Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Emerald Tablet

By: Andrew Clawson

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An ancient Persian relic. A message etched in stone. A deadly quest across the globe to reveal the forbidden truth.
Recovering ancient relics for the Italian mob can be deadly. When Harry Fox narrowly outwits a thieving artifacts dealer to escape with his life, he quickly discovers he came away with more than he bargained for. The stone tablet... Read more

The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Christine Kiphart

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine. While Undine's beauty catches the attention of several high-society men, she finds it difficult to fit in with the old-money social circles that rule New York. When she finally marries Ralph Marvell, she embraces a life full... Read more

My Name Is Ona Judge

By: Suzette D. Harrison

Narrated by: Tovah Ott & Aure Nash

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge, and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States. I was the favored maid of George and Martha Washington, but they deemed me a slave and thought me property, and I hear ten dollars is offered as reward for my capture. Now I must write the truth that I have lived, and tell my... Read more

The White Hare

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: Danielle Cohen

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding novel about mothers and daughters finding a new home for themselves, the secrets they try to bury, and the local legends that may change their lives.In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove. The valley has a long and bloody history, laced with... Read more

The Invincible Miss Cust

By: Penny Haw

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood is based on the real life of Britain’s first woman veterinary surgeon.Aleen Cust has big dreams. And no one―not her family, society, or the law―will stop her.Born in Ireland in 1868 to an aristocratic English family, Aleen knows she is destined to work with... Read more

Miss del Río

By: Bárbara Mujica

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led.”—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene

1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads,... Read more

Secrets of the Nile

By: Tasha Alexander

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In a brilliant homage to Agatha Christie, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander sends Lady Emily to Egypt during British colonial rule to investigate a crime that leads back to the era of the Pharaohs.

In Secrets of the Nile, Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have joined his formidable mother on a holiday to visit the exotic... Read more

The Night Belongs to the Maquis

By: Carolyn Kay Brancato

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deep bond of love severed. An impossible decision. Will she break a powerful promise to find her way back to happiness?The Pyrénées, France, 1939. Twenty-year-old Sylvie Laget has found the one she wants to be with forever. With war looming, she pledges her heart to a young man on a neighboring farm and rebels against her religious upbringing... Read more

Čarodějka

By: Barbara Cartland

Narrated by: Hana Tomáš Briešťanská

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Jak snadné je uvíznout ve spárech milostné magie...Markýz z Wynstantonu se pokoušel uniknout svodům lady Locadi Marshallové dlouho, ale nakonec přece jen podlehl a stal se jejím milencem. Vášnivá Locadi očekává, že s ní markýz zůstane i po smrti jejího muže. On ale raději odjíždí na jednu ze svých dobrodružných cest.Po návratu však opět skončí v... Read more

The Night Ship

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Fleur De Wit & Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.

1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is... Read more

Under the Starry Skies

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Will their faith prove to be stronger than their fear?

Sensible and independent, Cassie Barton never anticipated being on her own at thirty-two. But after the death of her father and the marriage of her sister, she’s found joy in her work as a seamstress. When a minor accident leaves her unable
to sew, she decides to use her time to compile a... Read more

The Story of the Hundred Promises

By: Neil Cochrane

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast that centers queer and trans charactersTrans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just... Read more

A House of Ruin

By: Pamela Crane

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A murder that stole 1982 national headlines: “Renowned Family Slayed in Home”
A case that remained cold for forty long years.
The Eyler family was anything but average. The father a top literary agent and the mother a duchess, they thrived in their prestigious Oakmont mansion surrounded by luxury…and secrets. Secrets that would eventually cost... Read more

Nights of Plague

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: Amira Ghazalla

Length: 29 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.

It is April 1900, in the Levant, on the imaginary island of Mingheria—the twenty-ninth state of the Ottoman Empire—located in the eastern... Read more

Immortal Crowns

By: J.D. Netto

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Five thousand years ago, when mortals were a mere thought in the mind of their creator, Lucifer was cast out of the immortal realm of Valleyner, doomed to spend his days in the Dark Beyond. After Hanell the Creator, known as the Pale Lion, fashioned the mortal world of Thelsten, a secret concealed from mortals brought on grave consequences. In... Read more

A Ballad of Love and Glory / Corrido de amor y gloria (Spanish ed)

By: Reyna Grande

Narrated by: Sara Vivanco & Hernán Espinoza

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Una guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable.El año es 1846. Después de la controvertida anexión de Texas, el ejército de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con México por la disputada frontera del Río Grande. Ximena Salomé es una talentosa curandera mexicana que sueña con construir una familia con el hombre que ama en la... Read more

Funeral Train

By: Laurie Loewenstein

Narrated by: Kelli Tager

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life.Already suffering the privations of the 1930s Dust Bowl, an Oklahoma town is further devastated when a passenger train derails—flooding its hospital with the dead and maimed. Among the seriously... Read more

The Mandrake Broom

By: Jess Wells

Narrated by: Jess Wells

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1465 a simple pocketful of herbs could get you burned at the stake, but Luccia Alimenti, daughter of one of the legendary women doctors called Salernistas, travels Europe secretly distributing medical texts to midwives and herbalists. Despite dodging the Inquisition and battling the Plague with her beloved Irish godmother, Luccia finds love... Read more

The Secrets of Emberwild

By: Stephenia H. McGee

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A gifted trainer in a time women are not allowed to race, Nora Fenton prefers horses to men. They’re easier to handle, they’re more reliable, and they never tell her what to do. After her father’s passing, Nora is determined to save her
struggling horse farm, starting with entering her prize colt into the harness races at the 1905 Mississippi... Read more

In the Shadow of a Queen

By: Heather B. Moore

Narrated by: Antonia Bath

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the True Story of the Free-Spirited Daughter of Queen VictoriaPrincess Louise’s life is upended after her father’s untimely death. Captive to the queen’s overwhelming mourning, Louise is forbidden to leave her mother’s tight circle of control and is eventually relegated to the position of personal secretary to her mother―the same... Read more

Highlander's Bride

By: Mariah Stone

Narrated by: Shane East & Emma Wilder

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Danger, passion, and a race against time—for fans of Outlander! Diabetic Bryanna Fitzpatrick has seen her own death, her body carried by a Highlander. But she can’t deny her mother’s desire to visit Scotland. Stumbling into an underground cavern in Eilean Donan Castle, she encounters a Highland faerie who sends her through time to 1310.Believing... Read more

Within These Gilded Halls

By: Abigail Wilson

Narrated by: Laura Kirman

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden treasure and betrayal mingle with unexpected love within the walls of Avonthorpe Hall.After studying art under Miss Drake, a renowned painter, Phoebe Radcliff is certain she can finally move beyond the childish mistake that’s kept her away from home. She is thrilled when Miss Drake employs her to complete a complicated ballroom... Read more

In The Moonlight & Shadows in the Daylight

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In audio book box set: first part is : In the Moonlightsecond part is: Shadows in the Daylight "Stand and deliver, your money or your life!" shouted the highwayman. "I hear that you met a real highwayman the other day I wish I had been with you. They are so thrilling and romantic!" "Hand over your loot! Either give it to me now or I will take it... Read more

Ученик архитектора

By: Элиф Шафак

Narrated by: Юлия Тархова

Length: 21 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

XVI век. Османская империя. Эпоха Сулеймана Великолепного. Волею судьбы двенадцатилетний Джахан и его подопечный, белый слоненок по кличке Чота, оказываются в Стамбуле, при дворе могущественного султана. Здесь Джахану суждено пережить множество удивительных приключений, обрести друзей, встретить любовь и стать учеником выдающегося зодчего —... Read more