Historical Fiction audiobooks

Poland

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 30 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically divided. With an inspiring tradition of resistance to brutal invaders, from the barbarians... Read more

The Fires of Spring

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 24 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate early novel from James A. Michener, now remembered as the beloved master of the historical epic, The Fires of Spring unfolds with the bittersweet drama of a boy’s perilous journey into manhood. David Harper is an orphan, seemingly doomed to loneliness and poverty. As an adolescent con artist and petty thief, David spends his days... Read more

The Lost Heiress

By: Roseanna M. White

Narrated by: Liz Pearce

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Roseanna White Debuts Sparkling British Historical Romance Brook Eden has never known where she truly belongs. Though raised in the palace of Monaco, she's British by birth and was brought to the Grimaldis under suspicious circumstances as a babe. When Brook's friend Justin uncovers the fact that Brook is likely a missing heiress from Yorkshire,... Read more

The Courtesan

By: Alexandra Curry

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing debut novel inspired by the life of the legendary Qing dynasty courtesan, Sai Jinhua. The year is 1881, the era of Chinas humiliation at the hands of imperialist Europe. Seven-year-old Jinhua is left alone and unprotected, her life transformed after her mandarin fathers summary execution for the crime of speaking the truth. As an... Read more

The Highlander's Bride

By: Amanda Forester

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Highland warrior Gavin Patrick wants is to get back to his native Scotland. Before Gavin leaves the battlefield, he's given a final mission - escort Lady Marie Colette to her fiance. Under no circumstances is he to lay hands on the beautiful heiress...no matter how desperate the temptation. Forced to pose as a married couple to escape from... Read more

The Telling

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take a couple of weeks, and then she'll be home again, and back to normal. But from the moment she steps through the front door, Rachel feels that the house contains more than she had expected: along with... Read more

The Girl From Krakow

By: Alex Rosenberg

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store—marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live.... Read more

Dark Places

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

At the tail end of 1967, the Parker family once again finds it impossible to hide from a world spinning out of control. Fourteen-year-old Top still can’t fit in with their Center Springs, Texas, community, and his near-twin cousin Pepper does the only thing she can conceive to escape her own demons: she joins the Flower Children flocking to... Read more

The Gilded Hour

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 31 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love.The year is 1883, and in New York City it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the... Read more

Venus in Copper

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rome, AD 71. Marcus Didius Falco is desperate to leave the notorious Lautumiae prison—though being bailed out by his mother is a slight indignity.Things go from bad to worse when a group of nouveau riche ex-slaves hire him to outwit a fortune-hunting redhead, whose husbands have a habit of dying accidentally, leaving him up against a female... Read more

The Star Garden

By: Nancy E. Turner

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of These Is My Words comes an exhilarating followup to the beloved Sarah’s Quilt. In the latest diary entries of pioneer woman Sarah Agnes Prine, Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah’s extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory.Winter 1906. Nearing bankruptcy after surviving drought,... Read more

The Secret Life of Josephine

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Margot Dionne

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history: Josephine Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon. Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign... Read more

Jade Dragon Mountain

By: Elsa Hart

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.

Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with ... Read more

Last Chance Cowboys

By: Anna Schmidt

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught between a greedy corporation and a desperate love of the land, Maria Porterfield barely has time to mourn her father's death. If her family is to survive, it'll be up to her to take charge - but she can't do it alone. When a mysterious drifter rides into town, the handsome cowboy seems like an answer to her prayers. But Chet isn't... Read more

The Rogue You Know

By: Shana Galen

Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Gideon Harrow has spent his life in London's dark underworld, and he wants out. A thief and a con, he plans one last heist to finally win his freedom. But when everything goes wrong, he finds himself at the tender mercies of one of Society's most untouchable women—Lady Susanna Derring.




Susanna has spent her life in London's glittering ton under... Read more

The Highwayman

By: Kerrigan Byrne

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of Victorian London's wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who've wronged him . . . and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh... Read more

Only a Kiss

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over …

Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford Hall, their home in Cornwall. The new owner has failed... Read more

The Memory Weaver

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Erin Moon & Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's... Read more

Girl Waits with Gun

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1914, collisions between motor cars and horse-drawn carriages are an everyday occurrence on the streets of Paterson, New Jersey. But when an out-of-control driver smashes into a buggy driven by Constance, Norma, and Fleurette Kopp, their lives change forever. Constance, the oldest, demands payment for the damages, but quickly realizes that... Read more

Game of Queens

By: India Edghill

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating, Soneela Nankani, Kevin Or...

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Red Tent and The Dovekeepers, India Edghill breathes new life into the biblical story of Vashti and Esther with her signature historical richness, epic scope, and sweeping romance. You may know part of the story already, but you only know what history has passed along. The story of how Vashti, Queen of Queens, the most beautiful... Read more

The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O'Clock Lady

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Peggity Price

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert transports readers to the summer of 1934, when a sensational murder shakes up the small Southern town of Darling, Alabama-and pulls in the ladies of the Darling Dahlias' garden club, who never let the grass grow under their feet when there's a mystery to solve . The eleven o'clock lady has... Read more

The Courtesan's Book of Secrets

By: Georgie Lee

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncovered: a list of noblemen's names--each one guilty of treason To save his family legacy, Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan's infamous register. No one can ever know how his father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe's way-the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane. In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia made an unbeatable... Read more

Texas

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Larry McKeever

Length: 64 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Texas. A land of sprawling diversity and unparalleled... Read more

Taken

By: Angeline Fortin

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated actress Scarlett Thomas never wanted fame—that was her parents' dream. Now she's ready to make big changes, but she never could have imagined how big those changes would turn out to be. Returning to the medieval Dunskirk Castle, where she filmed the Puppet War trilogy, she encounters an old Scotsman named Donell, who directs her to an... Read more