Historical Fiction audiobooks

Pure

By: Andrew Miller

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of... Read more

A Night Like This

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Roberts calls Julia Quinn’s novels, “Delightful.” The #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the irresistible Bridgerton family, Quinn offers historical romance readers new delights with A Night Like This—the second book (following the phenomenal Just Like Heaven) to feature the affairs, romantic and melodic, of the endearing, if... Read more

Comstock Lode (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Erik Singer, Jason Culp & Dan John Miller

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program--with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earth was richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, this was the great bonanza. The dreamers, the... Read more

Changeling

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Charlie Cox

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark myths, medieval secrets, intrigue, and romance populate the pages of this first in a four-book teen series from the #1 bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.

The year is 1453, and all signs point to it being the end of the world. Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is recruited by a... Read more

A Blaze of Glory

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’s bloodiest and most iconic engagements—the Battle of Shiloh.
 
It’s the spring of 1862. The... Read more

Along Came a Duke

By: Elizabeth Boyle

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wit, passion, and adventure, Elizabeth Boyle has it all!”
—Julia QuinnNew York Times bestselling RITA® Award winner Elizabeth Boyle is a wonder, and with Along Came a Duke—the first book in her delectable Rhymes with Love series based on well-known nursery rhymes—she proves once more that no one writes wittier, more endearing and original... Read more

Winter Garden

By: Adele Ashworth

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exquisitely written and brimming with emotion.”
—Julia Quinn“Adele Ashworth is certain to become one of romance’s most beloved writers.”
—Lisa KleypasAdele Ashworth’s Winter Garden is a stunning historical romance classic reborn. The story of a beautiful French woman, a spy for the British government, partnered with a breathtaking, intensely... Read more

The Yard

By: Alex Grecian

Narrated by: Toby Leonard Moore

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one... Read more

Never Love a Highlander

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Caelen McCabe's young, reckless heart nearly destroyed his clan. Now, putting family loyalty above all else, he steps up to marry his older brother's jilted bride and salvage the uneasy alliance between two clans. While beautiful Rionna McDonald is a fit wife for any man, Caelen trusts no woman, especially not this sweet temptress who torments... Read more

The Princess and the Peer

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When a royal summons from her brother arrives, Emma knows it's time to embrace her duties as the princess of a small European kingdom and marry the man her brother has chosen for her . . . a stranger she has never met.  Instead she does what any self-respecting princess would do—she runs away.  All she wants is one week in London.  One week to... Read more

Coronation Day

By: Kay Brellend

Narrated by: Penelope MacDonald

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gritty and compelling family drama from the author of The Street. Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale. It’s going to be a right old knee’s up… The residents of the tough streets around Islington are heartbroken at the death of George the VI but having a young Queen on the throne isn’t the only change that they can... Read more

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Pride, justice, and vengeance. Aristocracy and democracy vie for ultimate power over Rome, and each faction violently erupts when Coriolanus takes the political stage. After receiving glorious accolades for taking an enemy city when the plebian soldiers cowered without the gates, the common people find his arrogance and pride offensive. Now,... Read more

Anatomy of Murder

By: Imogen Robertson

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unraveling the mysteries of Thornleigh... Read more

On the Cold Coasts

By: Vilborg Davidsdottir

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When a fleet of one hundred English ships is caught in a horrible storm off the cold coasts of fifteenth-century Iceland, twenty-five ships are lost. For Ragna, the daughter of a respected family and betrothed to Thorkell, her relationship with one of the seamen washed ashore results in pregnancy. Now barren due to a traumatic childbirth and... Read more

The Secrets of Mary Bowser

By: Lois Leveen

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Masterfully written, The Secrets of Mary Bowser shines a new light onto our country’s darkest history.”
—Brunonia Barry, bestselling author of The Lace Reader “Packed with drama, intrigue, love, loss, and most of all, the resilience of a remarkable heroine….What a treat!”
—Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May AlcottBased... Read more

Gilt

By: Katherine Longshore

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Kitty Tylney's best friend, Catherine Howard, worms her way into King Henry VIII's heart and brings Kitty to court, she's thrust into a world filled with fabulous gowns, sparkling jewels, and elegant parties. No longer stuck in Cat's shadow, Kitty's now caught between two men--the object of her affection and the object of her desire. But... Read more

The Gamekeeper's Lady

By: Ann Lethbridge

Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This sumptuous historical romance by Ann Lethbridge is the winner of the Romantic Times KISS Award. As an illegitimate child, the quiet-mannered Frederica Bracewell grew up as a stain upon her family's good name. But when she meets her uncle's new gamekeeper Robert-who also wishes to break free from a scandalous past-she finally begins to... Read more

Amphitryon

By: Ignacio Padilla

Narrated by: Francisco Rivela

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Ignacio Padilla ha sido galardonado con media docena de permios nacionales, como el Premio Alfonso Reyes, Premio Juan de la Cabada y Premio Primavera de Novela. 1916: Primera Guerra Mundial. Dos hombres se juegan sus vidas en una partida de ajedrez. Uno es recluta movilizado, el otro es empleado de ferrocarril. Es un juego con consecuencias... Read more

Overseas

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate, sweeping novel of a love that transcends time.

When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one’s more surprised than she is. Julian’s relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect electrify her, but she’s baffled by his sudden interest. Why... Read more

Bring Up the Bodies

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.

The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is... Read more

Majic Man

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli agents, and a mysterious military group called the Majestic Twelve in his journey to protect Forrestal. With his... Read more

Home

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little... Read more

The Master’s Muse

By: Varley O’Connor

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“We set our sights on each other almost from the beginning.”So begins The Master’s Muse, an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the true love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, the Russian émigré to America who is widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanaquil Le Clercq.Copenhagen, 1956.... Read more

I Am Forbidden

By: Anouk Markovits

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.

In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by a Gentile maid, who raises him as her own son. Five years later, Josef rescues a young... Read more