Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shirley

By: Susan Scarf Merrell

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Two imposing literary figures are at the center of this captivating novel: Shirley Jackson, best known for her short story 'The Lottery,' and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife - Fred and Rose Nemser - move into Shirley and Stanley's home in... Read more

Behind the Plaid

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson & Arika Rapson

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Emma Gordon escapes from a troubling marriage in which she has completely lost sight of who she is. Desperate for independence, she leaves her husband while on a trip in the Scottish Highlands. The only thing is, she ends up hurled back in time to the sixteenth-century Castle Gealach.




Laird Logan Grant is tormented by a dark past and harbors a... Read more

Mage of Monrovia

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Elizabeth Phillips

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Mexia has already done much more than most school - trained mages when she and her companions had gone in search of the scepter of salvation. But now one of the apprentices of the evil wizard they had destroyed, has stolen his spell book and plans to take up where he had left off, and she has to try and stop him.Mexia believes the only way for... Read more

The Space Between

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns to her Outlander universe in "The Space Between," an irresistible novella brimming with adventure, history, and suspense-and available for the first time as a standalone eBook. Joan MacKimmie is on her way to Paris to take up her vocation as a nun. Yet her decision is less a matter of... Read more

Tempting the Bride

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new masterpiece of historical romance from the acclaimed Sherry Thomas, a headstrong beauty is rescued by the notorious rake she has always despised... Helena Fitzhugh understands perfectly well that she would be ruined should her secret love affair be discovered. So when a rendezvous goes wrong and she is about to be caught in the act,... Read more

La catedral del mar (edición conmemorativa 10º aniversario)

By: Ildefonso Falcones

Narrated by: Raúl Lloréns & Ildefonso Falcones

Length: 21 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha ahora este gran fenómeno editorial: La catedral del mar, de Ildefonso Falcones, con prólogo narrado por el autor. Una catedral construida por el pueblo y para el pueblo en la Barcelona medieval es el escenario de una apasionante historia de intriga, violencia y pasión. Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor... Read more

La ladrona de libros

By: Markus Zusak

Narrated by: Mercè Montalà

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Una novela preciosa, tremendamente humana y emocionante, que describe las peripecias de una niña alemana de nueve años desde que es dada en adopción por su madre hasta el final de la II Guerra Mundial. Uno de los 100 mejores libros Young Adult de todos los tiempos según la revista
TIME. Érase una vez un pueblo donde las noches eran largas y la... Read more

The Bomb

By: Theodore Taylor

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of the Scott O'Dell Award, The Bomb is a powerful history lesson and a gripping tale of suspense that no listener will ever forget. In 1946, sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu watches as U.S. Navy warships appear off the coast of Bikini Island. The U.S. Government wants to test the deadly power of the atomic bomb-and Sorry's island has... Read more

My Lady Viper

By: E. Knight & Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Anne Seymour knows that her family hangs by a thread. If her sister-in-law Jane Seymour cannot give the King a son, she will be executed or set aside, and her family with her.




Anne throws herself into the deadly and intoxicating intrigue of the Tudor court, determined to pay any price to see the new queen's marriage succeed and the Seymour... Read more

Restitution

By: Eliza Graham

Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

February 1945. Europe is in ruins and the Red Army is searing its way across Germany’s eastern marches, revenging itself upon a petrified population. The war is over, but for some the fight for survival is only just beginning.

Alix, the aristocratic daughter of a German resistance fighter, is alone and desperate to flee before the Reds come. But... Read more

Tempting Fortune

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Portia St. Claire's brother has gambled and lost, throwing her into the power of ruthless men. Their price for his life is her virtue, to be auctioned off in London's most notorious brothel.

To retrieve an incriminating letter, Bryght Malloren once broke into a house where he was greeted at pistol point by a resolute woman—a woman he could... Read more

The Quick

By: Lauren Owen

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE

For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
 
1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat.... Read more

Kitty

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In any given glittering social season, Edwardian London's dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress and now, thanks to her determined mother, she was about to become a baroness. From the moment Kitty set eyes on Lord Chesworth she found him to be the most exciting man she... Read more

Duke’s Diamonds

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily had been retrieved from orphanage life for the exclusive position of companion to Sir Peregrine's hound, Duke. Upon the gentleman's death, Emily and Duke inherited a fortune in diamonds. But Duke soon fell prey to greedy relatives, and Emily had to protect herself from Lord Storm, who had declared Emily's pedigree quite unsuitable, while... Read more

The Love Match

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Waverley women pursue their aspirations no matter what the obstacle. They may marry if the cause seems to suit the purpose, or they may flirt until their heart is content—or, perhaps, until the gentleman who has proven to be the most elusive of all is clearly within reach. No matter what the obstacle, none is too big for a Waverley woman. These... Read more

Maggie

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Maggie Macleod was weary of life with a soul sickness that ate into every fiber of her being. In a mad way, it did not seem strange to her that she should be on her way to the high court to stand trial for the murder of her husband. Her marriage seemed to have been one long, dreary desert lit by flares of cruelty. But Maggie is innocent in the... Read more

The Sins of Lady Dacey

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The local society could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them—an act that both Pamela Perryworth and Honoria Goodham would see as welcome entertainment in their rigid, joyless lives.Though Mrs. Perryworth is married—most unhappily—and the young... Read more

Spring Meadow Sanctuary

By: Lynnette Bonner

Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

He broke her heart.Now he's back to ask for a second chance.Heart pounding in shock, Sharyah Jordan gapes at the outlaw staring down the barrel of his gun at her. Cascade Bennett shattered her dreams only last summer, and now he plans to kidnap her and haul her into the wilderness with a bunch of outlaws...for her own protection? She'd rather be... Read more

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

By: Susan Jane Gilman

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.

Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to... Read more

The Black Hawk

By: Joanna Bourne

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Hawker rose up snarling out of the slums of London, a cunning thief and a skilled killer. He's rescued from that life by the British Service, who have uses for his particular skill set.



Justine DeCabrillac, daughter of the nobility whose parents died in the chaos of the Revolution, is rescued from a decadent child brothel by a woman of the... Read more

The Devil in the Marshalsea

By: Antonia Hodgson

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there's a sense of honor there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt—not even when faced with the appalling... Read more

Loon Lake

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called... Read more

Stormy Persuasion

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey returns to the dazzlingly passionate world of the Malorys, an aristocratic family of rakehell adventurers and spirited ladies, in a thrilling new tale of unbridled desires.James Malory sets sail for America to honor a promise he made to his in-laws: his daughter, Jacqueline, will have her... Read more

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

By: Susan Jane Gilman

Narrated by: Susan Jane Gilman

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America.
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets... Read more