Historical Fiction audiobooks

Turnback Creek

By: Robert J. Randisi

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author of The Gunsmith series, Robert J. Randisi has over five million copies of his books in print. Fans love his hard-hitting Westerns, and The Widowmaker series features some of his best. Crack-shot gunfighter John Locke has just been hired to guard a payroll wagon stuffed with cash and bound for Turnback Creek. But out on the... Read more

Juneteenth

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying... Read more

Pirate King

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Laurie R. King's books have received high praise from critics and have earned the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards. As Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark on their 11th adventure together, they find themselves immersed in the world of silent filmmaking. Here, the pirates are real-and... Read more

The Taker

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Hunger—hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”—comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.

True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening... Read more

Defender of Rome

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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This riveting and action-packed historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson is real edge of your seat stuff! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.

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The Eleventh Plague

By: Jeff Hirsch

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn... Read more

The Ronin’s Mistress

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder a man who stood at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro,... Read more

Two for Sorrow

By: Nicola Upson

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences. When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers sentenced to death for a string of newborn murders, she has no idea that... Read more

Vienna Twilight

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt finds that young women are being slain in an unnerving—and ingenious—manner, with a small, almost undetectable, hat pin. For Dr. Max Liebermann, the killer is unique in the annals of psychopathology, one who murders in the midst of consensual love. Is the culprit a patient, one who swears he has a double, a... Read more

The Ballad of Tom Dooley

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Shannon McManus & Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ballad of Tom Dooley is a literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley...The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio,... Read more

A Terribly Strange Bed

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winning streak at a downmarket gambling den in Paris leads to a lavish drinking spree. The offer of coffee to help sober up is not all that it first seems. Our protagonist finds himself in a strange bed for the night in a house of thieves and murderers. And it turns out to be a very strange bed indeed... a bed cunningly designed with murder in... Read more

Tales of Troy and Greece

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount Homeric legends of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons, and the Trojan Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are... Read more

Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens! Fans adore Laurens’s irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. In Laurens’s sensational new Cynster historical romance, it’s Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue when... Read more

The Frasers-Clay

By: Ana Leigh

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Romantic Times award-winning author, Ana Leigh writes Western romances that are USA Today best-sellers. The Frasers: Clay is first in an exciting series that follows four Southern brothers in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lovely widow Rebecca Elliot needs a husband in order to join a wagon train west. Desperate, she chooses handsome Clay... Read more

To Die For

By: Sandra Byrd

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

With this brilliant foray into historical fiction, Christy Award finalist Sandra Byrd delivers a fresh look at Anne Boleyn through the eyes of her lifelong friend Meg Wyatt. As Anne finds favor with Henry VIII, Meg basks in the glow of Anne's glory. But when Anne falls out of favor, the childhood friends are plunged into a maelstrom of slander... Read more

Kurs auf Spaniens Küste

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Leutnant, später Kapitänleutnant Jack Aubrey, Seemann und Offizier, der das Befehlen gewohnt ist und Dr. Stephen Maturin, der schmächtige Zweifler und Kritiker mit sozialem Gewissen, lernen sich auf Menorca kennen. Sie spielen Geige und Cello, was sie verbindet. Es entwickelt sich trotz aller Gegensätzlichkeit Achtung und schließlich... Read more

Courageous Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. Years ago another young woman-perhaps her mother- had stood in the same place, a baby in her... Read more

Belonging

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the high desert town of Frenchman’s Bluff, Idaho, Felicia Kristoffersen has set out to create a future for herself that is better than her painful past. Alone in the world with only her faith to sustain her, she must prove herself as this tiny community’s new school teacher. She cannot, must not, fail. But, there are those who never wanted... Read more

Hero's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Reneé Raudman & Renee Raudman

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?" Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cemetery, the one that had made such a lasting impression on her: "What I gave, I have; what I spent,... Read more

Daring Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, heard the urgency in her voice, as he recalled the passion with which she had told him her reason... Read more

A Wedding Wager

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 25 historical romances to her credit, New York Times best-selling author Jane Feather is a revered weaver of passionate tales that resonate with her avid fans. The second in her exhilarating Blackwater Brides trilogy, A Wedding Wager features one Blackwater brother's search for a bride in Georgian England. Read more

The Traitor's Emblem

By: J.G. Jurado

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan GOmez-Jurado is the award-winning and international best-selling author of The Moses Expedition. Here GOmez-Jurado pens an epic thriller sure to win him an expansive fan base. In 1940, a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways near the Strait of Gibraltar. In return for their safe passage to Portugal, one of the Germans gives the... Read more

How to Seduce a Scoundrel

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With this captivatingly witty debut, Vicky Dreiling immediately established herself as an author of note in the world of Regency romance. How to Seduce a Scoundrel introduces readers to Miss Julianne Gatewick, a comely lass who finds herself seduced by a rake's sensual waltz. But when the unapologetic lothario leaves her all aflutter-and moves... Read more

The Hawk

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Robert McNab

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LEGEND OF THE HIGHLAND GUARD CONTINUES …Handpicked by Robert the Bruce to help him in his quest to free Scotland from English rule, the elite warriors of the Highland Guard face their darkest days. When Bruce is forced to flee, his bid for freedom rests on the shoulders of one extraordinary warrior.Erik MacSorley is a brilliant seafarer who... Read more