Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Matter of the Secret Bride

By: Darcie Wilde

Narrated by: Kitty Kelly

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

King George IV is petitioning Parliament for a divorce from his queen on the grounds of her adultery. But rumor has it that the king secretly married Maria Fitzherbert—long before he married the queen. Now Mrs. Fitzherbert has been robbed—and she's frantically calling on Rosalind for help.



Because what those thieves took is proof that she and... Read more

Blackheart Man

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.

Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on... Read more

Drumindor

By: Michael J. Sullivan

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

HE PLANNED TO OBLITERATE AN ENTIRE CITY. HE THOUGHT NO ONE COULD STAND IN HIS WAY. BUT HE HADN'T HEARD OF RIYRIA.When a master-craftsmen dwarf is fired, he threatens retaliation. The rogues-for-hire known as Riyria are commissioned to find and stop him. Traveling to the paradise resort of Tur Del Fur, the two are granted a lavish allowance that,... 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

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

Fayne

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Narrated by: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Length: 30 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2023 PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF CBC’S BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOKS OF 2022

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magic, love and identity.

In the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Bell is growing up at Fayne, a vast and lonely... 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

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 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 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 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

The Paying Guests

By: Sarah Waters

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)
 
“Superb, bewitching…Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of... Read more

Ireland

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.”  — Philadelphia InquirerThis New York Times bestselling epic is an unforgettable tour de force that marries the intimate,... Read more

The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

Narrated by: Emilia Clarke

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Music, intoxication, and betrayal combine in this “immersive, impassioned” (The Guardian) debut novel inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician—and his biggest muse.

“The Instrumentalist is more than a history lesson—with... Read more

Queen Charlotte

By: Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Go beyond the original Shondaland series on Netflix, Queen Charlotte, with this lushly romantic Bridgerton prequel novel written by New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes as the marriage of Queen Charlotte and King George of England leads to an unexpected love story and a union that transforms society.In 1761, on a... Read more

The Angel of the Crows

By: Katherine Addison

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The Angel of the Crows, a fantasy of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming.

This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the audiobook you are expecting.

In an alternate 1880s London,... Read more

The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A thriller of a different kind—with an unlikely band of economists and bureaucrats working in the shadows to save the world.”—Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy in this thrilling novel based... Read more

Longshadow

By: Olivia Atwater

Narrated by: Madeleine Leslay

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians—but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper.

The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail’s father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved. But while Abigail is willing to match her... 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

Under the Oak Tree: Volume 1 (The Novel)

By: Suji Kim

Narrated by: A. Jo

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after—but this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA.

“Currently the most popular romantasy webnovel . . . Under the Oak Tree is a Korean romantasy with intense emotional depth, weaving trauma and love in a medieval setting. [It]... Read more

Night of the Witch

By: Sara Raasch & Beth Revis

Narrated by: Andrea Emmes, Kirby Heyborne & Gregory Abbey

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Their love could never be forbidden.Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she’s determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenjägers—zealot witch hunters—to justice for the lives they ended. To do this, she will need to take down their leader, the merciless and enigmatic Kommandant Dieter... Read more