Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mustang Man: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Terrence Mann

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mustang Man, Louis L’Amour takes Nolan Sackett on a dangerous journey into family betrayal, greed, and murder.

When Nolan Sackett met Penelope Hume in a cantina at Borregos Plaza, the girl immediately captured his attention. That she was heir to a lost cache of gold didn’t make her any less desirable. But Penelope isn’t the only one after... Read more

The Family Frying Pan

By: Bryce Courtenay

Narrated by: Melissa Eccleston & Humphrey Bower

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Moses is a small woman with a big heart and enormous courage. The only survivor of a Cossack raid on her village, she takes with her a big cast-iron frying pan, so heavy that she can only sling it over her back. Yet this is no ordinary frying pan - it's The Family Frying Pan, blessed with a Russian soul. From this frying pan Mrs Moses... Read more

Murder in Montparnasse

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead, under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives and... Read more

Trickster's Choice

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Trini Alvarado

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is... Read more

Milkweed

By: Jerry Spinelli

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist, Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday!

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.

He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in... Read more

Victory - Volume 4

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Eric Conger & Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling editor of Combat, Victory: Volume Four includes Blood Bond by Harold Robbins and Flame at Tawara by Barrett Tillman.

A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice.... Read more

Sappho's Leap

By: Erica Jong

Narrated by: Erica Jong

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Life has always been a banquet for Sappho, one to be savored to the fullest. Following a magnificent destiny, her strange and sensual odyssey has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world, from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons, and the realm of Hades. For Sappho, it was always about love—love that seduced her into a plot to... Read more

Victory - Volume 5

By: Dean Ing & James H. Cobb

Narrated by: Eric Conger & Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling editor of Combat, Victory: Volume Five includes Hangar Rat by Dean Ing and Eyes of the Cat by James Cobb.

A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. Here you will... Read more

Angels & Demons

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the explosive, “intriguing, imaginative, and very suspenseful” (Dale Brown, New York Times bestselling author) classic thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno that follows Robert Langdon on a white-knuckled race against time to uncover the darkest secrets of Rome.

An ancient secret... Read more

Taboo - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gage

Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Plunge into the glamour, fame, dark secrets, and sordid lives of three high rollers living in Hollywood's gilded age. Kate Hamilton uses her hard-boiled pride and sensual beauty to hide her shameful past. Eve Sinclair is a child superstar who has carefully choreographed her climb to the top, coolly using anything or anyone to secure her rise.... Read more

Angels & Demons - Abridged

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Experience the explosive, “intriguing, imaginative, and very suspenseful” (Dale Brown, New York Times bestselling author) classic thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno that follows Robert Langdon on a white-knuckled race against time to uncover the darkest secrets of Rome.

An ancient secret... Read more

Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And only Jane can fathom the depths of his ruthless... Read more

Brave Enemies

By: Robert Morgan

Narrated by: Lia Patal

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As the War for Independence wore on into the 1780s, unrest ruled the Carolinas. Settlers who had cleared the land after the Cherokees withdrew were being mustered for battle as British forces pillaged their hard-won farms. Robert Morgan's stunning novel tells a story of two people caught in the chaos raging in the wilderness.

After... Read more

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow world of dangerous secrets and traitorous hearts where not only her life is at stake--but the fate of England.

Jane... Read more

Pompeii

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

BESTSELLER - "Terrific... gripping... A literally shattering climax." -- The New York Times Book Review 

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their... Read more

Six Easy Pieces

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: M. E. Willis

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

New Easy Rawlins mysteries--original short stories from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery author. As Carolyn See said in The Washington Post Book World: "God bless the day that Walter Mosley created Easy Rawlins!"

This handsome collection contains six interconnected stories. Fans can now add these original stories in Six... Read more

The Sky-liners: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Sky-Liners, Louis L’Amour introduces Flagan and Galloway Sackett, heading west from Tennessee to seek their fortunes. That’s when they came across an old Irish trader who offered them two fine horses if they would agree to escort his granddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan saw nothing but trouble in the fiery young woman,... Read more

The Kite Runner

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more

The Kite Runner - Abridged

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more

Dreaming the Eagle - Abridged

By: Manda Scott

Narrated by: Clare Higgins

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.

Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg” ). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial ... Read more

The Last Full Measure - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara’s son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father’s vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary... Read more

The Wandering Hill

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.

In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of... Read more

The Silent Boy

By: Lois Lowry

Narrated by: Karen Allen

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Precocious Katy Thatcher comes to realize what a gentle, silent boy did for his family. He meant to help, not harm. It didn’t turn out that way.

“The author balances humor and generosity with the obstacles and injustice of Katy’s world to depict a complete picture of the turn of the 20th century.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Read more

The Gates of Dawn

By: Robert Newcomb

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Epic fantasy found an exhilarating new voice in Robert Newcomb, whose monumental debut novel, The Fifth Sorceress, was hailed by readers and critics alike. And now, for all those spellbound by the tale of Prince Tristan, heir to the throne of Eutracia, his twin sister Princess Shailiha, the ancient wizard Wigg, and the fate of their ... Read more