Historical Fiction audiobooks
The Wise Woman - Abridged
By: Christian Jacq
Narrated by: Howard McGillin
Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
They built a civilization ahead of its time, and dominated the ancient world. They defined an era of war, love, passion, power, and betrayal. They were a people of mystery whose secrets have turned to dust -- but who inspire our awe and wonder even to this day...
The ancient Egyptians
They showed us how to live. And how to die.
Christian... Read more
Flashman and the Tiger
By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The inimitable and appallingly appealing Flashy is back, in a long-awaited new installment of The Flashman Papers.
When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now,... Read more
Jane and the Stillroom Maid
By: Stephanie Barron
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen as sleuth continues to delight in her latest adventure (after Jane and the Genius of the Place), which sheds new light on the author's travels in 1806. While enjoying a ramble in the Derbyshire hills near Bakewell (a town Eliza Bennett visits in Pride and Prejudice), Jane discovers the mutilated body of a young man. Jane's suspicions... Read more
View audiobookOn Secret Service
By: John Jakes
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
John Jakes, the author of over 60 books, including the eight-part Kent Family Chronicles, The North and South trilogy, and innumerable short stories of the American West, returns to the Civil War in the engrossing On Secret Service. The story of a war within a war on various levels—the North v. the South, the Union's Pinkerton Detective Agency... Read more
View audiobookRide the River: The Sacketts
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Jamie Rose
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune.
Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well... Read more
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of... Read more
Gone for Soldiers
By: Jeff Shaara
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 19 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen... Read more
View audiobookMemoirs of A Geisha
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more
View audiobookSoldier's Heart
By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: George Wendt
Length: 1 hour 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Gary Paulsen introduces readers to Charley Goddard in his latest novel, Soldier's Heart. Charley goes to war a boy, and returns a changed man, crippled by what he has seen. In this captivating tale Paulsen vividly shows readers the turmoil of war through one boy's eyes and one boy's heart, and gives a voice to all the anonymous young men who... Read more
View audiobookOff the Mangrove Coast
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time ever in large print comes this brand new collection from Louis L'Amour, the legendary New York Times bestselling master of the short story.
These unique tales from Louis L'Amour, one of America's greatest treasures, were originally published in magazines of his time. Revered throughout the world for his novels of the frontier... Read more
Gone for Soldiers - Abridged
By: Jeff Shaara
Narrated by: George Hearn
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.
In... Read more
The Surgeon's Mate - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers.
The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as... Read more
Desolation Island - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sent to rescue Governor Bligh, former captain of HMS Bounty, Jack Aubrey sets off for Australia in the Leopold with his friend Stephen Maturin and a hold full of convicts in this fifth of the Aubrey/Maturin series.
A beautiful and dangerous spy lurks among these prisoners, as does an even more lethal traveling companion, gaol fever, a treacherous... Read more
The Fortune of War - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a dispatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and... Read more
View audiobookThe Mauritius Command - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the... Read more
View audiobookThe Forest - Abridged
By: Edward Rutherfurd
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their... Read more
The Reverse of the Medal - Abridged
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The 11th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin series.
Captain Jack Aubrey, R.N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance to make certain investments in the City. This innocent decision ensnares him in the London criminal underground and in government espionage--the province of his friend Stephen Maturin. Is Aubrey's... Read more
A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged
By: Ken Follett
Narrated by: Tim Curry
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire
In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more
City of Light - Abridged
By: Lauren Belfer
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today
The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.
Louisa Barrett has made... Read more
Cold Sassy Tree - Abridged
By: Olive Ann Burns
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day,... Read more
View audiobookCatherine Called Birdy - Abridged
By: Karen Cushman
Narrated by: Kate Maberly
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
An abridged audiobook of the historical fiction classic, a Newbery Honor Book.
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.
But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to... Read more
The Midwife's Apprentice - Abridged
By: Karen Cushman
Narrated by: Charlotte Coleman
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On a frosty morning sometime in the fourteenth century, in a village somewhere in England, a gift known only as Brat was sleeping in a dung heap.
"You, girl. Are you alive or dead?"
When she opened her eyes, she saw an important-looking woman with a sharp glance and a sharp nose and a wimple starched into sharp pleats. This woman was Jane the... Read more
The Dark Frigate - Abridged
By: Charles Boardman Hawes
Narrated by: Dominick Allen
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In seventeenth century England, a terrible accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. Bred to the sea, he signs on with the "Rose of Devon," a dark frigate bound for the quiet shores of Newfoundland.
Philip's bold spirit and knowledge of the sea soon win him his captain's regard. But when the "Rose of Devon" is... Read more
Gates of Fire - Abridged
By: Steven Pressfield
Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
Day after... Read more