Historical Fiction audiobooks

Katharine, the Virgin Widow

By: Jean Plaidy

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the eyes of the world, Katharine of Aragon was a precious object to be disposed of for the glory of Spain. Her parents, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, send her to England to become the bride of Arthur, Prince of Wales. But soon her frail husband was dead, and a fateful question loomed: Was the marriage consummated, or was the young widow... Read more

The Little Book

By: Selden Edwards

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A marvelous debut novel about love and basketball, time travel and rock'n'roll. 

Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day... Read more

Dschingis Khan - Sohn der Wölfe - Dschingis Khan Saga, Band 1 (ungekürzt)

By: Conn Iggulden

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Er kam aus der Steppe - und erschütterte die Welt! Nach dem Tod seines Vaters wird der junge Temujin mit seiner Familie verbannt, wie es die strengen Gesetze seines Volkes verlangen. Doch entgegen aller Erwartungen gelingt es ihnen, ohne den Schutz der Sippe in der mongolischen Steppe zu überleben. Mehr noch: Temujin schart weitere Geächtete... Read more

People of the Whale

By: Linda Hogan

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in a small Native American village by the sea, Thomas Witka Just has just married his childhood sweetheart when an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever. Cut off from his community and traumatized by war, he finds refuge in another tribal village there and fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home... Read more

Forsaken Soul

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, except in the village of Tyndal, where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn. Martin had enough enemies, so the killer could be anyone. It could be his usual whore, who is about to be tossed aside for another woman; it could be the innkeeper's niece, who has secret reasons for... Read more

The Man with the Iron Heart

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the real world, Reinhard Heydrich—the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the holocaust—was assassinated in Czechoslovakia in May 1942. Eulogized by Hitler himself as "The Man with the Iron Heart," Heydrich—also known as "The Butcher" and "The Hangman"—was one of the most ruthless and calculating of the Nazi elite.



In The Man with the... Read more

The 19th Wife

By: David Ebershoff

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey & D...

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.

Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her... Read more

Monument Rock - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This priceless collection of once lost stories brings to life a time of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers.

A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his neighbors while secretly cutting their throats. . . .

A young drifter, wounded in... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more

Gentle Rogue

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartsick and desperate to leave her sorrows on England’s shores, innocent Georgina Anderson seeks passage on the “gentleman’s ship,” Maiden Anne, disguised as a cabin boy. The captain, however, is no gentleman; he’s the ex-pirate and irrepressible rake, James Malory.The black sheep of a proud, tempestuous family, Malory soon sees through... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By: Annie Barrows & Mary Ann Shaffer

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, Jo...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A NETFLIX FILM • A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

“Treat yourself to this book, please—I can’t recommend it highly enough.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there... Read more

The Last Queen

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

One of history’s most enigmatic women tells the haunting, passionate story of her tumultuous life. Juana of Castile is just thirteen when she witnesses the fall of Moorish Granada and the uniting of the fractured kingdoms of Spain under her warrior parents, Isabel and Fernando. Intelligent, beautiful, and proud of her heritage, Juana rebels when... Read more

The Creator's Map

By: Emilio Calderon

Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

As Fascism rises and falls, a Spanish architect, a young librarian, and an Italian prince are entangled in a web of passion and espionage.

Rome, 1952. Like all of Europe, Spanish architect José María struggles to recover from the chaos of the past fifteen years. Then one day he learns about the mysterious death by decapitation of an old... Read more

Our Lady of Pain

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harry’s latest client, Dolores Duval—a vision... Read more

Hasty Death

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents’ home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn’t quite what Rose had imagined—long hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women’s hostel are not very empowering when you’re poor, cold, and tired. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery... Read more

Snobbery with Violence

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful mystery from the New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murderWhen a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful—if rebellious—Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor’s intentions are honorable. He calls on... Read more

A Christmas Journey

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel... Read more

Saturnalia

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness—then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Marcus Didius... Read more

A Christmas Guest

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest—an outcast from her own... Read more

Eva’s Cousin

By: Sibylle Knauss

Narrated by: Kim Edwards-Fukei

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1944, twenty-year-old Marlene is thrilled to visit her older cousin, Eva Braun—Adolf Hitler’s mistress—at the Führer’s Bavarian mountain retreat. There, Marlene finds herself in a strange paradise, a world of opulence and imminent danger, of freedom and surveillance.The two women sneak off and skinny-dip in a nearby lake, watch... Read more

Heyday

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 26 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. He also meets her brother Duff, a... Read more

Sick of Shadows

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience so Rose can avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Her sharp intellect and radical ideas have served to repel her would-be suitors. Rose's parents are hardly thrilled that their only child is marrying a man in trade, but Harry... Read more

A Christmas Visitor

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On the heels of the success of A Christmas Journey comes this festive mystery. The joyful tranquility of a snowbound estate in the Lake District of England is overturned in a moment by a shocking murder. Renowned mathematician and inventor Henry Rathbone—long known to readers of Perry's bestselling Victorian series featuring William Monk—must... Read more

A Christmas Secret

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are... Read more