Historical Fiction audiobooks

Vienna Nocturne

By: Vivien Shotwell

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a young English soprano, Anna Storace, who was his muse—in... Read more

The Daring Ladies of Lowell

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing”
--The New York Times Book Review

“Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history”--Christian Science Monitor


From the New York... Read more

The Roving Party

By: Rohan Wilson

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man—this is the roving party, and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants, and money,... Read more

A Story of Easter and All of Us

By: Roma Downey & Mark Burnett

Narrated by: Keith David

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Last Supper in the upper room to the celebration of finding an empty tomb, this beautiful full color book chronicles the journey of Christ's death and resurrection in a way the Easter story has never before been "told." Containing extraordinary images from the Emmy-nominated TV series watched by over 100 million people, The... Read more

The Bride Says Maybe

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell returns with a delicious new series, The Brides of WishmoreWhat happens when a bride says maybe?She'd once been the toast of London, but now scandal has brought her down. Still, pretty, petted Lady Tara Davidson can't believe her new fate. She had wanted to marry for love . . . but her profligate... Read more

The Forgotten Sister

By: Jennifer Paynter

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The third Bennet sister, Mary, steps into the spotlight in this graceful retelling of Pride and Prejudice.As a middle child flanked by two pairs of closely bonded sisters, marginalized by her mother, and ridiculed by her father, Mary Bennet feels isolated within her own family. She retreats to her room to read and play the pianoforte and, when... Read more

The Marrow of Tradition

By: Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the town's black newspaper has questioned the justification for lynchings. As racial tension mounts, Carteret... Read more

Geniuses

By: Neil W. Flanzraich

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A very small number of people with IQs of over 1,000 secretly live among us, concealing their extraordinary intelligence and mental powers. They call themselves “Geniuses”, and have - for millennia - influenced our world. Over the centuries evil Geniuses have tried to control ordinary people, who they refer to as “Ordinaries”, and... Read more

Tempest

By: Cynthia Wright

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A marriage of convenience in the Gilded Age…Newport heiress Catherine Beasley Parrish has been groomed all her life to marry an English duke. However, when she meets Adam Raveneau, the latest in a long line of Raveneau rakes and a newly created viscount, Cathy awakens to a destiny worth fighting for.Although Raveneau insists that he is not... Read more

The Cowboy Comes Home

By: Patricia Thayer

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Single mom Jess Calhoun had learned the hard way not to trust a man in a Stetson; her young son's dad was long gone. But that doesn't stop Jess from noticing good-lookin', sweet-talkin' cowboy Johnny Jameson swagger into town. He's as wild and untamed as the stallions he trains. The attraction between them is as fiery as a Texas summer and... Read more

Wildfire

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack' s on the trail of a gang of bank robbers, a mission that' s led him right into the path of a raging wildfire. As the pines around him go up in flames, Burrack is determined to catch the murderous Cheyenne Kid and his gang and recover the money they stole. But Burrack isn' t the only one with a case against the Kid.... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Emma Orczy

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This thrilling tale of mystery and suspense, set during the French Revolution, tells the tale of a dashing English aristocrat who risks his life to enter France and save innocents from the guillotine.Baroness Orczy’s marvelously romantic tale of an English bonvivant, Sir Percy Blakeney, and his secretive plots to secure the escape of beleaguered... Read more

The Little Duke

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work of historical fiction for children, which tells the true tale of a tenth-century nine year-old boy who becomes Duke of Normandy after his father is cruelly assassinated.This is the childhood history of Richard the Fearless, the great grandfather of William the Conqueror. When he was just nine years old, Richard's father, the Duke... Read more

The Prince Dethroned

By: A. J. West

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

With the crisp, clear style of John Grisham, the theological and geopolitical insights of a Malachi Martin, and the nail-biting suspense of a Robin Cook, A. J. West weaves a tale of future history based on the current events and issues affecting Western Civilization.The story takes us on a riveting and emotional journey, revealing the hidden... Read more

Highland Conqueror

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Jolene Gerard is running out of time—each moment she remains within the walls of Drumwich Castle she is in jeopardy. Her only chance lies with a prisoner chained to the dungeon walls, a Scotsman who, in return for freedom, helps Jolene and her young nephew escape her cousin's deadly snare. Pursued by murderous villains, Jolene is prepared... Read more

My Lady Notorious

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Desperate to help her widowed sister and baby escape a deadly pursuer, Lady Chastity Ware dresses as a highwayman and captures the first coach to travel down the road. Coming face-to-face with its occupant, the arrogant aristocrat Cyn Malloren, she orders him to drive her to a remote cottage.



Little does Chastity realize that after long months of... Read more

A Burnable Book

By: Bruce Holsinger

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Name of the Rose, and The... Read more

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Judith Light, Grace Gummer & Zach Appelman

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The “spellbinding” (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair—“an enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place” (USA TODAY).

Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things,... Read more

Emerald Knight

By: Michelle M. Pillow

Narrated by: Lesley Parkin

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For some, love comes swiftly at first glance, for the stubborn it can take a lifetime...Since birth Lady Ginevra has been betrothed to Lord Wolfram, second son to the Count of Whetshire. There was never any question as to whom she would marry or who she would be. Life has been mapped out for her, and she's going to live happily ever after as a... Read more

Findley's Lass

By: Suzan Tisdale

Narrated by: Brad Wills

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

She had won his heart without trying. Now he can only hope for a chance to win hers.When Findley McKenna returns after his battle with the English to offer Maggy Boyle a home amongst his clan, he finds only death and destruction instead of the young widow who has stolen his heart. With only his faith, his Highlander heart, and a bit of bloodied... Read more

Son of God

By: Roma Downey & Mark Burnett

Narrated by: Keith David

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The book Son of God is a tie-in with the major motion picture of the same title, slated for wide theatrical release (through 20th-Century Fox) on February 28, 2014. Like the movie, the book possesses an epic scope, providing a panoramic picture of first-century Judea as it recounts the events and reveals the meaning of Jesus's life, death, and... Read more

True to the Highlander

By: Barbara Longley

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Treachery rules the Highlands of 1423. With their king captured by the English, Scottish nobles plot to ransom James behind the back of the brutal regent holding their land in his iron grip. But not every clan wishes to see King James back on his throne…Sitting atop this powder keg of bloodthirsty rivalries, Malcolm of clan MacKintosh takes the... Read more

A Fine and Dangerous Season

By: Keith Raffel

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The phone rings in the California home of businessman Nate Michaels before the sun is up on October 24, 1962. An hour later he’s on an Air Force jet to Washington. Michaels hasn’t seen or spoken to President Kennedy since they met at Stanford in the fall of 1940, but now JFK needs his help l to defuse the threat posed by Soviet missiles in Cuba.... Read more

I Am Abraham

By: Jerome Charyn

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Tracing the historic arc of Abraham Lincoln's life from his picaresque days as a gangly young man in Sangamon County, Illinois, through his improbable marriage to Kentucky belle Mary Todd, to his 1865 visit to war-shattered Richmond only days before his assassination, I Am Abraham hews to the familiar Lincoln saga, seamlessly braiding Lincoln... Read more