Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Ides of April

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Lucy Brown

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently) sharp tongue are hers alone. Now, working as a private informer in Rome during the reign... Read more

One Heart to Win

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Lindsey, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, presents a passionate novel of hidden identities, family secrets, and love that transcends a fifty-year feud set in the 1880s in the majestic ranchland of the Montana territory.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love—but Tiffany Warren is... Read more

The Confessions of Al Capone

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1944 Al Capone, the most notorious Mob boss in history, has already been released from prison. Though Capone is no longer the enormously powerful force who dominated Chicago’s underworld for years, he is still a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI chief knows that if he can somehow manage to get Capone to reveal details of crimes he... Read more

The King's Deception - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This Cotton Malone adventure blends gripping contemporary political intrigue, Tudor treachery, and high-octane thrills into one riveting novel of suspense.
 
Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son, Gary, are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a... Read more

Lawman from Nogales

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's name is permanently branded atop any list of the best writers in the Western genre. Lawman from Nogales features one of Cotton's most iconic characters, legendary Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. Heedless of danger, Burrack shrugs off fears of ambush as he hunts down Luis and Teto Torres, leaders of the... Read more

The Last of Days

By: Paul Doherty

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The last days of Henry VIII's reign were taut with tension as the Council factions, ruthless and power-hungry, manoeuvred and fought. Not to mention the tension within the despot himself, his fears and phobias, the obsession he'd developed with the sexually-dominating Howard women. THE LAST OF DAYS chronicles the fascinating disintegration of... Read more

The Lost Abbot

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough in the summer of 1358, but his friendship with the lovely Julitta Holm has caused a scandal in Cambridge, so he has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, charged to discover what happened to Peterborough's abbot, who went for a ride one day and has not been seen... Read more

The Gilded Fan

By: Christina Courtenay

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to flee to England. Captain Nico Noordholt's ship is her last chance, but the he doesn't really want a female passenger, especially a beautiful one. During their journey, Nico and Midori form a tentative bond,... Read more

Stormbringers

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book in a YA quartet filled with intrigue, mystery, and romance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory.

The year is 1453, and the end of the world is closer than ever.

As Luca and Isolde continue their journey, their attraction grows with each passing day. Even as they try to remain focused on the mysteries they’ve... Read more

The Boy Who Said No

By: Patti Sheehy

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Love, Loss, and CourageAs a boy, Frank Mederos’s grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He... Read more

To Capture a Rake

By: Lori Brighton

Narrated by: Fiona Underwood

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In all his time as a male prostitute at Lavender Hills, Gideon Drake has never been hired out, never been allowed to leave the gilded cage in which he pleasures the well-heeled wives of London. So when a young widow convinces Lady Lavender to release her prize stud for a week-long seduction at a country estate, Gideon spies his chance for... Read more

Flight of the Intruder

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent twenty-eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list and became one of the top twenty bestselling first novels of all time. An instant classic, the book was translated into more than twenty languages and made into a major motion... Read more

TransAtlantic

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called“an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann... Read more

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

By: Anton DiSclafani

Narrated by: Adina Verson

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This summer’s first romantic page turner.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today, NPR, and People summer reads pick

From the author of The After Party, a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls’-school rituals, set... Read more

The Center of the World

By: Thomas Van Essen

Narrated by: Simon Vance, Paul Michael, Cassandra Campbell, ...

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Alternating between nineteenth-century England and present-day New York, this is the story of renowned British painter J. M. W. Turner and his circle of patrons and lovers. It is also the story of Henry Leiden, a middle-aged family man with a troubled marriage and a dead-end job, who finds his life transformed by his discovery of Turner's The... Read more

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

By: Eli Brown

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Eli Brown's Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade—with the best food ever served aboard a pirate's ship.

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts... Read more

The Shining Girls

By: Lauren Beukes

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Khristine Hvam, Jay Snyder, Joshua...

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to... Read more

The Lion in the Lei Shop

By: Kaye Starbird

Narrated by: Tanya Eby, Kate Rudd & Nancy Pearl

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Marty Langsmith is only five years old when a strange thunder rolls across the Hawaiian sky and life as she knows it explodes into flames. With her mother, April, and hundreds of other women and children, Marty is evacuated from the ruins of Pearl Harbor and sent into a brave new world overshadowed by uncertainty and grief. Feeling abandoned by... Read more

Studio Saint-Ex

By: Ania Szado

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This sleek, stylish novel set in 1940s New York, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe, is a deft, romantic novel about a wartime love triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her career; the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exup├®ry, who's left... Read more

A Most Scandalous Proposal

By: Ashlyn Macnamara

Narrated by: Veida Dehmlow

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After watching her beloved sister, Sophia, pine over the town's golden boy for years, Miss Julia St. Claire has forsworn love and put herself firmly on the shelf. Unfortunately, her social-climbing mother and debt-ridden father have other ideas, and they jump at the chance to marry Julia off to the newly named Earl of Clivesden . . . the man of... Read more

Heart of Iron

By: Bec McMaster

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Lena Todd is the perfect spy. Nobody suspects the flirtatious debutante could be a rebel against London's vicious elite—not even the ruthless Will Carver, the one man she can't twist around her little finger.



Will Carver is more than man; he's a verwolfen, and he wants nothing to do with the dangerous beauty who drives him to the very edge of... Read more

Fields of Fire

By: James Webb

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

They each had their reasons for being a soldier.



They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo—Death Before Dishonor—before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.



They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot, murderous realm of jungle warfare as it... Read more

The Wicked Godmother

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is aghast when a nobleman’s will names her guardian of his snobbish twin daughters when they come out during the next London season. And is she wily enough for the intrigues of the ton—or its two most eligible bachelors, the Marquess of Huntingdon and Lord Vere? Harriet sees them as suitors for the twins,... Read more

Crossing Purgatory

By: Gary Schanbacher

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In spring of 1858, Thompson Grey, a young farmer, travels to his father's estate seeking funds to expand his holdings. Far overstaying his visit, he returns home to find that his absence has contributed to a devastating family tragedy. Haunted by remorse, Thompson abandons his farm and begins a westward exile in the attempt to outpace his grief.... Read more