Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Boy Who Said No

By: Patti Sheehy

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Love, Loss, and CourageAs a boy, Frank Mederos’s grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He... Read more

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

By: Eli Brown

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Eli Brown's Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade—with the best food ever served aboard a pirate's ship.

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts... Read more

Stormbringers

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in a YA quartet filled with intrigue, mystery, and romance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory.

The year is 1453, and the end of the world is closer than ever.

As Luca and Isolde continue their journey, their attraction grows with each passing day. Even as they try to remain focused on the mysteries they’ve... Read more

The Center of the World

By: Thomas Van Essen

Narrated by: Simon Vance, Paul Michael, Cassandra Campbell, ...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner's The... Read more

To Capture a Rake

By: Lori Brighton

Narrated by: Fiona Underwood

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In all his time as a male prostitute at Lavender Hills, Gideon Drake has never been hired out, never been allowed to leave the gilded cage in which he pleasures the well-heeled wives of London. So when a young widow convinces Lady Lavender to release her prize stud for a week-long seduction at a country estate, Gideon spies his chance for... Read more

TransAtlantic

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called“an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann... Read more

Studio Saint-Ex

By: Ania Szado

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This sleek, stylish novel set in 1940s New York, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe, is a deft, romantic novel about a wartime love triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her career; the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exup├®ry, who's left... Read more

The Shining Girls

By: Lauren Beukes

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Khristine Hvam, Jay Snyder, Joshua...

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to... Read more

Fields of Fire

By: James Webb

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

They each had their reasons for being a soldier.



They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo—Death Before Dishonor—before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.



They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it... Read more

A Most Scandalous Proposal

By: Ashlyn Macnamara

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After watching her beloved sister, Sophia, pine over the town's golden boy for years, Miss Julia St. Claire has forsworn love and put herself firmly on the shelf. Unfortunately, her social-climbing mother and debt-ridden father have other ideas, and they jump at the chance to marry Julia off to the newly named Earl of Clivesden . . . the man of... Read more

Heart of Iron

By: Bec McMaster

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lena Todd is the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the flirtatious debutante could be a rebel against London's vicious elite—not even the ruthless Will Carver, the one man she can't twist around her little finger.



Will Carver is more than man; he's a verwolfen, and he wants nothing to do with the dangerous beauty who drives him to the very edge of... Read more

Rake’s Progress

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

M. C. Beaton brings you the fourth installment of her witty and charming House for the Season series.Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women, and song in mind when he rents Number 67 Clarges Street for the season. He certainly has no desire for a serious attachment—and never... Read more

Katherine Wentworth

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Married at 19, Katherine had four years of happiness with her beloved Gerald. When he dies, she is left on her own to bring up a stepson, Simon, and her own little twins. She has known what it is to be loved and cherished, and without Gerald, all she wants is independence, and the freedom to bring up his children as he would have liked. When an... Read more

The Wicked Godmother

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is aghast when a nobleman’s will names her guardian of his snobbish twin daughters when they come out during the next London season. And is she wily enough for the intrigues of the ton—or its two most eligible bachelors, the Marquess of Huntingdon and Lord Vere? Harriet sees them as suitors for the twins,... Read more

Crossing Purgatory

By: Gary Schanbacher

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In spring of 1858, Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father's estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief.... Read more

Capacity for Murder

By: Bernadette Pajer

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early years of the twentieth century, restorative waters are a popular health draw for many.Healing Sands Sanitarium, northwest of Hoquiam, Washington, is located on the sandy edge of the Pacific Ocean and is famous for its restorative rest cure, fermented diets, and Dr. Hornsby's electrotherapeutics. No one has ever died at Healing... Read more

The Square of Revenge

By: Pieter Aspe

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The beautiful medieval architecture of Bruges belies the dark longings of her residents. When the wealthy and powerful Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, an acid so strong it can even melt gold. In the empty safe is a scrap of paper on which a strange... Read more

The Ghost and the Gold Louis

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

After a ghost tells her great-granddaughter the tale of the gold coins that purchased her as a slave in 1810, it leads her on the trail to recover the gold Louis coins, which were donated to the Confederate war effort by one of her twin sons. The granddaughter has inherited a museum in New Orleans that her cousins bankrupted while she was... Read more

Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate

By: Diana Wallis Taylor

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time of turmoil, one woman will search for love and peace — and find it where she never expected.

Tugged this way and that by fate’s indifferent hand, Claudia’s life is adrift — until she meets Lucius Pontius Pilate and becomes his wife. When they move to the troublesome territory of Judea, she does what she has always done: makes the... Read more

How to Pursue a Princess

By: Karen Hawkins

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The sensible solution to her family's dire financial woes is for Lily Balfour to marry the Earl of Huntley, a wealthy widower handpicked by her matchmaking godmother, the Duchess of Roxburghe. Huntley is pleasant and attractive, the perfect candidate in every way. But Lily knows she's in big trouble as soon as passionate, unprincipled Prince... Read more

Palisades Park

By: Alan Brennert

Narrated by: Mark McCarthy

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement Park Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey-especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni,... Read more

The Stanford Lasses

By: Glenice Crossland

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

They loved. They lost. They lived.

In the small Yorkshire town of Cottenly - dominated by the steel works and surrounded by beautiful countryside - Isaac Stanford lives with his wife Emily and their three lovely daughters, known locally as the Stanford lasses. Alice, the eldest, lives only for her work as a secretary and chapel on Sunday. Fair... Read more

You Are One of Them

By: Elliott Holt

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, DC, in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an all-American girl who has... Read more

A Hundred Summers

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As the 1938 hurricane approaches Rhode Island, another storm brews in this New York Times bestselling beach read from the author of The Golden Hour and Husbands & Lovers.

Lily Dane has returned to Seaview, Rhode Island, where her family has summered for generations. It’s an escape not only from New York’s social scene but from a heartbreak... Read more