Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

By: Scott Wilbanks

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The physics-bending charm of The Time Traveler’s Wife meets the curious mischief of The Eyre Affair in this debut novel.Annabelle Aster doesn’t bow to convention—not even that of space and time—which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Even more exciting is Elsbeth, the... Read more

The Tower of Swallows

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The world is at war and the prophesied savior is nowhere to be found. The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, races to find her in the fourth novel of Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games. 

The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by... Read more

The North Water

By: Ian McGuire

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an AMC+ original miniseries event starring Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell! A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, and named a Best Book of the Year by The... Read more

Victoria Crossing

By: Michael Wallace

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Driven from Ireland during the potato famine in 1851, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve O’Reilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. They arrive in New York City with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeve’s brother will find them there. But he’s nowhere to be found and a scam artist... Read more

Feuer und Stein - Outlander, Band 1 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Birgitta Assheuer

Length: 36 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Schottland 1946: Die englische Krankenschwester Claire Randall ist in den zweiten Flitterwochen, als sie neugierig einen alten Steinkreis betritt und darin auf einmal ohnmächtig wird. Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, befindet sie sich im Jahr 1743 - und ist von jetzt auf gleich eine Fremde, ein "Outlander". Read more

Monte Cassino

By: Sven Hassel

Narrated by: Martin Halland

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Monte Cassino, det heliga berget norr om Neapel, har blivit en av de allra viktigaste försvarspositionerna för den tyska krigsmakten. När de allierade trupperna går till angrepp kommer order från Hitler: de tyska positionerna måste försvaras till varje pris, och förlorade positioner ska återtas genom motattack. Sven Hassel och de andra... Read more

The Immortal Crown

By: Kieth Merrill

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed director and producer Kieth Merrill comes an epic, high fantasy saga and the quest to fulfill the prophecy.A thousand years ago, the Navigator crossed the great deep in ships lit with sixteen stones touched by Oum’ilah, the God of Gods. Over time the stones were scattered and a prophecy arose declaring that a “child of no man”... Read more

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia Episode 6

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

One man's good fortune sends rumors spreading through London society -- what is the secret behind his success?

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens.

Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The... Read more

Fall From Grace

By: David Ashton

Narrated by: David Ashton

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR McLEVY.

'DAVID ASHTON IMPECCABLY EVOKES EDINBURGH' Financial Times
ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times
'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox
'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society
'A REAL PAGE-TURNER' Sunday Post
'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO'... Read more

Mercer Girls

By: Libbie Hawker

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1864 in downtrodden Lowell, Massachusetts. The Civil War has taken its toll on the town—leaving the economy in ruin and its women in dire straits. That is, until Asa Mercer arrives on a peculiar, but providential, errand: he seeks high-minded women who can exert an elevating influence in Seattle, where there are ten men for every woman.... Read more

Portrait of a Conspiracy

By: Donna Russo Morin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Seeking to wrest power, members of the Pazzi family drew their blades in a church and slew the beloved Giuliano. But Lorenzo de' Medici survives the attack, and seeks revenge on everyone involved, plunging the city into a murderous chaos. Bodies are dragged through the streets, and no one is safe.



Five women steal away to a church to ply their... Read more

Love in the Time of Scandal

By: Caroline Linden

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Penelope Weston does not like Benedict Lennox, Lord Atherton. He may be the suave and charming heir to an earl, as well as the most handsome man on earth, but she can't forget how he abandoned a friend in need—nor how he once courted her sister, Abigail. He's the last man she would ever marry. If only she didn't feel so attracted to the arrogant... Read more

Prayers the Devil Answers

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In Depression-era Appalachia, a desperate sheriff’s widow takes on her late husband’s job and discovers that a prayer the devil answers comes at a terrible price.

The year is 1936 and society provides no safety net for newly widowed Ellie Robbins, a woman in a small mountain town who suddenly has to support her family on her own. She’s not... Read more

The Fox Was Ever the Hunter

By: Herta Müller

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An early masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize, hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianismRomania, the last months of the Ceaușescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher, Paul is a musician, and Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara’s lover, but one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the whole... Read more

Brionne

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore his brothers would take vengenance. Four year later the Allard boys retumed to settle the score. Only Brionne’s son escaped. They murdered his wife, destroyed his home, and left Brionne nothing but the charred ruins of his past to haunt him. Seeking... Read more

Easy Pickings

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Life hasn't always been easy for March and Kermit McPhee, but things are looking up. March gives birth to a healthy son, and their small gold mine is looking better and better as Kermit blasts his way along a good seam of ore. Then Kermit is crushed by a cave-in.As soon as her husband dies, crooks are at March's door, eager to get their hands on... Read more

A Whisper of Southern Lights

By: Tim Lebbon

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Death and destruction follow the demon wherever he treads, and Gabriel is rarely far behind, waiting for his chance to extinguish the creature known as Temple once and for all.

But in Singapore during the Second World War, a lone soldier in possession of a shattering secret gets caught up in their battle. The knowledge he holds could change the... Read more

The Mirror Thief

By: Martin Seay

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were... Read more

Children of Earth and Sky

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 19 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of the ground breaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands-where empires and faiths... Read more

The Mark of Cain

By: Lindsey Barraclough

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A spine-chilling companion to Long Lankin, here is the story of a wronged witch’s revenge, spanning generations and crossing the shadowy line between life and death.In 1567, baby Aphra is found among the reeds and rushes by two outcast witches. Even as an infant, her gifts in the dark craft are clear. But when her guardians succumb to an angry... Read more

By Helen's Hand

By: Amalia Carosella

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With divine beauty comes dangerous power.Helen believed she could escape her destiny and save her people from utter destruction. After defying her family and betraying her intended husband, she found peace with her beloved Theseus, the king of Athens and son of Poseidon.But peace did not last long. Cruelly separated from Theseus by the gods, and... Read more

Mary and the Giant

By: Philip K. Dick

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An early and daring novel from the Hugo Award-winning author about a young woman caught up in the glamor and dangers of 1950s CaliforniaMary Anne Reynolds is young, vulnerable, and looking for love in Pacific Park, California. During her brief affairs with a middle-aged record shop owner and then a black blues singer, she seems to only succeed... Read more

Humpty Dumpty in Oakland

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fascinating glimpse into how Dick's uniquely warped perspective evolved." —Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a tragedy, a dark comedy, and vintage Philip K. Dick.Al Miller is a self-proclaimed nobody, a used-car salesman with a lot full of junkers. His elderly landlord, Jim Fergessen, has decided to retire and has... Read more

Dawn at Emberwilde

By: Sarah E. Ladd

Narrated by: Jude Mason

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Regency England, the same time period and location as Bridgerton and Poldark, Isabel never dared to dream that love could be hers. Now, at the edge of a forest filled with dark secrets, she faces a fateful choice between love and duty.For as long as she can remember, beautiful and free-spirited Isabel has strained against the rules and... Read more