Historical Fiction audiobooks

Grant Comes East - Abridged

By: Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grant Comes East, the second book in the bestselling series by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, continues the story of a Confederate victory at Gettysburg.

Across 140 years, nearly all historians have agreed that after the defeat of the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, the taking of Washington, DC, would end the war. But was it... Read more

Folly and Glory

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review).

As... Read more

Shadowmancer

By: G.P. Taylor

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spine-chilling tale set on the 1700's Yorkshire coast, Obadiah Demurral is a vicar set on gaining control of the highest power in the universe. The only people in his way are two children, Kate and Thomas, and their mysterious friend Raphah, a shipwrecked sailor who has come from his home in Africa to reclaim a stolen icon and who offers... Read more

Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer... Read more

Victorine - Abridged

By: Catherine Texier

Narrated by: Jurian Hughes

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, leaves her husband and children for another man. Naturally, Victorine's motives are soulful, and yet... Read more

Lord John and the Private Matter

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic, multivolume Outlander saga is the starting point for a brilliant new series that begins with the novel Lord John and the Private Matter. Filled with intrigue and mystery and starring one of the most popular Outlander characters, Lord John Grey, this fresh new tale is utterly captivating. In a richly drawn 18th-century London, Scottish... Read more

Divining Women

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster
Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop -- cold... Read more

The Thieves of Ostia

By: Caroline Lawrence

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The place is Ostia, the port of Rome. Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, is about to embark on a thrilling adventure. Set in a graveyard, marketplace, and courtyards of a Roman city, this fast-paced mystery paints a vivid picture of the life in ancient times.

When the dogs on Flavia's street start dying, she is determined to find... Read more

Sunset and Sawdust - Abridged

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Joe R. Lansdale

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He has been called “hilarious . . . refreshing . . . a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country-boy wit” (Washington Post Book World), and praised for his “folklorist’s eye for telling detail and [his] front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (New York Times Book Review). Now, Joe R. Landsdale gives us a fast-moving, electrifying new... Read more

The Truelove

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey... Read more

A Great and Terrible Beauty

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine.

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence,... Read more

Montmorency

By: Eleanor Updale

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When a petty thief falls though a glass roof in his attempt to escape from the police, what should have been the death of him marks the beginning of a while new life. After his broken body is reconstructed by an ambitious young doctor, he is released from prison, and--with the help of Victorian London's extensive sewer system--he becomes the... Read more

Galloway: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate stand. . .

Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him.

But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more

The Thirteen-Gun Salute

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail aboard the Diane for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes. If their mission fails, English merchant shipping in the area will be threatened. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, the stage is set for a duel of intelligence... Read more

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Charles Frazier

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at... Read more

The Intelligencer - Abridged

By: Leslie Silbert

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell & Alfred Molina

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment,... Read more

Pirates!

By: Celia Rees

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls--a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe--take to the high seas from Jamaica on a shop the crew renames Deliverance. Not... Read more

The Commodore

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, critics have hailed Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventure series as “the best historical novels ever written”
(New York Times). With elegant language, eccentric characters, and authentic period atmosphere, the series transports
you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era.

After a dangerous tour of duty in the Great South Sea, Jack and... Read more

Victorine

By: Catherine Texier

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family’s past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman—her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine had married and had two children. But when she falls desperately in love, she makes a... Read more

The Railway Detective - Railway Detective, Book 1 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Peter Walters

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

THE THRILLING FIRST CASE FOR THE RAILWAY DETECTIVE London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interst in mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating ... In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, casuing many casualties. Planned with... Read more

The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld & Terry Donnelly

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is... Read more

The Forest Lover

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture,... Read more