Historical Fiction audiobooks

Prudence

By: Gail Carriger

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From NYT bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a witty adventure about a young woman with rare supernatural abilities travels to India for a spot of tea and adventure and finds she's bitten off more than she can chew.

When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any... Read more

A Dangerous Place

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . .  In Jacqueline Winspear‘s  powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies,... Read more

As the Crow Flies

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.

Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit... Read more

Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories

By: Susan Gabriel

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This delightful collection of short stories from bestselling author Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 and Amazon #1 bestseller), is rich in humor, as well as mystery and meaning.Whether white or black, living or dead, down home country or upscale urban, Gabriel’s characters are quirky, poignant and... Read more

Highland Passage

By: J.L. Jarvis

Narrated by: Jeff Leslie

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

What would you risk to find love?Mackenzie Cooper has had it with romance. On her way home from another blind date arranged by her well-meaning sister, she is caught in a snowstorm. While maneuvering the twists and turns of the icy road, Mackenzie loses control of her car and crashes into the rocky hillside. When a rugged Scotsman pulls her to... Read more

The Scandalous Marriage

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she'd make an excellent clergyman's wife.Her mother had loftier aspirations, however, for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke, more specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. "Lucifer" Wardshire was rumored to be as wicked as the... Read more

Milady in Love

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when he'd fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place!Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss from schoolroom to marriage mart that he had sworn off women altogether.The current ward was far and... Read more

Summertime Splendor

By: M. C. Beaton, Cynthia Bailey-Pratt, Sarah Eagle...

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartwarming stories of summer romance from four acclaimed Regency authorsFrom the zestful tale of the mistress of a manor masquerading as a servant girl—and its surprising consequences—to the story of a love that blossoms at a royal birthday fete, here's a collection of romantic summer regencies sure to delight. Stories include "The Summer of... Read more

The Glitter and the Gold

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Parents on both sides, all impoverished, had decided to recoup their families’ losses by marrying their children to the progeny of a wealthier neighbor. The joke was on them, however, when it was outed that neither family had a penny to its name.Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny’s girlish fantasies,... Read more

1815 - Blutfrieden (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Sabine Ebert

Narrated by: Doris Wolters

Length: 31 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschland im Herbst 1813: Als Napoleon in der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig geschlagen wird, ist er noch lange nicht besiegt. Niemand ahnt, dass es mehr als anderthalb Jahre dauern soll, bis er 1815 bei Waterloo endgültig bezwungen wird. Und statt des erhofften Friedens kommt immer größeres Elend über viele deutsche Städte. Die fliehende Grande... Read more

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok

By: Ben Waggoner

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Although based on historical persons from the ninth century, Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons are the subjects of compelling legends dating from the Viking era. Warriors, raiders, and rulers, Ragnar and his sons inspired unknown writers to set down their stories over seven centuries ago. This volume presents new and original translations of the three... Read more

Will & Tom

By: Matthew Plampin

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention... Read more

The Heroes' Welcome

By: Louisa Young

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived.Only 23, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. But Riley’s injuries from the war have created awkward tensions between the couple, scars that threaten to shatter... Read more

The Importance of Being Wicked

By: Miranda Neville

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas, Duke of Castleton, has every intention of wedding a prim and proper heiress. That is, until he sets eyes on the heiress's cousin, easily the least proper woman he's ever met. His devotion to family duty is no defense against the red-headed vixen whose greatest asset seems to be a talent for trouble.


Caroline Townsend has no patience for... Read more

The Mechanical

By: Ian Tregillis

Narrated by: Chris Kayser

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.

My name is Jax.

That is the name granted to me by my human masters.

I am a slave.

But I shall be free. Read more

Shadow Scale

By: Rachel Hartman

Narrated by: Mandy Williams & W. Morgan Sheppard

Length: 18 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Seraphina took the literary world by storm with 8 starred reviews and numerous “Best of” lists. At last, her eagerly awaited sequel has arrived—and with it comes an epic battle between humans and dragons.
 
The kingdom of Goredd: a world where humans and dragons share life with an uneasy balance, and those few who are both human and dragon must... Read more

The Undoing of a Libertine

By: Raine Miller

Narrated by: Camme Tyla, Joshua Story, Martin Dew & Thaao Pe...

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Libertine...Jeremy Greymont certainly qualifies. ‘Sex rough and women loose’ is his credo—one he’s always taken very seriously, with no deference whatsoever to the society into which he’s been born. He’s been perfectly content milling along through life on an existence of courtesans and fine Scotch whisky...that is until his grandfather let... Read more

The True and Splendid History of the Harristown Sisters

By: Michelle Lovric

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

It begins with a singing and dancing septet in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters' dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will pull them out of poverty, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. For... Read more

Who Buries the Dead

By: C.S. Harris

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr's past combine to put C. S. Harris's "troubled but compelling antihero" (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery. London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious... Read more

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents permitted them to wed, and the groom's abolitionist family refused to attend the ceremony. Since childhood, Julia owned as a slave another Julia, known as Jule. Jule guarded her mistress's closely held twin secrets: She had... Read more

Scarlet Plume

By: Frederick Manfred

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Taken captive by the Sioux, Judith Raveling is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost. Caught between the men who would wage war ruthlessly and his own judgment,... Read more

Daughters of Rome

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. The Year of Four Emperors will change everything—especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome.


Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. Her sister Marcella is more aloof,... Read more

Anna's Crossing

By: Suzanne Woods Fisher

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Anna Konig first meets Bairn, the Scottish ship carpenter of the Charming Nancy, their encounter is anything but pleasant. Anna is on the ship only to ensure the safe arrival of her loved ones to the New World. Hardened by years of living at sea, Bairn resents toting these naive farmers--dubbed "Peculiars" by deckhands--across the ocean. As... Read more

The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: David Horovitch

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
 
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased.... Read more