Historical Fiction audiobooks

Cane

By: Jean Toomer

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of... Read more

The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai

By: Barbara Lazar

Narrated by: Meg Kuboto

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter a world of prostitutes and Samurais in 12th century Japan.

'This is about what you must do to keep our honour.' My father enclosed his arms around me, put his head against my middle and sobbed with no sounds.

Kozaisho, the Fifth-Daughter of a lowly farmer, feels her world shattering when she is sold by her father in exchange for land.... Read more

Parlor Games

By: Maryka Biaggio

Narrated by: Leslie Carroll

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a true story, comes a sweeping historical novel about a beautiful con artist whose turn-of-the-century escapades take her around the world as she's doggedly pursued by a Pinkerton Agency detective
 
The novel opens in 1917 with our cunning protagonist, May Dugas, standing trial for extortion. As the trial unfolds, May tells her version of... Read more

Habits of the House

By: Fay Weldon

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey

As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious... Read more

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs... Read more

The Aviator's Wife

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
 
“The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA Today
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For much of her life, Anne... Read more

The Inbetween People

By: Emma McEvoy

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you."As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell of a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching day in July,... Read more

Highland fire

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: James Gillies

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Magical from the very start." —InD'Tale ReviewsEmbark on a journey into magical Medieval Scotland, to a time when the shadowy Picts are in peril of vanishing from the annals of history, and Scotland itself will arise as a nation from the ashes of betrayal.A Clash of Clans.From the Borderlands to the Highlands, Scotland's seven kingdoms are in... Read more

The Dragon and the Pearl

By: Jeannie Lin

Narrated by: Sarah Lam

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeannie Lin's sweeping historical romances set during China's Tang Dynasty have earned widespread acclaim, including Library Journal Best Romance of the Year for The Dragon and the Pearl. The seductive consort of the former emperor, Ling Suyin now lives a quiet life - until she's spirited away by the legendary warlord Li Tao. There's been a... Read more

The Dangerous Lord Darrington

By: Sarah Mallory

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Mallory is known for lushly imagined tales that stir the imagination and kindle the heart's fires. In The Dangerous Lord Darrington, the lord in question is whispered of far and wide as a man who does his best work between the sheets. So when Beth Forrester is compelled to host the devilish womanizer in a house full of unguarded women, she... Read more

The Painted Girls

By: Cathy Marie Buchanan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan & Danny Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction from their single boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work available for a... Read more

The Husband List

By: Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the family from the bestselling Love in a Nutshell, the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all...

From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman's search for true love. Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his... Read more

1356

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jack Hawkins

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—a thrilling tale of danger and conquest at the Battle of Poitiers, 1356 is “a book in which Cornwell’s gifts as scholar and storyteller come together spectacularly.” (Washington Post)Bernard Cornwell, the ""master of martial fiction"" (Booklist), brings Thomas of... Read more

The Key-Lock Man

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shootout. If caught he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland’s finding her made... Read more

The Last Runaway

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. 

Honor Bright,... Read more

Trouble Shooter

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Hopalong Cassidy has received a message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friend has been murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, has vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of... Read more

The Bughouse Affair

By: Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan & Meredith Mitchell

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Bughouse Affair, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. Sabina's case involves the hunt for a ruthless lady "dip" who uses fiendish means to relieve her victims of their valuables at Chutes Amusement... Read more

The Beggar King

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Beggar King is the third book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces firsthand... Read more

Robert B. Parker's Ironhorse

By: Robert Knott

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa, Resolution, and Brimstone.  Now, newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls, they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories.  Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort... Read more

Mistress of My Fate

By: Hallie Rubenhold

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she... Read more

The Husband List - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the family from the bestselling Love in a Nutshell, the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all...

From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman's search for true love. Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his... Read more

The Iron King

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

‘This is the original game of thrones’ George R.R. Martin From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair – but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign... Read more

The Agincourt Bride

By: Joanna Hickson

Narrated by: Catherine Harvey

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. ‘A bewitching first novel…alive with historical detail’ Good Housekeeping. Her beauty fuelled a war.Her courage captured a king.Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is... Read more

Frederica in Fashion

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Since there is no hope of my securing an eligible partner due to sad lack of looks, I am running away.”So writes the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica withstand a season’s scrutiny after the five beauties before her had married so magnificently? Disguised as a chambermaid, Freddie finds her way into the... Read more