Historical Fiction audiobooks

Gun Country

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton has more than 1.5 million copies of his books in print and has been likened to authors such as John Steinbeck and Mark Twain. Still disoriented from a recent gunshot wound, Fast Larry Shaw happens across the Dexter Lowe Boys on their way to steal some weapons. Knowing he can't take these guys on alone... Read more

Sarum

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 45 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd weaves a compelling saga of five English families whose fates become intertwined over the course of centuries. While each family has its own distinct characteristics, the successive generations reflect the changing character of Britain. We become drawn not only into the fortunes of the individual family members, but... Read more

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration—and whose... Read more

Next to Love

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.
 
Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose... Read more

Daughter of Providence

By: Julie Drew

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer, 1934: Anne Dodge was raised by her old-money, New England Protestant father in the small coastal town of Warwick, Rhode Island. She has always been told that her Portuguese mother abandoned them when Anne was a small child, and died without ever contacting them again. After her mother's death, Anne learns that she has a half-sister,... Read more

The Warsaw Anagrams

By: Richard Zimler

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Evil will flourish even when good men fight it.In this gripping and deeply moving mystery thriller set in the Warsaw ghetto of 1941, an exhausted and elderly psychiatrist named Erik Cohen makes his way home to the Jewish ghetto after being interned in a Nazi labor camp. Yet only one visionary man—Heniek Corben—can see him and hear him. Heniek... Read more

Though The Heavens May Fall

By: E. V. Thompson

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1856. When three men are murdered in Cornwall, Amos Hawke, a Cornish detective working from London's Scotland Yard, is sent to investigate. He finds lodgings with one of the murdered men's wives - and her daughter, Talwyn. But while Amos's relationship with Talwyn gets off to a bad start, she is to prove crucial in helping him bring her... Read more

The Vagrant King

By: E. V. Thompson

Narrated by: Glen McCready

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle's loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded - his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future Charles II. And when Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most tumultuous period ever - the war between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians and the dawning of an entirely new era . . .

Ralf's duties oblige... Read more

Cat's Eye

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid... Read more

No Man's Mistress

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants...that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home she calls her own. He refuses to leave. So the contest begins. Each day under the same roof... Read more

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

By: Jenny Wingfield

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as... Read more

Reilly's Luck

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the glittering cities of Belle Époque... Read more

The Secret Mistress

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

While Lady Angeline Dudley’s pedigree dictates that she must land a titled gentleman, the irrepressible beauty secretly longs for a simple, ordinary suitor. No wild rakes like the men of her family, just a kind heart and good nature. So when Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, rescues her with unmatched civility from the advances of a... Read more

Conquistadora

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican.

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with... Read more

How the West Was Won

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited... Read more

More than a Mistress

By: Mary Balogh

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In her most captivating novel to date, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency-era romantic fiction, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and startling intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable— he falls in love with his mistress.More Than a MistressHe is bad-tempered, reckless, a man superior... Read more

Poison

By: Kathryn Harrison

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this richly textured historical novel, best-selling author Kathryn Harrison spins a mesmerizing tale of forbidden passion and terrifying superstition in 17th-century Spain. As the Spanish Inquisition conducts its ruthless reign of terror, the lives of two women-one, the free spirited daughter of a poor silk farmer; the other, the French... Read more

The End of Everything

By: Megan Abbott

Narrated by: Emily Bauer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom—presumably—there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for... Read more

Suspicious Minds

By: Mary Larkin

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

To her neighbours in Belfast, Maura Brady looks like she has it all - an attractive husband, a comfortable home and a gorgeous little boy, Danny. But behind closed doors, things are far from idyllic. Maura has long harboured doubts that her husband Adam only married her because he was quickly trying to mend a broken heart. Years ago, Adam's... Read more

Shameless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A long string of tragic loves haunts Viscount Benedick Francis Alistair Rohan. Cool and cynical, he's weary of life's fickle games and wants a prim and proper wife he can ignore while indulging his sensual appetites.



Lady Melisande Carstairs is nothing less than a tornado storming into Benedick's measured life. Possessed of boundless energy and... Read more

A Spark of Death

By: Bernadette Pajer

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw discovers the dead body of a despised colleague inside the Faraday cage of the electric machine, his carefully controlled world shatters.The facts don’t add up. The police shout murder—and Bradshaw is the lone suspect. To protect his young son and clear his name, he must find the... Read more

Promised to Me

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho. Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved—which included three small... Read more

A Death in Summer

By: Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011

One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end— and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet

On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast.... Read more

How to Marry a Duke

By: Vicky Dreiling

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vicky Dreiling's enchanting Regency romance debut, Tristan-the rakish duke of Shelbourne-wants to marry and sire an heir. To help him choose among the dizzying array of wealthy but witless candidates, he secures the services of prim and proper matchmaker Miss Tessa Mansfield. But as Tessa seeks the perfect mate, the duke finds himself... Read more