Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Longest Ride - Abridged

By: Nicholas Sparks

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & January LaVoy

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the dark days of WWII to present-day North Carolina, this New York Times bestseller shares the lives of two couples overcoming destructive secrets -- and finding joy together.

Ira Levinson is in trouble. Ninety-one years old and stranded and injured after a car crash, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes... Read more

Hell or Richmond

By: Ralph Peters

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 21 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with the sequel to his smash hit Cain at GettysburgBetween May 5 and June 3, 1864, the Union and Confederate armies suffered eighty-eight thousand casualties. Twenty-nine thousand were killed, wounded, or captured in the first two days of combat. The savagery shocked a young, divided nation.... Read more

Ice Forged

By: Gail Z. Martin

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth... Read more

The Storycatcher

By: Ann Hite

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the "wonderfully crafted" (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a dead woman takes up residence in their home.Shelly Parker, a sixteen-year-old servant who works for the tyrannical... Read more

Lowcountry Spirit

By: Ann Hite

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting historical novella, Lowcountry Spirit tells the story of three slave girls with mystical powers living on an eerie island off the coast of Georgia whose lives intertwine in their quest for freedom.Meet Emmaline, Celestia, and Liza, three slave girls on a haunted barrier island in Georgia low country.Emmaline is a mouthy, stubborn... Read more

The Fifth Knight

By: E.M. Powell

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

To escape a lifetime of poverty, mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to one final, lucrative job: help King Henry II’s knights seize the traitor Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. But what begins as a clandestine arrest ends in cold-blooded murder. And when Fitzurse, the knights’ ringleader, kidnaps Theodosia, a beautiful young... Read more

Songs of Willow Frost

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Ryan Gesell

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past—both seeking love, hope,... Read more

The Thicket

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box).

Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox... Read more

The Bones of Paris

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King garners widespread acclaim for her suspenseful novels rich with historical detail. Set in the vibrant Paris Jazz Age, The Bones of Paris introduces private investigator Harris Stuyvesant, an American agent who' s been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa Crosby. But... Read more

My Notorious Life

By: Kate Manning

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City, this “action-packed, thought-provoking page-turner” (The New York Times) is an unforgettable tale—a love story, a family saga, and the confessions of a charismatic and passionate woman who changed the lives of countless others.

Meet the... Read more

How to Tame Your Duke

By: Juliana Gray

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided adventure, until she's forced to disguise herself as a tutor in the household of the imposing Duke of Ashland, a former soldier disfigured in battle and abandoned by his wife. When chance draws her into a secret liaison with the duke, Emilie can't resist the opportunity to... Read more

Mein Sohn - Franz Kafka

By: Christian Scholz

Narrated by: Zdenka Prochazkova

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeder Mensch trägt ein Zimmer in sich Read more

Cold Magic

By: Kate Elliott

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wild Hunt is stirring - and the dragons are finally waking from their long sleep... Cat Barahal was the only survivor of the flood that took her parents. Raised by her extended family, she and her cousin, Bee, are unaware of the dangers that threaten them both. Though they are in beginning of the Industrial Age, magic - and the power of the... Read more

Hannibal: Fields of Blood

By: Ben Kane

Narrated by: Michael Praed

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The fields of Cannae provide the setting for one of the bloodiest battles in history. But who will triumph? Hannibal and his warrior army, or the mighty legions of Rome.

By Ben Kane, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hannibal: Enemy of Rome.

Hannibal's campaign to defeat Rome continues as he marches south to confront his enemy.
With him is a... Read more

The Maid's Version

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.

Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister... Read more

To Wed a Wicked Highlander

By: Victoria Roberts

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third book of this fun, action-packed Highlands trilogy, Victoria Roberts introduces her baddest bad boy yet.Laird Alexander MacDonell has a choice: stay true to his duty or lose his heart forever to the woman who betrayed him—his own wife. Lady Sybella MacKenzie is forced to search for her clan's ancient seeing stone under the roof of... Read more

The Drowning Guard

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Suzanne Cypress

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Colorado Book Award winner, Historical Fiction.Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die…The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan—one of the most powerful women in Ottoman... Read more

Shaman

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before.

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow... 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

Desiring the Highlander

By: Michele Sinclair

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven McTiernay brothers, each a Highlander born to protect Scotland and her people, warriors known for their quick wits and quicker broadswords. The third brother, Cole, stared death in the face when he was only a boy . . .



Now Cole McTiernay is a man. And though he resists them in every way, he has responsibilities. The wild northern Highlands... Read more

The Deception

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete revamping of Catherine Coulter's 1983 Signet Regency, An Intimate Deception, led to this: a full-bodied historical romance with a new beginning and a new ending. Read more

The Creed of Violence

By: Boston Teran

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons.But Rawbone's plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and in... Read more

Sweet Masquerade

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The tenth Earl of Berham does not know what to do. An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, he has been appointed guardian of the young Freddie Armstrong, the eighteen-year-old grandson of his late father's dear friend. That's bad enough. Then he discovers that the boy is really a girl! It is against all convention and against his personal... Read more

Born of Persuasion

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

She never imagined securing her future would require delving into the past.

The year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to... Read more