Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Paper Magician

By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Charlie is a vibrant writer with an excellent voice and great world building. I thoroughly enjoyed the Paper Magician.” —Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn and The Way of KingsCeony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically... Read more

The Tragedy of Y

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Some bizarre things have been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison. Next, another poisoning occurs in the Hatters' old mansion in New York's Greenwich Village. This time the police have a witness. But what a witness! She is a blind, deaf mute.... Read more

Seventh Heaven

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's... Read more

The Edison Effect

By: Bernadette Pajer

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When Thomas Alva Edison asks for information, most feel compelled to give it. Not University of Washington professor Benjamin Bradshaw. Not when the question concerns a device conceived in anger and harnessed for murder. Bradshaw hopes the mysterious invention remains lost in Elliott Bay, eluding the search of deep-sea divers. But when, on a... Read more

The First Horseman

By: D. K. Wilson

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

1536. In the corrupt heart of Tudor London a killer waits in the shadows...

The Real Crime

Before dawn on a misty November morning in 1536, prominent mercer Robert Packington was gunned down as he crossed Cheapside on his way to early morning mass. It was the first assassination by handgun in the history of the capital and subsequently shook the... Read more

The Silent Boy

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: Leon Williams

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution. Selected as Historical Novel of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times, and picked as one of Radio 4’s Crime Books of the Year. Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city... Read more

Mercy

By: B.J. Daniels

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The hunt for a killer leads to a battle between justice and desire For U.S. marshal Rourke Kincaid, there's the law.and then there's his law. When the two don't agree, he always trusts his instincts. A killing spree has gripped the Northwest, showing a strange connection that only he sees, and now the old rules of justice no longer apply. Forced... Read more

The Broken Eye

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 29 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world in the third novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war... Read more

The Arrow

By: Monica McCarty

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The talents of legendary marksman Gregor "Arrow" MacGregor are crucial now, as King Robert the Bruce moves to reclaim his Scottish holdings. Gregor's fame as an archer is rivaled only by his reputation with the lasses as a heartbreaker. But when he is exposed during a covert mission, Gregor is forced to lay low. He returns home only to find a... Read more

If You're Reading This

By: Trent Reedy

Narrated by: Trent Reedy & Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Words in the Dust and Divided We Fall: A heartwarming book about a son reconnecting with the father he lost in Afghanistan.Mike was seven when his father was killed in mysterious circumstances in Afghanistan. Eight years later, the family still hasn't recovered: Mike's mom is overworked and overprotective; his younger sister... Read more

What a Duke Dares

By: Anna Campbell

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A REPUTATION AT RISK

What woman in her right mind would say no to marrying the dashing Duke of Sedgemoor? Miss Penelope Thorne, that's who. She's known Camden Rothermere since they were children-and she also knows she'd bring nothing but scandal to his name.

Cam can hardly believe Penelope turned down his proposal. But if she wants to run off... Read more

Lisette's List

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Kim Bubbs

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war.
 
In 1937, young Lisette Roux... Read more

Madame Picasso

By: Anne Girard

Narrated by: Leslie Carroll

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing and untold story of Eva Gouel, the unforgettable woman who stole the heart of the greatest artist of our time When Eva Gouel moves to Paris from the countryside, she is full of ambition and dreams of stardom. Though young and inexperienced, she manages to find work as a costumer at the famous Moulin Rouge, and it is here that she... Read more

The End of Innocence

By: Allegra Jordan

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Allegra Jordan

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of WWI, two students fall in love in Harvard's hallowed halls and must face a world at war from opposing sides

Helen Windship Brooks is struggling to find herself at the world-renowned Harvard-Radcliffe University when brooding German poet Wils bursts into her life. As they fall deeply in love on the brink of WWI, anti-German... Read more

Evernight

By: Kristen Callihan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Once the night comes . . .
Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him-until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight.

Love must cast aside the shadows
Holly... Read more

The Broken Eye

By: Brent Weeks

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Broken Eye continues the spectacular Lightbringer series from the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Prism and The Blinding Knife.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war before it engulfs the known world. But Gavin Guile has been captured by an old... Read more

What a Duke Dares

By: Anna Campbell

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A REPUTATION AT RISK

What woman in her right mind would say no to marrying the dashing Duke of Sedgemoor? Miss Penelope Thorne, that's who. She's known Camden Rothermere since they were children-and she also knows she'd bring nothing but scandal to his name.

Cam can hardly believe Penelope turned down his proposal. But if she wants to run off to... Read more

This Is How I'd Love You

By: Hazel Woods

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1917 and America is on the brink of World War I. After Hensley Dench's father is forced to resign from the New York Times for his antiwar writings, she finds herself expelled from the life she loves and the future she thought she would have. Instead, Hensley is transplanted to New Mexico, where her father has taken a job overseeing a gold... Read more

Princess

By: Gaelen Foley

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Darius Santiago is the King's most trusted man, a master spy and assassin. He is handsome, charming, and ruthless, but he has one weakness—the stunning Princess Serafina. She is all he has ever wanted and everything he cannot have.



Serafina has worshipped Darius from afar her whole life, knowing that deep in the reaches of her soul—where she is... Read more

The Iron Sickle

By: Martin Limón

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Early one rainy morning, the head of the US Eighth Army Claims Office in Seoul, South Korea, is brutally murdered by a Korean man in a trench coat carrying a small iron sickle hidden in his sleeve. The attack was a complete surprise, carefully planned and clinically executed. How did this unidentified Korean civilian get into the tightly... Read more

The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBSSet in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.”There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .“On... Read more

The Earl's Mistress

By: Liz Carlyle

Narrated by: Carolyn Morris

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle creates her darkest, most sensuous story yet, as a delectable but desperate governess runs headlong into the path of a notorious rakeWomen rarely refuse the wicked Earl of Hepplewood, whose daring exploits are only whispered about. But when his new governess answers his proposition with a slap, then... Read more

Evernight

By: Kristen Callihan

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the night comes . . .

Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him-until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight.

Love must cast aside the shadows

... Read more

The Governess of Highland Hall

By: Carrie Turansky

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, but when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily accepts the burden for her parents' financial support. Taking on a job at Highland Hall as governess, she quickly finds that teaching her four ill-mannered charges at a grand estate is more challenging than expected.


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