Historical Fiction audiobooks
One Kiss From You
By: Christina Dodd
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A bold woman known as the "duchess of Magnus" was wagered—and won—in a card game. But the woman who arrived was her shy, quiet cousin Eleanor. Eleanor de Lacy must have been mad to agree to exchange identities with her stronger-willed cousin. She would never convince Remington Knight of the folly of this union—especially since the man seemed so... Read more
View audiobookDevil of the Highlands
By: Lynsay Sands
Narrated by: Marianna Palka
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
They call him the Devil . . .He is the most notorious laird of Scotland: fierce, cold, deadly . . . and maybe even worse. Yet Evelinde has just agreed to wed him. Anything, she thinks, is better than her cruel stepmother. Though Evelinde should be wary of the rumors, she can't help but be drawn to this warrior . . . for the Devil of the... Read more
View audiobookAlamein
By: Iain Gale
Narrated by: Eamonn Riley
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The start of a new series from Iain Gale, author of Four Days in June, Alamein, and the Jakc Steel series. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant... Read more
View audiobookThe Hittite
By: Ben Bova
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Bova brings us an exciting new take on the timeless legend of Troy.This is the tale of Lukka, the Hittite soldier who traveled across Greece in search of the vicious slave traders who kidnapped his wife and sons. He tracks them all the way to war-torn Troy, where he proves himself a warrior to rank with noble Hector and swift Achilles.In... Read more
View audiobookElegy for April
By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: Timothy Dalton
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor
April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one... Read more
Jane Slayre
By: Charlotte Brontë & Sherri Browning Erwin
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Vampyres, zombies, and werewolves transform Charlotte Brontë’s unforgettable masterpiece into an eerie paranormal adventure that will delight and terrify.Raised by vampyre relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyle’s effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live.... Read more
View audiobookTamed by a Highlander
By: Paula Quinn
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Mairi MacGregor hoped to never again lay eyes on Connor Grant. She was ten and one when he promised her he would one day build them a home in her beloved Highlands, spending their lives together. But she was ten and seven and foolishly weeping when he rode out of the Highlands to join the English Royal Army. She wouldn’t be so foolish as to... Read more
View audiobookThe Hand That First Held Mine
By: Maggie O’Farrell & Alexis Soto Ramírez
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents’ genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art and artists, to live fully,... Read more
View audiobookClaude & Camille
By: Stephanie Cowell
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.
In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his... Read more
Dangerous
By: Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
At five and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew very well the risks a woman took by visiting a gentleman in the dead of night. But bearding the notorious Earl of Angelstone in his den was the only way to stop him from engaging her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was why she found herself ushered into Sebastian's forbidding presence at... Read more
View audiobookCity of Dragons
By: Kelli Stanley
Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three-day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is a thirty-three-year-old private investigator who stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The... Read more
View audiobookThe Ragtime Fool
By: Larry Karp
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s 1951 in Sedalia, Missouri, and ragtime is making a comeback. When Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, learns of a journal kept by Scott Joplin, he hopes he can use it to convince Sedalia’s movers and shakers to set up a ragtime museum. But plenty of other people also want that journal, including a historian who wants to publish it, an old... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
By: Kelly O'Connor McNees
Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the bestselling tradition of Loving Frank and March comes a novel for anyone who loves Little Women.
Millions of readers have fallen in love with Little Women. But how could Louisa May Alcott-who never had a romance-write so convincingly of love and heart-break without experiencing it herself?
Deftly mixing fact and fiction, Kelly O'Connor... Read more
Eight for Eternity
By: Mary Reed & Eric Mayer
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In January 532, mobs rule Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a murderous backdrop lit by raging fires, John, chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those seeking to use the Nika Riots to dethrone the emperor.Porphyrius, the most famous charioteer of his time, may know more than he tells about the mysterious disappearance... Read more
View audiobookThe Barbary Pirates
By: William Dietrich
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
“William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the assured hand of a master novelist firing on all cylinders. Ethan Gage is a wiry, battle-scarred hero, with great decency, who rings absolutely true.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key “William Dietrich...should be... Read more
Wench
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Narrated by: Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral complexities of Edward P. Jones’s The Known World as it... Read more
View audiobookThe Crimson Rooms
By: Katharine McMahon
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore, when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears claiming to have mothered... Read more
View audiobookMatterhorn
By: Karl Marlantes
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 21 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
An incredible publishing story—written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times bestseller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next, and a USA Today bestseller—Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war" (New York Times Book Review).Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of... Read more
View audiobookThe Mapping of Love and Death
By: Jacqueline Winspear
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback—the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs is hired to unravel a case of wartime love and death, an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse.August 1914. As Michael... Read more
View audiobookTapestry
By: Belva Plain
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The story revolves around wealthy Paul Werner and interweaves with a myriad of other characters as he quests for ultimate happiness and contentment. Belva Plain pulls together the many life-threads entwined with Paul Werner's to form a magnificent tapestry for listening enjoyment. Belva Plain's warmth and sensitivity to her characters is... Read more
View audiobookHere Burns My Candle
By: Liz Curtis Higgs
Narrated by: Liz Curtis Higgs
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A mother who cannot face her future.
A daughter who cannot escape her past.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her.
Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the... Read more
An Absence So Great
By: Jane Kirkpatrick
Narrated by: Susan Denaker
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Did photography replace an absence in her life or expose the truth of her heart’s emptiness?
While growing in confidence as a photographer, eighteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele’s personal life is at a crossroads. Hoping she’s put an unfortunate romantic longing behind her as “water under the bridge,” she exiles herself to Milwaukee to operate... Read more
Never Seduce a Scoundrel
By: Sabrina Jeffries
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries's enticing new series introduces the spirited graduates of Mrs. Harris's School for Young Ladies—unconventional heiresses who are more than matches for society's most irresistible rogues...."Be careful, Amelia—you know how reckless you can be!"— Mrs. Charlotte Harris, headmistressLady Amelia Plume has many... Read more
View audiobookThe Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
By: Alan Bradley
Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From Dagger Award–winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction’s most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two... Read more
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