Historical Fiction audiobooks

Breath of Bones

By: Tricia Goyer & Nathan Goyer

Narrated by: Magnus Carlssen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When darkness falls, a new guardian emerges.

Kateřina Dubová has always aspired to walk in her father's footsteps as a respected journalist, and the Second World War presents a unique opportunity for her to prove her worth to the world. A tip about an assassination attempt on a high-ranking Nazi official, Reinhard Heydrich, the "Butcher of... Read more

The Mysteries of Hawthorn Hall

By: Mindy Burbidge Strunk

Narrated by: Lesley Dessalles

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

She doesn't trust him. But he is the only one who can save her. Lily-Anne Cole never fit in with the other maids. But when she inherits an estate, she doesn’t fit in with the ton, either. Matters only become more complicated when a wild-looking man breaks into her house. Luckily, a handsome groom comes to her rescue. Or at least she believes he... Read more

Kings of Conflict

By: MJ Porter

Narrated by: Matt Coles

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The final, thrilling instalment in MJ Porter's The Brunanburh Series.Can King Edmund of the English banish the Norse invaders from England one final time?AD942In the wake of the agreement reached at Lincoln between Edmund and Anlaf Sihtricson of the Norse, Edmund returns to Wessex to reflect and rebuild, impatient to reverse his losses.But this... Read more

The Marsh King's Daughter

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

Narrated by: Amy Scanlon

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite having signed the Magna Carta and made promises to mend his ways, there is still great dissatisfaction with King John's rule.

Among the rebellious nobles is young Nicholas de Caen. While fighting John's troops, he is captured, but during the trip back to be questioned, the treacherous marshes cause trouble and Nicholas and King John's... Read more

Gilgamesh

By: Emily H. Wilson

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily H. Wilson presents Book 2 in the Sumerians Trilogy. Read more

Saving Anne de Bourgh

By: Jann Rowland

Narrated by: Harry Frost

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-listen historical romance from the author of A Devoted Sister. Read more

The Devil Raises His Own

By: Scott Phillips

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Los Angeles, 1916: Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in the seedy noir world of early Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia—a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death in Wichita. Though his business is mainly legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the... Read more

Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel

By: J. H. Markert & James Markert

Narrated by: Keith Brown & Carlotta Brentan

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of the power of memory, Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel explores the mysteries of the mind, the truth behind lore, and the miracle of inspiration. After thirteen months at war, Vittorio Gandy is haunted by memories, and his former life is unrecognizable. Once a gifted painter, now he can’t bear the vivid, bleeding colors on a canvas. His... Read more

In a League of Her Own

By: Kaia Alderson

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry, and, currently, the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.1930s, New York CityAn ambitious Harlem woman’s husband upends her social climbing when he buys a Negro Leagues baseball team... Read more

Dream Castle

By: Andrea Kane

Narrated by: Allyson Voller

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the man of her dreams . . . The only hope to end her nightmares.



A slender figure emerged from the evening mist along Scarborough beach, diamond-like droplets shimmering on raven black hair, and there before Braden Sheffield, Duke of Sherburgh, was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. His anger against the jaded ton had driven him to... Read more

The Last Light over Oslo

By: Alix Rickloff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion of Norway.Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to do with her. She told herself that right up until... Read more

Life After Kafka

By: Magdaléna Platzová

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice



Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with... Read more

Last Post

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Last Post is the fourth and final installment of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner... Read more

Destiny of a Highlander

By: Katy Baker

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Breanne Martin lives in the past.



At least, that's what everyone tells her. After learning the hard way that love never lasts, she throws her energy into her job as a museum conservator. That way she can't get hurt again, right? So when a strange old woman offers her the chance to work in one of Edinburgh's top museums, she grabs the... Read more

Saved by the Matchmaker

By: Jody Hedlund

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

After her annulment is finalized, Enya Shanahan finds herself caught in a web of scandal and obligation while carrying a secret that threatens to shatter her family's reputation. Determined to find a suitable marriage for Enya, her father turns to a wily matchmaker to save them from their circumstances.



Sullivan O'Brien, a steamboat captain... Read more

The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Atlanta Amado, Victoria Villarre...

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

“Whenever I want to read a book I know will be good, I go to Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Taylor... Read more

Norwegian by Night

By: Derek B. Miller

Narrated by: Mike Ortego

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner and Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. 

Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in... Read more

My Heart's Desire

By: Andrea Kane

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Alexandria Cassel scorned London's frivolous social whirl, seeking adventure as a stowaway aboard a merchant ship. Drake Barrett was the vessel's powerful captain—and a cynical duke who disdained a noble's shallow life. At sea he revealed neither his origins nor his wealth, and to Alexandria he was simply a man who made her cool reserve fly... Read more

Medici Heist

By: Caitlin Schneiderhan

Narrated by: Sara Alexander

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp-witted teenage thief leads a team of skilled misfits in a dangerous and daring heist for fortune, freedom and revenge against a corrupt Pope in Renaissance Italy in Caitlin Schneiderhan's clever YA debut, Medici Heist.

Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal. Seventeen-year-old conwoman Rosa... Read more

The Thirteenth Husband

By: Greer Macallister

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

That’s about all we get out of life, rich or poor, isn’t it, a few hours of enjoyment here and there? I think it is folly to allow a single chance for pleasure to slip past you.—Aimée Crocker, 1911From the acclaimed author of The Arctic Fury and The Magician’s LieTearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of... Read more

This Ravenous Fate

By: Hayley Dennings

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

AT NIGHT IN HARLEM, THE JAZZ CLUBS COME TO LIFE, AND DEATH WAITS IN THE DARK.It’s 1926, and reapers are growing stronger everywhere. Created centuries ago by cruel medical experiments, these once-human vampires are driven to attack without mercy. Those who protect the city from them hold more power than even the organized criminals who run the... Read more

Return to Washington Square

By: Mary Marcus

Narrated by: Natalie Barton

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York heiress Catherine Sloper accepted the sad truth that her lover Morris Townsend cared only for her fortune. Morris jilted her after learning she was to be disinherited by her cold, unbending father. Twenty years later, Catherine is a confirmed spinster. Her life is centered on her charities and gardening. She has no intention of letting... Read more

Absolute Treason (A Jake Mercer Political Thriller—Book 5)

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

Adeline

By: Norah Vincent

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Daring . . . Vincent’s psychological approach is intriguing.” — USA Today

“Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind’s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair.” — New York Times Book Review

With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent’s Adeline reimagines the events that... Read more