Historical Fiction audiobooks

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot

By: Margot Theis Raven

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1948 West Berlin, Mercedes and her mother rely on the noisy American planes that form a "sky bridge" into the city, bringing vital food and supplies. But the planes deliver more than flour, clothing, and coal. Every day, one special plane wiggles its wings, and its pilot drops small candy-filled parachutes for the children. How can Mercedes... Read more

Unmasked

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Virginia Henley's sizzling romances have garnered numerous accolades, including the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. In Unmasked, Henley fashions a tale of desire and intrigue set amid England's 17th-century royal court. When Velvet Cavendish and Greysteel Montgomery are betrothed by their parents,... Read more

Night Hawk

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Beverly Jenkins has penned more than 25 books for an adoring readership. With Night Hawk, Jenkins crafts a pulse-pounding tale starring one of her most intriguing characters, bounty hunter Ian Vance. "Preacher" to some, "Night Hawk" to others, Vance lost his wife, and his ability to love, many years ago. Hardened by fate,... Read more

Helen Keller in Love

By: Rosie Sultan

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating novel that explores the little-known romance of a beloved American iconHelen Keller has long been a towering figure in the pantheon of world heroines, yet the enduring portrait of her in the popular imagination comes from The Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old.Rosie Sultan’s debut novel imagines a part of... Read more

The Leopard Sword: Empire IV

By: Anthony Riches

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins.

The murderous Roman agents who nearly captured Marcus have been defeated by his friends. But in order to protect those very friends from the wrath of the emperor, he must leave the province which has been giving him shelter. As Marcus Tribulus Corvus,... Read more

The Mongoliad: Book One

By: Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph B...

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century.As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the... Read more

No Longer a Gentleman

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling author, Mary Jo Putney has won two RITAs and two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards. In No Longer a Gentleman, the gentleman in question, Grey Sommers, is conducting a bit of light espionage in France when a dalliance with a government official's wife gets him thrown into a... Read more

Rebel Fire

By: Andrew Lane

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crowe, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find John Wilkes Booth, the notorious assassin, apparently alive and well in England—and Crowe somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for... Read more

Lyon's Bride: The Chattan Curse

By: Cathy Maxwell

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Maxwell mixes humor with meticulous characterization to create memorable stories.”
—Publishers WeeklyWith Lyon’s Bride, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cathy Maxwell kicks off a wonderful historical romance series, The Chattan Curse—concerning a generational bane that  ominously portends, “When a Chattan male falls in love,... Read more

The Right-Hand Shore

By: Christopher Tilghman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War

Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore.

It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss... Read more

True Sisters

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubbed by Jane Smiley as a "quintessential American voice," Sandra Dallas has won over fans everywhere and become a frequent fixture on the New York Times best-seller list. Based on 19th-century history, True Sisters follows four women who pin their hopes for the future on a plan devised by Brigham Young to bring emigrants to Salt Lake City.... Read more

Crystal Gardens

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Novelist and professional companion Evangeline Ames has rented a cottage in the outskirts of Little Dixby, far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds some pleasurable diversion in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is... Read more

Into the Dreaming

By: Karen Marie Moning

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s novella Into the Dreaming, a tale of Highland fantasy, star-crossed lovers, and the timeless manipulation of the ancient, immortal Unseelie king.Free him from his ice-borne hell…Stolen from his beloved home in the Highlands of Scotland, imprisoned in the Unseelie king’s dark, frosty... Read more

Crystal Gardens - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Novelist and professional companion Evangeline Ames has rented a cottage in the outskirts of Little Dixby, far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds some pleasurable diversion in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is... Read more

The Apothecary's Daughter

By: Charlotte Betts

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

1665. Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father's apothecary shop in bustling Fleet Street. A skilled student - the resinous scents of lavender, rosemary, liquorice and turpentine run in her blood - her father has granted her the freedom to pursue her considerable talents. But Susannah is dealt a shocking blow when her... Read more

Between Love and Honor

By: Alexandra Lapierre

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Jamal Eddin Shamil is only eight years old when he is stolen from his native Caucasus Mountains and whisked away by Russian soldiers to the glittering court at St. Petersburg. There Czar Nicholas takes a special interest in his exotic Muslim hostage, the eldest son of Chechen warrior chief Imam Shamil. In St. Petersburg, Jamal Eddin is immersed... Read more

Where Lilacs Still Bloom

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Susan Denaker

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager
 
German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose:... Read more

The Company You Keep

By: Neil Gordon

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the rise and fall of the radical antiwar group the Weather Underground, The Company You Keep is a sweeping American saga about sacrifice, the ecstatic righteousness of youth, and the tension between political ideals and family loyalties. When Jason Sinai, one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a... Read more

Triple Play

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Since his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, Chicago-based private eye Nathan Heller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the classic gumshoe is back in this collection of three novellas, all based on real cases of the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. In Dying in the... Read more

Unholy Night

By: Seth Grahame-Smith

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes Unholy Night, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism.

They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth. But what do we really know about the Three Kings of the Nativity, besides the fact that they followed a star to Bethlehem bearing... Read more

The Book of Madness and Cures

By: Regina O'Melveny

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a singleminded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Here is one of the stories penned by America’s favorite Western author with its text restored to the state of its initial publication in the magazine West in 1950.It starts out... Read more

Sacrilege

By: S.J. Parris

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century England and centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury Cathedral.
 
London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy. He is shocked to discover... Read more

The House of Velvet and Glass

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Heather Corrigan

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of... Read more