Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Three Emperors

By: William Dietrich

Narrated by: William Dufris & Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventurer Ethan Gage travels through the darkest and most superstitious realms of eighteenth century Europe, to the castles and caves of Bohemia to rescue his family and uncover a mysterious medieval device rumored to foretell the future.Having quick-wittedly survived the battle of Trafalgar, Ethan is rushing to rescue “Egyptian priestess”... Read more

The Crimson Campaign

By: Brian McClellan

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

GUNPOWDER AND BULLETS WILL DETERMINE THE VICTOR.
When invasion looms... Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off behind enemy lines with only a fraction of his army, no supplies, and no hope of reinforcements. Drastically outnumbered and pursued by the enemy's best, he must lead his men on a... Read more

In Want of a Wife

By: Jo Goodman

Narrated by: Talmadge Ragan

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Middlebourne needs a way out. In 1891, life in New York is unforgiving for a young woman with no prospects, especially when her family wants nothing to do with her. So when Jane discovers an ad for a mail-order bride needed in Bitter Springs, Wyoming, she responds with a hopeful heart.



Rancher Morgan Longstreet is in want of a wife who will... Read more

The Oversight

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The end always happens faster than you think."

Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five.

When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the... Read more

Lord Rakehell

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Priscilla Carson

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Some men thrive on scandal. Lord James Hamilton, heir to the Duke of Abercorn and newly appointed attendant to the young Prince of Wales, is in no rush to find a wife and take on a more responsible life. A lover of all things pleasurable, James has earned his reputation as a rakehell of London. But when a feisty beauty piques his interest, James... Read more

Mark of Distinction

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Victorian society, where even a whisper of scandal can ruin a life, Julia Elliston much watch her step.

London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself, but to Julia Elliston, it is a city of shadows. Now under the protection of Lord Pierson, she is caught up in his desperate plan and thrust into the public eye as his... Read more

The Winter Garden

By: Jane Thynne

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlin in 1937 radiates glamour and ambition. Anna Hansen, a bride-to-be, is at one of Hitler's notorious Nazi Bride Schools. When she is brutally murdered Clara Vine, an undercover British Intelligence agent and Anna's friend, is disturbed by news of her death. Clara must work to find the truth and send it back to London. It is a dangerous path... Read more

Advocate

By: Randy Singer

Narrated by: David Cochran Heath

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At the trial of Christ, Theophilus, brilliant young assessore raised in the Roman aristocracy, stands behind Pontius Pilate and whispers, “Offer to release Barabbas.” The strategy backfires, and Theophilus never forgets the sight of an innocent man unjustly suffering the worst of all possible deaths—Roman crucifixion.Three decades later,... Read more

The Confabulist

By: Steven Galloway

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion.

What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life?

The Confabulist is a clever , entertaining, and... Read more

I Am Livia

By: Phyllis T. Smith

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Her life would be marked by scandal and suspicion, worship and adoration…At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting the assassination of Julius Caesar. Proving herself an astute confidante, she becomes her father’s chief political asset—and reluctantly enters into an advantageous marriage... Read more

The Temporary Gentleman

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret ScriptureIn this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate... Read more

The King of Threadneedle Street

By: Moriah Densley

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

He owns three shipping companies, a diamond mine, and his own castle.
He knows Portuguese, Hindi, Mandarin, and Morse code.
His assets net thirteen million.



Everyone thinks Andrew Tilmore, Lord Preston, the financial prodigy dubbed "The King of Threadneedle Street," has it all, but he wants the one prize money can't buy: his childhood... Read more

The Forbidden Rose

By: Joanna Bourne

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness of Revolutionary Paris, they gamble on a love to which neither of them will admit. Read more

The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Jurgis Rudkus, an impoverished Lithuanian immigrant, takes a lowly job at Brown's slaughterhouse to support his young wife and their relatives. Once admiring America for its potential, Rudkus has found opportunities to be too far out of his reach. After being evicted, Rudkus is living in a slum and deeply in debt - unable to support his family.... Read more

The Highlander's Temptation

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Laird Jamie Montgomery is a warrior with a mission. When he travels to the northern Highlands on the orders of William Wallace, temptation in the form of an alluring lass could be his undoing.



Lady Lorna Sutherland can't resist the charms of one irresistible Highlander. Though she's been forbidden, she breaks every rule for the pleasure of his... Read more

Ruby

By: Cynthia Bond

Narrated by: Cynthia Bond

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
 
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long... Read more

The Unexpected Duchess

By: Valerie Bowman

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Lucy Upton's tongue may be too sharp to attract suitors, but her heart is good, and when her painfully shy friend Cassandra needs help, she devises a brilliant scheme to help her discourage an unwanted suitor, the Duke of Claringdon. Lucy will hide behind the hedgerow and tell Cass just what to say to discourage the Duke of Claringdon . . .... Read more

Crossfire Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Rafe Caradec—gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune—was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship’s fo’c’sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney’s Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found... Read more

Uncle Tom's Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 20 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In debt, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby reluctantly decides to trade two of his slaves. The two, middle-aged Uncle Tom and young Harry, are to be sold to Mr. Haley, a detestable slave trader. Eliza, Harry's mother and Mrs. Shelby's maid, overhears the details of the arraignment, warns Uncle Tom and flees with Harry to the north. Eliza and Harry... Read more

The Traitor's Wife

By: Allison Pataki

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting historical novel about Peggy Shippen Arnold, the cunning wife of Benedict Arnold and mastermind behind America’s most infamous act of treason...

Everyone knows Benedict Arnold—the Revolutionary War general who betrayed America and fled to the British—as history’s most notorious turncoat. Many know Arnold’s co-conspirator, Major John... Read more

The Windflower

By: Laura London

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The classic tale of passion on the high seas, available in print for the first time in 20 years . . .

Merry Wilding is a lady of breeding, of innocence, and of breathtaking beauty. With high hopes for a holiday in England, she sets sail from New York-but the tide of her life is destined to turn. Mistakenly swept aboard an infamous pirate ship,... Read more

The Masterful Mr. Montague

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens pulls back the curtain on a world that has been hidden from us . . . until now. Montague has devoted his life to managing the wealth of London’s elite, but at a huge cost: a family of his own. Then the enticing Miss Violet Matcham seeks his help, and in the puzzle she presents him, he finds... Read more

The Windflower

By: Laura London

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic tale of passion on the high seas, available in print for the first time in 20 years . . .

Merry Wilding is a lady of breeding, of innocence, and of breathtaking beauty. With high hopes for a holiday in England, she sets sail from New York-but the tide of her life is destined to turn. Mistakenly swept aboard an infamous pirate ship,... Read more

All That Is Solid Melts into Air

By: Darragh McKeon

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliantly imagined in its harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster and exhilarating in its sweep, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a debut to rattle all the windows and open up the ventricles of the heart. . . . The book is daring, exhilarating, generous and beautifully written.” — Colum McCannA brilliant and gripping novel set against... Read more