Historical Fiction audiobooks

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more

Sad Cypress

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more

Fire Spells Between Friends

By: Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan

Narrated by: Matt Simpson

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Whoever wins the heart of the most eligible gentleman in London will need to be an extraordinary catch indeed.London, 1813—fae and humans alike are abuzz whenever Torquil's Tribune drops a juicy new tidbit. At the center of the gossip is handsome fae, Emrys Wrenwhistle, heir to his family's fortune. As speculation over his prospects grows, the... Read more

League of Dragons

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Novik delivers the final adventure in a New York Times bestselling series that has won fans of Napoleonic-era military history, Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels, and Patrick O'Brian's seafaring adventures. Since His Majesty's Dragon, Captain William Laurence and his fearless dragon, Temeraire, have been battling Napoleon and his armies . . .... Read more

The Magician's Daughter

By: H. G. Parry

Narrated by: Rose McPhilemy

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman raised on an isolated island by a magician discovers things aren’t as they seem and must venture into early 1900s England to return magic to the world in this "brilliantly imagined" historical fantasy (Lucy Holland). Off the coast of Ireland sits a legendary island hidden by magic. A place of ruins and ancient trees, sea-salt air... Read more

Untethered

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . .In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her care, harboring a longing for children of her own.... Read more

A Thousand Times Before

By: Asha Thanki

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rich family saga about art and memory's power to inform the present, make peace with the past, and maybe even alter the future.” — Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts

“[Asha] Thanki reinvents generational memory, conjuring inheritance as a tapestry of love, trauma, and choices that echo through blood. A... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 36 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The extravagant and... Read more

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Twentieth-Anniversary Edition of the First Novel of the Acclaimed Mary Russell Series by Edgar Award–Winning Author Laurie R. King.

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee • Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association

In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of... Read more

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 27 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""Packed with suspense. . . a gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller.” — Washington Book Review
The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting... Read more

The Faithless

By: C. L. Clark

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences of dismantling an empire.

The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations will not be easy,... Read more

A Study in Scarlet Women

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down in the first novel in this Victorian mystery series....
 
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would... Read more

Rough Trade

By: Katrina Carrasco

Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify... Read more

Post After Post-Mortem

By: E.C.R. Lorac

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth - the middle sister - decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life.... Read more

Belle Greene

By: Alexandra Lapierre

Narrated by: Ja'Air Bush

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman who defied all odds to carve out a destiny of her own choosing, this is a richly imagined novel bursting with atmosphere, lush period detail, and many unforgettable characters.  New York in the 1900s. A young girl fascinated by rare books defies all odds and becomes the director of one of... Read more

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a... Read more

A Perfect Spy

By: John Le Carré

Narrated by: Shaun Evans

Length: 19 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“a splendid book… [le Carré] is a perfect spy novelist.” — The New York Times The most autobiographical of John le Carré’s works, A Perfect Spy follows two narratives: the manhunt for the double agent Magnus Pym, and the makings of the man in question—told in his own words. Referred to as le Carré’s best work and one of the best English novels... Read more

The Perfumist of Paris

By: Alka Joshi

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

 
"A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power…this is Alka Joshi's best book yet!” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye

From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s... Read more

The Accursed

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 22 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damnedPrinceton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel... Read more

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic novel has been thrice adapted for the screen by the BBC. Mary Smith relates the story of her time with middle-aged spinster sisters Miss Matty and Miss Deborah. Witty, poignant, and often ironic, Cranford is the tale of what these two women will do to remain respectable, proper, and kind with only moderate means. "... an extremely... Read more

The Mahabharata and The Ramayana

By: Jatinder Verma, Claudia Mayer & Amber Lone

Narrated by: Paul Bhattacharjee, Sasha Behar, Raad Rawi, Pa...

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Full-cast dramatised retellings of the two most important epic Sanskrit poems of ancient India

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are literary classics, the longest epic poems in world literature, as significant as the Bible, the Qu'ran and the works of Shakespeare. Estimated to have been composed over a period of time around the 3rd and 4th... Read more

The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

Narrated by: Stephen Hogan

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by curragh, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He... Read more

The Broken Eye

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 29 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war... Read more

The Duke's Sister and I

By: Emma-Claire Sunday

Narrated by: Beatrix Ayliff

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“An amazing Harlequin Historical… A+, no notes” – Fated Mates 

A spellbinding sapphic love story filled with wit and queer joy, Emma-Claire Sunday’s debut Regency romance will leave you swooning!

She’s supposed to wed a duke…

But it’s his sister she can’t keep her eyes off!

As the ton’s most in-demand debutante, it should be easy for Miss Loretta... Read more