Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & Kathleen McInerney

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting, contemporary love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Conversion


It’s July in New York City, and aspiring filmmaker Wes Auckerman has just arrived to start his summer term at NYU. While shooting a séance at a psychic’s in the East Village, he meets a mysterious, intoxicatingly beautiful girl named Annie.

As they start... Read more

Finale

By: Thomas Mallon

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Watergate comes a galvanizing new novel about the tumultuous administration of the most consequential and enigmatic president of modern times—Ronald Reagan.Finale takes listeners to the political gridiron of Washington in 1986, the wealthiest enclaves of Southern California, and the volcanic landscape of... Read more

The Storms of War

By: Kate Williams

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Atonement, Birdsong, and Downton Abbey, the first of three novels about a privileged British family enduring the trials of World War I, from New York Times bestselling author Kate WilliamsIn the idyllic early summer of 1914, life is good for the de Witt family. Rudolf and Verena are planning the wedding of their daughter Emmeline,... Read more

Highland Victory

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

After battling for their lives in the Highland War Games, Ceana MacRae and Macrath Mor were named Prince and Princess of Sìtheil. But even after accepting their crowns, they are not out of the woods. They've vowed to take down the mighty and treacherous council only to unearth an even deadlier secret: the Corridor of the Ancients, where their... Read more

Corridors of the Night

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames River Police, do desperate battle with two obsessed... Read more

Highlander Undone

By: Connie Brockway

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

While recovering at his uncle’s estate from wounds sustained in the Sudan, Jack Cameron—a loyal Scottish captain in the British army—is haunted by the words of a dying officer: one of Her Majesty’s Black Dragoons is aiding the slavers they were sent to suppress. But how will he find the traitor without sending the culprit to ground? He finds a... Read more

The Cabin

By: Donna Mabry

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On Nancy's 18th birthday, her father tells her she must marry her cousin Abner, the town's blacksmith. He's already married to three other women, one of them her younger sister. Nancy runs away and gets lost in the woods. Hungry and cold, she finds a seemingly deserted cabin and takes shelter. When she meets Jake, the man who owns it, she must... Read more

Saving Sophie

By: Ronald H. Balson

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ronald H. Balson, author of Once We Were Brothers, Saving Sophie is the powerful story of the lengths a father will go through to protect his daughter and an action-packed thriller that will take you on an unforgettable journey of murder and deception, testing the bonds of family and love.

Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from... Read more

A Study in Death

By: Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland, 1831. After a tumultuous courtship complicated by three deadly inquiries, Lady Kiera Darby is thrilled to have found both an investigative partner and a fiancé in Sebastian Gage. But with her well-meaning—and very pregnant—sister planning on making their wedding the event of the season, Kiera could use a respite from the impending... Read more

The Scribe

By: Matthew Guinn

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A reckoning with the persistence of evil in post–Civil War AtlantaAfter leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta’s 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta’s first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they’re assigned is... Read more

The Outlandish Companion

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Davina Porter & Susan Lyons

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year 1743-and into a world that threatens life, limb,... Read more

Lord Grayson's Bride

By: Tarah

Narrated by: Scott

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

She can’t allow his love for her to destroy him...When Nicholas Spencer, Earl of Grayson, returns to claim the woman he loves, Lady Josephine Knightly isn’t willing to forgive him for abandoning her six years ago. But neither can she resist the man he’s become.Two days after Josephine signs the marriage contract she discovers a nasty secret that... Read more

The Orphans of Halfpenny Street

By: Cathy Sharp

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Call the Midwife meets Dr Barnardo’s in this gritty drama that will appeal to fans of Katie Flynn. St Saviour’s will never turn a homeless child away… When there is nowhere else to turn, St Saviour’s will give them hope… It’s 1947 and London’s East End is still a bombed-out landscape. Sister Beatrice, who runs the... Read more

Seasons of Change

By: Elizabeth Johns

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Rhys Godfrey, Lord Vernon and Lady Beatrice Chalcroft, daughter to the Duke of Loring, had been betrothed since childhood in an arrangement made by their fathers. Unlike most arranged marriages, Vernon had loved Beatrice since the first time he saw her. The season they should have been married found the relationship severed by jealousy and... Read more

The Drifters

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 35 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this triumphant bestseller, renowned novelist James A. Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of disenchanted youth during the Vietnam era. Against exotic backdrops including Spain, Morocco, and Mozambique, he weaves together the heady dreams, shocking tribulations, and heartwarming bonds of six young runaways cast adrift in the... Read more

Journey

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"The best novel of James Michener's career." Milwaukee Journal
Gold fever swept the world in 1897. The chance for untold riches sent thousands of dreamers on a perilous trek toward their fortunes, failures, or deaths. Follow four English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they misguidedly haul their dreams across cruel Canadian terrain toward... Read more

A Woman of Note

By: Carol M. Cram

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music—a secret she keeps from both her lascivious manager and her resentful mother. She meets and loves Amelia Mason, a dazzling American singer... Read more

The Sea Keeper's Daughter

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times author of Before We Were Yours.

From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt’s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny.

Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The... Read more

Trigger Mortis

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: David Oyelowo

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Incorporating original, never-before-published material from 007 creator Ian Fleming, New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz returns literary legend James Bond to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating and dashing thriller.The world's most famous spy, James Bond, has just returned victorious from his showdown with Auric Goldfinger in... Read more

Sayonara

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman. Stationed in the exotic Far East, Major Lloyd Gruver considers himself lucky. The son of a... Read more

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of his beloved early bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener crafts a tale of the American men who fought the Korean War, detailing their exploits in the air as well as their lives on the ground. Young and innocent, they arrive in a place they have barely ever heard of, on a ship massive enough to carry planes and... Read more

Return to Paradise

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

James A. Michener, the master of historical fiction, revisits the scenes of his first great work, Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once again evokes the magic of the extraordinary isles in the Pacific—from Fiji and Guadalcanal to New Zealand and... Read more

The Covenant

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 58 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

James A. Michener’s masterly chronicle of South Africa is an epic tale of adventurers, scoundrels, and ministers, the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of a vast wilderness. From the Java-born Van Doorn family tree springs two great branches: one nurtures lush vineyards, the other settles the interior to become the first... Read more

Caribbean

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 32 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands. From the 1310 conquest of the Arawaks by cannibals to the decline of the Mayan empire, from Columbus’s arrival to buccaneer Henry Morgan’s notorious reign, from... Read more