Historical Fiction audiobooks
Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue
By: Stephanie Laurens
Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The Cynsters are back in a brilliant new series from USA Today and New York Times bestseller Stephanie Laurens! Fans adore Laurens’s irrepressible fictional family of sexy scoundrels and passionate ladies and their amorous Regency Era exploits. In Laurens’s sensational new Cynster historical romance, it’s Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue when... Read more
View audiobookThe Ballad of Tom Dooley
By: Sharyn McCrumb
Narrated by: Shannon McManus & Eric G. Dove
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
The Ballad of Tom Dooley is a literary triumph—what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit responsible for the murder of Laura FosterHang down your head, Tom Dooley...The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio,... Read more
View audiobookTrain Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011
From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.
Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more
To Die For
By: Sandra Byrd
Narrated by: Charlotte Parry
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
With this brilliant foray into historical fiction, Christy Award finalist Sandra Byrd delivers a fresh look at Anne Boleyn through the eyes of her lifelong friend Meg Wyatt. As Anne finds favor with Henry VIII, Meg basks in the glow of Anne's glory. But when Anne falls out of favor, the childhood friends are plunged into a maelstrom of slander... Read more
View audiobookThe Frasers-Clay
By: Ana Leigh
Narrated by: Scott Shina
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
A Romantic Times award-winning author, Ana Leigh writes Western romances that are USA Today best-sellers. The Frasers: Clay is first in an exciting series that follows four Southern brothers in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lovely widow Rebecca Elliot needs a husband in order to join a wagon train west. Desperate, she chooses handsome Clay... Read more
View audiobookKurs auf Spaniens Küste
By: Patrick O'Brian
Narrated by: Johannes Steck
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Leutnant, später Kapitänleutnant Jack Aubrey, Seemann und Offizier, der das Befehlen gewohnt ist und Dr. Stephen Maturin, der schmächtige Zweifler und Kritiker mit sozialem Gewissen, lernen sich auf Menorca kennen. Sie spielen Geige und Cello, was sie verbindet. Es entwickelt sich trotz aller Gegensätzlichkeit Achtung und schließlich... Read more
View audiobookCourageous Bride
By: Jane Peart
Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
"Niki's heart was thrumming as the taxi stopped with a jerk in front of the gray, stone building behind tall, black iron gates. On a metal plaque was engraved Les Soeurs de Merci. Niki thrust several franc notes staring through the rungs of the gate. Years ago another young woman-perhaps her mother- had stood in the same place, a baby in her... Read more
View audiobookHero's Bride
By: Jane Peart
Narrated by: Reneé Raudman & Renee Raudman
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"You see I must go, don't you, Kitty?" Kip asked. Everything in her cried out, No, I don't understand. What about her dreams, her desires, the life they had planned together? Then she remembered the epitaph on the head-stone in the old hillside cemetery, the one that had made such a lasting impression on her: "What I gave, I have; what I spent,... Read more
View audiobookDaring Bride
By: Jane Peart
Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Craig Cavanaugh opened his briefcase and drew out the folder containing the manuscript. It was getting dark when he finished reading. No question, he thought, Kitty Traherne can write. Her face came back into his mind. He saw the pain in her eyes, heard the urgency in her voice, as he recalled the passion with which she had told him her reason... Read more
View audiobookBelonging
By: Robin Lee Hatcher
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In the high desert town of Frenchman’s Bluff, Idaho, Felicia Kristoffersen has set out to create a future for herself that is better than her painful past. Alone in the world with only her faith to sustain her, she must prove herself as this tiny community’s new school teacher. She cannot, must not, fail. But, there are those who never wanted... Read more
View audiobookThe Hawk
By: Monica McCarty
Narrated by: Robert McNab
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Monica McCarty captivates millions with swashbuckling Scottish romances like The Hawk. Brilliant seafarer Erik MacSorley has never encountered a gale he couldn't weather or a woman he couldn't win-until he drags a wet, half-clothed "nursemaid" from the Irish Sea. But Ellie's ordinary dress belies the truth that she's the... Read more
View audiobookThe Traitor's Emblem
By: J.G. Jurado
