa Dare

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules…Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury’s to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne’er-do-wells by night. Now there’s a new item on the list. He needs an heir—which means he needs a wife. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar’s daughter turned... Read more

A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke

By: Adriana Herrera

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

He's not like other dukes…

Paris, 1889

Physician Aurora Montalban Wright takes risks in her career, but never with her heart. Running an underground women’s clinic exposes her to certain dangers, but help arrives in the unexpected form of the infuriating Duke of Annan. Begrudgingly, Aurora accepts his protection,... Read more

His Majesty's Dragon

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from... Read more

And Then There Were None

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie.""Ten . . .""
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen.""""Nine . . .""
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 43 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling... Read more

Voyager

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 43 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Gabaldon’s magnificent historical saga, begun with Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, continues with this New York Times bestseller. Set in the intriguing Scotland of 200 years ago, the third installment in the romantic adventures of Jamie and Claire is as compelling as the first.

Now that Claire knows Jamie survived the slaughter at... Read more

Code Name Hélène

By: Ariel Lawhon

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Peter Ganim

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the thrilling real-life story of a socialite spy and astonishing woman who killed a Nazi with her bare hands and went on to become one of the most decorated women in WWII—from the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River.

"Will fascinate readers of World War II history and thrill fans of fierce, brash,... Read more