Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Incarnations

By: Susan Barker

Narrated by: Timo Chen & Joy Osmanski

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

* New York Times Notable Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize *

Hailed by The New York Times for its “wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language” and “mesmerizing storytelling,” The Incarnations is a “brilliant, mind-expanding,... Read more

A Pattern of Lies

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A horrific explosion at a gunpowder mill sends Bess Crawford to war-torn France to keep a deadly pattern of lies from leading to more deaths, in this compelling and atmospheric mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Question of Honor and An Unwilling Accomplice.An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has... Read more

Banquo's Son

By: T. K. Roxborogh

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Fleance is the son of Scottish thane Banquo, friend and then victim of the ruthless Macbeth. Ten years have passed since his father’s brutal murder and still Fleance lives in hiding in the woods of northern England—his identity cloaked, his birthright denied. With sweet, beautiful Rosie by his side, he has settled into a simple life rather than... Read more

The Harlot Countess

By: Joanna Shupe

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

FACT: Drawing under a male pseudonym, Maggie is known as Lemarc. Her (his!) favorite object of ridicule: Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester. He's a rising star in Parliament—and a former confidant and love interest of Maggie's who believed a rumor that vexes her to this day.




FICTION: Maggie is the half-Irish Harlot who seduced her best friend's... Read more

The Girl from the Garden

By: Parnaz Foroutan

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An extraordinary new writer makes her literary debut with this suspenseful novel of desire, obsession, power and vulnerability, in which a crisis of inheritance leads to the downfall of a wealthy family of Persian Jews in early twentieth-century Iran.For all his wealth and success, Asher Malacouti—the head of a prosperous Jewish family living in... Read more

Legacy of Kings

By: Eleanor Herman

Narrated by: Jennifer Grace & Graham Halstead

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains, and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. A time when cities burn, and in their ashes, empires rise. Alexander, Macedon's sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world, but finds... Read more

The House of Shattered Wings

By: Aliette de Bodard

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Multi-award-winning author Aliette de Bodard brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy.In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians’ War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The grands magasins have been... Read more

Pillsbury Crossing

By: Donna Mabry

Narrated by: Susan Hanfield

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma is nine on the day they meet. Akecheta is twelve, and already the man of his house. He saves her life and tells her she belongs to him. As they grow up together on the frontier surrounding Manhattan, Kansas, he teaches her how to fish, hunt, and how to survive. She teaches him how to trust and how to share the burdens of his shameful past.... Read more

The Mayfair Mystery

By: Frank Richardson

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a... Read more

Called Back

By: Hugh Conway

Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a blind man who stumbles across a murder. As he has not seen anything, the assassins let him go, but he finds it is impossible to walk away from murder. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing... Read more

The Perfect Crime

By: Israel Zangwill

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most... Read more

Sealed With a Loving Kiss

By: Ellie Dean

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping new Second World War novel from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of While We're Apart.

After the death of her parents in a bombing raid, Mary Jones discovers a secret in the pages of father’s diaries. Her search for the truth brings her to Cliffehaven on the south coast.

Here, she finds work at the Kodak factory, sifting... Read more

The Last of the Mohicans

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1757. The fate of North America is in the hands of the French, the British, and the Native Americans. Each party weaves its warlike path in this tapestry of adventure. Meet Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingatchgook - each a stealthy iron-browed warrior of the mystifying forest. Discover the unscrupulous and sinister Magua, banished and determined... Read more

Reawakened

By: Colleen Houck

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole & Mark Deakins

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller! 
 
From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Curse, comes an epic Egyptian-inspired adventure about two star-crossed teens who must battle mythical forces and ancient curses on a journey with more twists and turns than the Nile itself!
 
   When seventeen-year-old Lilliana Young enters the... Read more

What the Moon Said

By: Gayle Rosengren

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to her superstitious mother, Esther knows some tricks for avoiding bad luck: toss salt over your left shoulder, never button your shirt crooked, and avoid black cats. But even luck can't keep her family safe from the Great Depression. When Pa loses his job, Esther's family leaves their comfy Chicago life behind for a farm in Wisconsin.... Read more

The Dressmaker

By: Rosalie Ham

Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving
 
After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only... Read more

The Uninvited

By: Cat Winters

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of In the Shadow of Blackbirds comes a stunning new novel—a masterfully crafted story of love, loss, and second chances. Set during the fear and panic of the Great Influenza of 1918, The Uninvited is part gothic ghost-story, part psychological thriller, perfect for those who loved The Thirteenth Tale by Diane... Read more

Wait Until Midnight

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Louisa Jane Underwood

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The sins of Adam Hardesty's past have been discovered. And if he does not hunt down his blackmailer quickly, his secrets will be revealed to all . But there is an obstacle in his way: sensation novelist Caroline Fordyce. She knows that Adam's quest for justice could shatter her own reputation-and mire her family in lethal scandal. And she fears... Read more

Love Will Grow

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Elizabeth Bennet befriends Miss Anne de Bourgh, a wealthy heiress. Elizabeth has no fortune, no connections—nothing to recommend her except her wit and charm and her good nature. She agrees to aid Anne in her quest to secure a marriage proposal from her haughty, aristocratic cousin, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.How could Elizabeth know the... Read more

Knight Errant

By: J.L. Jarvis

Narrated by: Jeff Leslie

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Their greatest battle of all will be against their own hearts.Caught in a thunderstorm, cyclist Violet Quinn takes shelter in an ancient stone chamber. But a lightning strike sends her back in time to the frenzy of the Scottish Reformation. Now her life is at risk.Enigmatic knight errant Robert de Mallay is on the most important mission of his... Read more

A Prince Without a Kingdom

By: Timothée de Fombelle

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rich in mysteries, enlivened by surprises, and suffused with suspense. It is so beautifully wrought, it reminds us why we love to read, and there can be no higher praise." —Booklist (starred review)Vango has been in danger for as long as he can remember. The second half of Timothée de Fombelle’s epic adventure follows its dashing hero through... Read more

A Heart's Home

By: Colleen Coble

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Emmie’s hope for a life with Isaac is overshadowed by a tragic loss at Fort Phil Kearny.Isaac Liddle is keen to marry Emmie, and she knows she shouldn’t hide her pregnancy from him any longer. But before she can tell him her secret, a widower friend asks the impossible of Emmie: Will she honor her promise to his dead wife by marrying him to care... Read more

The Lure of the Moonflower

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal.
 
Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower... Read more

Mexico

By: James A. Michener

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 23 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two... Read more