Historical Fiction audiobooks

Tidewater

By: Libbie Hawker

Narrated by: Scott Merriman, Angela Dawe & Luke Daniels

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A clash of desire and hatred, of friendship and fear, of stark ambition and desperate survival.In 1607, three ships arrive on the coast of Virginia to establish Jamestown Colony. Their only hope of survival lies with the Powhatan tribe. John Smith knows this. He knows, too, that the Powhatans would rather see the English starve to death than... Read more

I, Ripper - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five prostitutes in London’s seamy Whitechapel District. He did not just kill—he ripped with a butcher’s glee—and then, after... Read more

Darcy's Ultimatum

By: Jennifer Joy

Narrated by: Emma Lysy

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The date's set. Now, all he needs is a bride...When Fitzwilliam Darcy's arranged life falls to pieces, his father, Mr. George Darcy, gives him an ultimatum: Marry by the end of the London Season or risk disinheritance. Can Darcy cast aside society's frigid attitude toward marriage and find true love? Or will his desire to honor his deceased... Read more

Lawless Trail

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A Family Affair The Traybo brothers have a reputation for being gentleman outlaws-the kind who will make polite chatter as they take your life savings. But Ranger Samuel Burrack has no sympathy for those who show poor manners when it comes to obeying the law. He's traveled as far as the Mexican Badlands to pick up the Traybo brothers' ex-cohort... Read more

The Lady and the Mountain Man

By: Misty M. Beller

Narrated by: Leonor A. Woodworth

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Leah Townsend, a recently orphaned heiress, flees Richmond after discovering her fiancé’s plot to kill her after their wedding. She needs a safe place to hide, and finds herself accepting a newspaper marriage proposal from a God-fearing young rancher in the Montana Territory. But when Leah arrives at the mountain ranch, she learns her intended... Read more

To Win Her Favor

By: Tamera Alexander

Narrated by: Melba Sibrel

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you read one historical novel this year, make it To Win Her Favor. It will linger with you long after the last page.” —Colleen Coble, USA TODAY bestselling author of The House at Saltwater PointA gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. But the one man who could help... Read more

Highlander Redeemed

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotia MacAlpin may be only eighteen years old, but she’s no stranger to trouble. Her latest incident—which resulted in a death and forced her clan into battle—has made her an outcast among her exiled people. Scotia is tired of being ignored and overshadowed by her sister, a gifted Guardian of the Targe, and she’s become hell-bent on destroying... Read more

A Laird for All Time

By: Angeline Fortin

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

After ten long years of education and residency, Dr. Emmy MacKenzie decides that it's time for a much-deserved vacation. But when traveling the British Isles, a twist of fate at the gates of the ancient castle of Duart hurls Emmy more than a hundred years into the past and into the arms of a magnificent Highlander who thinks she is his long-lost... Read more

Cradle to Grave

By: Eleanor Kuhns

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Rees is adjusting to life on his Maine farm in 1797, but he's already hungering for the freedom of the road, and his chance to travel comes sooner than he expects. Lydia has just received a letter from her old friend Mouse, who now lives in the Shaker community in Mount Unity, New York. To Lydia and Rees's astonishment, she's in trouble... Read more

The Forgotten Room

By: Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A LONG-LOST EXPERIMENT OF UNGUESSABLE INTENT
 
A SECRET ROOM, INGENIOUSLY HIDDEN INSIDE A VAST SEACOAST MANSION
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LINCOLN CHILD AT HIS RIVETING BEST

Professor Jeremy Logan (the quirky and charismatic “enigmalogist” who specializes in solving problems of the strange or seemingly supernatural variety) receives an... Read more

The Diamond of Jeru

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep within the jungles of Borneo flows a legendary river of diamonds …
 
An ex-Marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last, all important, lesson.  All are headed up an uncharted river into a... Read more

The Wrath and the Dawn

By: Renée Ahdieh

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to... Read more

The Anchoress

By: Robyn Cadwallader

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells & Steve West

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1255. What could drive a girl on the cusp of womanhood to lock herself away from the world forever?Sarah is just seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a cell that measures only seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth as... Read more

The Black Snow

By: Paul Lynch

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The startling novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who "has a sensational gift for a sentence" (Colum McCann on Red Sky in Morning).

In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all 43 of his cattle... Read more

The Death’s Head Chess Club

By: John Donoghue

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author John Donoghue presents a suspenseful new novel about the improbable friendship between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chess player in Auschwitz.SS Obersturmführer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, so he establishes a... Read more

The American People, Vol. 1

By: Larry Kramer

Narrated by: various narrators, Robertson Dean, Traber Burns...

Length: 38 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited new novel by America’s master playwright and activist—a radical reimagining of our history and our hopes and fearsForty years in the making, The American People embodies Larry Kramer’s vision of his beloved and accursed homeland. As the founder of ACT UP and the author of Faggots and The Normal Heart, Kramer has decisively... Read more

The Fatal Flame

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The final installment in Lyndsay Faye’s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called “solid-gold” and Gillian Flynn declared “spectacular.”
 
No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with a terrible scar, he has avoided flames of all kinds. So when a... Read more

A Dance of Chaos

By: David Dalglish

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish Fear comes from the hands of prophets. . .

The final installment of the Shadowdance series finds Haern the Watcher returning to his beloved city of Veldaren, only to find it has collapsed into chaos. The Sun Guild has conquered the former thief guilds, destroying the peace Haern fought so hard to... Read more

Decorum

By: Kaaren Christopherson

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1890s New York, beautiful, wealthy Francesca Lund is an intriguing prospect for worthy suitors and fortune hunters alike. Recently orphaned, she copes by working with the poor in the city's settlement movement. But a young woman of means can't shun society for long, and Francesca's long-standing acquaintance with dashing Edmund Tracey... Read more

Girl in the Moonlight

By: Charles Dubow

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Indiscretion returns with a scorching tale of love, passion, and obsession, about one man’s all-consuming desire for a beautiful, bewitching, and beguiling woman.Since childhood, Wylie Rose has been drawn to the charming, close-knit Bonet siblings. But none affected him more than the enchanting Cesca, a girl blessed with... Read more

Sometimes, They Want Revenge

By: Jason Wallace

Narrated by: Sam Gonzales

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Union soldiers get lost in a dense fog and captured by Confederate deserters, soon taken to an abandoned cabin for information about a federal payroll shipment, but there is a bloody history to the place, one that involves more secrets of torture than anyone will admit. Sometimes, the dead can do no less than take vengeance into their own... Read more

Lords of An Empty Land

By: Randy Denmon

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days of reconstruction after the Civil War, a wild strip of land in northern Louisiana remained unconquered by troops and untamed by the law. This is the story of the fearless veterans--Union and Confederate--who dared to enter this beautiful but hellish valley. . .and finish what the war started. Lords Of An Empty Land Red River Valley,... Read more

Lie by Moonlight

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Louisa Jane Underwood

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

While investigating a suspicious death, private inquiry agent Ambrose Wells finds himself on the grounds of Aldwick Castle—and in the midst of utter chaos. The ramshackle castle is in flames—and a beautiful woman and four young girls are taking flight on horseback. It turns out that the strong-minded Miss Concordia Glade and her four bright... Read more

The Letter

By: Kathryn Hughes

Narrated by: Rachel Atkins

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Number One bestseller that has captured thousands of hearts worldwide...

Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also... Read more