Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shivaree

By: J.D. Horn

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As the Korean War ends, army nurse Corinne Ford returns stateside to live in the Mississippi town of Conroy with her new fiancé, Private First Class Elijah Dunne. She wonders if their love is strong enough to overshadow their differences, but upon her arrival to Elijah's backwoods stomping grounds, she understands that culture shock is the least... Read more

I Was Amelia Earhart

By: Jane Mendelsohn

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.

There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . .

There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to... Read more

To Love and to Cherish

By: Leigh Greenwood

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Laurie Spencer said 'I do,' she never realized she'd be trading one pair of shackles for another - until her husband's unexpected death leaves her with an opportunity to escape her controlling family for good. Determined to be independent, Laurie approaches sexy rancher Jared Smith with an offer she hopes he can't refuse. When unconsciously... Read more

The Conjurer's Riddle

By: Andrea Cremer

Narrated by: Dave Clark

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte leads her group of exiles west, plunging into a wild world of shady merchants and surly rivermen on the way to New Orleans. But as Charlotte learns more about the revolution she has championed, she wonders if she's on the right side after all. Charlotte and her friends get to know the mystical New Orleans bayou, and deep into the... Read more

Along the Infinite Sea

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Each of the three Schuyler sisters has her own world-class problems, but in the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own. When Pepper fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction, she thinks she's finally found a way to take care of herself and the baby she carries, the result of an affair... Read more

To Have and to Hold

By: Leigh Greenwood

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Colby Blaine has been a loner his whole life. And he isn't about to change now. But that doesn't mean he can ignore people in trouble. When he rides up to an inexperienced wagon train under attack, he doesn't hesitate to jump into the fray. Naomi Kessling is certainly grateful to Colby for saving her family and agreeing to lead their train to... Read more

The Betrayal

By: J.L. Jarvis

Narrated by: Jeff Leslie

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Promise of LoveOn their last night together, Highland soldier Duncan MacDonell swore to love his Jenny, and she him, giving themselves to each other with only the Highland moon as their witness.A Father's DemandJenny’s father arranged a marriage for her, and made sure that she could not say no. She had never dreamt of disobeying her beloved... Read more

Forever and Always

By: Leigh Greenwood

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Logan Holstock, oldest of three brothers orphaned on the Santa Fe Trail, has always been content knowing his brothers were alive and happy somewhere in the vast and brutal West - until he learns he may be dying. Certain he has little time left, Logan sets out to find them and end his days near a family he's never known...and stumbles across a... Read more

The Gold Eaters

By: Ronald Wright

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances,... Read more

Poseidon’s Gold

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome—but his apartment has been ransacked. And although he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only client is his mother, who insists that he find out whether the scandalous claims against his dead... Read more

One Man's Flag

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to Jack of Spies, Soho's lead Spring '14 title. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman who moonlights as a spy for His Majesty's Navy, takes readers on an epic adventure across the world on the eve of World War One. India, 1915. Jack McColl is on a reconnaissance mission to better defend the British Empire against Bengali terrorists... Read more

Tightrope

By: Simon Mawer

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This captivating historical thriller brings back Marian Sutro, ex–special operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post–World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties.As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian... Read more

The Muralist

By: B. A. Shapiro

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger come a thrilling new novel of art, history, love, and politics that traces the life and mysterious disappearance of a brilliant young artist on the eve of World War II. Alizee Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) vanishes in New York City... Read more

The Girl From the Train

By: Irma Joubert

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Auschwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks.As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl’s unscheduled train reaches the bomb first.Gretl is... Read more

When Nietzsche Wept

By: Irvin D. Yalom

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe’s greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the... Read more

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

By: Oscar Hijuelos

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Hijuelos was fascinated by the... Read more

Sword of Honor

By: David Kirk

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL SWORD OF HONOR, DAVID KIRK CONTINUES THE SAGA OF MUSASHI MIYAMOTO, THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN JAPANESE HISTORY, AS HE JOURNEYS TO THE ANCIENT CITY OF KYOTO TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE AND HIS IDEALS.

Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto... Read more

Maximus

By: Richard L. Black

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping Christian fiction epic, Maximus is part mystery, part detective story, and filled with intrigue.General Maximus is a battle-weary commander of one of Rome’s finest legions. When he returns from a long, bloody campaign, he finds himself questioning his life. Word has reached Rome of a man named Jesus, who is causing a stir in faraway... Read more

Seeking Redemption

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Jack Wynters

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Are all sins forgivable? At nineteen, Lady Lydia Markham was beautiful, bookish and naïve.  Her sheltered, loveless upbringing had not educated her in the ways of the beau monde, or the men who inhabited it.  So when she met Nathaniel, Lord Fairmont, it was all too easy to be swept away by his rakish charm and good looks. She was devastated... Read more

Gone to Sea in a Bucket

By: David Black

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn’t it.Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour’s first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour’s inexperience leads to a damning... Read more

The Arnifour Affair

By: Gregory Harris

Narrated by: Edward Hibbert

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When a carriage bearing the Arnifour family crest-a vulture devouring a slaughtered lamb-arrives at the Kensington home of Colin Pendragon, it is an ominous beginning to a perplexing new case. Lady Arnifour's husband has been beaten to death and her niece, Elsbeth, left in a coma. Is the motive passion, revenge, or something even more sinister?... Read more

Reforming the Viscount

By: Annie Burrows

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

To refuse him twice would be madness! Viscount Rothersthorpe can't tear his eyes from Lydia Morgan any more than he can calm the raging fury coursing through his veins. Is there no end to the irony? Come to town to find a wife, only to be taunted by the past? Furtive glances across the ballroom are not helping to ease Lydia's state of shock--... Read more

To Sin with a Viking

By: Michelle Willingham

Narrated by: Deirdre O'Connell

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

PLAYING WITH FIRE! Caragh O Brannon defended herself bravely when the enemy landed-- only, now she finds herself alone with one very angry Viking Styr Hardrata sailed to Ireland intending to trade, never expecting to find himself held captive in chains by a beautiful Irish maiden. The fiercely handsome warrior both terrifies and allures Caragh,... Read more

The Outlandish Companion Volume Two

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Diana Gabaldon & Davina Porter

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a decade ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of things to come. Since that publication, there have been four more Outlander novels, a side series, assorted... Read more