Historical Fiction audiobooks

Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 38 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
     First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends... Read more

Vengeance

By: Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything.

It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son—who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye... Read more

Daring the Highlander

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The sweeping Scottish saga that began in Laurin Wittig’s novel Charming the Shrew continues in the romantic sequel.After his eldest brother pays the ultimate price for plotting against the king, Ailig MacLeod returns to Castle Assynt with a heavy heart. On the king’s orders, Ailig’s father must forfeit the title of clan chief in favor of his... Read more

Charming the Shrew

By: Laurin Wittig

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning home to the Scottish Highlands after battling the English, Tayg Munro receives a hero’s welcome—and a shocking ultimatum. In order to take his place as heir to the chiefdom of Culrain, he must choose a wife within the month or have one chosen for him. Angered by his family’s decree, Tayg delays the inevitable by volunteering for a... Read more

Bride of New France

By: Suzanne Desrochers

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.”  –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)
 
Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a... Read more

The Pigeon Pie Mystery

By: Julia Stuart

Narrated by: Hannah Curtis

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Julia Stuart returns in her follow-up to the bestselling The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise with this clever murder mystery set in Victorian England, brimming with her signature charm and fabulous characters.

When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a... Read more

Hitler’s Angel

By: Kris Rusch

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugo-winner Kris Rusch departs from her usual science fiction to write a gripping crime novel set in Germany on the eve of Adolf Hitler's ascension. This much is true: Hitler had an affair with his niece, Geli Raubal. On the night of September 19, 1931, Geli was found shot to death in Hitler's apartment. Her death was ruled a suicide, but the... Read more

Texas Blue

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jodi Thomas won the coveted Romance Pioneer Award and a 2011 Reviewers' Choice Award for Texas Blue. Lewton Paterson is a gambling man hoping to put his rough-and-tumble past behind him and marry into a quiet, respectable family. Arriving in Whispering Mountain, Lewt sets his sights on one of the... Read more

A Searing Wind

By: W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the tragic war sparked by Hernando de Soto' s brutal invasion of the American South, A Searing Wind brings to an electrifying climax all the intense historical action and authenticity of W. Michael and Kathleen O' Neal Gear' s " magnificent" (Douglas Preston) and " powerful" ( Kirkus Reviews ) bestselling series. Once exiled by the... Read more

The U.P. Trail

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1865, a party of engineers toils in the Wyoming hills on a survey as dangerous as it is difficult: preparing the way for the Union Pacific Railroad. Young surveyor Warren Neale’s hunger for adventure and his desire to see a railroad connecting East and West earn him a job promotion. Soon he will marry beautiful Allie, a girl he rescued after... Read more

The Last Hero

By: Peter Forbath

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 26 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the greatest adventure of the Victorian age, a famous explorer makes a heroic relief expedition to a beleaguered British outpost deep in the heart of Africa. The British Empire, at its zenith, is shocked by the fall of Khartoum and the murder of General Gordon. But word reaches London that all is not lost; one garrison, commanded by the Emin... Read more

Russka

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 39 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Russka is the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. From a single riverside village situated at one of the country’s geographic crossroads, Russia’s Slav peasant origins are influenced by the Greco-Iranian, Khazar, Jewish, and Mongol invasions. Unified by this one place, the many... Read more

The Age of Desire

By: Jennie Fields

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

They say that behind every great man is a woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary, and her mothering, nuturing friend. When at the age of forty-five Edith falls passionately in love with a dashing, younger journalist, Morton Fullerton, and is at last opened to the world of the sensual, it... Read more

The Haunting

By: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrated by: Alan Titchmarsh

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

How can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint in 1816 and the drowning of a young girl in a chalk stream so long ago possibly affect the life of schoolteacher Harry Flint some two centuries later?
Having left his job and with a failed marriage behind him, Harry begins to research his ancestors. The deeper he digs, the more he realises that... Read more

Belinda Goes to Bath

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin novels, the audacious Hannah Pym is at it again in this charming second installment in the Traveling Matchmaker seriesA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by... Read more

Pleasures of a Tempted Lady

By: Jennifer Haymore

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain William Langley knows the ocean well, but nothing could prepare him for what he discovers adrift on the cold Irish Sea. The tiny boat carries two passengers: a child—and Meg Donovan, Will's long-lost love. Meg's disappearance at sea eight years ago was a devastating blow. Now she's back, as beautiful as ever, and with secrets as deep as... Read more

Stringer and the Wild Bunch

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The train robbery was bad. It cost Stringer thirty dollars. But when the Wild Bunch gives MacKail a .45 caliber invite to hear their side of what a nice bunch of boys they really are, it’s an offer he can’t refuse. After all, they’re all mothers’ sons, even if they would cut a man’s throat for his boots. Even so, when Stringer decides to ride... Read more

Emily Goes to Exeter

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling Traveling Matchmaker series begins with a Regency tale of seductive subterfuge—from the author of the Agatha Raisin novelsA dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds allows spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and find adventure traveling the English countryside by coach. But the adventure soon... Read more

The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

Narrated by: Noah Taylor

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on... Read more

Firelight

By: Kristen Callihan

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1881. Once the flames are ignited . . .

Miranda Ellis is a woman tormented. Plagued since birth by a strange and powerful gift, she has spent her entire life struggling to control her exceptional abilities. Yet one innocent but irreversible mistake has left her family's fortune decimated and forced her to wed London's most nefarious... Read more

Moonglow

By: Kristen Callihan

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the seeds of desire are sown . . .
Finally free of her suffocating marriage, widow Daisy Ellis Craigmore is ready to embrace the pleasures of life that have long been denied her. Yet her new-found freedom is short lived. A string of unexplained murders has brought danger to Daisy's door, forcing her to turn to the most unlikely of saviors... Read more

Truth Like the Sun

By: Jim Lynch

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Internationally best-selling author and Washington State Book Award winner Jim Lynch's Truth Like the Sun was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month. In 1962, Roger Morgan became the golden boy behind the Seattle World's Fair. Nearly 40 years later, he's a shoo-in for mayor. But when an ambitious journalist begins digging into his past,... Read more

The Custom of the Army

By: Diana Gabaldon

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 New York Times best-selling author, Diana Gabaldon pens historical fiction that's widely celebrated for masterful plotting, authenticity, and riveting suspense. In 1759 London, Lord John Grey finds himself in hot water after a high-society electric-eel party ends in a duel. Needing to lie low, Lord John answers a friend's request for help... Read more

The Pursuit of Lucy Banning

By: Olivia Newport

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

She has a secret to keep. But will she give her heart away? Lucy Banning may live on the exclusive Prairie Avenue among Chicago's rich and famous, but her heart lies elsewhere. Expected to marry an up-and-coming banker from a respected family, Lucy fears she will be forced to abandon her charity work and squeeze herself into the mold of the... Read more