Historical Fiction audiobooks

Dreamer

By: Mark Teppo

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

SideQuests are stand-alone stories or novellas that chronicle the heroes, villains, and adventures in The Foreworld Saga across numerous eras and ages. They can be read in any order with or without prior knowledge of The Foreworld Saga.During the Fifth Crusade, the bloody siege of Damietta grinds to a stalemate and a young Christian soldier... Read more

Dangerous Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

He is magnificently strong—and dangerously seductive. One of the fiercest of his clan, Lucan MacLeod is a legend among warriors, inspiring fear in man and woman alike. For three hundred years, he has locked himself away from the world, hiding the vengeful god imprisoned in his soul. But then, a young lass caught in a raging storm awakens his... Read more

The Life of Objects

By: Susanna Moore

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This elegant, haunting novel from the award-winning author of In The Cut and The Whiteness of Bones, set in Germany on the eve of the Second World War, is the story of one woman’s journey of self-discovery as a continent collapses into darkness.Beatrice, a young Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale, whisked... Read more

Beautiful Lies

By: Clare Clark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel's choices are not so simple. As her husband's career hangs by... Read more

Winter of the World

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 31 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World... Read more

The Cutting Season

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”
—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of WenchAttica Locke’s breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won resounding acclaim from major... Read more

Jane

By: Robin Maxwell

Narrated by: Suzan Crowley

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The only female student in Cambridge University’s medical program, Jane Porter is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero,... Read more

The Madonnas of Leningrad

By: Debra Dean

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn... Read more

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

By: Robin Maxwell

Narrated by: Suzan Crowley

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Maxwell’s debut novel introduces Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth: one was queen for a thousand days, the other for more than forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII.At the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign, her mother’s private diary is given to her by a mysterious lady. In reading it, the... Read more

The Incense Game

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime. When a massive earthquake devestates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court is left teetering on the brink of chaos. This is no time for a murder investigation - except when a nobleman's daughters are found... Read more

The Lincoln Conspiracy

By: Timothy L. O'Brien

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A nation shattered by its president’s murder
Two diaries that reveal the true scope of an American conspiracy
A detective determined to bring the truth to light, no matter what it costs him
 
From award-winning journalist Timothy L. O’Brien comes a gripping historical thriller that poses a provocative question: What if the plot to assassinate... Read more

San Miguel

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island

On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary... Read more

Winter of the World - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ken Follett follows up his #1 New York Times bestseller Fall of Giants with a brilliant, page-turning epic about the heroism and honor of World War II, and the dawn of the atomic age.

Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraordinary new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as “sweeping... Read more

Freeman

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam—a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army—decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn... Read more

The Burning City

By: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Each an acclaimed author in his own right, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on some of the biggest bestsellers in science fiction history, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Footfall. Here Niven and Pournelle have combined their award-winning talents and imaginations to produce a masterpiece of epic fantasy that rivals... Read more

Her Husband's Harlot

By: Grace Callaway

Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today Bestseller Grace Callaway comes this steamy marriage of convenience romance and #1 National Regency Bestseller!A Romance Writers of America Golden Heart FinalistNot Quite a WifeAfter a disastrous wedding night, proper Lady Helena Harteford fears for the fate of her new marriage. Disguised as a doxy, she tracks her husband down at... Read more

Die Schicksalsgabe (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Wood

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Fluch oder Segen? Ihre geheimnisvolle Gabe führt die junge Ulrika bis an die Grenzen der Welt. Sie weiß, dass sie anders ist als ihre römischen Freundinnen: seit der Kindheit hat Ulrika Visionen, die sie vor allen verheimlicht. Aber dann erscheint ihr das Bild ihres Vaters, den sie nie gekannt hat. Sie bricht auf, um ihn zu warnen. Allein und... Read more

When the Duke Returns

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Duchess of Cosway yearns for a man she has never met . . . her husband.Married by proxy as a child, Lady Isidore has spent years fending off lecherous men in every European court while waiting to meet her husband. She's determined to accept him, no matter how unattractive the duke turns out to be. When she finally lures Simeon Jermyn back to... Read more

Fire Dance

By: Delle Jacobs

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious castle.A deadly gift.A missing, unwilling bride.And a Norman knight determined to conquer all.Ordered by his King to carry out a cryptic command—kill a wicked sorcerer lord, seize his castle, and take his daughter as a wife—Alain de Crency expects a fierce battle. Instead he discovers a defenseless castle, the daughter missing, and... Read more

Black Dahlia & White Rose

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia, Coleen Marlo & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”
—Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.  These... Read more

The Malice of Fortune

By: Michael Ennis

Narrated by: Adrian Paul, Carlotta Montanari, John Lee & Fre...

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...
When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola... Read more

The Blinding Knife

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 24 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week.

Gavin Guile is dying.

He'd thought he had five years left -- now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiance who may have learned his darkest... Read more

Personal Effects

By: E. M. Kokie

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Matt Foster thought that if he could only get his hands on his brother’s stuff from Iraq, he’d be able to make sense of his death. He wasn’t expecting T.J.’s personal effects to raise even more questions about his life.Now, even if it means pushing his dad over the edge…even if it means losing his best friend…even if it means... Read more

Come August, Come Freedom

By: Gigi Amateau

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Born a slave in 1776, Gabriel grows up capable and literate only to be taken from his mother and sent to the capital city as a blacksmith’s apprentice. There in the forge, a meeting point for many travelers and news bearers, his work awakens him to the sparks of resistance that are igniting into rebellion around the globe. When he is unable to... Read more