Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

A Lesson in Secrets

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear’s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities “not in the interests of His Majesty’s government.”... Read more

Women of the Post

By: Joshunda Sanders

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

  “What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders’ clear-eyed and powerful writing made this a hard one to stop reading!”
—Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-Winning Author

"This is a novel to cherish and share. And this is a history to sing about and affirm -- to proclaim.”
— Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times Bestselling... Read more

Dodger

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller!Beloved and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Dodger, a Printz Honor Book, combines high comedy with deep wisdom in a tale of one remarkable boy's rise in a fantasy-infused Victorian London.Seventeen-year-old Dodger is content as a sewer scavenger. But he enters a new world when he rescues a young girl from a... Read more

The Davenports: More Than This

By: Krystal Marquis

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller featuring escapist romance and a wealthy Black family in 1910s Chicago

Like the blazing Chicago sun, the drama is heating up for the Davenports and their social set. Before the summer of 1910 drops its last petal, the lives—and loves—of these four young women will change in ways they... Read more

Poirot Investigates & Murder in the Mews

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet, Nigel Hawthorne & Hugh Fraser

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great AudiobookPoirot InvestigatesPoirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was... Read more

Little Heaven

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Corey Brill

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep!

A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman”—is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a deceptively simple task: check in on her nephew, who... Read more

The Witches of El Paso

By: Luis Jaramillo

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Luis Jaramillo weaves a captivating tale of family, tradition, and the enduring power of love.” —Reyna Grande, author of A Ballad of Love and Glory

A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this “wild, wondrous novel about the magic that is singing all around us” (Julia Phillips, author of... Read more

The Paris Library

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

Narrated by: Nicky Diss, Sarah Feathers, Esther Wane & Janet...

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times, Washington Post, and USA TODAY bestseller—based on the true story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II—The Paris Library is a moving and unforgettable “ode to the importance of libraries, books, and the human connections we find within both” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times... Read more

The Marriage of Opposites

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko & Santino Fontana

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel... Read more

His Majesty's Dragon

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from... Read more

High Vaultage

By: Chris Sugden & Jen Sugden

Narrated by: Peter Wicks

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
⭐ ⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION ⭐ ⭐

'A joyously funny and absurd steampunk frolic that satirises both the era in which it is set and our own age'
FINANCIAL TIMES

From the creators of the acclaimed audio drama podcast Victoriocity comes a cozy scifi mystery set in... Read more

The Shadow Sister

By: Lucinda Riley

Narrated by: Fiona Button

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation.

Read by Fiona Button (This Is Not a Pity Memoir, Your Word Or Mine)

Star D'Aplièse, in her late twenties, is at a... 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

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Philippa Marbury is . . . oddThe brilliant, bespectacled daughter of a double marquess cares more for books than balls, for science than the season, and for laboratories than love. She's looking forward to marrying her simple fiancé and living out her days quietly with her dogs and her scientific experiments. But before that, Pippa has two... Read more

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

By: C. M. Waggoner

Narrated by: Ava Lucas

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees a “wanted” sign seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins... Read more

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By: Jodi Taylor

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The sixth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

What if the course of history was on your shoulders?

'To do what I do - go where I go - see what I see... Read more

An American Beauty

By: Shana Abe

Narrated by: Gail Shalan

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbinding new book perfect for fans of HBO's The Gilded Age and readers of Marie Benedict, Karen Harper, and Fiona Davis. This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella Huntington—a woman whose great beauty was... Read more

Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman & Leslie Jamison

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone

“Godfrey brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde adventurer Peggy Guggenheim as a feminist icon for our times.”—Jenny Offill,... Read more

The Best Bad Things

By: Katrina Carrasco

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco’s debut will leave you thirsty for more.” —Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham

A vivid, sexy barn burner of a... Read more

Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Since being named “London’s Lord to Land” by a popular ladies’ magazine, Nicholas St. John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presentsitself, he eagerly jumps—only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he’s ever met!The... Read more

The Markham Hall Collection

By: Sierra Simone

Narrated by: Shane East, Zara Hampton-Brown, Roxy Isles & Ga...

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

I am alone.

I am afraid.

And I am completely his.

***

When Ivy Leavold is left destitute by her brother's death, she is taken in by her cousin's brooding, tortured widower—Julian Markham. Handsome and possessive, it's not long before Ivy falls for him. 

But Mr. Markham has dark secrets, secrets that may put Ivy in danger…

This collection of... Read more

The Sunflower House

By: Adriana Allegri

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dallin Bradford & Saskia Maarle...

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

Family secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi-run baby factory—a real-life Handmaid's Tale—during World War II.

In a sleepy German village, Allina Strauss’s life seems idyllic: she works at her uncle’s bookshop, makes strudel with her aunt, and spends... Read more