Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Majestic Leo Marble

By: R. J. Lee

Narrated by: Benjamin Fife

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 INTERNATIONAL PULPWOOD QUEENS AND TIMBER GUYS BOOK CLUB READING NATION BONUS BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER 2024A richly textured saga of a gay everyman moving from self-doubt to pride.—Kirkus ReviewsLeo Marble quickens in the womb during a Broadway show, but his life is lived in the Deep South in conservative Mississippi and laid-back New... Read more

The Artist's War

By: Clare Flynn

Narrated by: Annette Chown

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hampshire, 1916: Alice traces her hand over the cold glass of the window as the pale morning light slips into the empty room. The pain of loss is worse than a physical one. Reminders of Edmund are all around her. The coldness of the sheet on the other half of the bed. The unrelenting silence in the cottage when her stepdaughter Lottie is at... Read more

Who Lived in a Shoe

By: Rachel Kovaciny

Narrated by: Steve Corona

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Levi Dalton is disappointed. He'd had high hopes for this visit from Uncle Matthew's old cavalry friend, Mr. Jones. Even though Mr. Jones brought along his wife, children, and a sister-in-law, surely he would have time to reminisce with Uncle Matthew about their time in the war. Then Levi would get to hear the kinds of exciting stories his... Read more

How to Fall for a Scoundrel

By: Kate Bateman

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Two unlikely allies team up to solve a case in this novel filled with Kate Bateman's signature sparkling voice, exciting adventures, and steamy chemistry.As a founding member of King & Co., London's most successful private investigation firm, studious Eleanor Law delights in secretly proving that women can solve crimes just as well as men.... Read more

Murder at Vinland

By: Alyssa Maxwell

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and observing the ladies in attendance, Emma is struck by the... Read more

Fort Buzzard

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

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

They were innocent men, slaughtered in the Rockies. A party of land surveyors who met their grisly fate at the hands of the Crow Indians—or so it seems. Some folks think the story is a lie. And now it's up to US Army Lieutenant Ron Stanton to figure out what really happened up there in those desolate, blood-soaked mountains. As his guides,... Read more

Some Die Young

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

Narrated by: Joshua Saxon

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone present Book 2 in the Man From Waco series. Read more

Wedding Rows

By: Kate Kingsbury

Narrated by: Mary Sarah

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth book in the fabulous Manor House Mystery Series by Kate Kingsbury, the bestselling author of the Pennyfoot Hotel Mysteries!



Enthralling mystery, lots of laughter and a little bit of romance—that's village life in wartime England . . .



Left with only a muddle-headed butler, a bossy cook/housekeeper, and a couple of energetic maids, Lady... Read more

Death and the Visitors

By: Heather Redmond

Narrated by: Siobhan Waring

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

1814, London: Foreign diplomats are descending on London in advance of the Congress of Vienna meetings to formulate a new peace plan for Europe following Napoleon's downfall. Mary and Jane's father, political philosopher William Godwin, is hosting a gathering with an advance party of Russian royal staff. The Russians are enthusiastic followers... Read more

A Scandal in Mayfair

By: Katharine Schellman

Narrated by: Henrietta Meire

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes danger lurks in plain sight, and in the cutthroat London Season, socialite Lily Adler must race against time to catch a killer. Fans of Bridgerton will delight in this Regency-era mystery featuring an intrepid sleuth, plenty of intrigue, and a touch of romance. London, 1817. The London Season is beginning once more, and Lily Adler’s... Read more

Song of the Samurai

By: C.A. Parker

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, 1745, is a land under the iron grip of the Tokugawa shoguns. Roads are monitored, dissent stifled, and order maintained through blackmail and an extensive network of informers. Amid rumors of rebellion, Kurosawa Kinko—samurai and monk—is expelled in disgrace as the head music instructor of his Zen temple in Nagasaki. He begins an odyssey... Read more

The Third Wife of Faraday House

By: B.R. Myers

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A deliciously chilling gothic mystery with a smart and resourceful heroine . . . What more could fans of Jane Eyre and Rebecca want?” — Carol Goodman, two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award winnerTwo brides band together to unravel the secrets at the heart of a crumbling island manor in this delicious love letter to gothic fiction from the... Read more

Blackheart Man

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.

Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on... Read more

Forever Her Earl

By: Scarlett Scott

Narrated by: Roxy Isles

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A case of mistaken identity between a proper earl and a feisty American heiress turns scorching in this opposites attract romance from USA Today Bestselling author Scarlett Scott. Bold and fiercely opinionated American heiress Lucy Chartrand has proudly left a string of scandals in her wake on both sides of the Atlantic. Her matchmaking mother... Read more

Stalking Shadows

By: Cyla Panin

Narrated by: Shakira Shute

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A gothic YA fantasy debut about a young woman striving to break her sister's curse and stop the killing in her small French town.



Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day in her small eighteenth-century French town. She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well and Marie living at... Read more

Rhymer

By: Gregory Frost

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas the Rhymer, legendary twelfth-century figure of traditional Scottish balladry, as you've never seen him before.



Rhymer brings to life Thomas the Rhymer, legendary twelfth-century figure of traditional Scottish balladry, as a champion who must battle the diabolical Yvag—an alien race thought to be elves and faeries—hellbent on conquering... Read more

The Naturalist's Daughter

By: Tea Cooper

Narrated by: Corinne Davies

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Two fearless women--living a century apart--find themselves entangled in the mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century: the classification of the platypus.1808 Agnes Banks, NSWRose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study of the... Read more

Rock Bottom, Tennessee

By: Kimberly Nixon

Narrated by: Dani Nelson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is hard for Ruby, who grew up in poverty on the wrong side of the mountain on her grandfather's farm, where the sun literally didn't shine. The Appalachian setting isn't her friend as she searches for an easy life at the "tippy-top" with contentment and security. Ruby makes a series of poor decisions, causing her life to tumble into an... Read more

Clouds of Witness: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Book 2

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Chase Foster

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the intriguing world of "Clouds of Witness: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Book 2" by Dorothy L. Sayers, where aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey faces another gripping case. When his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murder, Lord Peter must unravel a complex web of family secrets, political intrigue, and hidden... Read more

REVENGE!

By: David S. Britton

Narrated by: Andrew Randall

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It is some time in the future. A destructive war swept through the Northern Hemisphere, destroying the nations from North America, across Europe, and into Northern Asia, and, with them, the myth of White Supremacy. In the Southern Hemisphere, nations once dominated politically and economically by the former great powers in the north began to... Read more

Rocky Basin

By: Shirleen Davies

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Will her love be enough to help this former gunslinger recapture what’s left of his heart…and his soul?
Griffin MacKenzie loves the town of Splendor, Montana, its people, and his work as a lawyer. His days of traveling the west as a gun for hire are far behind him, and for the first time, he feels settled. Except for an attraction to a beautiful... Read more

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - Unabridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Sara Nichols

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pride and Prejudice," written in 1813, was the second of six books by legendary British author Jane Austen.
In this story, we are introduced to the Bennet family: Mr. and Mrs. Bennet...and their five daughters, each of whom (according to Mrs. Bennet) must find rich husbands as soon as possible. When Mr. Bingley - a wealthy bachelor - takes up... Read more

Angel Peak

By: Shirleen Davies

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A past he’d give anything to forget. A haunting guilt he can never make right.
The one woman who held the power to heal his injured soul.
Angel Peak, Book Twelve, Redemption Mountain Historical Western Romance Series
Caleb Covington promised to find and kill the men who’d murdered his fiancée. Seeking peace upon leaving the Union Army to become a... Read more

Just David

By: Eleanor H. Porter & Benjamin Fife

Narrated by: Benjamin Fife

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When a newly orphaned boy with a violin shows up in a small town, his unnique perspective transforms everyone.When David comes on the scene, The Holly family, and much of the town, have done things for so long they don't even realize they are in a rut. David's innocence and naivete bring with it his own set of assumptions, opinions, and... Read more