Historical Fiction audiobooks

Another Chance to Dream

By: Lynn Kurland

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lynn Kurland, the New York Times bestselling author of the Nine Kingdom series.

With neither title nor land, Rhys could not win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave. But he would always have her heart. The two are kindred souls...Rhys, a knight with far too many notions of chivalry for his own good. And Gwen, a lover of minstral tales, waiting... Read more

Ravished by a Highlander

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Forbidden love, undeniable desire…Davina Montgomery is no ordinary English lady. For her own protection, she’s been locked away from society, her true identity the Crown’s most closely guarded secret. Until a shocking betrayal—and a bold rescue—land her in the arms of a fierce Highlander, a powerful warrior whose searing gaze and tantalizing... Read more

A Vintage Affair

By: Isabel Wolff

Narrated by: Violet Mathieson

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.
 
In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.
 
Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in... Read more

Immanuel's Veins

By: Ted Dekker

Narrated by: Chris Andrews

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover. With a kiss, evil... Read more

Emily Hudson

By: Melissa Jones

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

After the start of the Civil War, Emily Hudson—an orphan who lost her family to consumption and fever—finds herself the begrudged guest at the home of her relatives in Newport. Emily's longing to be an artist is dismissed by her puritanical uncle, who wants nothing more than to rid himself of her through marriage. Her only friend is her aesthete... Read more

Pirates of the Levant

By: Arturo Perez-Reverte

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote—and wretched—outposts of the empire: Morocco, Algeria, and finally to Malta for a stunning and bloody battle on the high seas that will... Read more

Nemesis

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the high summer of 77 AD, Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco is beset by personal problems. A middle-aged couple who supplied statues to his father has disappeared. They had an old feud with a bunch of notorious freedmen, the Claudii, who terrorize the neighborhood. When a mutilated corpse turns up, Falco and his friend Petronius investigate.... Read more

Muhammad

By: Deepak Chopra

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into the factious world of war-torn Arabia, Muhammad experienced a life that is a gripping and inspiring story of one man’s tireless fight for unity and peace. In a world in which greed and injustice ruled, Muhammad created change by affecting hearts and minds. Just as the story of Jesus embodies the message of Christianity, Muhammad’s life... Read more

Empire

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 23 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"May Steven Saylor's Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!" —USA Today on Roma

Continuing the saga begun in his New York Times bestselling novel Roma, Steven Saylor charts the destinies of the aristocratic Pinarius family, from the reign of Augustus... Read more

Lost Empire

By: Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of a dictator who uses false facts about Aztec history to further his claim to power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off... Read more

An Impartial Witness

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Tending to the soldiers in the trenches of France during the First World War, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford can’t help but notice the photo of a young pilot’s wife every time she tends to him. But then at the railway station, in a mob of troops leaving for the front, Bess glimpses a familiar face—the pilot’s wife? Back in France, Bess sees a... Read more

Clockwork Angel

By: Cassandra Clare

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still. Discover the “compulsively readable” (Booklist) first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series! Clockwork Angel is a Shadowhunters novel.

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her... Read more

The Violin of Auschwitz

By: Maria Angels Anglada

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously pitched violin meets a fellow musician who is instantly captivated by her instrument. When he asks her how she obtained it, she reveals the remarkable story behind its origin….Imprisoned at Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp, Daniel feels his humanity... Read more

Lost Empire - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Grant Blackwood

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of a dictator who uses false facts about Aztec history to further his claim to power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off... Read more

Rebellious Desire

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome—and most arrogant. And of all London’s ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one—Caroline Richmond.She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his... Read more

Rebellious Desire - Abridged

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome—and most arrogant. And of all London’s ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one—Caroline Richmond.She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his... Read more

The Black Prism

By: Brent Weeks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 21 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where magic is tightly controlled, the most powerful man in history must choose between his kingdom and his son in the first book in the epic NYT bestselling Lightbringer series.

Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile... Read more

The Silver Chalice

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 23 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ and His disciples drank from at the Last Supper, and plans to sculpt their likenesses upon it. As he seeks out these followers of... Read more

Ride With Me

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ride With Me tells the story of an unusual soldier who has been allowed to drop out of sight. Read more

The Black Rose

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter of Gurnie, bastard son of an English peer, is forced to flee from Oxford for his part in the university riots of 1273. Inspired by Friar Bacon, he determines to travel to China. With his friend Tristam, he fights his way to the heart of the fabulous Mongol Empire, and returns famous, to find that he must choose between the first love he... Read more

Percival's Planet

By: Michael Byers

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1928, the boy who will discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has... Read more

The Sonderberg Case

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence.

Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the past. As he reflects on his life and the decisions he’s... Read more

The Tontine

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 40 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Tontine is a form of gambling - part lottery, part insurance. It begins with the Day the Battle of Waterloo was fought and ends at the closing of the 19th Century. Read more

Juliet

By: Anne Fortier

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping novel of intrigue and identity, of love and legacy, as a young woman discovers that her own fate is irrevocably tied—for better or worse—to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers.

Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is heartbroken over the death of her beloved aunt Rose. But the shock goes even deeper when she learns that the woman... Read more