Historical Fiction audiobooks

Stuck Together

By: Mary Connealy

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Bestselling Author Mary Connealy Delivers Laughs, Romance, and Western Adventure Tina Cahill, newly arrived from the East, is determined to get the saloon in Broken Wheel, Texas, closed for good. To that end, she pickets outside the place every afternoon. Unfortunately, so far no one has paid any attention. Vince Yates earned the nickname... Read more

Full Steam Ahead

By: Karen Witemeyer

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Witemeyer Is the New Big Name in Historical Romance! When Nicole Renard returns home to Galveston from an eastern finishing school, she's stunned to find her father in ill health. Though she loves him, he's only ever focused on what she's not. Not male. Not married. Not able to run their family business, Renard Shipping. Vowing to secure a... Read more

Hell with the Lid Blown Off

By: Donis Casey

Narrated by: Pam Ward & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Some secrets can come back from the grave.In the summer of 1916, a big twister brings destruction to the land around Boynton, Oklahoma. Alafair Tucker's family and neighbors are not spared the ruin and grief spread by the storm. But no one is going to mourn for Jubal Beldon, who made it his business to know the ugly secrets of everyone in town.... Read more

Euphoria

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in... Read more

The Sound of His Horn

By: John William Wall

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

A horrifying masterpiece of science fictionThe Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdilion becomes a prisoner of war during World War II and then awakes, only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the war. Against a sylvan backdrop, the legend of the wild huntsman is revived and genetic... Read more

That Summer

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig's That Summer takes readers on an unputdownable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past—and herself.

"Willig reaches deep into her characters' souls to depict tragedy, triumph and the... Read more

The Beautiful American

By: Jeanne Mackin

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.As recovery from World War II begins, expatriate American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern France to London in search of her missing sixteen-year-old daughter. There she unexpectedly meets up... Read more

The Science of Discworld

By: Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens & Stephen Briggs

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe.

Can Unseen University’s eccentric wizards and orangutan Librarian possibly shed any useful... Read more

What Is Visible

By: Kimberly Elkins

Narrated by: Jo Howarth

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.

At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so... Read more

The Shadows

By: Megan Chance

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Grace Knox is about to turn seventeen, and the world of Victorian New York society should be opening to her—a time of dances and parties and boys vying for her heart and her hand. Instead, Grace’s world is closing in: the family business is gone; her brother is drinking and gambling away whatever is left; her widowed mother cannot cope; and her... Read more

How to School Your Scoundrel

By: Juliana Gray

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Three intrepid princesses find themselves targets in a deadly plot against the crown—until their uncle devises a brilliant plan to keep them safe...

Princess Luisa has devoted her life to duty, quietly preparing to succeed her father as ruler. Nothing, however, primed her to live on the run, disguised as a personal secretary to a notorious... Read more

China Dolls

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year) 
 
San Francisco, 1938: A world’s fair is... Read more

The Smoke at Dawn

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome... Read more

Midnight in Europe

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author and the "modern-day master of the genre" (Newsday), Alan Furst.

From the New York Times bestselling author and the acclaimed "grandmaster" of espionage (Boston Globe) comes the taut, suspenseful story, set in Paris and Spain, of a man caught in the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, and an... Read more

Grim Shadows

By: Jenn Bennett

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Archaeologist Lowe Magnusson is packing something everyone wants. The djed amulet, a priceless Egyptian artifact, will fetch Lowe a hefty paycheck from one of San Francisco's wealthiest. But when the handsome Swede runs into his patron's uptight daughter, what he once considered easy money becomes maddeningly complicated.



Cursed with deadly... Read more

This Rough Magic

By: Josh Lanyon

Narrated by: Jordan Murphy

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy playboy Brett Sheridan thinks he knows the score when he hires tough guy private eye Neil Patrick Rafferty to find a priceless stolen folio of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Brett's convinced his partner-in-crime sister is behind the theft -- a theft that's liable to bring more scandal to their eccentric family, and cost Brett his marriage to... Read more

Florida Straits

By: Laurence Shames

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Top-notch suspense and "killer" comedy merge in this rollicking national best-seller filled with funky characters, resounding dialogue and inappropriately named "wise" guys. In the grand tradition of Elmore Leonard, Laurence Shames creates an outrageous heavyweight thriller that's heavy on atmosphere and action. Joey Goldman is a low level New... Read more

The Untold

By: Courtney Collins

Narrated by: Courtney Collins

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a stunning debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief, her bid for freedom, and the two men trying to capture her.


It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run.
 Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, horse and... Read more

Wheels of Terror

By: Sven Hassel

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a book of horrors, and should be left alone by those prone to nightmares. Sven Hassel's descriptions of the atrocities committed by both sides are the most horrible indictments of war I have ever read ... A great war novel!' Alan Silitoe

Stationed on the Russian Front and now equipped with armoured vehicles, Sven Hassel and his comrades... Read more

Legion of the Damned

By: Sven Hassel

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary book, which has captured the attention of all of Europe' - NEW YORK TIMES

'LEGION OF THE DAMNED is an incredible picture of totalitarianism, of stupefying injustice ... He is graphic, at times brilliantly so, but never brutal or bitter. He is, too, a first-rate storyteller' - WASHINGTON POST

Convicted of deserting the German army,... Read more

Scepter of Salvation

By: Terry Spear

Narrated by: Elizabeth Phillips

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Princess Talamaya and her friends, Lady Kersta and Lady Mexia, must retrieve the Scepter of Salvation when her brother is poisoned. Visions plague Talamaya of a world beyond her own, of a destiny she has to fulfill.But the barbarian king is also after the scepter, and the black-hearted wizard who is trying to gain control will do anything to... Read more

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the contents draw her back into her family's past, and the... Read more

The Scoundrel's Seduction

By: Jennifer Haymore

Narrated by: Adrian Lukis

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

TEMPTATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS . . .

Undercover agent Sam Hawkins has devoted his life to protecting king and country. So when he receives orders to assassinate a ruthless traitor, he doesn't question his mission. But Sam didn't know his deed had a witness--the beautiful and mysterious betrayer's wife. Now he has no choice but to take her as his... Read more

The Once and Future Duchess

By: Sophia Nash

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A duchess in time saves a noble line …In theory, the Duke of Candover is the most eligible peer in the realm. But in truth, he has a deep aversion to the merest hint of marriage, not to mention two botched engagements which have marked his jaded soul. Now, after a debauched bachelor party that causes public outcry, the Prince Regent is demanding... Read more