Historical Fiction audiobooks

Once, When We Were Young

By: Billy J. Brown

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 18 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Once, When We Were Young is the stirring story of a young Texan and his two friends who get caught up in the pre–Civil War excitement. From the formation of local military units to the great battles that decided the outcome of the war, Will’s story is told in first person narrative, combining a fascinating, well-researched sense of history with... Read more

Ponniyin Selvan - 3 Kolai Vaal பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - 3 கொலை வாள்

By: Kalki

Narrated by: Sri Srinivasa

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - பாகம் 3. கொலை வாள் , First ever digitized album of Ponniyin Selvan released in 2011 worldwide, narrated by Sri Srinivasa for all the characters in the novel - tamilaudiobooks.comஅமரர் கல்கியின் உன்னதமானதொரு  காவியம் ; சரித்திரப் படைப்பு  Read more

Augustus

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits... Read more

The Red Garden

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Nancy Travis

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hoffman’s characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them.”—New York Times Book Review

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion,... Read more

The Perfect Mistress

By: Victoria Alexander

Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander sweep you away with her dazzling new romance, in which one otherwise proper lady discovers that passion is her legacy. . .Widowed Julia, Lady Winterset, has inherited a book--a very shocking book--that every gentleman in London seems to want. For a charismatic businessman, it's a chance... Read more

The False Princess

By: Eilis O'Neal

Narrated by: Mandy Williams

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Princess and heir to the throne of Thorvaldor, Nalia has led a privileged life at court. But everything changes when she learns, just after her sixteenth birthday, that she is a false princess, a stand-in for the real Nalia, who has been hidden away for her protection. Cast out with little more than the clothes on her back, the girl now called... Read more

The Power and the Glory

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in... Read more

The Lonesome Gods (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn, Jason Culp, Dan John Miller &...

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."

This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to... Read more

The Broken Gun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers’ ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery—but it... Read more

The Orchid Affair

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pride and Prejudice lives on" (USA Today) in Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation series, which has been hailed for its addictive blend of history, romance, and adventure. In The Orchid Affair, Willig introduces her strongest heroine yet. Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and... Read more

Secret Honor

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series, by the master of the military thriller.As with his three enormously popular series--Brotherhood of War, The Corps, and Badge of Honor--Honor Bound and Blood and Honor, W. E. B. Griffin's novels of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina, became immediate bestsellers. These are... Read more

Master of Rome

By: John Stack

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring adventure novel set amid the tumultuous clashes between the Roman and Carthaginian empires, battling for control of the Mediterranean, north Africa and Rome itself. Atticus, the young Greek captain, is now a commander of the growing Roman navy, blockading a port near Tunis, when the Roman legions suffer terrible... Read more

Blood and Honor

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Michael Russotto

Length: 26 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

As did his three immensely popular series Brotherhood of War, The Corps and Badge of Honor, W.E.B. Griffin's novel of World War II espionage Honor Bound became an immediate bestseller: "A superior war story" (Library Journal) "whose twists and turns keep readers guessing until the last page" (Publishers Weekly). Now the characters of Honor Bound... Read more

The Death Instinct

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Interpretation of Murder.September 16, 1920. Under a clear blue September sky, a quarter ton of explosives is detonated in a deadly attack on Wall Street. Fear comes to the streets of New... Read more

The Virgin in the Ice

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in Shrewsbury, as raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two young orphans from a noble family and their companion, a young Benedictine nun. The trio, never reaching Shrewsbury, has disappeared somewhere in the wild countryside.Cadfael fears... Read more

Miral

By: Rula Jebreal

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire)Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine.In 1948, as... Read more

Ponniyin Selvan - 4 - Mani Magudam பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - 4 - மணி மகுடம்

By: Kalki

Narrated by: Sri Srinivasa

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - பாகம் 4 - மணி மகுடம் , First ever digitized album of Ponniyin Selvan released in 2010-2011 worldwide, narrated by Sri Srinivasa for all the characters in the novel - tamilaudiobooks.com - email ponniyinselvanaudio@gmail.comஅமரர் கல்கியின் உன்னதமானதொரு  காவியம் ; சரித்திரப் படைப்பு  Read more

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid... Read more

Becoming Jane Eyre

By: Sheila Kohler

Narrated by: Jen Taylor

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre. The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and... Read more

Stuck: Why We Can’t (Or Won’t) Move On - Abridged

By: Anneli Rufus

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Stuck, the author of the highly praised Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto identifies a rather striking social trend: many people are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, the wrong career, the wrong town, or with the wrong friends, some of them even say they want to make a change but... somehow... never get the job done. A self-described... Read more

The True Memoirs of Little K

By: Adrienne Sharp

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Sharp studied ballet before turning to writing, and Booklist called White Swan, Black Swan, her acclaimed collection of short stories focusing on the world of dance, "breathtaking" in a starred review. In The True Memoirs of Little K, Sharp returns once again to the stage in a beautifully imagined tale of love. Now 99 years old,... Read more

I, Claudius

By: Robert Graves

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Full Cast & Tom Goodman-Hill

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Graves' brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, starring Tom Goodman Hill as Claudius and Derek Jacobi as Augustus. The wickedly entertaining inside story of the lives and deaths of the Imperial dynasty from Augustus to Caligula is told by their obscure relation,... Read more

Saints

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 25 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an epic of independence and devotion, of hardship and fulfillment, of a woman so strong that knowing her could change your life.When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. “Soon,” he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John... Read more

Dark Voyage

By: Alan Furst

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. Only she is not the Santa Rosa, she is the... Read more