Historical Fiction audiobooks

Angel of Harlem

By: Kuwana Haulsey

Narrated by: Brenda Pressley

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn's life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her... Read more

Last of the Amazons

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Christine McMurdo-Wallis, Alyssa Bresnahan & Ge...

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Pressfield is the internationally best-selling author of Gates of Fire and Tides of War. An epic of love and war, Last of the Amazons is a gripping, imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with Pressfield's trademark extraordinary attention to detail. In the time before Homer, the legendary Theseus, king of Athens, journeys to the... Read more

22 Britannia Road

By: Amanda Hodgkinson

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force that echoes modern classics like Suite Francaise and The Postmistress.

"Housekeeper or housewife?" the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight- year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of World War II. There her husband, Janusz, is already waiting for them at the little house at 22... Read more

Fortress of Spears: Empire III

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the enthralling third volume of Empire, Anthony Riches takes the legions deep into north Britannia, where the survivors of the rebellion still hope for revenge.


The Romans have vanquished the rebel alliance, leaving Calgus, Lord of the Northern Tribes, the prisoner of the chieftains he once led.



But the new Roman leader will not let them... Read more

The Redbreast

By: Jo Nesbo

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century.

1999: Harry Hole, alone again after... Read more

The Rake

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Regency romp about a young lady who vows revenge on the rakish lord who loved and left her, only to find herself unexpectedly caught in Cupid's net along with the handsome viscount when her plan to love and leave him backfires. Read more

London's Perfect Scoundrel

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A determined young lady vows to give one of London's infamous rakes his comeuppance -- but when the rogue turns the tables, who truly learns a lesson in love?Beloved SinnerThe ton gossips call him ""Saint"" -- but the Marquisof St. Aubyn has well earned his reputation as London's perfect scoundrel. Evelyn Ruddick knows she should avoid him at... Read more

Sweet Jiminy

By: Kristin Gore

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa's farm in rural Mississippi. In search of respite, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she ever knew existed.



Jiminy is shocked to discover there was once another Jiminy—the daughter of her grandmother's... Read more

The Sandalwood Tree

By: Elle Newmark

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1947, American historian and World War II veteran Martin Mitchell wins a Fulbright Fellowship to document the end of British rule in India. His wife, Evie, convinces him to take her and their young son along, hoping a shared adventure will mend their marriage, which has been strained by war.



But other places, other wars. Martin and Evie find... Read more

The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIXA BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli... Read more

The Crossing

By: Howard Fast

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

The unforgettable novelistic recreation of the night before Christmas when General Washington and a rag-tag army slipped across the Delaware to surprise the Hessians and forge a nation. Read more

Betty Zane

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Zane Grey is America's most beloved author of western novels. Set during the American Revolution, the Fort Henry Saga is based on the lives of Grey's own ancestors. The war is winding down when the pioneers at Fort Henry must fight off a fierce Indian attack. Their only hope lies with Betty Zane, who must run a deadly gauntlet. Read more

The Least Likely Bride

By: Jane Feather

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Feather, a New York Times best-selling author, receives many awards and international acclaim for her historical romances. There are now over four million copies of her books in print. The Least Likely Bride, filled with colorful heroes and villains, is set against the tumultuous backdrop of England in 1648. Lady Olivia Granville is a... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary writer Zane Grey earned legions of devoted fans with his gritty westerns. In To The Last Man, he dramatizes the events of the Pleasant Valley War of Arizona, a bloody feud that nearly wiped two families off the face of the earth. Jean Isbel has settled in Oregon and is growing comfortable with his new home when an urgent letter arrives... Read more

Patterns of Love

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

My dear Beth,Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents’ blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner.... Read more

Insight

By: Diana Greenwood & Emily Janice Card

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen-year-old Elvira Witsil lives in a remote area of Wisconsin with her mother, Connie, who acknowledges Elvira only when chores need doing; her grandma, a cantankerous woman who can’t hold her tongue; and her baby sister, Jessie — who, the family discovers, is a seer. Along with the burdens of a difficult family, Elvira also bears a... Read more

An Evil Eye

By: Jason Goodwin

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When the admiral of the Ottoman fleet defects to the Egyptians, Investigator Yashim attempts to uncover the man's motives. But Fevzi Pasha is no stranger to Yashim: it was Pasha, in fact, who taught the investigator his craft years ago. He is the only man whom Yashim has ever truly feared: ruthless, cruel, and unswervingly loyal to the sultan.... Read more

The Promise

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

She was of American blood, born in the islands. He was a native islander. Their love bridged two worlds that would one day threaten to tear them apart. As a child, Jana Rutherford played barefoot on the sparkling Hawaiian beaches with her friend, Akela, and Akela's handsome cousin, Kimo. But that carefreeness would change as Jana grew...and... Read more

Leaving Van Gogh

By: Carol Wallace

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaving Van Gogh is Carol Wallace's first historical novel and it has created quite a buzz among genre luminaries. In this meticulously researched, heartrending story, Wallace re-creates the final fateful days of legendary painter Vincent Van Gogh-who, at the age of 37, shot himself long before his paintings became recognized as some of the... Read more

Dear Lady

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Mary,New Prospects, Montana, is nothing like England—so terrifying and beautiful at the same time, and much larger than I dared imagine when you and I first embarked on our adventures in the New World.I have had the good fortune of becoming the town’s schoolmistress. Young Janie Steele is as precious as I imagined from her letters. As for... Read more

Field Gray

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This Edgar Award–nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin’s Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a... Read more

The Lion Wakes

By: Robert Low

Narrated by: David Gonet

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A nation will fight for its freedom. The first novel in a major new series as Robert Low moves from the Vikings to the making of Scotland. In the dying days of the 13th century, Scotland is in turmoil. The death of Alexander III has plunged the country into war, both with itself and with Edward I of England.... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man struggles to rise above the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of a small New England community through his forbidden love for his cousin Mattie Silver. Read more

The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte

By: Syrie James

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Syrie James, the best-selling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, comes a novel that captures the passionate heart and restless soul of Charlotte BrontE-the author who gave the world Jane Eyre while longing for a soulmate. "James makes sense of the events of Charlotte's life, tells a story that captures the language and feel of the... Read more