Historical Fiction audiobooks

Leaving Lucy Pear

By: Anna Solomon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“From the first page, I was under Anna Solomon’s spell.” —Sue Monk Kidd

From the author of The Book of V., a novel chosen as a must-read book by TIME Magazine, InStyle, Good Housekeeping, The Millions, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and BookPage

Set in 1920s New England, the story of two women who are both mothers to the same unforgettable girl—a... Read more

The Rancher Takes a Cowgirl

By: Misty M. beller

Narrated by: Peggy Sowsersby

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A quiet Texas ranch may be just the place to disappear...Grace Harper is in hiding. When her father died six months before, she never imagined her unexpected inheritance would threaten her life. What better place to disappear than on a cattle ranch, doing the work she spent the last nine years helping her father with? And surely she’ll be safe... Read more

Highlander's Touch

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

When Shona saves a warrior from an ambush, she feels compelled to heal his wounds. But when Ewan wakes, he ignites a desire in her she yearns to embrace. Staving off loneliness for years, she lets herself indulge in a night of passion, sinking into the splendor that is this Highlander's touch.



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The Dissolute Duke

By: Sophia James

Narrated by: Carolyn Morris

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The rumor is up and the banns are read: The Dissolute Duke has finally wed!

With a name synonymous with sin and debauchery so shocking it is spoken of only in whispers, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, is more surprised than anyone when he finds himself forced to marry! Before the ink is dry on the register, he turns his back on this sham of... Read more

Ben-Hur

By: Carol Wallace

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of the bestselling stories of all time, Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ has captivated and enthralled millions around the worldboth in print and on the big screen. Now Lew's great-great-granddaughter has taken the old-fashioned prose of this classic novel and breathed new life into it for today's audience. Coming to theaters... Read more

Monterey Bay

By: Lindsay Hatton

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful debut set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium--and the last days of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot  has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's... Read more

The Graveyard of the Hesperides

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Sarah Feathers

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome, August AD 89. Flavia Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken up her father’s former profession as an informer. On a typical day, it’s small cases—cheating spouses, employees dipping into the till—but this isn’t a typical day. Her beloved, the plebeian Manlius Faustus, has recently moved in and decided that they should get... Read more

The Castle of Kings

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolt against the harsh treatment by their aristocratic overlords. Agnes, the daughter of one of these overlords, is not a typical sixteenth-century girl. She refuses to wear dresses and spends more time with her pet falcon than she does in trying to attract potential suitors.... Read more

Mata Hari's Last Dance

By: Michelle Moran

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on: treason leading to the deaths of thousands of French soldiers. As Mata Hari waits for her fate to be decided, she relays the story of her... Read more

The Imperial Wife

By: Irina Reyn

Narrated by: Karen Peakes

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia.Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia’s wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the... Read more

Imprudence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes the delightful sequel to Prudence.

Rue and the crew of the Spotted Custard return from India with revelations that shake the foundations of England's scientific community. Queen Victoria is not amused, the vampires are tetchy, and something is wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it... Read more

The Valley

By: Helen Bryan

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first installment in an epic historical trilogy by Helen Bryan, the bestselling author of War Brides and The Sisterhood, The Valley is a sweeping, unforgettable tale of hardship, tenacity, love, and heartache.Left suddenly penniless, the Honorable Sophia Grafton, a viscount’s orphaned daughter, sails to the New World to claim the only... Read more

Love Beyond Compare

By: Bethany Claire

Narrated by: Lily Collingwood

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

She left her whole world behind to find the one thing that really matters.Jane Mitchell has many dreams for her life, but living in the seventeenth century was never one of them. Unknowingly transported through time by the meddling witch, Morna, Jane chooses to stay in the past so she can remain in her beloved nephew’s life. Castle life doesn’t... Read more

Ludwig Ganghofer, Hochwürden, Hr. Pfarrer

By: Alogino

Narrated by: Gerhard Acktun

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Buch, welches 1880 geschrieben wurde, beschreibt das aufregende Leben eines Dorfpfarrers. Die Umsetzung als Hörspiel öffnet mit seiner musikalischen Untermalung und den Geräuschen das Ohr für vergangene Zeiten... Read more

Gerhard Acktun, Berg Geschichten

By: Alogino

Narrated by: Georg Queri, Carl Spitzweg, Artur Schubart, Max...

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Amüsante und auch nachdenkliche Geschichten von bekannten bayrischen Autoren lassen die gute alte Zeit wieder aufleben. Aufwändig mit authentischen Geräuschen und passender Musik produziert. Read more

Heroes

By: C. J. Brightley

Narrated by: Edward Allen

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

A brother and sister play at being heroes, and the game changes their lives.This is a NOVELLA and is about 16,200 words. It stands alone but is set about 12 years after Street Fox and several generations after The King's Sword. It is concurrent with an upcoming novel. Read more

Gerhard Acktun & Friedrich Glauser, Liebe, Eifersucht und andere Tragödien

By: Alogino

Narrated by: Gerhard Acktun

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Gute Freunde, Gesundheit, Familie, Erfolg im Beruf und eine glückliche Partnerschaft sind für die meisten Menschen besonders wichtig. Aber gerade eine glückliche und harmonische Partnerschaft wird oft durch Streitigkeiten und anderen vertrackten Ereignissen auf die Probe gestellt. Friedrich Glauser und Gerhard Acktun beschreiben in ihren teils... Read more

Adventure For A Bride

By: Amelia Rose

Narrated by: Charles D. Baker

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Anna Mae Flynn passes away, leaving three small children and a husband with a harvest to bring in, the only logical answer is to find Wyatt another wife... quick. He fights everyone at first, even himself, but he knows their logic is sound and their hearts are in the right place.But Millie Carter is nothing like Wyatt's dear Anna Mae, a... Read more

The Devil's Assassin (Jack Lark, Book 3)

By: Paul Fraser Collard

Narrated by: Dudley Hinton

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Lark is The Devil's Assassin who stalks the streets of Bombay in this exhilarating and dangerous adventure by Paul Fraser Collard. History 'blazes across the pages' (Anthony Riches) in this series that will appeal to readers of Bernard Cornwell and Simon Scarrow.

Bombay, 1857. Jack Lark is living precariously as an officer when his heroic... Read more

The Enchanting of an Earl

By: Emma Locke

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

FOR LOVE...The second of five impoverished sisters, Miss Elinor Conley knows her dream of becoming a lady is farfetched. When an unmarried gentleman happens by her brother's smithy, it is up to her to act quickly—and rashly—to secure his interest. But Grantham Wendell, Lord Chelford, isn't in the market for anything more than a new horseshoe.... Read more

Marching to Zion

By: Mary Glickman

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Marching to Zion is the tragic story of Minerva Fishbein and Magnus Bailey, a charismatic black man and the longtime business partner of Minerva's father. From the brutal riots of East St. Louis to Memphis, Tennessee, during the 1920s and the Depression, Marching to Zion is a tale of passion, betrayal, and redemption during an era in America... Read more

Unforgiven

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Woodfall and Hayes families have been bitter rivals for nearly a century. Now after eight years, Kenneth returns home and realizes his underlying love for Miss Moira Hayes. For her, he is willing to forget the past. But can she? (Fiction--Romance) Read more

Vita Brevis

By: Ruth Downie

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruso and Tilla's excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too many doctors—some skilled—but others positively dangerous.



Ruso thinks that he has been offered a... Read more

The Devourers

By: Indra Das

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup & Meera Simhan

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination.

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

On a cool evening in Kolkata, India, beneath a full moon, as the whirling rhythms... Read more