Historical Fiction audiobooks

Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

Instruments of Darkness

By: Imogen Robertson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and... Read more

Reckless

By: Anne Stuart

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrian Alistair Rohan lost his faith, and now, a dedicated member of the depraved Heavenly Host, he loses himself in his only pleasure: the seduction and debauchery of beautiful women. Rich, charming, and devastatingly skilled in the arts of love, he never fails in his conquests…until Charlotte Spenser.



Charlotte is facing a desolate, passionless... Read more

Tiger Hills

By: Sarita Mandanna

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A Suitable Boy meets Gone with the Wind in this sweeping, romantic debut novel set on a coffee plantation in southern India at the turn of the twentieth century. As the first girl born to the Nachimanda family in over sixty years, the beautiful Devi is adored by her entire family. Strong-willed and confident, she befriends the shy Devanna, a... Read more

Someone to Love

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Stafford Clark-Price

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux brings a “wonderful addition” (Booklist) to her Montgomery/Taggert Family series with this supernatural romance in which, with the help of a feisty ghost, a man uncovers the secrets that led to the tragic death of his fiancée.

After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée... Read more

Scarlet Nights

By: Jude Deveraux

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you learned that your fiancé was not who he claimed to be?

Engaged to the charming and seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered, even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a telephone call during the... Read more

An Eye for Glory

By: Karl Bacon

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael palmer is a good man, a family man. But honor and duty push him to leave his comfortable life and answer the call from Abraham Lincoln to fight for his country. This “citizen soldier” learns quickly that war is more than the battle on the field. Long marches under extreme conditions, illness, and disillusionment challenge at every turn.... Read more

Forrest Gump

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at... Read more

The Lone Texan

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Thomas' lush prose and compelling characters set her apart as a writer of immense appeal. The Lone Texan features Sage McMurray, a recent widow whose life is about to take another unexpected turn. One would think that the loss of a husband was plenty for anyone to deal with, but then Sage is taken hostage in a robbery and auctioned off to... Read more

Escape from Fire River

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Cotton casts a long shadow as one of the finest practitioners of Western fiction to ever set pen to paper. Burnished with the unmistakable character of the Old West, Escape from Fire River showcases Cotton at the height of his form. There's not a man alive who can outdraw Lawrence Shaw, but that doesn't mean he's invulnerable. Garris "The... Read more

Martin Dressler

By: Steven Millhauser

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The American Dream is a theme so compelling it resonates throughout our culture. In Martin Dressler, Steven Millhauser creates a young man who, in dedicating his life to it, becomes a symbol of that dream. Powerful, lyrical, finely crafted, this best-selling book won the Pulitzer Prize, was a National Book Award finalist, and was a New York... Read more

Never Less Than a Lady

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

RITA Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Mary Jo Putney is justly celebrated as a master of the Regency romance. Here Alexander Randall is the last heir to the Earl of Daventry and he must find himself a bride. His prayers are answered in the form of distressed midwife Julia Bancroft. But though their union would benefit both... Read more

The Nutmeg of Consolation

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When last seen, Jack and Stephen had been shipwrecked on a desert island in the glittering South China Sea. The Nutmeg of Consolation opens as the castaways fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates. Only the wondrous ingenuity of Stephen, along with the unexpected appearance of... Read more

Claudius

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Douglas Jackson, a gripping and visceral novel of the Roman invasion of Britain, for fans of Conn Iggulden and Simon Scarrow.

"What stands out are Jackson's superb battle scenes. I lost myself in the riveting depictions of combat . . . I was gripped from start to finish." -- Ben Kane.
"You will be reading this and saying... Read more

Caligula

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Russell Boulter

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Conn Iggulden and Simon Scarrow, a riveting thriller set in Ancient Rome from bestselling author Douglas Jackson.

"...gripping Roman thriller. It's certainly well placed to take on the Simon Scarrow/Conn Iggulden audience." -- Scotland on Sunday

"Fantastic read..." - ***** Reader review.... Read more

Strings Attached

By: Judy Blundell

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New York.From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New... Read more

Keep a Little Secret

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Tucker was raised in small-town Minnesota, where the only real company was the people who came to her Aunt Louise's boarding house. Several years later, Charlotte is a young woman thirsty to get out of her hometown and see the world. She jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grant's ranch in Sawyer, Oklahoma, to begin a new... Read more

Five Days In May

By: Matthew Solon

Narrated by: Samuel West, Nicholas Boulton & Henry Goodman

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by Matthew Solon. This BBC Radio 4 'Saturday Play' tells the story of the tense negotiation that followed the 2010 general election, which led to the country's first post-war coalition. Based on interviews with those who were at the meetings, political journalists and on published material - and using actors to play all the key... Read more

Highland Scandal

By: Julia London

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

On the run from the wrathful Prince of Wales, Jack Haines, Earl of Lambourne, is taken prisoner by a Highland laird who makes him an unusual offer: if Jack handfasts his niece, then his life will be spared. The old Highland custom – a marriage lasting only a year and a day, unless both partners agree to make it a lifelong vow – sounds preferable... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847. Read more

The Dragon Factory

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex–Baltimore cop turned Special Ops shooter Joe Ledger is back in action.In The Dragon Factory, Ledger and his team from the Department of Military Sciences square off against two separate groups of corrupt scientists. The beautiful but twisted Jakoby Twins are creating transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenaries for sale to the... Read more

Peony

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive... Read more

Valiant Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Noramary came out of the parlor into the hall. Stunned by what she had just heard, she felt slightly light-headed and leaned against the closed door for a moment to steady herself. The shock of Winnie's elopement during the night had been followed by a second -- the staggering request of her foster parents that she step into her errant cousin's... Read more

The Paris Wife

By: Paula McLain

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her... Read more