Historical Fiction audiobooks

To Desire a Devil

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is more intoxicating or dangerous than surrendering to a devil.Beatrice Corning, the niece of the present earl, is a proper English miss. But she has a secret: no real man has ever excited her more than the handsome youth in the portrait in her uncle's home. Suddenly, that very man, thought to be murdered years ago, is here in the flesh,... Read more

The Towers of Silence

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume follows the fates of the Laytons and a retired missionary teacher, all of whom can foresee the end of the Raj--and both welcome and lament its passing. Read more

Staying On

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj... Read more

The Jewel in the Crown

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape. Read more

The Ark

By: Boyd Morrison

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In nationally bestselling author Boyd Morrison’s debut, the unraveling of one of the greatest archeological mysteries from the bible—Noah’s Ark—could threaten civilization itself in this blockbuster hailed by James Rollins as “a stunning thriller.”

When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who... Read more

Only a Duke Will Do

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 47 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

Gettysburg

By: James Reasoner

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Although Stonewall Jackson was dead, Confederate moral was never higher. The victory at Chancellorsville had come against overwhelming odds, and the Union army was in retreat. In less than a year, the Federals had been pushed back from the outskirts of Richmond and, now, virtually out of Virginia.Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in... Read more

Westward the Tide

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is... Read more

Guns of the Timberlands

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest... Read more

Blue-Eyed Devil

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
 
The new chief is Amos Callico, a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man... Read more

Private Life

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.

Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a... Read more

Two Brides Too Many

By: Mona Hodgson

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Kat and Nell Sinclair are headed west—away from the manicured lawns of Maine to the boisterous, booming mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado to start new lives for themselves as mail-order brides.
 
Aboard the train, romantic dreamer Nell carries a photo of her intended close to her heart and imagines an exciting and love-filled future, while... Read more

The Invisible Bridge

By: Julie Orringer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 27 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“fiercely beautiful”—The New York Times; “unbelievably good”—Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives... Read more

Sandstorm

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A heart-stopping novel of adventure and suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins—the first in his critically acclaimed Sigma Force seriesA freak explosion in the British Museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the sands of history. Painter Crowe is an agent for Sigma... Read more

The Spymaster's Lady

By: Joanna Bourne

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naÔve virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit...

British spymaster Robert Grey must enter France... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. ‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of the history of these fascinating people – a selection [of verses] offered as an ‘interim report’ to those interested in Hobbit-lore, and to... Read more

Miss Buncle Married

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Marriage to her publisher, Arthur Abbott, has done nothing to stop Barbara Buncle from involving herself in the lives of her neighbours. After leaving Silverstream and moving to London, Barbara and Arthur are enjoying their newly-wedded bliss, but not the city life. The only solution to their problem? Returning to the country. Silverstream is... Read more

Romancing Miss Bronte

By: Juliet Gael

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this astonishing novel, a brilliant mélange of fact and fiction, Juliet Gael skillfully and stylishly captures the passions, hopes, dreams, and sorrows of literature’s most famous sisters—and imagines how love dramatically and most unexpectedly found Charlotte Brontë.

During the two years that she studied in Brussels, Charlotte had a taste of... Read more

A Woman Called Sage

By: DiAnn Mills

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

They took away everything she loved … now, she’s out for revenge. Sage Morrow had it all: life on a beautiful Colorado ranch, a husband who adored her, and a baby on the way. Until five ruthless gunmen rode up to their ranch and changed her life forever. Now Sage is a bounty hunter bent on retribution. Accompanied only by her majestic hawk, she... Read more

Sweet Dates in Basra

By: Jessica Jiji

Narrated by: Adriana Sevahn Nichols

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Just when her family should be arranging her marriage, Kathmiya Mahmoud, a young Marsh Arab maiden, is sent from her home in Iraq's idyllic countryside to the unfamiliar city of Basra, where she must survive on her paltry earnings as a servant. Her only asset—her exquisite beauty—brings more peril than peace. Worse, her mother appears to be... Read more

Eye of the Red Tsar

By: Sam Eastland

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting suspense debut introduces both a stellar new voice and a remarkable detective, an outsider who must use his extraordinary talents to solve the one case that may redeem him.
 
Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened and led down to the basement of the Ipatiev house. There... Read more

Texas Rain

By: Jodi Thomas

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers' Choice Award winner Jodi Thomas pens a touching, passionate tale about never giving up on love. Texas Ranger Travis McMurray prefers chasing outlaws to being cooped up in domestic life. But all that changes when he meets Rainey, a stunning beauty who steals not only his heart-but his horse. On the run from an arranged marriage, Rainey... Read more

Parrot and Olivier in America

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Olivier (a fictional variation of Alexis de Tocqueville) is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United... Read more

Scandalous Again

By: Christina Dodd

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the cards, her noble father has lost his entire estate—and her!—to a stranger.On a mission to salvage her... Read more