Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Highlander's Reward

By: Eliza Knight

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Arbella de Mowbray abhors the idea of marrying an English noble occupying Scotland. When she arrives in Stirling, she is thrown into the midst of a full battle between the Scots and the English. Besieged by rebels, she is whisked from her horse by a Highland warrior who promises her safety. But when he kisses her she fears she's more in... Read more

The Icecutter's Daughter

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling Christian fiction author Tracie Peterson has garnered many accolades, including a Career Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews. The first in a breathtaking new historical series, The Icecutter's Daughter follows Merrill Krause as she helps harvest ice during Minnesota's brutal winters. Newcomer Rurik Jorgenson is drawn to Merrill,... Read more

The Governess and the Sheikh

By: Marguerite Kaye

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Marguerite Kaye is critically acclaimed for her scintillating brand of historical romance. Here, Sheikh Prince Jamil al-Nazarri commands all in his realm with shocking ease - everyone except his willful daughter. In the hopes of instilling some discipline in her, Jamil welcomes an English governess into his home. His plans are upended, however,... Read more

The Fever Tree

By: Jennifer McVeigh

Narrated by: Jayne Paterson

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Having drawn comparisons to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa, The Fever Tree is a page-turner of the very first order.

Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father’s sudden death, has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. 1880 South Africa is a country torn... Read more

Bristol House

By: Beverly Swerling

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, James Langton & Christian Coulson

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor England

In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica. Geoff Harris, an investigative reporter, is... Read more

No Way Back

By: Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

No Way Back is a thrilling page-turner from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and The Blue Zone. One woman is framed for a horrific crime, and desperate to prove her innocence.A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel ends in a shocking murder. Wendy Gould is an average mom—and the only witness. Nanny Lauritzia... Read more

The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

By: Julia Quinn

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family . . . But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi) plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them . . . These are the Bridgertons: less a family than a force of... Read more

Prophet of Bones

By: Ted Kosmatka

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Kosmatka's sensational new thriller, Prophet of Bones, thrusts listeners into an alternate present.

Paul Carlson, a brilliant young scientist, is summoned from his laboratory job to the remote Indonesian island of Flores to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange, new species of tool user unearthed by an archaeological dig.... Read more

Sinners and the Sea

By: Rebecca Kanner

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

While the fate of the world rested on Noah’s shoulders, the survival of the human race rested on hers. The young heroine in Sinners and the Sea is destined for greatness. Known only as “wife” in the Bible and cursed with a birthmark that many think is the brand of a demon, this unnamed woman — fated to become the mother of all generations... Read more

The Edge of the Earth

By: Christina Schwarz

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of... Read more

The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Absolutist comes a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering, and scandal that... Read more

Life After Life

By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual.... Read more

Manuscript Found in Accra

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety.
Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.
Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear. . . .
Anxiety was born in the very same... Read more

River of Stars

By: Guy Gavriel Kay

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 20 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“River of Stars is a major accomplishment, the work of a master novelist in full command of his subject.”—Michael Dirda, in The Washington Post

“Game of Thrones in China.”—Salon.com

Ren Daiyan was still just a boy when he took the lives of seven men while guarding an imperial magistrate. That moment on a lonely road changed his life in entirely... Read more

The Chalice

By: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the next novel from Nancy Bilyeau after her acclaimed debut The Crown, novitiate Joanna Stafford plunges into an even more dangerous conspiracy as she comes up against some of the most powerful men of her era.In 1538, England is in the midst of bloody power struggles between crown and cross that threaten to tear the country apart. Joanna... Read more

On Desperate Ground

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of men and women caught up in the death throes of Nazi Germany, struggling to maintain those things precious to them—life, an end to killing, and even sanity itself. Colonel Johann Faust has lost everyone he ever loved and feels he is going inexorably insane. He hears the haunting voice of his dead fianc├®e and the demons... Read more

Marrying Harriet

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity—too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable, but Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, feel confident that their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the... Read more

Animating Maria

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Amy and Effy Tribble can’t believe their luck. After four seasons spent molding intractable, wayward, or just plain frumpy young women into marriage material, their fifth season in the chaperone business brings them a dream client.Maria Kendall is beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful, and extremely well-dowered. She is a perfect... Read more

The Lion's Lady

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching, sensuous kiss. An arrogant nobleman with a pirate's passions, he tasted the wildfire smoldering beneath Christina's cool charm and swore to possess her….But the feisty... Read more

Ransom

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Overflowing with all of the majesty and intrigue of medieval glory days, this magnificent New York Times bestseller is a captivating story of passion and loyalty, justice and honor. Beloved storyteller Julie Garwood steps back to the silver-shrouded Highlands of her classic tale The Secret—and hails the return of two unforgettable warriors:... Read more

Rocky Mountain Oasis

By: Lynnette Bonner

Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

He’s different from any man she’s ever known.However, she’s sworn never to risk her heart again.Brooke Baker, sold as a mail-order bride, looks to her future with dread but firm resolve. If she survived Uncle Jackson, she can survive anyone.When Sky Jordan hears that his nefarious cousin has sent for a mail-order bride, he knows he has to... Read more

The Handbook to Handling His Lordship

By: Suzanne Enoch

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Emily Portsman has a secret, and three years ago she decided the best way to keep it would be to work at the Tantalus Club, a notorious gaming establishment for gentlemen. It's not the sort of work a beautiful, well-bred governess would ever consider—unless she's hiding from her past and a man who wants to destroy her present . . .

Nate Stokes,... Read more

Secrets of a Runaway Bride

By: Valerie Bowman

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Andrews has her
heart set on marrying a certain man. Now that her guardian and sister,
Lily, is off on her wedding trip on the continent, Annie is about to
make one last attempt to marry Arthur before her sister can stop her.
But Annie doesn't count on the best friend of her new brother-in-law,
Jordan Holloway, Earl of Ashbourne, fouling... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where... Read more