Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Fire Kimono

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, March 1700. The strife between Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to power in the shogun's court, and his enemies has escalated to the brink of war. Called away from the crisis by the shogun's orders to investigate a mysterious skeleton, Sano and his wife, Reiko, must confront dangerous, long-buried secrets. What was Sano's... Read more

The Cross-Country Quilters

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this entry from the popular series, five women meet at quilt camp and embark upon a project together. Over the next year, each woman must tackle a personal difficulty before adding her segment to their shared quilt. Despite the challenges they face, the women draw strength from their newfound sisterhood. ". as charming and cozy as a favorite... Read more

Only Mine

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling author of numerous historical novels, including Only His, Elizabeth Lowell has become famous for her stories of heightened passion and sensual romance. Her "Only" series is popularly and critically acclaimed. Wolfe Lonetree, the illegitimate son of an English viscount and a Cheyenne woman, has agreed to rescue his... Read more

The Given Day

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 23 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback edition of The Given Day, an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of... Read more

Tread upon the Lion

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As General George Washington makes a desperate attempt to forge an army that can stop the British from taking New York and defeating the Continental Army, the Bradford family is learning that serving God and serving one’s country often calls for great sacrifice. Meanwhile, Clive Gordon, son of Colonel Leslie Gordon of the British army, falls in... Read more

El Oro de los Suenos

By: Jose Maria Merino

Narrated by: Walter Krochmal

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Un joven mestizo, Miguel Villace Yolotl, participara en uno de los sucesos mas importantes de la historia de la Humanidad. America: territorios lejanos y salvajes, antiguas ciudades abandonadas desde tiempos remostos, fabulosos tesoros que esperan ser descubiertos ... un adolescente que se descubre a si mismo. El oro de los suenos es una... Read more

Only His

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times best-selling author holds a Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. With more than eight million copies of her books in print, Elizabeth Lowell has won a huge following of readers who yearn for romance as much as she does. Left alone on her family's Civil War-ravaged farm, Willow Moran wants to find her... Read more

The Fire

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric... Read more

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves

By: M. T. Anderson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Such is our task, and such lies before us all: Liberty or Death.
       
In the summer of 1775, fleeing from a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows Octavian hopes to find safe harbor. But in the midst of war, no... Read more

The Fire - Abridged

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric... Read more

The King of Ragtime

By: Larry Karp

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and time’s running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and secure his place in musical history.Joplin has written a musical drama, and his young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his... Read more

Murder at Fenway Park

By: Troy Soos

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Troy Soos' entertaining whodunit hits a home run with a perfect blend of mayhem and early baseball lore! He takes you back to 1912 where the days are full of sunshine, players use homemade wooden bats, the legendary Ty Cobb captivates fans, and a young rookie stumbles into a web of danger and deceit. Reporting for his first day as a Boston Red... Read more

The Return of the Dancing Master

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow, as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague but is... Read more

Greener Grass

By: Caroline Pignat

Narrated by: Jacklyn Francis

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Kit Byrne's family is a strong one, but their strength and unity are being severely tested, as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th century rural Ireland. Lord Fraser is the wealthy landowner, from which the Byrne's and many other families rent their lands. When the potato blight hits, the farmers can no longer make their payments much... Read more

Charlotte Fairlie

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Hilary Neville

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Fairlie is a successful, elegant career woman. Still in her 20s, she has landed a job as headmistress of her old school. She is admired and liked by both staff and pupils – but she begins to feel there is something missing in her well-organised life. Then one summer she goes to stay with a young pupil on the remote Scottish Isle of... Read more

The Tsarina’s Daughter

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Susan Jameson

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in rural western America in the 1980s. What her neighbors and even her children don’t know, is that she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. The Tsarina’s Daughter centers around young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in... Read more

Mount Vernon Love Story

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after... Read more

Lawless

By: Matt Bondurant

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and... Read more

Company of Liars

By: Karen Maitland

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.

The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun... Read more

The Whiskey Rebels

By: David Liss

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes calling when Saunders’s old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the creation of the Bank... Read more

The Lantern Bearers

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When the last of the Roman Auxiliaries leave Britain forever, they abandon the country to internal strife and the menace of invasion by Saxons. These are dark days indeed for Aquila, a young Roman officer who returns to his family villa to find all that he loves destroyed by the invaders. He escapes slavery only to learn that his sister has... Read more

The Magic of You

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung for piracy.Warren Anderson is shocked by the brazen advances of his despised enemy's beautiful niece.... Read more

The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Loren D. Estleman has garnered heaps of praise for his stylish novels, which are charged with razor-sharp wit and sparkling dialogue. The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association, reminiscent of the author's Mister St. John and The Stranglers, is an engrossing story of California's colorful past. In 1913, Dmitri Pulski wants to be the next Jack... Read more

A Scandalous Marriage

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Cathy Maxwell's popular romances deliver irresistible tales of forbidden desire between exalted people who refuse to be trapped by conventions. In A Scandalous Marriage, just as a beautiful debutante enters London society, dishonor drives her to the isolated countryside. While in hiding, Leah Carrollton encounters the dashing and noble Devon... Read more