Historical Fiction audiobooks

Spirals

By: Ruby Standing Deer

Narrated by: Karen Rose Richter

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Stupendous Series!!! - This book and this series is simply stupendous. Part history, part fantasy and part love story is to only touch the surface of these books.” ~ Cecile Croghan “Iluvbooks”“A Romance of the Spirit - I've read this entire book once, and I've read some parts of it twice. Why? Because it's a romance of the spirit, an evolving... Read more

Sweetwater

By: Lisa Henry

Narrated by: Dorian Bane

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Wyoming Territory, 1870.
Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he’s deaf, but that’s not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God. Something that Elijah desperately tries to keep hidden.
Harlan Crane, owner of the Empire saloon, knows Elijah for what he... Read more

Sometimes a Rogue

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Romance at its best!" --Julia Quinn "Exquisitely and sensitively written." --Library Journal, starred review "Intoxicating and not-to-be missed." --Romantic Times (4 Stars, Top Pick) Sometimes. . . Even the most proper young lady yearns for adventure. But when the very well bred Miss Sarah Clarke-Townsend impulsively takes the place of her... Read more

Manduchai - Die letzte Kriegerkönigin (Ungekürzte Fassung)

By: Tanja Kinkel

Narrated by: Tanja Fornaro

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Manduchai heiratet den letzten direkten Nachfahren des großen Dschingis Khan, um ihr Volk zu Ruhm und Größe zurückzuführen. Dafür verzichtet sie auf die Liebe ihres Lebens. Wan Zhen'er war zunächst die Kinderfrau des chinesischen Kaisers, dann seine Geliebte, und stieg schließlich in den Rang einer kaiserlichen Konkubine auf. Sie ist die... Read more

The Lily and the Lion

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. Martin. The royal house of France has fallen. Charles IV is dead, fulfilling the curse of the Templars once and for all. This leaves the path to the throne open for Robert of Artois to place his cousin, Philippe of Valois, upon it. Having committed fraud, perjury and murder... Read more

Silent Murders

By: Mary Miley

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Vaudeville actress Leah Randall took on her most daring role ever when she impersonated missing heiress Jessie Carr in order to claim Jessie's inheritance in The Impersonator. Now that the dust has settled around that tumultuous time in her life, Leah has adopted Jessie's name as her own and moved to Hollywood, where she's taken a modest but... Read more

Juliet's Nurse

By: Lois Leveen

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The International Bestseller

“Lois Leveen’s richly detailed, fascinating novel offers a wholly original and intriguing take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays” (New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini).

In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the... Read more

The Day of Atonement

By: David Liss

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisbon, 1755: A distinguished-looking gentleman emerges from the bowels of a ship freshly arrived from London, and sets into the city with a singular purpose. This is Sebastian Foxx, born SebastiAo Raposa, and his parents were abducted by the Inquisition when Sebastian was just thirteen years old. Now trained in the arts of coercion by bounty... Read more

Never Marry a Viscount

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s crept back into the home she lost. He’s crept into her heart.Sophie Russell was once society’s darling. But after the disgrace and death of her father, she now finds all doors firmly shut to her—including those of her family home. To discover the secrets now hidden within its beloved walls, she’ll pose as a cook and spy on the estate’s new... Read more

Rose Gold

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.

In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm... Read more

Bitter Greens

By: Kate Forsyth

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth comes a historical novel that gorgeously interweaves the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of French novelist Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force.Charlotte-Rose has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs.... Read more

The Betrayers

By: David Bezmozgis

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades... Read more

Salt & Storm

By: Kendall Kulper

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping historical romance about a witch who foresees her own murder--and the one boy who can help change her future.

Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island's whalers safe at sea, but her mother has forced her into a magic-free world of proper... Read more

Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Deb Marlowe

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It's warring nations, dueling philosophies and the battle of the sexes as American-born Miss Liberty Baylis takes on Simon Lansing, Viscount Brodham, in the fight for her friend's happiness. Brodham wants only to retire to the peace and quiet of his country estate, but he'll take on the cheeky American chit if that's what it takes to keep his... Read more

A Slight Miscalculation

By: Deb Marlowe

Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

William Hampton, Viscount Worthe, prefers the remote stability and predictability of the stars to the perplexing changeability of people. An astronomer, he’s fashioned for himself a focused, simple life. He leaves his quiet retreat, however, when his mathematical computations on orbital variations are questioned.Miss Jane Tillney is volunteering... Read more

Mischief & Mistletoe

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: Marian Hussey

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tanya Anne Crosby writes remarkable love stories.” —New York Times bestselling author, Lisa Kleypas'Twas the Week Before Christmas ...Suspecting he can never be the man Emma Peters wishes him to be, Lucien Morgen, the fifth duke of Willyngham, decides to break off their long-standing engagement... only to discover the innocent fiancé he set... Read more

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

By: Samuel Pepys & Hattie Naylor

Narrated by: Full Cast, Katherine Jakeways & Kris Marshall

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.

Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next ten years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts. That diary has since become one of our... Read more

Jackaby

By: William Ritter

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1890, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary—including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby's... Read more

Edge of Eternity

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 36 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic series, The Century Trilogy.

Throughout the trilogy, Follett has followed the fortunes of five families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now, they come to one of the... Read more

The Paying Guests

By: Sarah Waters

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)
 
“Superb, bewitching…Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of... Read more

The Songbird's Seduction

By: Connie Brockway

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Effervescent bon vivant Lucy Eastlake is a young operetta singer whose star is on the rise in Edwardian London. Though struggling to maintain her beloved great-aunts’ household, she holds fast to the belief that “things will work out.” Now, with the fiftieth anniversary of a siege her great-aunt Lavinia lived through approaching, it looks like... Read more

Color Song

By: Victoria Strauss

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

By the author of the acclaimed Passion Blue, a Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2012 and “a rare, rewarding, sumptuous exploration of artistic passion,” comes a fascinating companion novel.Artistically brilliant, Giulia is blessed—or cursed—with a spirit’s gift: she can hear the mysterious singing of the colors as she creates them in the convent... Read more

Edge of Eternity - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called “potent, engrossing” (Publishers Weekly) and “truly epic” (Huffington Post). USA Today said, “You actually feel like you’re there.”

Edge of ... Read more

The Savage Marquess

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Certainly the two should never have met.The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious man in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways.Miss Lucinda Westerville was a country vicar's daughter, as innocent as she was lovely and as proper as a young lady could possibly be. Yet when this... Read more