Historical Fiction audiobooks

Springwater Wedding

By: Linda Lael Miller

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Lael Miller returns to an unforgettable Montana town for a very special occasion....
SPRINGWATER WEDDING
Once a frontier stagecoach stop, tiny Springwater has grown and changed and entered the twenty-first century. Cattle rustlers may still be stirring up trouble, but now they're high-tech operators in a modern world. Where stagecoaches... Read more

The Revenge of Lord Eberlin

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobin Scott has not been back to Hadley Green since Lily Boudine’s childhood testimony helped send his father to the gallows for stealing the valuable Ashwood jewels. Now a wealthy man, he intends to exact his revenge by destroying Ashwood and its lady. He offers Lily a choice between her life and the livelihoods of the people who depend on the... Read more

The Technologists

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.
 
The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will... Read more

The Dressmaker

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
 
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly... Read more

The Healing

By: Jonathan Odell

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget
 
Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a “slave disease.” Insane with grief, Amanda... Read more

My Name Is Not Easy

By: Debby Dahl Edwardson

Narrated by: Nick Podehl & Amy Rubinate

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is not easy. My name is hard like ocean ice grinding the shore or wind pounding the tundra…Luke knows his Iñupiaq name is full of sounds white people can’t say. So he leaves it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles away from their Arctic village. At Sacred Heart School, students—Eskimo, Indian,... Read more

With This Ring

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Leo Drake, the “Mad Monk of Monkcrest,” is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance.

The freethinking authoress of “horrid novels,” Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, a mythic treasure she suspects... Read more

The Black Arrow

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this swashbuckling novel set in fifteenth-century England, young Richard Shelton discovers that he has been betrayed by the guardian who raised him—a man involved in the murder of his father. Seventeen-year-old Richard joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow to avenge the death, rescue the woman he loves, and participate in the struggle... Read more

Mistress

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating... Read more

Mischief

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron.

That’s why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap?

Her scheme is... Read more

Gates of Fire

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gates of Fire puts you at the side of valiant Spartan warriors in 480 BC for the bloody, climactic battle at Thermopylae. There, a few hundred of Sparta's finest sacrificed their lives to hold back the invading Persian millions. The time they bought enabled the Greeks to rally-saving, according to ancient historian Herodotus, "Western democracy... Read more

The Garden Intrigue

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can't bear to read his work... Read more

Dying in the Wool

By: Frances Brody

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens... Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at... Read more

The House I Loved

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core.

Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into... Read more

The Detour

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernst Vogler is twenty-six-years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned... Read more

The Darkening Field

By: William Ryan

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit relationship with the party director. His instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up for murder, and if so, to find her killer. She was working on... Read more

Blood and Thunder

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

1935, Louisiana. Presidential candidate—and force of nature—Huey Long, the “Kingfish,” is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye to investigate death threats from political rivals. Soon Heller runs head-on into an IRS investigation seeking... Read more

Surrender to the Devil

By: Lorraine Heath

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Frannie Darling was once a child of London’s roughest streets, surrounded by petty thieves, pickpockets, and worse. But though she survived this harsh upbringing to become a woman of incomparable beauty, Frannie wants nothing to do with the men who lust for her, the rogues who frequent the gaming hall where she works. She can take care of... Read more

A Good American

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to... Read more

Codex

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate... Read more

The Flowers of War

By: Geling Yan

Narrated by: Samantha Quan

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012.
 
This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city,... Read more

The Rustlers of West Fork

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this first of four classic frontier novels, Louis L'Amour adds his own special brand to the life and adventures of one of America's favorite fictional cowboys, Hopalong Cassidy.

In The Rustlers of West Fork, the quick-thinking, fast-shooting cowpuncher heads west to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his old friend, Dick Jordan. When he... Read more

The Rebel Wife

By: Taylor M. Polites

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dazzling debut, Taylor M. Polites crafts a Southern gothic novel that mines classic literary archetypes while shaping them in new ways. Set in Reconstruction-era Alabama, The Rebel Wife opens with Augusta Branson losing her husband to a terrible blood fever. Now she and her son must fend for themselves in a community being destroyed by... Read more

Fool for Love

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The WomanLady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her... Read more