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Juan GOmez-Jurado is the award-winning and international best-selling author of The Moses Expedition. Here GOmez-Jurado pens an epic thriller sure to win him an expansive fan base. In 1940, a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways near the Strait of Gibraltar. In return for their safe passage to Portugal, one of the Germans gives the... Read more
View audiobookHow to Seduce a Scoundrel
By: Vicky Dreiling
Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
With this captivatingly witty debut, Vicky Dreiling immediately established herself as an author of note in the world of Regency romance. How to Seduce a Scoundrel introduces readers to Miss Julianne Gatewick, a comely lass who finds herself seduced by a rake's sensual waltz. But when the unapologetic lothario leaves her all aflutter-and moves... Read more
View audiobookA Wedding Wager
By: Jane Feather
Narrated by: Jill Tanner
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
With over 25 historical romances to her credit, New York Times best-selling author Jane Feather is a revered weaver of passionate tales that resonate with her avid fans. The second in her exhilarating Blackwater Brides trilogy, A Wedding Wager features one Blackwater brother's search for a bride in Georgian England. Read more
View audiobookBecoming Marie Antoinette
By: Juliet Grey
Narrated by: Juliet Grey
Length: 16 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.
Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny?
Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress... Read more
The Twelfth Enchantment
By: David Liss
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding and poor finances. After the death of her beloved father, she is forced to maintain a shabby dignity as the unwanted boarder of her tyrannical uncle, fending off marriage to a local mill owner. But just as she is on the cusp of accepting a life of misery, events take a stunning turn when a handsome... Read more
View audiobookIngenue
By: Jillian Larkin
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.
Power . . . love . . . scandal . . . there’s never enough to go around.
In the city that never sleeps, Lorraine Dyer is wide awake. Ever since she exposed Clara Knowles for the tramp she was—and lost her closest confidante in the process—Lorraine has spent every second... Read more
Holy Warrior
By: Angus Donald
Narrated by: Graham Padden
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Arrows will fly. Swords will swing. Heroes will fall. Legends will survive. And the Holy Land will never be the same.
1190 AD: Richard the Lionheart has launched his epic crusade to seize Jerusalem from the cruel Saracens. Marching with the vast royal army is Britain's most famous, most feared, most ferocious warrior: the Outlaw of Nottingham,... Read more
Hunted Down
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
Hunted Down is a detective story by Charles Dickens. The astute Sampson suspects that a certain Mr. Julius Slinkton who turns up in his office one morning is not all that he seems. As Slinkton crops up more and more frequently in Sampson's life, he realises that a monstrous crime is about to be committed. But a counter plot is hatched and the... Read more
View audiobookUnafraid
By: Jeff Golden
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Two dates burn fiercely in the memory of millions of Americans: November 22, 1963, and September 11, 2001. These two tragedies bracket Unafraid, a story grounded in a simple question: What if the fatal bullet fired on that sunny Dallas afternoon had veered three inches off target? Unafraid lays out a compelling answer, rich with the public... Read more
View audiobookThe Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses
By: Sharon Ewell Foster
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand,... Read more
View audiobookThe Wild Rose
By: Jennifer Donnelly
Narrated by: Jill Tanner
Length: 24 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The Wild Rose is a part of the sweeping, multi-generational saga that began with The Tea Rose and continued with The Winter Rose. It is London, 1914. World War I looms on the horizon, women are fighting for the right to vote, and explorers are pushing the limits of endurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth. Into this volatile time,... Read more
View audiobookThe Hangman's Daughter
By: Oliver Pötzsch
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Germany, 1660: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at the stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of... Read more
View audiobookKatherine's Marriage
By: D.E. Stevenson
Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Katherine Wentworth has married her hero, Alec Macfarlane. On their honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands, she can scarcely believe that the four previous lonely years can have been replaced by so much joy. But her unclouded happiness does not last long. The return to Edinburgh brings her into conflict with her old school friend, Alec's sister... Read more
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