Historical Fiction audiobooks

Trouble Shooter

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Hopalong Cassidy has received a message from the dead. Answering an urgent appeal for help from fellow cowpuncher Pete Melford, he rides in only to discover that his old friend has been murdered and the ranch Pete left to his niece, Cindy Blair, has vanished without a trace. Hopalong may have arrived too late to save Pete, but his sense of... Read more

The Beggar King

By: Oliver Pötzsch

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Beggar King is the third book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces firsthand... Read more

1356

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Jack Hawkins

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—a thrilling tale of danger and conquest at the Battle of Poitiers, 1356 is “a book in which Cornwell’s gifts as scholar and storyteller come together spectacularly.” (Washington Post)Bernard Cornwell, the ""master of martial fiction"" (Booklist), brings Thomas of... Read more

The Bughouse Affair

By: Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan & Meredith Mitchell

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Bughouse Affair, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. Sabina's case involves the hunt for a ruthless lady "dip" who uses fiendish means to relieve her victims of their valuables at Chutes Amusement... Read more

The Last Runaway

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. 

Honor Bright,... Read more

The Husband List - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on the family from the bestselling Love in a Nutshell, the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all...

From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman's search for true love. Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his... Read more

The Agincourt Bride

By: Joanna Hickson

Narrated by: Catherine Harvey

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. ‘A bewitching first novel…alive with historical detail’ Good Housekeeping. Her beauty fuelled a war.Her courage captured a king.Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is... Read more

The Iron King

By: Maurice Druon

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

‘This is the original game of thrones’ George R.R. Martin From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work. France became a great nation under Philip the Fair – but it was a greatness achieved at the expense of her people, for his was a reign... Read more

Stringer and the Lost Tribe

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

When miners dig up the Yana Indians' sacred burial ground, the tribe goes on the warpath. And after a couple of deputy sheriffs are found with so many arrows sticking out of them they look like porcupines, the miners grab their guns and axes. Even a little Indian war is big news in the fading days of the wild West, so Stringer rides out to... Read more

Frederica in Fashion

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Since there is no hope of my securing an eligible partner due to sad lack of looks, I am running away.”So writes the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica withstand a season’s scrutiny after the five beauties before her had married so magnificently? Disguised as a chambermaid, Freddie finds her way into the... Read more

Renegade Man

By: Parris Afton Bonds

Narrated by: Luke Smith

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

80s Romance RebootParris Afton Bonds is the New York Times Bestselling Author of more than 50 novels - most of them are historical fiction and historical romance. Join Parris as she reboots her classic romance novels as audiobooks.Many of these spicy romances were originally published in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The days of heaving bosoms,... Read more

Secret Song

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1991, this is the final novel in the medieval Song Series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Read more

Diana the Huntress

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for the hunt, secretly posing as a man in order to participate in a sport that is considered too vulgar for a lady in Regency England. Her four elder sisters... Read more

Stringer and the Border War

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Only Pancho Villa, king of bandits, is gutsy enough to make war on Terrazas the Tyrant. And only Villa would sell tickets to one of his massacres. A curious mob settles along the Rio Grande, waiting for a bloodbath. They don't know that they've wasted their two bits on a phony war. Only one man is wise to Villa's crafty fake—Stringer MacKail.... Read more

Stringer and the Oil Well Indians

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Usually it takes Stringer a little while to rile folks in a new town. But no sooner does he step off the train in Tulsa than some sidewinder is doing his best to turn Stringer into yesterday's news. The hot story in Tulsa is the oil boom. It seems you can't dig a grave without hitting black gold. And Stringer's there to write the story. But... Read more

I Was There Too! The Complete Series

By: Various

Narrated by: Eleanor Bron, Elizabeth Mastrantonio & Maggie S...

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Three 'witness' insights into history. In 'That Door' by Elizabeth Kuti (read by Eleanor Bron), it is Wittenberg, 1517 and Brother Martin meets the indomitable Frau Sprenger. In 'Nothing but Blue Skies' by Dominic Power (read by Elizabeth Mastrantonio), Katherine Rudd, now 97, recalls events on the night of the Roswell incident in New Mexico,... Read more

Secret Song - Abridged

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1991, this is the final novel in the medieval Song Series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Read more

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

By: Syrie James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The minute I saw the letter, I knew it was hers. There was no mistaking it: the salutation, the tiny, precise handwriting, the date, the content itself, all confirmed its ancient status and authorship…
Samantha McDonough cannot believe her eyes--or her luck. Tucked in an uncut page of a two-hundred-year old poetry book is a letter she believes... Read more

Gideon's Call

By: Peter Leavell

Narrated by: Barrie Buckner

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Leavell’s award-winning debut novel is a touching and inspiring tale of surprising heroism amid the horrors of the Civil War. Tad, a slave boy of exceptional hidden gifts, comes of age just as the Civil War erupts in coastal South Carolina. An unlikely deliverer, the young man’s hopes remain buried under a crushing weight of abuse and... Read more

Unmasking the Duke's Mistress

By: Margaret McPhee

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing with a velvety touch, Margaret McPhee stirs passions with tales that harken back to a more romantic age - while raising pulses in the here and now. McPhee is at her scandalous best in Unmasking the Duke's Mistress, which features Arabella, a fallen woman about to don the mask of Miss Noir at Mrs. Silver's House of Pleasures. Arabella's... Read more

Summer's Horses

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In Summers' Horses, horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal Summers' horses, they can't imagine the trouble they've just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a... Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by... Read more

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing... Read more

The Plymouth Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels. Read more