Historical Fiction audiobooks
The Glorious Cause
By: Jeff Shaara
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 25 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
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
View audiobookThe Red Badge of Courage
By: Stephen Crane
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
Commonly considered Stephen Crane's greatest accomplishment, The Red Badge of Courage ranks among the foremost literary achievements of the modern era. It is the story of Private Henry Fleming who goes into the Civil War, a hot-headed young patriot with his mind brimful of ideas of glory. Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in New Jersey and... Read more
View audiobookCloud of Sparrows
By: Takashi Matsuoka
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
“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 Big Burn
By: Jeanne Ingold
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Jarrett is sixteen--man enough to reject the railroad job his father wants him to take, man enough to court Lizbeth Whitcomb, man enough to join the fight against the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana But the flames are faster than anyone has dreamed, and soon the fire has come between Jarrett and his home, between Jarrett and... Read more
View audiobookTreasure Mountain: The Sacketts
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: David Strathairn
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In Treasure Mountain, Louis L’Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father—and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.
Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers... Read more
A Woman of Independent Means - Abridged
By: Elizabeth Hailey
Narrated by: Barbara Rush
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Inspired by the author' s irrepressible grandmother, A Woman of Independent Means is a bestselling novel about Bess Steed Garner, a determined woman at the beginning of the twentieth century. At a time when women had few choices, Bess inherits a legacy— not only of wealth but of determination and desire. Following the... Read more
View audiobookThe Piano Tuner
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
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
Sin Killer
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s.
It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place—is on its way up the... Read more
With These Hands
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Keith Carradine
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The timeless fiction of Louis L'Amour is both unforgettable and undeniably American, deftly capturing the heroic bravery and intrepid spirit that make this nation great. L’Amour ’s legacy of work remains unparalleled, setting a standard of excellence that few other writers have matched. Now With These Hands pulls together some of L’Amour's... Read more
View audiobookDon't Look Back
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this most entrancing tale of mystery and romance by the New York Times bestselling author AMANDA QUICK, lovers and partners-in-crime investigators Lavinia Lake and Tobias March continue their exciting newfound relationship, with its delicious mix of risky business, rising passion, and now--murder.
As if a head for business and a nose for... Read more
The Last Chance Cafe - Abridged
By: Linda Lael Miller
Narrated by: Nance Williamson
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller—and “the finest in western romance” (RT Book Reviews)—comes a moving and passionate tale of one single mother’s journey to protect her daughters—and her heart.
While fleeing from her ex-husband with her two young daughters, Hallie finds herself trapped in a sudden and violent blizzard with... Read more
The English Assassin - Abridged
By: Daniel Silva
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva, comes a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.
The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national... Read more
The Lonely Men: The Sacketts
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: David Strathairn
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Lonely Men, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a man who must elude an Apache trap—only to discover that his greatest enemy might be very close to home.
Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and managed to take something of value from his battles: a deep and abiding respect. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap his... Read more
The English Assassin
By: Daniel Silva
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva, comes a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful World War II record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.
When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the... Read more
The Wine-Dark Sea - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In their 16th outing, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a prize into the Great Southern Ocean.
The story takes Maturin to South America. Caught up in a failed coup, he flees across the Andes. Aubrey makes a desperate voyage in a open boat, but both survive and are reunited.
"The best chapter yet in the continuing saga of life in Nelson's... Read more
A Fine Balance - Abridged
By: Rohinton Mistry
Narrated by: Madhur Jaffrey
Length: 24 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more
View audiobookEdith Wharton: Stories
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton was most well known for her novels that illuminated privileged life in the 19th century, such as The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth. In addition to her award-winning novels, she also wrote poetry and short stories.Collected here are some of her best works of short fiction,... Read more
View audiobookTirano Banderas - Abridged
By: Ramon del Valle-Inclán
Narrated by: Daniel Quintero
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Valle-Inclan decia en una carta que estaba escribiendo "una novela americana de caudillaje y avaricia gachupinesca...en una prosa expresiva y poco academica". Esa obra fue Tirano Banderas donde con una prosa brillante muestra las pequeneces de los dictadores de nuestra America. El pintoresco pero cruel Santos Banderas es un personaje... Read more
View audiobookA Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 24 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more
View audiobookThe Shipping News - Abridged
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Joy
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more
The Truelove - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The 15th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
This splendid installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely acclaimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Friendly Isles (Tonga) at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R.N., is... Read more
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
By: Ann B. Ross
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in... Read more
View audiobookThe Good German - Abridged
By: Joseph Kanon
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Set in Berlin just after the end of World War II, a brilliant thriller that was also made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett.
With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wrangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the... Read more
Swift As Desire - Abridged
By: Laura Esquivel
Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.
Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as... Read more