Historical Fiction audiobooks

Brookland

By: Emily Barton

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 23 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn native Emily Barton has received many accolades for her fiction, including a grant from the NEA. Here she tells the story of Prudence Winship, a woman living in late 18th-century New York who has a vision of a great bridge spanning the East River. After inheriting a gin distillery from her father, Prue uses her resources to undertake... Read more

The Border Vixen

By: Bertrice Small

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award winner and New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small won a loyal fan following with breathtaking historical romances like her Border Chronicles series. Here, Scottish lass Maggie Kerr refuses to marry a man of lesser merit. So her grandfather offers a challenge: any man who can outshoot and... Read more

The Wishing Trees

By: John Shors

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Author John Shors has won numerous awards, and his works have been translated into 25 languages. In The Wishing Trees, Ian and his 10-year-old daughter Mattie are struggling with the passing of Kate-wife and mother-after her long battle with cancer. When Ian finally opens a letter Kate handed him before her death, he is surprised at the request... Read more

My Old True Love

By: Sheila Kay Adams

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stantons and the Nortons were families in the truest, oldest sense: extended networks of kin stretching across the mountains, everyone within hiking distance. They'd come from the British Isles and settled in the Appalachians of North Carolina during the 1700s, bringing with them their dearly loved songs and their clannish ways, their ties... Read more

The Stress of Her Regard

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night before he is to be married, Michael Crawford joins his friends for an evening of drinking and revelry. In a fateful, inebriated moment, Crawford slips his fiancée’s ring on the finger of a nearby statue. The following day, the statue is gone.When Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to... Read more

Our Yanks

By: Margaret Mayhew

Narrated by: Kim Hicks

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Donna Douglas, Rosie Clarke and Katie Flynn, a heart-warming saga set during World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.

READERS ARE LOVING OUR YANKS!
"Omg this book was everything and more than i expected. My ideal book as i love family saga books. Loved that it showed how the Yanks got involved with the girls during... Read more

The Pathfinder

By: Margaret Mayhew

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Fiona Valpy and Kristin Hannah, a powerful and moving saga set in the aftermath of World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.

READERS ARE LOVING THE PATHFINDER!
"An exciting book to read. It was very gripping, emotional, happy and sad. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The characters were strong,... Read more

Elizabeth I

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth Tudor.

England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys—Elizabeth's flame-haired, look-alike coussin—thinks she knows all too... Read more

The FitzOsbornes in Exile

By: Michelle Cooper

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Michelle Cooper combines the drama of pre-War Europe with the romance of debutante balls and gives us another compelling historical page turner.

Sophia FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Germans attacked, and now find themselves in the lap of luxury. Sophie's journal fills us in on the social... Read more

The Daughter's Walk

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. 
 
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their... Read more

Wed Him Before You Bed Him

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

At eighteen, Charlotte Page made a life-altering mistake.She wronged a man in an impulsive act that she came to deeply regret, though it led to her present life as Mrs. Charlotte Harris, owner of Mrs. Harris’s School for Young Ladies. Unbeknownst to her, that man is now her anonymous benefactor, the mysterious “Cousin Michael.” His masquerade... Read more

The Musgraves

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The tangled destinies of an unusual family are played out against the backdrop of the English countryside where two pretty sisters and a beautiful widow take center stage in a drama of dangerous flirtation and backstairs gossip. Esther Musgrave, an attractive widow, has her hands full trying to keep her energetic family together – and on... Read more

La Princesse De Clèves (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)

By: Madame de Lafayette

Narrated by: Melody Grove, Liam Brennan, Candida Benson & Fu...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Lafayette's classic tale of intrigue and love, ‘La Princesse de Clèves’, dramatised for BBC Radio 3 and originally broadcast in the ‘Drama on 3’ slot on 28 February 2010. Set in the 16th Century, the play follows the life of a beautiful young lady newly presented to Court. It's the reign of Henri II and Mary Queen of Scots is safely... Read more

Breathless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power of the darkly enigmatic Lucien de Malheur—known to many as the Scorpion.

Seeking to destroy the Rohans, Lucien traps Miranda in a... Read more

Bliss, Remembered

By: Frank Deford

Narrated by: Pam Ward & Traber Burns

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With Bliss, Remembered, the celebrated Frank Deford has produced a work of literature that ranks with the best of his many novels, including Everybody's All American, which Sports Illustrated ranked as one of the twenty-five best sports books of all time. In Bliss, Remembered, Deford explores new territory as he tells two love stories from the... Read more

It Happened One Season

By: Stephanie Laurens, Jacquie D'Alessandro, Candic...

Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Anne Flosnik

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling historical romance superstars Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with beloved fan favorites Jacquie D’Alessandro and Candice Hern—the four authors who brought you It Happened One Night—are back with It Happened One Season. Even more inventive than their bestselling first anthology, It Happened One Season presents... Read more

The School of Night

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From Louis Bayard, an ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuries

In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics, astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night, they meet in secret to avoid the... Read more

The Land of Painted Caves

By: Jean M. Auel

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 34 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and, above all, courage.As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave—a shelter of stone. Ayla has been chosen... Read more

Mothers and Daughters

By: Rae Meadows

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and luminous novel about three generations of women in one family: the love they share, the dreams they refuse to surrender, and the secrets they hold

Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhood—the softness of her eight-month-old daughter's skin, the lovely weight of her child in her arms—but in trading her artistic dreams to care for... Read more

Murder on the Ballarat Train

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In Phryne's third adventure, Phryne is off to Ballarat for a week of fabulousness, but the sedate journey by train turns out to be far from the restful trip she was planning. What was planned as a restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumours of vile white slavery and the body of... Read more

Voyage to the North Star

By: Peter Nichols

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Nichols' novel, which has been likened to the works of Jack London and Joseph Conrad, immediately rose to top places on best-seller lists across the country. Voyage to the North Star offers an amazing combination of high-seas adventure and human folly. It is also filled with authentic detail, since Nichols is an experienced sailor who has... Read more

The Pledge

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With the death of her father, Jo-Beth, her brother, and their mother, Johanna, move in with relatives in town. There, Johanna makes a living sewing her exquisite quilts and Jo-Beth discovers a special friend. Kind, thoughtful, and deep, Wesley Rutherford draws Jo-Beth like a magnet. . .and their attachment to one another becomes strong. Strong... Read more

A Lesson in Secrets

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.”... Read more

Between Shades of Gray

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Emily Klein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!

"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." --The Washington Post

From New York Times and international bestseller and Carnegie Medal winner... Read more