Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... 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

The Soldier's Wife

By: Margaret Leroy

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German... Read more

Hemingway's Girl

By: Erika Robuck

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she'd thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning."



In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her... Read more

By Love Unveiled

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Marianne Winchilsea is running for her life from those whom she believes have attempted to kill the king. Forced to disguise herself, she trusts no one—especially not Garett Lockwood, the Earl of Falkham, who usurped her family home and who seems to be her most dangerous enemy.



And what Garett sees behind her masquerade is a beautiful half... Read more

When You Give a Duke a Diamond

By: Shana Galen

Narrated by: Lucy Rivers

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

William, the sixth Duke of Pelham, enjoys his punctual, securely structured life. Orderly and predictable—that's the way he likes it. But he's in the public eye, and the scandal sheets will make up anything to sell papers. When the gossips link him to Juliette, one of the most beautiful and celebrated courtesans in London, chaos doesn't begin to... Read more

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

El rey Hamlet ha muerto envenenado. En su lugar, asume su hermano, Claudio, y al poco tiempo se casa con la reina Gertrudis. Pero el príncipe Hamlet sospecha, y la aparición del fantasma de su padre le da la razón. En plan de vengarse, finge locura. ¿Pero hasta qué punto esa locura es fingida? ¿Cuánto de simulacro y cuánto de enfermedad hay en... Read more

What Is the What

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three... Read more

Search for the Buried Bomber

By: Xu Lei

Narrated by: James Chen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The X-Files meets Indiana Jones in Search for the Buried Bomber, the first in Xu Lei’s Dark Prospects series of thrillers steeped in archeological myths and government secrets.During China’s tumultuous Cultural Revolution, the People’s Liberation Army dispatches an elite group of prospectors famous for their work uncovering rare minerals to the... Read more

Clockwork Princess

By: Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Daniel Sharman

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Danger, betrayal, and enchantment abound in the “exhilarating” (Booklist) conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy—now with a gorgeous new cover, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! Clockwork Princess is a Shadowhunters novel.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING

A net of shadows begins to tighten... Read more

To Have His Cake (and Eat it Too)

By: P. O. Dixon

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What single gentleman of a large fortune, with sense and education and knowledge of the world, would not wish to have his cake and eat it too?Mr. Darcy comes to realize the reason it's seldom possible when he hires Miss Elizabeth Bennet—whose situation is dire after her father's passing—as his sister's paid companion.Can two strong-willed people... Read more

As an Earl Desires

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Camilla Hutchenson, countess, sponsor, darling of the ton, has reached a staggering level of social power. But one man has managed to distract her attention from her full schedule of charity endeavors and teas-and not just because he holds the deed to her estate.The man in question, Archibald Warner, is the new Earl of Sachse. Though at first... Read more

When Jesus Wept

By: Bodie Thoene

Narrated by: DJ Canaday

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

“Page-turning . . . Set against the political and religious turmoil of the times, the Thoenes’ story vividly reimagines the evolving friendship between Jesus and Lazarus.” —Publishers WeeklyLAZARUS—the man Jesus raised from the dead in one of the most extraordinary encounters with The Living Savior in all of Scripture. But the life of Lazarus... Read more

Holy Smoke

By: Frederick Ramsay

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Jerusalem's deadly secrets are emerging from the smoke.The year is AD 29, and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire's continued presence and oppressive rule. In spite of that unpleasant fact, life goes on—but not for everyone. People die, some because it is their time, others by misadventure. One death in particular brings the city's daily... Read more

Only a Mother Knows

By: Annie Groves

Narrated by: Sue Jenkins

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London, from the best-selling author of London Belles and My Sweet Valentine. In Article Row, in London’s Holborn – four young women, Tilly, Sally, Dulcie and Agnes – have already been witnesses to the heartache and pain that Hitler’s bombs have inflicted on ordinary... Read more

Strands of Bronze and Gold

By: Jane Nickerson

Narrated by: Caitlin Prennace

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . .

When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for... Read more

The Liars' Gospel

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Neil Dickson, Moira Quirk & Matthew Wolf

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer reimagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people closest to him before his death.

This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith,... Read more

Child of Vengeance

By: David Kirk

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.

Japan in the late 16th century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against each other, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by a rigid code of honor. Bennosuke is a high-born but lonely teenager... Read more

Fever

By: Mary Beth Keane

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” who becomes, “in Keane’s assured hands…a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Mary Beth Keane has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in... Read more

Mary Coin

By: Marisa Silver

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Alison Fraser & Mark Zeisler

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In her first novel since The God of War, critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter.

In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in... Read more

The Tinner's Corpse

By: Bernard Knight

Narrated by: Paul Matthews

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Crowner John is summoned to investigate the murder of a tin miner. The victim worked for Devon's most powerful and successful mine owner, Walter Knapman. There seems, to be only one motive - to sabotage Walter's business. But the tinners have their own laws, and they are none too pleased at Crowner John's interference. How on earth can Crowner... Read more

The Accursed

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 22 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damnedPrinceton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel... Read more