Historical Fiction audiobooks

Dark Power Collection

By: Bill Myers

Narrated by: Bill Myers

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Some doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don’t want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world—a world fraught... Read more

A Fierce Radiance

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Paula Christensen

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Best Mystery of the YearThis suspenseful novel from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows a photojournalist as she takes on an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder—all in the early days of America’s involvement in World War II. In the anxious and... Read more

People of the Longhouse

By: Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in a time of violent upheaval, young Odion and his little sister, Tutelo, live in fear that one day Yellowtail Village will be attacked. When that day comes, and Odion and Tutelo are marched away as slaves, Odion's only hope is that his parents are coming to rescue them.



They are. But War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda think they are... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime—to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?

So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological... Read more

The Scarlet Contessa

By: Jeanne Kalogridis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased.

Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in reading the "triumph... Read more

Let the Dead Lie

By: Malla Nunn

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to her much-acclaimed debut, A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn's Let the Dead Lie takes listeners back to 1953 South Africa. When Cooper discovers the body of a young child on the Durban docks, he resists the urge to figure out what happened and leaves it for the local police. But after he is accused of the crime, he has 48... Read more

Tokyo Year Zero

By: David Peace

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 15th, 1946, the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender, the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Z┼ìj┼ìji Temple in central Tokyo. They have been raped and strangled—and they are only the first. More will be found killed in the same way—and, it will become clear, by the same hand.Narrated by the... Read more

The Doctor and the Diva

By: Adrienne McDonnell

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking novel of romantic obsession, longing and one woman's choice between motherhood and her operatic callingIt is 1903. Dr. Ravell is a young Harvard-educated obstetrician with a growing reputation for helping couples conceive. He has treated women from all walks of Boston society, but when Ravell meets Erika-an opera singer whose... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey’s best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it.In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious... Read more

The Raven in the Foregate

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas, AD 1141 Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who... Read more

Lady of the Butterflies

By: Fiona Mountain

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleanor is the daughter of a strict puritan and Roundhead major and lives in a medieval manor on the bleak wetlands of Somerset. Her longing for color and brightness leads to an obsession with butterflies as well as to an illicit passion for charismatic but troubled Richard Glanville. Richard, the son of an exiled Cavalier, embodies all that... Read more

Excavation

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“A real page-turner….Rollins keeps the story in overdrive, with plenty of twists and turns before the final shocker.”
—Douglas Preston, co-author of The Monster of Florence  A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Leper of Saint Giles

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. Yet as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride, looking like a prisoner between her two stern... Read more

The Devil’s Novice

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive nineteen-year-old novice.Brother Cadfael has never seen two men more estranged than the Lord of Aspley and... Read more

Beware a Scot's Revenge

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The third book in the School for Heiressess series, by New York Times bestselling historical romance author Sabrina Jeffries, is a delightfully sexy regency-era romance. Lady Venetia Campbell's visit to her childhood home in Scotland takes a dramatic turn when she's kidnapped at pistol point by her father's sworn enemy. Sir Lachlan Ross is... Read more

St. Peter’s Fair

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

St. Peter’s Fair was a grand event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. With the pause in the Civil War during the summer of 1139, the fair would bring some much-needed gaiety to Shrewsbury.But a wealthy merchant is found murdered in the river Severn. Brother Cadfael offers to help the merchant’s niece, Emma; but while he... Read more

Occupied City

By: David Peace

Narrated by: a full cast, Daisuke Tsuji, Justine Eyre, Brons...

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 26, 1948, a public health official arrives at a branch of the Teikoku Bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he tells the manager, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat all locals who might have been exposed.The sixteen members of the staff gather as the official pours the... Read more

Johannes Cabal the Detective

By: Jonathan L. Howard

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.

In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the... Read more

Captive Queen

By: Alison Weir

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned for her highly acclaimed and bestselling British histories, Alison Weir has in recent years made a major impact on the fiction scene with her novels about Queen Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey. In this latest offering, she imagines the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the beautiful twelfth-century woman who was queen of France until she... Read more

An Affair Before Christmas

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Magic under the mistletoe . . .One spectacular Christmas, Lady Perdita Selby, known to her friends and family as Poppy, met the man she thought she would love forever. The devilishly attractive Duke of Fletcher was the perfect match for the innocent, breathtakingly beautiful young Englishwoman, and theirs was the most romantic wedding she had... Read more

For the King

By: Catherine Delors

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For her first novel, Mistress of the Revolution, which the Associated Press dubbed one of the "best reads of the year," Catherine Delors earned comparisons to Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory. In For the King, she again demonstrates her matchless ability to illuminate key turning points in history while weaving a gripping story about a man... Read more

Gunmen of the Desert Sands

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize nominee and best-selling author Ralph Cotton has been called "one of the best Western writers today" (Western Horseman). Fast Larry Shaw incurs a huge debt when a Mexican girl shouts a life-saving warning during a firefight. Outlaws have put the girl through hell, and now Larry is her only hope. But after offering his services,... Read more

Time’s Legacy

By: Barbara Erskine

Narrated by: Janice Mackenzie

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Erskine returns with this beautiful and haunting tale of dark forces and mystical powers Cambridge, present day: Following the death of her mother, Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest – a misshapen crystal sphere known as the Serpent’s Stone, which gives her glimpses into mysteries long concealed by the... Read more

Keeping the House

By: Ellen Baker

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker’s superb novel is the story of a newlywed who falls in love with a grand abandoned house and begins to unravel dark secrets woven through the generations of a family. Like Whitney Otto’s How to Make an American Quilt in its intimate portrayal of women’s lives, and... Read more