Historical Fiction audiobooks

Lando: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lando, Louis L’Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.

For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his... Read more

Haunted Ground

By: Erin M. Hart

Narrated by: Jennifer McMahon

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair—archaeologist Cormac O’Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether... Read more

Gods and Generals - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels
 
In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military... Read more

The Dante Club - Abridged

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Words Can Bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields -- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World.... Read more

Sense and Sensibility - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.View our feature on Jane Austen.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.... Read more

Jennifer Government - Abridged

By: Max Barry

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Government is Here to Help!

In Max Barry’s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and The NRA are publicly-traded security firms; the U.S.... Read more

Delivering Rome

By: Donna Getzinger

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ancient Rome, on the morning of his ninth birthday, young Martial Portius races against time to find his older brother Hershal. Unless Martial can deliver an important message to him, the forgetful Hershal will likely lose his job as a Roman courier. As Martial anxiously searches the crowded streets, he learns a good deal about the people,... Read more

Havoc's Sword

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1798, and Dewey Lambdin's lovable but incorrigible rogue, Captain Alan Lewrie and his crew of the Proteus frigate have their work cut out for them as they sail through the war-torn Caribbean. First, Lewrie has rashly vowed to uphold a friend's honor in a duel to the death. Second, he faces the horridly unwelcome arrival of HM Government's... Read more

Forever - Abridged

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Stevie Ray Dallimore

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Snow in August and A Drinking Life comes this magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York City in 1740 and remains...forever.

From the shores of Ireland, Cormac O'Connor sets out on a fateful journey to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor the code of his ancestors. His quest brings him... Read more

Late For the Wedding

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times–bestselling author Amanda Quick returns with a thrilling new venture into romance and mystery, featuring the most unusual, highly compatible—undeniably combustible—pairing of Tobias March and his mesmerizing partner, Lavinia Lake.

An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and... Read more

Come Back to Me

By: Josie Litton

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

After centuries of conflict, a peace treaty has finally been drawn between the warring Saxons and Norse — largely due to the wisdom and bravery of the legendary Viking leader Wolf Hakonson and the noble warrior Lord Hawk.

Hawk and Wolf each married women from warring clans to unite the Saxons and Norse. But for all its blessings, the promise of... Read more

The Coffee Trader

By: David Liss

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Amsterdam, 1659: On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living in... Read more

White Doves at Morning - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE

1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and... Read more

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By: Dai Sijie

Narrated by: B.D. Wong

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of... Read more

The Glorious Cause - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody... Read more

Clara Callan - Abridged

By: Richard B. Wright

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clara Callan is a deeply moving portrait of two women and of an age heralding seismic changes—the Depression era—that will alter the fabric of their inner lives and the world as they once knew it. Read more

Lonely on the Mountain: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L’Amour’s solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together—to save one of their own.

The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British... Read more

Red Poppies - Abridged

By: Alai

Narrated by: Ping Wu

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tibet, a tiny nation cloaked in mystery and clouded by myth, is the setting for this riveting family saga. Read more

Jennifer Government

By: Max Barry

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.

"Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review

"Wicked and wonderful....... Read more

At the Crossing Places

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second thrilling novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's bestselling Arthur trilogy

Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream: He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the... Read more

Dark Matter - Abridged

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: Byron Jennings

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I swore not to tell this story while Newton was still alive.

1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which... Read more

Cloud of Sparrows - Abridged

By: Takashi Matsuoka

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Exotic, entertaining . . . [an] exceptional first novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the West. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun’s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has arrived to spread the word of their God. They... Read more

The Piano Tuner - Abridged

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.

In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more

Dream of Me

By: Josie Litton

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in ninth-century England and Norway, Dream of Me tells the story of Wolf Hakonson, a fierce Norse chief who falls in love when he kidnaps the sister of his rival, Hawk, a prominent Saxon lord. Wolf marries the lovely Cymbra but their wedded bliss is short-lived. First the women of the settlement refuse to accept their Saxon mistress who... Read more