Historical Fiction audiobooks

Winter of the World - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age.

Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraordinary new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as “sweeping... Read more

Freeman

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam—a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army—decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn... Read more

The Burning City

By: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Each an acclaimed author in his own right, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on some of the biggest bestsellers in science fiction history, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Footfall. Here Niven and Pournelle have combined their award-winning talents and imaginations to produce a masterpiece of epic fantasy that rivals... Read more

Her Husband's Harlot

By: Grace Callaway

Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today Bestseller Grace Callaway comes this steamy marriage of convenience romance and #1 National Regency Bestseller!A Romance Writers of America Golden Heart FinalistNot Quite a WifeAfter a disastrous wedding night, proper Lady Helena Harteford fears for the fate of her new marriage. Disguised as a doxy, she tracks her husband down at... Read more

Die Schicksalsgabe (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fluch oder Segen? Ihre geheimnisvolle Gabe führt die junge Ulrika bis an die Grenzen der Welt. Sie weiß, dass sie anders ist als ihre römischen Freundinnen: seit der Kindheit hat Ulrika Visionen, die sie vor allen verheimlicht. Aber dann erscheint ihr das Bild ihres Vaters, den sie nie gekannt hat. Sie bricht auf, um ihn zu warnen. Allein und... Read more

Fire Dance

By: Delle Jacobs

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious castle.A deadly gift.A missing, unwilling bride.And a Norman knight determined to conquer all.Ordered by his King to carry out a cryptic command—kill a wicked sorcerer lord, seize his castle, and take his daughter as a wife—Alain de Crency expects a fierce battle. Instead he discovers a defenseless castle, the daughter missing, and... Read more

Loki's Daughters

By: Delle Jacobs

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For as long as Arienh can remember, her Celtic people have feared the deadly Viking raids. She knows their brutality first hand, having lost the men from her own family and village to their swords. When she encounters and wounds a Viking warrior one stormy night, she has every right to want him dead. Instead, she allows him shelter in her... Read more

Personal Effects

By: E. M. Kokie

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Matt Foster thought that if he could only get his hands on his brother’s stuff from Iraq, he’d be able to make sense of his death. He wasn’t expecting T.J.’s personal effects to raise even more questions about his life.Now, even if it means pushing his dad over the edge…even if it means losing his best friend…even if it means... Read more

The Malice of Fortune

By: Michael Ennis

Narrated by: Adrian Paul, Carlotta Montanari, John Lee & Fre...

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...
When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola... Read more

Black Dahlia & White Rose

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia, Coleen Marlo & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”
—Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.  These... Read more

When the Duke Returns

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duchess of Cosway yearns for a man she has never met . . . her husband.Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has spent years fending off lecherous men in every European court while waiting to meet her husband. She's determined to accept him, no matter how unattractive the duke turns out to be. When she finally lures Simeon Jermyn back to... Read more

The Blinding Knife

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 24 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

Gavin Guile is dying.

He'd thought he had five years left -- now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiance who may have learned his darkest... Read more

Come August, Come Freedom

By: Gigi Amateau

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to... Read more

Interrupted Aria

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Venice, the dazzling city on the lagoon, is sailing toward the ruin of her maritime empire, determined to go down in a maelstrom of pleasure, music, and masquerade.Venice, 1731. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day, and the castrati are its reigning stars. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns... Read more

Bees in the Butterfly Garden

By: Maureen Lang

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Golden Heart Award winner, Maureen Lang pens gripping historical novels celebrating God's grace. Set in the early 1880s, Bees in the Butterfly Garden finds 18-year-old Meg Davenport in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man-having been raised in an exclusive prep school-Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy... Read more

Hero of Rome (Gaius Valerius Verrens 1)

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane, this heart-stopping historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson will have you on the edge of your seat!

"Rightly hailed as one of the best historical novelists writing today" -- DAILY EXPRESS

Readers are loving Gaius Valerius Verrens!
"This was probably the best book that I have read... Read more

Painted Veil

By: Beverle Graves Myers

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Venice, 1734. Castrato soprano Tito Amato, star of Venice opera, has let fame go to his head. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, Tito finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting singer who usurps his position. But when the murder of scene painter Luca Cavalieri threatens to close the opera house,... Read more

The Bloodletter's Daughter

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak…In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to unspeakable... Read more

The Shoemaker's Wife

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker's Wife is replete with the all the page-turning adventure,... Read more

Death’s Door

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Billy Boyle could have used a rest after his last case, but when his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, a British spy, goes missing in the Vatican, where she was working undercover, he insists on being assigned to a murder investigation there so he can try to help her. Read more

Fire Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Coulter's medieval melody continues—second in the song series.Lord Graelam de Moreton is willing to accept his new bride, Kassia, as she appears—innocent and guileless. But appearances can be deceiving…. Read more

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1920, Elsa Emerson is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and Elsa relishes appearing onstage, where she soaks up the approval of her father and the embrace of the audience. But when tragedy strikes her family, acting becomes more than a child's game of pretend. Elsa marries and flees to Los... Read more

The Map of the Sky

By: Félix J. Palma

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 22 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The fate of the earth hangs in the balance as H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds is transformed from the work of one writer’s imagination into a terrifying reality for all mankind.

1898. New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry well-to-do Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he first accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the Martian... Read more

Garment of Shadows

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie & Jenny Sterlin

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans craving mystery, romance, and adventure will find all that and more in Laurie R. King's New York Times best-selling tales starring Mary Russell and her world-famous husband Sherlock Holmes. Their 11th outing, Garment of Shadows finds the couple separated under strange circumstances. Mary awakens in a dark room with blood on her hands and no... Read more