Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Lady of Misrule

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

I saw her file it away: a good Catholic girl come to supervise her in her detention. Every girl in England, now, under the circumstances, made sure to be a good Catholic girl. Except her, of course. And, if only she knew it, me.

Escorting 'nine days queen' Lady Jane Grey across the Tower of London from throne room into imprisonment is Elizabeth... Read more

Five Wicked Kisses

By: Anthea Lawson

Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

To pay a debt, Juliana Tate must accept five kisses from the Earl of Eastbrook...but she never suspects how delicious each kiss will be...This Regency-set short story by USA Today best-selling, RITA-nominated author Anthea Lawson is an hour and 40 minutes long.Heat level: Warm. Suggestive situations, kisses. Read more

Love Me Tender

By: Anne Bennett

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartrending tale of love and tragedy during The Birmingham Blitz. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves. For Kathy O’Malley, life has not been easy with her husband, Barry, out of work and with two children to feed. Then when war breaks out in 1939, many of the local men enlist, including Barry, leaving the... Read more

Out of the Dark

By: Adèle Geras

Narrated by: Ben Allen

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain's family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to... Read more

The Unlikely Lady

By: Valerie Bowman

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Certain that no man wants a bluestocking for a wife, Miss Jane Lowndes is careful to wield her books and her spectacles as weapons against matrimony. Convincing her ambitious mama that she's content to stay a spinster is easier said than done, however. It's a good thing that Jane is not above a bit of manufactured scandal if it will keep her... Read more

Church of Marvels

By: Leslie Parry

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all.New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself,... Read more

The Mapmaker's Children

By: Sarah McCoy

Narrated by: Abby Craden, Cassandra Campbell & Sarah McCoy

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Baker's Daughter and Marilla of Green Gables, a story of family, love, and courage

When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad’s leading mapmakers,... Read more

Valley of the Shadow

By: Ralph Peters

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with the third installment in his award-winning series on the Civil War.In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, DC, to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864... Read more

The Dean’s December

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Corde is a professor of journalism and dean of students at a Chicago university. He and his wife, Minna, travel to Bucharest, Romania, where Minna's mother has suffered a stroke and is lying semiconscious in the local state hospital. As Corde tries to adapt to life in his mother-in-law's small apartment and cope with her relations and... Read more

A God in Ruins

By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 16 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, "one of the best novels I've read this century" (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war.

"He had been reconciled to death during the war and then suddenly the war was over and there was a next day and a next... Read more

The Years of Rice and Salt

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 25 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the fourteenth century, and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur—the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? How would the world have changed? This is a look at the history that... Read more

What a Lass Wants

By: Rowan Keats

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Highlands of Scotland, danger and desire can be found anywhere—but finding them may lead to something much more perilous and passionate than anyone can handle.



Lady-in-waiting Caitrina de Montfort is in a terrible bind. With her sister held captive by a henchman of Edward Longshanks, she has been forced to spy on the dowager queen of... Read more

The House of Hawthorne

By: Erika Robuck

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl, comes a brilliant novel about a literary couple. The unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celebrated novelist, and Sophia Peabody, the invalid artist, was a true union of passion and intellect.…Beset by crippling headaches from a young age and endowed with a talent for... Read more

Not Always a Saint

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Adventure, passion and pure reading pleasure!" --Jo Beverley After the death of his sweetheart when he was at university, Daniel Herbert buried his grief in medical studies and his passion for healing. Viewed as a saint by those who know him, in his own mind he never quite manages to live up to his own high standards. Most men would be thrilled... Read more

Wings of the Dove - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Prunella Scales

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically acclaimed film. The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically... Read more

Far from the Madding Crowd (Movie Tie-in Edition)

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous.

Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy’s great novels. The strong-minded Bathsheba Everdene—and the devoted shepherd, obsessed farmer, and... Read more

The Last Bookaneer

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Simon Vance & JD Jackson

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“This swashbuckling tale of greed and great literature will remind you why Pearl is the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers. His latest is guaranteed to delight lovers of history and mystery.”—Library Journal (starred review)

book'a-neer' (bŏŏk'kå-nēr'), n. a literary pirate; an individual capable of doing all that must be... Read more

Early Warning

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America

Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who... Read more

The Vorrh

By: Brian Catling

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.” 

Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps endless—forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and... Read more

The Duke and the Lady in Red

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd & James Adams

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today BestsellerSparks fly in the finale of the Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James Place series, as the last wicked rogue meets his match.When Rosalind Sharpe gains the attention of the deliciously wicked Duke of Avendale, she’s torn between her distracting attraction to the notorious rogue and the knowledge that he—rich as Croesus—is the... Read more

A Scoundrel by Moonlight

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman seeks revenge by posing as a housemaid and taking down the rogue that broke her sister's heart in this character-driven, sinful, historical romance.

A woman seeks revenge by posing as a housemaid and taking down the rogue that broke her sister's heart in this character-driven, sinful, historical romance. Justice. That's all Nell Trim... Read more

The Scoundrel and the Debutante

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Julia London strikes gold again. Warm, witty and decidedly wicked-great entertainment." -New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens on The Devil Takes a Bride The dust of the Cabot sisters' shocking plans to rescue their family from certain ruin may have settled, but Prudence Cabot is left standing in the rubble of scandal. Now... Read more

Liar’s Bench

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Secret Life of Bees, Liar's Bench is an atmospheric, compulsively readable tale full of heart and history, set in 1970s Kentucky and exploring civil rights and family secrets.In 1972 on Mudas Summers' seventeenth birthday, her beloved mama, Ella, is found hanging from the rafters of their home. Most people in... Read more

Soul of a Highlander

By: Melissa Mayhue

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine years ago, Faerie magic saved Mairi MacKiernan at the cost of her dreams of happiness, snatching her from her life in 1272 and depositing her in the twenty-first century. Now, she must save the last Daughter of the MacKiernan family . . . who was murdered in 1295. Transported back in time at her request, Mairi finds herself captured by the... Read more