Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Potter's Field - Abridged

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

During the ploughing of the Potter's Field, the Brothers unearth the grisly remains of a woman's body. Rumors had it that the wild, beautiful Welsh woman had gone away with a lover, returning to her homeland, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival of a young monk fleeing from the devastating civil war in East Anglia, the... Read more

Monk's Hood - Abridged

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

It's Christmas, and a local visiting dignitary suddenly takes ill immediately following his decision to bequeath his manorial estate to the abbey. Luckily, the abbey boasts the services of the herbalist Brother Cadfael, who hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted with two surprises: the man's wife is Richildis—whom Cadfael loved... Read more

Brother Cadfael's Penance - Abridged

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

While Brother Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows—until now. Word has come to Shrewsbury of a treacherous act that has left 30 of Empress Maud's knights imprisoned during England's dynastic war between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror. All have been ransomed except Cadfael's secret son, Olivier.... Read more

The Heretic's Apprentice - Abridged

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Heresy, murder, and the contents of a mysterious treasure chest challenge Brother Cadfael—12th-century herbalist, sleuth, and sometime cupid—in his 16th chronicle.In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, but it is not a joyous occasion—he's come back from his pilgrimage in a coffin.... Read more

The Adventures of Brother Cadfael - Abridged

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Sir Jacobi, Derek

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection of recordings about Brother Cadfael—a Benedictine monk and amateur sleuth in the 12th century—are performed here by the ideal actor. Sir Derek Jacobi, who portrayed Cadfael in several television adaptations, captivates listeners with his renderings of Monk's Hood, Saint Peter's Fair, The Heretic's Apprentice, The Potter's Field,... Read more

Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more

Caesar's Women - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the blockbuster tradition of The First Man in Rome -- Colleen Mccullough's monumental Masters of Rome series continues.

The man behind the legend...the women behind the man.

Villain or hero? Debated for centuries, the volcanic soul of Julius Caesar comes dramatically to life in the new masterpiece of historical fiction from the #1 bestselling... Read more

No Place to Hide

By: Gerry Carroll

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the background of Saigon’s desperate last days, this concluding volume to Carroll’s extraordinary naval aviation trilogy follows the adventures of helicopter pilot Lt. Tim Boyle and his best friend, Lt. Mike Santy, as they struggle to pull off the final American withdrawal from Vietnam. Boyle and Santy find themselves in the midst of... Read more

The Murders of Richard III

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a remote English country mansion, modern devotees of the infamous King Richard III, immortally villainized by Shakespeare, have gathered for a grand weekend of role-playing and Ricardian scholarship. Jacqueline Kirby, an attractive American librarian attending the festivities, anticipates only one mystery to be raised: the... Read more

Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson

Narrated by: Boots Martin

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more

Gump & Co. - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Gump phenomenon continues!

Forrest Gump is back!

The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his own unique way, he is... Read more

The Legend of Bagger Vance

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The time: 1931. The place: the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept Atlantic shore. The event: a once-in-a-lifetime 36-hole match...in which the stakes are higher than anyone imagined.

In Steven Pressfield's richly imagined, vividly detailed story, golf legends Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen are joined by a local unsung opponent, the... Read more

Once Upon a Kiss

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

She came to wed his brother and stole the Dragon's heart...To settle a feud, Dominique Beauchamp was resigned to wed in order to heal their injured lands. Offered in marriage by her brother to the lord of Drakewich, she came to take the d'Lucy name...but never counted on losing her heart to the brother of her betrothed - the Black Dragon.Blaec... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Abridged

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. An English aristocrat regarded as an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who— with a small band of dedicated friends— undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, The Red Badge of Courage tells the story of Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army who flees from the horror of battle and then struggles with shame and self-loathing. Outstanding in its portrayal of the quiet tension and violent emotion of war, this powerful psychological study of a... Read more

The Proud and the Free

By: Janet Dailey

Narrated by: Pamela Hensley Vincent

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating historical novel takes listeners inside the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s and sweeps us away in a surprising and unforgettable love story. Temple Gordon is the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader and a young woman of uncommon beauty. Raised on her family's grand Southern plantation,... Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa Alcott

Narrated by: Jamie Lee Curtis

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With humor and pathos, Little Women follows the lives of four young women and their mother as they face the daily struggles of life in the 19th century. First published in 1868, this memorable and touching coming-of-age masterpiece is beloved by generations. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, this is the story of four sisters who learn hard lessons... Read more

Sioux Dawn - Abridged

By: Terry Johnston

Narrated by: Ed Asner

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This historically accurate tale describes one of the worst military disasters ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains.At the end of the Civil War, a tremendous stream of soldiers and settlers began moving westward along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, a bloody fight to... Read more

Shadow Song - Abridged

By: Terry Kay

Narrated by: Terry Kay

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more

Forrest Gump - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Winston Groom

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.

When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In... Read more

Schindler's List - Abridged

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Ben Kingsley

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In remembrance of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the Nazi concentration camps, this award-winning, bestselling work of Holocaust fiction, inspiration for the classic film and “masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review), returns with an all-new introduction by the author.

An... Read more

Fortune's Favorite - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Return to Ancient Rome - where politics, ambition, and greed collide in the fortunes of two fiercely powerful men: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the great general who returns from exile to be installed as dictator, and then stuns Rome with his startling self-imposed retirement; and Pompey, the young scion of an enormously powerful rural family, who... Read more

Before and During

By: Vladimir Sharov

Narrated by: Al Bernstein

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Late Soviet stagnation, Moscow. Alyosha – a writer who suffers from fits accompanied by memory loss – admits himself to a psychiatric institute for experimental treatment.

Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who “died... Read more