Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Dragon's Bride

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Although not penned as a sequel to The Devil's Heiress (L1061), Dragon's Bride introduces Con Somerford, Earl of Wyvern. Somerford inherits an earldom on the coast of England, which he has not visited for over a decade. Years of war and estrangement with his father have left him hard and alone and completely undesiring of the title or lands he... Read more

La Guerra y la Paz

By: Leon Tolstoi

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

La gran novela de Tolstoi sirve de base para mostrar la vida de la alta sociedad de San Petersburgo que mira con preocupación la llegada de las tropas francesas hacia 1805. Este audiolibro mezcla los hechos históricos con las experiencias privadas de distintos personajes relacionados entre sí. Salones de baile y campos de batalla, son los... Read more

Between Hell and Texas

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton spins a Western yarn about a young man, Cray Dawson, coming to terms with his reputation as a gunslinger and his longing to live peacefully as a Texas rancher. Cotton has produced over 25 highly praised novels that have delighted readers. Recorded Books also offers Cotton's Gunman's Song (W1010). Read more

Until You

By: Bertrice Small

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small is hailed by Literary Times as the "reigning queen of romance" and has received numerous Reviewers' Choice Awards from Romantic Times. Set in the 16th century, Until You tells the tale of a young heroine who discovers the love of a lifetime. Beautiful Rosamund is introduced to the Earl of... Read more

A Matter of Character

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sisters of Bethlehem Springs series delivers exactly what readers have been waiting for—smart, confident women who are not afraid to defy convention, live their own dreams, and share their lives if the right man comes along. In A Matter of Character, book three in the Sisters of Bethlehem Springs series, it's 1918, and Daphne McKinley,... Read more

Sisters Red

By: Jackson Pearce

Narrated by: Erin Moon, Michal Friedman & Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Scarlet March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest... Read more

A Man Most Worthy

By: Marcus Major

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Good Peoples (F0007) and 4 Guys and Trouble (F0049), both Blackboard best-sellers, sealed Marcus Major's reputation as a hot name in contemporary fiction. A Man Most Worthy is a lively story of love, ambition, sex, and friendship. When young millionaire John Sebastian decides to win back the great love of his life, he vows to succeed no matter... Read more

Guns of Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book . THE GUNS OF NAVARONEMallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their mission: to silence the... Read more

Force 10 from Navarone - Abridged

By: Alistair Maclean

Narrated by: Bob Peck

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are... Read more

Where Eagles Dare - Abridged

By: Alistair MacLean

Narrated by: Alun Armstrong

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. Winter 1943, and US General Carnaby has been captured by the Nazis. He is being held in a fortress high in the Bavarian Alps. headquarters of the German Secret Service, and in his head are plans for the invasion of Normandy. A special team of... Read more

Beauty of a Lifetime

By: Lian Qing Xi Xue

Narrated by: Yiqiao Wang

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The emperor sought to make his own daughter empress, but this violates the Mandate of Heaven! The empress endured humiliation for eleven years only to be deposed, unthinkable! It's lamentable that countless heroes of the realm were defeated by a frail woman! War is imminent, yet you say I triggered it? How can you be so heartless! The unity and... Read more

A Murder of Crows

By: P. F. Chisholm

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As wild as the American West, P. F. Chisholm's witty historical detections are also elegantly crafted and historically accurate as theyre-imagine the life of a real Elizabethan gunslinger.It's September 1592, and the dark streets of London are full of people up to no good. The redoubtable Sergeant Dodd and that dashing Elizabethan gunslinger Sir... Read more

Beauty of a Lifetime

By: Lian Qing Xi Xue

Narrated by: Yiqiao Wang

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The emperor sought to make his own daughter empress, but this violates the Mandate of Heaven! The empress endured humiliation for eleven years only to be deposed, unthinkable! It's lamentable that countless heroes of the realm were defeated by a frail woman! War is imminent, yet you say I triggered it? How can you be so heartless! The unity and... Read more

Deception

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Once Olympia Wingfield had been free to devote all her time to her true passion: the study of ancient legends and long-lost treasure. But now, with three hellion nephews to raise, the absentminded beauty has very little time for research. Which makes it seem all the more serendipitous when a handsome stranger strides into Olympia’s library... Read more

End of the Beginning

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Six weeks ago, Imperial Japanese military forces conquered and occupied the Hawaiian Islands. A puppet king sits on Hawaii's throne, his strings controlled by the general of the invasion force. American POWs, malnourished and weak, are enslaved as hard laborers until death takes them. Civilians fare little better, struggling to survive on... Read more

The Confession of Katherine Howard

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE. ‘England: firelight and fireblush; wine-dark, winking gemstones and a frost of pearls. Wool as soft as silk, in leaf-green and moss; satins glossy like a midsummer night or opalescent like winter sunrise…Little did we know it but that night we were already ghosts... Read more

Days of Grace

By: Catherine Hall

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter, Grace, are like no one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and... Read more

The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale. It also marks the transformation of British writer W. Somerset Maugham from celebrated playwright to accomplished novelist.



In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a... Read more

Dragon House

By: John Shors

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed novelist John Shors' travels in Asia add texture to this affecting tale of two Americans in Vietnam. A tale of sacrifice, rebirth, and above all inspiration, Dragon House connects with readers on the most human of all levels. When Iris' father, a Vietnam vet, makes a dying wish that she take over the operation of a shelter... Read more

Supreme Justice

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A master of plot and pacing—and one of those rare authors who can create a genuinely surprising ending.” — Lisa Scottoline  “It takes a really crafty storyteller to put people on the edge of their seats and keep them there. Phillip Margolin does just that.” — Chicago Tribune The crew from the New York Times bestseller Executive Privilege is... Read more

The Creation of Eve

By: Lynn Cullen

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed historical novelist Lynn Cullen comes a lush and compelling tale of intrigue and longing, set in the 16th-century Spanish court. After a scandal ends her apprenticeship with Michelangelo in 1559, artist Sofonisba Anguissola accepts an invitation from King Felipe II to become lady-in-waiting and painting teacher to his teenage... Read more

My Name Is Mary Sutter

By: Robin Oliveira

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning historical novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrongmidwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becominga surgeon. Determined to overcome the prejudices against womenin medicine—and eager to run away from her recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C. to help tendthe legions of Civil War wounded.... Read more

The Day of the Scorpion

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in The Raj Quartet: the arrest by British police of Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quit India movement, signifies a further deterioration in Anglo-India relations. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the immediate social and political realities are both... Read more

A Division of the Spoils

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 28 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. Read more