Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Web

By: Megan Chance

Narrated by: Karen Peakes

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In Victorian New York, seventeen-year-old Grace Knox is tangled in the web of an ancient prophecy.The Fianna, legendary Irish warriors, have been magically called from their undying sleep to aid Ireland in its rebellion against Britain. But the Fianna have awakened in New York alongside their bitter enemies, the Fomori. A prophecy demands that a... Read more

A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Larger-than-life characters, and an epic plot brimming with the energy of his internationally-acclaimed thrillers make Ken Follett's A Place Called Freedom an experience not to be missed. This lush novel-set in 1766 England and America-evokes an era ripe with riot and revolution from the teeming streets of London to the sprawling grounds of a... Read more

What a Devilish Duke Desires

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

WILL A FEW FLIRTATIOUS STEPS Harry Norcliffe never wanted to inherit his beloved uncle's title. The rigidity of the ton, the incessant reminders from his marriage-minded mama that he must settle down with a highborn lady and produce an heir and a spare: it's all such a dreadful bore. So when his mother asks him to take part in a dancing... Read more

What a Reckless Rogue Needs

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

"4 1/2 stars! TOP PICK! In the second of the Sinful Scoundrels series, Dreiling brings the Regency to life in a wonderfully evocative fashion. With believable, intelligent characters--including an honorable rake and a strong-willed lady--this moving tale, fraught with sexual tension, hits just the right notes." --RT Book Reviews on WHAT A... Read more

Thunder of the Gods: Empire VIII

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth book in the Empire sequence takes Centurion Marcus Aquila and his Tungrian legion on a dangerous mission to the heart of the Parthian empire
With Rome no longer safe Marcus and the Tungrians are ordered east, to the desolate border lands where Rome and Parthia have vied for supremacy for centuries.
Ordered to relieve the siege of an... Read more

Deeds of Darkness - The Home Front Detective Series, book 4 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 1916, a young woman named Charlotte Reid is found murdered in a cinema. Harvery Marmion and Joe Keedy are assigned the task of finding the killer who so elusively fled in the dark. Before long, two more victims, of striking similarity but differing backgrounds, are found dead around the city. Meanwhile, miles from home, Marmion's son... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 52 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"A piece of perfect storytelling." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Trust. Betrayal. Revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo is the quintessential masterpiece of Alexandre Dumas. In Edmond Dantes we find an early materialization of the modern superhero. He is a dashing young sailor imprisoned unjustly for treason. While in prison he meets a holy man who... Read more

Cuentos que cuentan los abuelos de mi tierra (abreviado) - Abridged

By: Irma Linares & Alberto Medina

Narrated by: Jesús Isarrarás Gutiérrez, María Cecilia Izarra...

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. Narraciones recuperadas de la tradición oral, bellos episodios del antiguo Michoacán, en nuestro México. Una gota de historia y tradición a fin de recordar paisajes ya extintos, viejas crónicas, nombres de las antiguas deidades y sus sacerdotisas: leyendas, mitos y también cuentos llenos de maravillas y alas...... Read more

The Angel Court Affair

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry's gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, where greed and ambition never sleep, and passion sometimes runs riot. As the nineteenth century draws to a... Read more

The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A lady's mission …Known for her beauty and boldness, Abigail MacGregor must preserve her clan's dangerous secret: that her mother is the true heir to the English Crown. If the wrong people find out, it will mean war for her beloved Scotland. To keep peace, she embarks for London, unprepared for the treachery that awaits—especially from her... Read more

Sweet Water

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about buried secrets and the redemptive power of forgiveness—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.Cassie Simon is a struggling artist living in New York... Read more

Four Nights With the Duke

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series!As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him—so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn.Evander Septimus... Read more

Rescued by a Rogue

By: Cynthia Wright

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Passion, sensitivity, and humor have made Cynthia Wright's first novel a classic historical romance!" ~ RT Book ReviewsA CONFIRMED RAKEIn 1783, the Revolutionary War has finally ended, and Major Alexandre Beauvisage is making his way home, anticipating a return to his former life of reckless pleasure. However, while riding through the... Read more

The Shepherdess of Siena

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised by her aunt and uncle amidst the rolling hills of the Tuscan countryside, young orphan Virginia Tacci has always harbored a deep love for horses—though she knows she may never have the chance to ride. As a shepherdess in sixteenth-century Italy, Virginia’s possibilities are doubly limited by her peasant class and her gender. Yet while she... Read more

The Patriot Threat

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an innovative new approach, Macmillan Audio and Steve Berry have produced an expanded, annotated Writer's Cut audiobook edition of The Patriot Threat.

Critically-acclaimed, award-winning narrator Scott Brick returns as the voice of dauntless protagonist Cotton Malone and New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry has written and recorded... Read more

At the Water's Edge

By: Sara Gruen

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII” (Harper’s Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants

“Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced.”—The Boston Globe

In January 1945, when Madeline Hyde and her... Read more

The World Before Us

By: Aislinn Hunter

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a hauntingly poignant novel about madness, loss, and the ties that bind our past to our present
 
Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare.  She was babysitting a sweet young... Read more

The Strangler Vine

By: M.J. Carter

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the untamed wilds of the nineteenth-century colonial India, a dazzling historical thriller introducing an unforgettable investigative pair.

India, 1837: William Avery is a young solider with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and... Read more

The Witch of Painted Sorrows

By: M. J. Rose

Narrated by: Natalie Ross & Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandrine Salome flees New York for her grandmother's Paris mansion to escape her dangerous husband. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insists it's dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect. Together... Read more

The Diamond Conspiracy

By: Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Having narrowly escaped the electrifying machinations of Thomas Edison, Books and Braun are looking forward to a relaxing and possibly romantic voyage home. But when Braun's emergency signal goes off, all thoughts of recreation vanish. Braun's street-wise team of child informants, the Ministry Seven, is in grave peril, and Books and Braun must... Read more

Empress of the Seven Hills

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther into the untamed world, the Roman Empire has reached its zenith under the rule of the beloved Emperor Trajan. But neither Trajan nor his reign can last forever...




Brash and headstrong, Vix is a celebrated ex-gladiator returned to Rome to make his fortune. The sinuous, elusive Sabina is a senator's... Read more

The Bedding Proposal

By: Tracy Anne Warren

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Leo Byron is bored with the aristocratic company he keeps; he needs a distraction, preferably in the form of a beautiful new female companion. So when he sets eyes on fascinating and scandalous divorcée Lady Thalia Lennox, he's determined to make her intimate acquaintance. But the spirited woman seems to have no intention of accepting his... Read more

Highland Sparks

By: Keira Montclair

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwyneth of the Cunninghams has one goal: to kill Duff Erskine, the corrupt merchant who murdered her father and brother. The last thing she needs is a distraction, but fate deals her one in the form of Logan Ramsay, a maddeningly handsome Highlander who waylays her mission. Logan and his brother-in-law seek her help in rescuing two bairns and... Read more

Almost a Hero

By: Ken McCoy

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Billie Challinor's mother dies during an air raid, but the child grows up confident that in her jazz musician father Chas she has the best dad in the world. Seeking refuge from the London Blitz by moving to Leeds, kindly landlady Liz Morris befriends them: the scarred, wisecracking man, who isn't afraid to overstep the mark if the cause is a... Read more