Historical Fiction audiobooks

Good Man Friday

By: Barbara Hambly

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloe, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes... Read more

All That Is

By: James Salter

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when... Read more

A Rescue for a Queen

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

February, 1571. Ursula is once more plunged into affairs of the state when she escorts her foster daughter Margaret to the Netherlands to meet her suitor. The queen's spymaster, Sir William Cecil, learns that the wealthy Italian banker Roberto Ridolfi will be hosting their forthcoming wedding - a man who he fears may once again be plotting to... Read more

Plain Jane

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Number 67 Clarges Street—a good address in London’s elegant Mayfair with a dubious past and a lovably eccentric staff—is where the Hart sisters are taking up residence for the season. Beautiful and socially ambitious Euphemia and her younger sister, Jane, enter a world of balls, coming-out parties, and courtship with the hope of finding suitable... Read more

The Caspian Gates

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

AD 262. The Roman Imperium is in turmoil after the struggle for the throne that brought Gallienus to power. Ephesus, the metropolis of the Eastern Empire, lies in ruins, shattered by a mighty earthquake. Its citizens live in fear as the mob overwhelms the city, baying for blood to avenge the gods who have punished them. Yet an even greater... Read more

A Bespoke Murder - The Home Front Detective Series, book 1 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1915. As zeppelin bombs fall on London and with the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German hysteria reaches fever pitch and attacks on German immigrants surge. Not even the West End of London is immune. Jacob Stein's bespoke tailoring business comes under brutal attack, leaving his safe ransacked, his daughter, Ruth, raped and Jacob... Read more

The Miser of Mayfair

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London’s fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be... Read more

The Cost of Courage

By: Kelly Estes

Narrated by: Dan McGowan

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cost of Courage is a work of military fiction based on the true story of two brothers who served in separate campaigns of World War II. After being shot down over Berlin, one brother is forced to endure both mental and physical torture as a POW at Stalag Luft III. A defiant soul, he earns the respect of his comrades by making life difficult... Read more

Autobiography of Us

By: Aria Beth Sloss

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss, and love—a confession of what passed between two women who met as girlsComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California, during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers' narrow expectations. Their struggle to define... Read more

Four Card Draw/Get Out of Town/One for the Pot

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Card Draw
Allen Ring won the Red Rock Ranch in a poker game. But a man was shot in the back there a couple of years back. The murder is still unsolved, but someone seems convinced that Allen Ring has the missing answer. Ross Bilton was one of the men who found the body, and now he's the town marshall. Ring finds himself in the middle of... Read more

Bowdrie Passes Through / Where Buzzards Fly / No Man's Man

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Bowdrie Passes Through

Ride with the legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie as he takes up the cause of Josh Pettibone, a stubborn loner who faces the hangman's noose. Bugs Tatum wants Pettibone's land--and he's willing to do anything to get it. But Bowdrie can not rest until justice is served!

Where Buzzards Fly

Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie tracks the... Read more

A Trail to the West/Love and the Cactus Kid/Medicine Ground

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Trail to the West
Riding under an alias, Bowdrie joins up with Queen’s ruthless gang to rescue the pretty niece of a powerful Texas judge. But when Queen discovers the lawman’s true identity, Bowdrie must do some fast thinking and even faster shooting to beat the odds--five guns to one!

Love and the Cactus Kid
Folks far and wide know that the... Read more

The Sisterhood

By: Helen Bryan

Narrated by: Laura Roppé

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken to a new life.As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, engaged, and excited about the future—until another... Read more

Fork Your Own Broncs

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Exciting Western Adventure From America's Best-Loved Storyteller

Louis L'Amour takes you back to the rough and tumble days of the Old West as you've never heard it before. A place with few rules--where men and women are inclined to make their own. Complete with a full cast, stirring music, and dramatic sound effects, this exclusive production of... Read more

Chelynne

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned and raised by her uncle, the feisty sixteen-year-old Chelynne resolves to show her gratitude by marrying the man of her uncle's choice. Bracing herself for a graying, sickly noble, the last man she expects for a husband is the dashing future Earl of Bryant, Chadwick Hawthorne—suddenly, being a loving wife doesn't seem too hard a task.... Read more

Lord of Wicked Intentions

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Faye Adele

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling historical romance author Lorraine Heath comes Lord of Wicked Intentions, the third and final chapter in the compelling Lost Lords of Pembrook trilogy.The young, innocent victim of his uncle’s madness, Lord Rafe Easton has learned not to depend on others, much less fall in love. So when he spies the fiery Miss... Read more

McQueen of the Tumbling K / West of Tularosa / The Sixth Shotgun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection includes:

McQueen of the Tumbling K
Ranch foreman Ward McQueen recognizes trouble when he sees it-and trouble is what the Texan sees when he spies the tracks of a wounded man in the middle of the big Tumbling K spread. In town, he learns that a tinhorn gambler has just won the ranch next to the Tumbling K in a dirty card game--and... Read more

More Brains Than Bullets/The Road to Casas Piedras/West of Dodge

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Road to Casas Piedras
In the midst of a lively country dance, gunshots ring out at the stagecoach station and Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the station's master sprawled in a pool of his own blood. Twelve thousand dollars are missing. And an innocent man has been murdered. And it's up to Chick to bring the killer to justice. With the... Read more

Strange Pursuit/The Marshal of Sentinel/Booty for a Bad Man

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange Pursuit
Bowdrie wants Charlie Venk. Shrewd and intelligent, Venk is riding hard on the sorrel he’s stolen right out from under another man. His good looks, fast gun and reckless wit have already made him a legend. So Bowdrie has to be smarter, faster–and more relentless–in tracking his prey across dusty cowtowns, barren desert landscapes... Read more

Strong Shall Live / Keep Travelin' Rider / Strawhouse Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Strong Shall Live
When they burned his home, he rebuilt it. When they shot at him, he shot back. But now the man they call Cavagan is in the worst bind of his life. With his hands tied and his body stiff from beatings, he has been left for dead at the bottom of a deep sand pit in the searing Santa Fe desert. Sixty miles from the nearest... Read more

The Black Rock Coffin Makers/A Mule for Santa Fe/Case Closed - No Prisoners

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Rock Coffin Makers

Cattleman Jum Gatlin isn't the kind of man who goes looking for a fight. But he never turns away when one comes looking for him. And that's just what happens when he finds himself mistaken for another man - a man who has some very dangerous enemies.

Like it or not, Gatlin is a dead ringer for the only man in town who... Read more

The Killer from the Pecos/Lit a Shuck for Texas/The Turkeyfeather Riders

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Killer from the Pecos

Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie rides into the wild town of Almagre trailing a Pecos bank robber who has left two men dead. All Bowdrie has to go on is an unconvincing eyewitness description, a name scrawled on a tattered post card, and his own skills as a master tracker. But Bowdrie will need luck as much as skill when looking... Read more

There's Always a Trail / Home in the Valley / Monument Rock

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

There's Always a Trail

When a stranger named Handy offered to track down Cass Bailey's stolen money for a stake in the CB range, Bailey has nothing more to lose. But his pretty hot-tempered daughter, Ann, was certian that Handy couldn't find the money unless he'd had a hand in stealing it. So when Handy hit pay dirt Ann Bailey was there to send... Read more

Blood Makes Noise

By: Gregory Widen

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a summer's night in 1955, CIA officer Michael Suslov is summoned to a secret vault in the heart of Buenos Aires. His mission: transport the corpse of Eva Peron to a safe hiding place in the wake of her husband’s fall from power. But before Michael can comply, everything goes tragically, horribly wrong…Fifteen years later, Suslov is a ghost of... Read more