Historical Fiction audiobooks

Alibi - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice.

Winner of the Hammett Prize

It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a U.S. Army war crimes investigator in... Read more

Leeway Cottage - Abridged

By: Beth Gutcheon

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine. There, in a Victorian summer house called Leeway Cottage, we witness the scenes of a long 20th century marriage.In April of 1940, a rich girl of the Dundee summer colony named Sydney Brant marries a gifted Danish... Read more

The Italian Secretary

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of the Alienist series returns with a chilling elaboration on the Sherlock Holmes canon, as the famed detective investigates a pair of gruesome murders, which cast an otherworldly shadow as far as Queen Victoria herself.

It all begins familiarly enough: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the aid of Queen... Read more

High Lonesome

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead... Read more

A Slight Trick of the Mind

By: Mitch Cullin

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This beautiful literary novel imagines Sherlock Holmes at age ninety-three.

His phenomenal mental acuity diminishing and the emotional life he had always resisted pushing its way to the surface, the world's greatest detective is forced to confront the most baffling mystery of his career, that of the meaning and significance of his own inner life. Read more

Sails on the Horizon

By: Jay Worrall

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

SAILS ON THE HORIZON
Dientes de Diablo, 1797

With his first historical high-seas adventure chronicling the exploits of Naval Commander Charles Edgemont, Jay Worrall sets sail in the rousing tradition of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian.
The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive wins in the field against the enemies of... Read more

Sails on the Horizon - Abridged

By: Jay Worrall

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

SAILS ON THE HORIZON
Dientes de Diablo, 1797

With his first historical high-seas adventure chronicling the exploits of Naval Commander Charles Edgemont, Jay Worrall sets sail in the rousing tradition of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian.
The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive wins in the field against the enemies of... Read more

The Ape Who Guards the Balance

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the romantic backdrop of Edwardian Egypt, the irresistible Amelia Peabody and her charmingly unconventional family prove themselves to be formidable foes of villainy. In The Ape Who Guards the Balance Amelia must muster all of her considerable skills of detection to unravel a snarled web of stolen archeological treasures, murderous... Read more

47

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Ossie Davis

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

47 is the first young adult novel to be written by bestselling author Walter Mosley. A master storyteller, Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring novel. Set in a plantation, 47 (a young slave boy) is growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed, until he meets the mysterious... Read more

Rules for Old Men Waiting

By: Peter Pouncey

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most... Read more

The Golden One - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her husband and son, Ramses, arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb ransacked by thieves. Soon, a more disturbing outrage concerns the archaeologists: the freshly and... Read more

It Had to Be You

By: Jill Churchill

Narrated by: Wendy Dillon

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage, dubbed Grace & Favor. The convalescent home is full of colorful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips... Read more

Romeo and Juliet - Abridged

By: Tom Wheelwright, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laur...

Narrated by: Joseph Fiennes, Maria Miles & a full cast

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world’s most celebrated and lyrical love story, the sublime devotion of two young lovers transcends their earthly fate.The noble Veronese houses of Montague and Capulet are locked in a bitter feud. When Romeo (a Montague) and Juliet (a Capulet) fall in love, they are swept up in a series of violent events and cruel twists of fortune.... Read more

The Sugar Camp Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

History is thick with secrets in The Sugar Camp Quilt, seventh in the beloved Elm Creek Quilts series from bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. Set in Creek's Crossing, Pennsylvania, in the years leading up to the Civil War, the novel follows Dorothea Granger's passage from innocence to wisdom against the harrowing backdrop of the American... Read more

The Merchant of Venice - Abridged

By: Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright, William S...

Narrated by: a full cast, Bill Nighy, Haydn Gwynne, Julian R...

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Shakespeare’s most controversial play, the opposing values of justice and mercy must be resolved. Antonio promises money to help his friend Bassanio woo Portia. He borrows the sum needed from the cruel Shylock, but there will be a dreadful penalty if the loan is not repaid.The golden world of Portia’s Belmont calls forth some of Shakespeare’s... Read more

Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's with a heavy heart that Jane Austen takes up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the lost love of her life, she's stunned to learn that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, letters, and most intimate correspondence. From these,... Read more

The Illuminator

By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A glowing first novel that brings us “historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written”* It is England, in the fourteenth century—a time of plague, political unrest and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and... Read more

The Illuminator - Abridged

By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A glowing first novel that brings us "historical fiction in the grand epic manner, beautifully felt and written"*
It is England, in the fourteenth century—a time of plague, political unrest and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and... Read more

A Thread of Grace

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find... Read more

Captain Alatriste

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Margaret Sayers Peden

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as “the master of the intellectual thriller.” (Chicago Tribune) His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste, comes Pérez-Reverte’s most stunning creation to date: a riveting series featuring the... Read more

How I Live Now

By: Meg Rosoff

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Every war has turning points and every person too.”

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.

As... Read more

Ireland

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.”  — Philadelphia InquirerThis New York Times bestselling epic is an unforgettable tour de force that marries the intimate,... Read more

A Thread of Grace - Abridged

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Jay Gregory

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find... Read more

Sharpe's Escape

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as... Read more