Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Forbidden Orchid

By: Sharon Biggs Waller

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The adventures of a British girl in China, hunting for the orchid that will save her family.

Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of ten sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861. The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually off adventuring through China, more myth than man. Then disaster strikes: Mr.... Read more

High Dive

By: Jonathan Lee

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. High Dive not only takes us inside this audacious assassination attempt—a decisive act of violence on the world stage—but also... Read more

The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace

By: Bec McMaster

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In a Victorian London ruled by the blood-drinking elite, Perry Lowell is a logical and accomplished Nighthawk: a rogue blue blood who tracks murderers and thieves for the Guild. So when she and her charming but reckless partner, Garrett, are charged with finding a missing theater starlet, it should be a simple solve.



But with an entire theater of... Read more

Noonday

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville...

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A new novel from the Booker Prize–winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz and reaffirms her place as a top-ranked British novelistLondon, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals in order... Read more

Texas Heat

By: Fern Michaels

Narrated by: Erin Yuen

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie, the daughter of Moss and Bill Coleman, has invited all the passionate family, plus several hundred guests, to a July 4th barbecue to celebrate the new sense of family pride she's determined to forge. But whether its ambition, jealousy, rivalry, or passion, each Coleman has a drama of his or her own to face, and each will feed the flames... Read more

To Davy Jones Below

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In late 1926, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. Daisy and Alec are accompanied by Daisy’s childhood friend Phillip Petrie, his wife, Gloria, and Gloria’s father, American millionaire industrialist Caleb P. Arbuckle, and all are... Read more

An Uncertain Choice

By: Jody Hedlund

Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Due to her parents’ promise at her birth, Lady Rosemarie has been prepared to become a nun on the day she turns eighteen. Then, shortly before her birthday, a friend of her father’s enters the kingdom and proclaims her parents’ will left a second choice—if Rosemarie can marry before the eve of her eighteenth year, she will be exempt from the... Read more

The Return of the Witch

By: Paula Brackston

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Paula Brackston's debut novel, The Witch's Daughter, was the little book that could--with a captivating story, remarkable heroine, and eye-catching package, it has now netted over 200,000 copies in all formats. Now Paula returns with its sequel The Return of the Witch, another bewitching tale of love and magic, featuring her signature blend of... Read more

Sisi

By: Allison Pataki

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sweeping historical novel that tells the dramatic story of Sisi, the empress of Austria-Hungary who fought for her family, her people, and her empire in a changing world

“Irresistible—completely impossible to put down . . . Allison Pataki reimagines the reign of the nineteenth-century Princess Diana in this stunning... Read more

Ruined

By: Jess Michaels

Narrated by: Danielle O'Farrell

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A sensual historical romance from USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Jess MichaelsWhen Claire found out a devastating secret about her family, the famous Woodley clan, she ran straight into the arms of a criminal and disappeared for years. But now she’s desperate to escape his clutches and get back what he’s stolen from her: her child. She... Read more

Map of Fates

By: Maggie Hall

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Da Vinci Code–style thriller for teens? Yes please.”—TeenVogue.com

Two weeks.

That’s how long it took for Avery West’s ordinary life to change forever. In two weeks, she discovered she was heiress to a powerful secret society known as the Circle, learned her mother was taken hostage by the Circle’s enemies, and fell for a boy she's not... Read more

The Bronze Horseman

By: Paullina Simons

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 30 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside... Read more

Bloodlines

By: T. K. Roxborogh

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale of love, loss and revenge set amidst the turmoil of Scotland after Shakespeare’s Macbeth.The rebellion is over, Scotland has its rightful king, and the battlefields lie still—for now. Fleance, son of Banquo, has brought a new dawn to Scotland, and in the process become a very different man from the lowly huntsman who rode north to... Read more

Burn Baby Burn

By: Meg Medina

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets.... Read more

A Tyranny of Petticoats

By: Jessica Spotswood (Editor)

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.Criss-cross America—on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains—from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of... Read more

Speakers of the Dead

By: J. Aaron Sanders

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Lambda Award Winner 

Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.

The year is 1843; the place: New York City.... Read more

Work like Any Other

By: Virginia Reeves

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Roscoe T. Martin, the son of an Alabama coal foreman, set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training, his life’s work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father’s failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, to rescue the farm... Read more

Timetable of Death - The Railway Detective, book 12 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Nick McArdle

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of Cedric Norton, a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate. Read more

The Trouble with being Wicked

By: Emma Locke

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

HE PUT HER ON A PEDESTALWhen Celeste Gray arrives in the sleepy village of Brixcombe-on-the-Bay, she thinks she's one step closer to leaving her notorious past behind. She even suspects the deliciously handsome - if somewhat stuffy - viscount next door is developing a tendre for her. That is, until the day Ashlin Lancester learns she's not the... Read more

The Devil You Know

By: K. J. Parker

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All he wants is twenty more years to complete his life’s work. After that, he really doesn’t care.

But the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the philosopher is Saloninus–the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the greatest liar,... Read more

Tyrant of the Mind

By: Priscilla Royal

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1271, death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, and her subinfirmarian, Sister Anne, to save the child with their prayers and healing talents. Escorting them to the... Read more

Whirlwind

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 52 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping epic novel of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellTehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that... Read more

Half a Lifelong Romance

By: Eileen Chang

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of twentieth-century China’s greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution comes an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai.Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory where she meets Shijun, the son of wealthy merchants. Despite family complications, they fall in love and begin to dream of a shared life... Read more

Time to Depart

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Balbinus Pius, the most notorious gangster in Emperor Vespasian’s Rome, has been convicted of a capital crime at last. A quirk of Roman law, however, allows citizens condemned to death “time to depart” and find exile outside the empire. Now, as every hoodlum in Rome scrambles to take over Balbinus’ operations, private eye Marcus Didius Falco has... Read more