Historical Fiction audiobooks

Days of Infamy

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against U.S. naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? This is the question explored by Harry Turtledove in Days of Infamy, with frightening implications. With American military forces... Read more

The Man in the Iron Mask

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-five years after the events of The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties in a power struggle that could change the face of the French monarchy.For eight long years, a young prisoner has languished within the dreaded Bastille, his face hidden in an iron mask. He knows... Read more

The Gun Ketch

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"You could get addicted to this series. Easily."
--The New York Times Book Review
1788--Bahamas Squadron . . .
A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched--to a woman and a ship! The woman is the lovely Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun ketch, Alacrity, bound for the Bahamas and a bloody... Read more

The King's Commission

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

1782 First officer on brig o'war . . .
Fresh from duty on the frigate Desperate in her fight with the French Capricieuse off St. Kitts, Midshipman Alan Lewrie passes his examination board for Lieutenancy and finds himself commissioned first officer of the brig o'war Shrike. There's time for some dalliance with the fair sex, and then Lieutenant... Read more

The French Admiral

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once proud city is in flames and near ruin. But on the horizon, the King's own fleet of heavily armed frigates heads full sail to blast through... Read more

The King's Coat

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The very first Alan Lewrie naval adventure in this classic series is now back in print!

1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne, Midshipman Lewrie heads for the war-torn Americas,... Read more

The Postmistress

By: Sarah Blake

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible burden...

Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war.

On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of... Read more

A King's Commander

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

1793--For love of war and money . . .

Once a French corvette, she was reborn HMS Jester, sleek and fast. At her sea-sprayed helm is former Midshipman Alan Lewrie, turned grizzled warrior by trade. But when Commander Lewrie reaches the island of Corsica he gets orders for which even he is not prepared: lure his archenemy, French commander... Read more

H.M.S. Cockerel

By: Dewey Lambdin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"You could get addicted to this series. Easily."

*The New York Times Book Review





1793 *In the seas of revolution . . .



A farmer, a bloody farmer! Knee-deep in dung and fathoms from the nearest port, Alan Lewrie, swashbuckling naval warrior turned family man, longs for battle. And when it comes, a battle royal it is! Called to the H.M.S. Cockerel,... Read more

Conspirata

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Conspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.

On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly... Read more

The Information Officer

By: Mark Mills

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Malta, April 1942. Max Chadwick is the military officer charged with managing information and maintaining morale on the tiny Mediterranean island, a strategic lynchpin in the war. Bombs rain from the sky at all hours of the day and night, as the Maltese and their British protectors fiercely cling to the rocky outcropping that is all that stands... Read more

Conspirata - Abridged

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Oliver Ford Davies

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Conspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.

On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly... Read more

Too Many Murders

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut. The year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. But Holloman has other things to worry about—on April 3, 1967, twelve murders have taken place on one day. Suddenly Captain Carmine Delmonico, chief of... Read more

Miss Buncle's Book

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The scene of this entertaining story is laid in a charming English village. The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because – as she naively explained – her dividends were so poor. Unfortunately, Miss Buncle had no imagination, so she wrote about her friends – quite kindly and truthfully, of... Read more

Reckless

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

At sixteen Phoebe Layton had imagined that Gabriel Banner was a brave and valiant knight, a noble-hearted hero born to rescue ladies in distress. Which was why, eight years later, when she desperately needed help to carry out a vital quest she could think of no one more suited to the job than Gabriel. But when she lures her shining knight to a... Read more

Fire in the East

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

AD 255: The Roman imperium is stretched to the breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. One man is sent to marshal the defenses of a lonely city and to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power, a man whose very name means war, a man called Ballista. So... Read more

A Day No Pigs Would Die

By: Robert Newton Peck

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of
a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens... Read more

Winter Fire

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself--reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner, and for the wounded hawks she heals and returns to the air.A hardened Civil War veteran, personal tragedy has taught Case Maxwell three things: to be a... Read more

Subterranean

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

“James Rollins knows adventure.”—Chicago Sun Times Subterranean is the novel that launched the spectacular career of James Rollins, author of the mach-speed, New York Times bestselling blockbusters Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key, and so many others. Rollins fans—and aficionados of his contemporaries, Clive Cussler... Read more

The Elusive Bride

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephanie Laurens, the phenomenal New York Times bestselling superstar is back with The Elusive Bride—the second book in her magnificent Black Cobra Quartet. Never before in print, this masterful blend of passion and intrigue follows The Untamed Bride, the first in the four-part historical romance series that Booklist calls, “fabulously... Read more

Runaway Heart

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to be the end of the line for her? She had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement. She had come to escape the humiliation of being jilted. She came here to find a welcome new life,... Read more

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

By: Maaza Mengiste

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of... Read more

The Wake of Forgiveness

By: Bruce Machart

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This accomplished debut novel from Bruce Machart has drawn critical raves. In 1895 Texas, Karel Skala enters the world while his mother dies in childbirth. Fifteen years later, guilt-stricken Karel puts his family's fortunes on the line in a horse race against a powerful Spanish patriarch. "Machart's moving story unfolds lyrically and sensually,... Read more

About Schmidt

By: Louis Begley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis Begley's perceptive novel hums with emotional energy and shimmers with haunting images. A National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist, About Schmidt is a powerful meditation on loneliness, desire, and transformation. Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years carefully climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the... Read more