Historical Fiction audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flying Blind

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, Nate Heller is hired to escort Amelia Earhart on a speaking tour due to numerous cut-and-paste death threats against her life. Heller suspects the threats are a stunt by Earhart’s publicity-hungry husband, and the detective’s growing closeness to the bisexual aviatrix leads to a steamy affair. Two years later, when Earhart embarks on... 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

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

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

Highland Vow

By: Hannah Howell

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, young Elspeth Murray rescued a wounded knight and lost her heart forever. Now a stunning beauty and gifted healer, she is reunited with Cormac Armstrong when he saves her from an unwanted suitor. But Cormac is promised to another, a woman who has blinded him to her ruthlessness. Now Elspeth must battle against the odds to claim a... Read more

A Bride Unveiled

By: Jillian Hunter

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Violet Knowlton knows the dangerous boy she watches in secret from her window is someone a proper young lady should avoid. Yet temptation overcomes her. Kit scoffs at her offer of friendship—until, slowly, her innocent trust opens a door to a world he's never known . . . a world in which Kit can break off the shackles of his shameful... Read more

The Tangled Thread

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

1788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.

Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his mistress, Marie-France, and their son Morland. To this end, he binds Heloise to a loveless marriage with a Revolutionary, and allies himself with the great... Read more

The Victory

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

1803: Napoleon is poised to invade England, with only Nelson's weather-beaten ships in his way, but the French fleet are not the only threat to the fortunes of the Morland family.

In the North of England, Mary Ann's relationship with the missionary, Father Rathbone, introduces her to the stark realities of life in plague-torn Manchester. In the... Read more

The Emperor

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

1795: the shadow of Bonaparte has fallen across Europe and touches each member of the far-flung Morland family.
As the century draws to a close, Jemima Morland wearily ackowledges that her life is also nearing its end, but she has scant peace as her unpredictable children behave ever more incomprehensibly: James's marriage to Mary Ann in closer... Read more

The Blue Max

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The most coveted combat decoration in all Germany, the Blue Max was a symbol of power, fame, and prestige beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a First World War combat squadron. But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long. He has his sights on the Blue Max, the most coveted... Read more

Heart of Glass

By: Jill Marie Landis

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Keene’s childhood memories compel her to take her newly-acquired architectural skills to a dilapidated Louisiana mansion. But when she returns to the Reconstruction-era South, she’s shocked to discover the man she’s dreamed of for so long has become a bitter, angry recluse. Colin Delany, the handsome older brother of her best friend, has... Read more

The Lifeboat

By: Charlotte Rogan

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The sinking of an ocean liner leaves a newly married woman battling for survival in this powerful debut novel.

Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.

In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a mysterious explosion. Setting aside... Read more

Sacre Bleu

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.”
—Carl Hiassen“[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.”
—Washington Post“If there’s a funnier writer out there, step forward.”
—PlayboyAbsolutely nothing is sacred to Christopher... Read more