Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Coffee Trader

By: David Liss

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Amsterdam, 1659: On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living in... Read more

Come Back to Me

By: Josie Litton

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

After centuries of conflict, a peace treaty has finally been drawn between the warring Saxons and Norse — largely due to the wisdom and bravery of the legendary Viking leader Wolf Hakonson and the noble warrior Lord Hawk.

Hawk and Wolf each married women from warring clans to unite the Saxons and Norse. But for all its blessings, the promise of... Read more

White Doves at Morning - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKE

1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and... Read more

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By: Dai Sijie

Narrated by: B.D. Wong

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of... Read more

The Glorious Cause - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody... Read more

Clara Callan - Abridged

By: Richard B. Wright

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clara Callan is a deeply moving portrait of two women and of an age heralding seismic changes—the Depression era—that will alter the fabric of their inner lives and the world as they once knew it. Read more

Lonely on the Mountain: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L’Amour’s solitary wandering Sackett brothers make a stand together—to save one of their own.

The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside. And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Logan faces starvation or a hanging if Tell can’t drive a herd of cattle from Kansas to British... Read more

Red Poppies - Abridged

By: Alai

Narrated by: Ping Wu

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tibet, a tiny nation cloaked in mystery and clouded by myth, is the setting for this riveting family saga. Read more

Jennifer Government

By: Max Barry

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever.

"Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wit and surprise to make his story a total blast." --The New York Times Book Review

"Wicked and wonderful....... Read more

At the Crossing Places

By: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The second thrilling novel in Kevin Crossley-Holland's bestselling Arthur trilogy

Arthur de Caldicot has achieved his dream: He now serves as squire to Lord Stephen of Holt Castle. But this new world opens up fresh visions as well as old concerns. Arthur longs to escape the shadow of his unfeeling father and meet his birth mother. To marry the... Read more

Dark Matter - Abridged

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: Byron Jennings

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I swore not to tell this story while Newton was still alive.

1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which... Read more

Cloud of Sparrows - Abridged

By: Takashi Matsuoka

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Exotic, entertaining . . . [an] exceptional first novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the West. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun’s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has arrived to spread the word of their God. They... Read more

The Piano Tuner - Abridged

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.

In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more

Dream of Me

By: Josie Litton

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in ninth-century England and Norway, Dream of Me tells the story of Wolf Hakonson, a fierce Norse chief who falls in love when he kidnaps the sister of his rival, Hawk, a prominent Saxon lord. Wolf marries the lovely Cymbra but their wedded bliss is short-lived. First the women of the settlement refuse to accept their Saxon mistress who... Read more

Dark Matter

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakened... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Redding

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed to be the greatest novel ever written, the story of Mrs. Bennet's finding husbands for her daughters is told with wit and charm. A must for lovers of good literature.Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first twenty-five years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local... Read more

Zazoo

By: Richard Mosher

Narrated by: Joanna Wyatt

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Zazoo is Vietnamese by birth but feels entirely French. She has lived with her adoptive Grand-Pierre in France in an old stone mill between the river and the canal since she was two, sharing poetry, adventures, and the predictable rhythms of the seasons. Then one misty October morning, a young man on a bicycle rides into Zazoo’s small village... Read more

The Glorious Cause

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 25 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Commonly considered Stephen Crane's greatest accomplishment, The Red Badge of Courage ranks among the foremost literary achievements of the modern era. It is the story of Private Henry Fleming who goes into the Civil War, a hot-headed young patriot with his mind brimful of ideas of glory. Stephen Crane was born in 1871 in New Jersey and... Read more

Cloud of Sparrows

By: Takashi Matsuoka

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exotic, entertaining . . . [an] exceptional first novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the West. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun’s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has arrived to spread the word of their God. They... Read more

The Big Burn

By: Jeanne Ingold

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jarrett is sixteen--man enough to reject the railroad job his father wants him to take, man enough to court Lizbeth Whitcomb, man enough to join the fight against the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana But the flames are faster than anyone has dreamed, and soon the fire has come between Jarrett and his home, between Jarrett and... Read more

Treasure Mountain: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Treasure Mountain, Louis L’Amour delivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fate of their missing father—and finding themselves in a struggle just to stay alive.

Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking for answers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. To uncover the truth, the brothers... Read more

A Woman of Independent Means - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Hailey

Narrated by: Barbara Rush

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inspired by the author' s irrepressible grandmother, A Woman of Independent Means is a bestselling novel about Bess Steed Garner, a determined woman at the beginning of the twentieth century. At a time when women had few choices, Bess inherits a legacy— not only of wealth but of determination and desire. Following the... Read more

Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight--the ability to See into the present and possibly futures--that is the very birthright of the... Read more