Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Legend of Bagger Vance

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a once-in-a-lifetime 36-hole match...in which the stakes are higher than anyone imagined.

In Steven Pressfield's richly imagined, vividly detailed story, golf legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen are joined by a local unsung opponent, the... Read more

Once Upon a Kiss

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

She came to wed his brother and stole the Dragon's heart...To settle a feud, Dominique Beauchamp was resigned to wed in order to heal their injured lands. Offered in marriage by her brother to the lord of Drakewich, she came to take the d'Lucy name...but never counted on losing her heart to the brother of her betrothed - the Black Dragon.Blaec... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Abridged

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. An English aristocrat regarded as an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who— with a small band of dedicated friends— undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army who flees from the horror of battle and then struggles with shame and self-loathing. Outstanding in its portrayal of the quiet tension and violent emotion of war, this powerful psychological study of a... Read more

The Proud and the Free

By: Janet Dailey

Narrated by: Pamela Hensley Vincent

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation,... Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa Alcott

Narrated by: Jamie Lee Curtis

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With humor and pathos, Little Women follows the lives of four young women and their mother as they face the daily struggles of life in the 19th century. First published in 1868, this memorable and touching coming-of-age masterpiece is beloved by generations. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, this is the story of four sisters who learn hard lessons... Read more

Sioux Dawn - Abridged

By: Terry Johnston

Narrated by: Ed Asner

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This historically accurate tale describes one of the worst military disasters ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains.At the end of the Civil War, a tremendous stream of soldiers and settlers began moving westward along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, a bloody fight to... Read more

Shadow Song - Abridged

By: Terry Kay

Narrated by: Terry Kay

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more

Forrest Gump - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Winston Groom

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.

When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In... Read more

Schindler's List - Abridged

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Ben Kingsley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.

An... Read more

Fortune's Favorite - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more

Before and During

By: Vladimir Sharov

Narrated by: Al Bernstein

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha – a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss – admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment.

Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who “died... Read more

Aspire to the Heavens - Abridged

By: Mary Clark

Narrated by: Mary Higgins Clark

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The man who would become the first president of the United States comes to life in this biographical novel written by acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark. Strongly influenced by the gentility and generosity of spirit of his older brother, the young George matures into a devoted and able public servant in both the military and political... Read more

Sweet Liar - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Mel Harris

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beloved bestselling author Jude Deveraux follows a savvy young woman into the intriguing heart of a past mystery—and into the arms of a once-in-a-lifetime love.

It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was in New York City...her parents dead,... Read more

Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a child, Elizabeth Tradd witnessed the horror of war and as a young girl, she learned the worst that men can do. As a woman, she discovers the breathtaking excitement that comes to but a lucky few. Here is the story of a Charleston family and the courage, love, and passion that bind them to each other and their vibrant South Carolina city.... Read more

On Leaving Charleston - Abridged

By: Alexandra Ripley

Narrated by: Diane Ladd

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This installment of Alexandra Ripley's Old South saga— begun in the bestselling Charleston— traces the lives of the prominent South Carolina Tradd family from the turn of the century to 1935. From an ugly duckling love child, Garden Tradd became the glorious belle her mother, Margaret, had longed to be. With breathtaking... Read more

Grass Crown - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: F. Murray Abraham

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the captivating bestseller
THE FIRST MAN IN ROME...
the timeless saga of power, passion
and conflict of Ancient Rome continues...

The magnificent glory of Republican Rome is threatened when a struggle for power erupts among the men who shaped its hard-won peace. At its center are two extraordinary leaders: Gaius Marius,... Read more

Duchess - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Nicol Williamson

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux captures the thrill of an American beauty's Highlands wedding, where a royal title is at stake—and where love wins the day.

Claire Willoughby risked losing millions in her inheritance if, as decreed by her grandfather, she did not wed an "acceptable" man. Harry Montgomery, the eleventh Duke of... Read more

The Great Alone - Abridged

By: Janet Dailey

Narrated by: Lloyd Bochner

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

This landmark saga of adventure and romance spans 200 years against the rich and dangerous wilds of Alaska as a backdrop. The epic begins with the love of a beautiful Aleut woman for a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of a proud breed of native Alaskans, in whose veins flows the blood of the many... Read more

Dance with the Devil - Abridged

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Kirk Douglas

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and... Read more

Buffalo Girls

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Betty Buckley

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East—the writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity...

I am the Wild West, no show about it. I was one of the people who kept it wild.

Larry McMurtry returns to the territory of his Pulitzer Prize–winning masterwork, Lonesome Dove, to sing the... Read more

The First Man in Rome - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: David Ogden Stiers

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"The First Man in Rome was not the best man: he was the First among other men who were his equals...To be the First Man in Rome was something far better than kingship..."

In the first century B.C. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. Marius, a... Read more

Mountain Laurel - Abridged

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Jude Deveraux spins a rollicking story of a mismatched couple who unearth a sparkling, irresistible passion across the rugged West!

Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. That was reason enough for a jealous, surly colonel to saddle Montgomery with a most... Read more