Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Irish Duke

By: Virginia Henley

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia Henley pens sumptuous historical romances eagerly devoured by fans. In The Irish Duke, Henley delivers an enthralling tale about a woman determined not to fall in love. Lord Abercorn of Ireland fell madly for Louisa when they were children. But she refused him then, as she still refuses every man, adamant she will never marry. Yet when... Read more

Some Like it Wild

By: Teresa Medeiros

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Teresa Medeiros is a two-time recipient of the Waldenbooks Award for best-selling fiction. In Some Like It Wild, Medeiros weaves the intoxicating tale of beguiling Pamela Darby, who is scheming to collect a healthy sum of money-if only she can charm somebody into accompanying her to London and posing as a... Read more

A Lady's Secret

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of numerous RITA awards and multiple Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times, Jo Beverley keeps listeners hot under the collar with her riveting period romances. Here the lovely Petra d'Avernio is on a desperate hunt to find her real father-an English lord who doesn't know she exists and may be the only person who can protect her.... Read more

King of the Romans

By: John Gorman

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Clovis moves to conquer Gaul in AD 486, only the king of the Romans, Syagrius, has the courage to stand in his way. However, he pays a fearful price for his defiance; Shattered by a defeat that cost him his wife, his son, his city, and his army, Syagrius wanders through the collapsing world of a dying empire. He finds refuge with a... Read more

Sharpe’s Gold

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Wellington must call on the only man brave and ruthless enough to win at any cost—Richard Sharpe.Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington’s Peninsular army—vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty—is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, and the last Spanish armies have been crushed by... Read more

The Courtship

By: Gilbert Morris

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned.Lanie’s strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousands who can prove their father’s innocence. Nothing Lanie says can deter Maeva from her mission.Even... Read more

The Endless Forest

By: Sara Donati

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 22 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With a master storyteller’s skill and a historian’s precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers and critics alike with her bestselling novels of the nineteenth-century New York frontier. Now she brings us The Endless Forest, set in the remote village of Paradise, where the Bonner family that readers first met in Into the Wilderness make their... Read more

The Truth About Lord Stoneville

By: Sabrina Jeffries

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the roguishly handsome Sharpe siblings in the sparkling Hellions of Hallstead Hall series from New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries.Oliver Sharpe, the Marquess of Stoneville, has been London's most notorious rake for years. Fed up with his behavior, his grandmother threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't tame his wild... Read more

The Burning Land

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling Saxon Tales chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series.At the end of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in ill health; his heir, an untested youth.... Read more

Alice I Have Been

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.


But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does... Read more

A Brief History of Montmaray

By: Michelle Cooper

Narrated by: Emma Bering

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.”

Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is... Read more

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The heroines of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series have engaged in espionage all over nineteenth-century Europe. In the sixth stand-alone volume, our fair English heroine travels to India, where she finds freedom—and risk—more exciting than she ever imagined.

Everyone warned Miss Penelope Deveraux that her unruly behavior would... Read more

The Swan Thieves

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: John Lee, Treat Williams, Sarah Zimmerman, Anne...

Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a... Read more

Captain of Rome

By: John Stack

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is a young upstart whose position has been purchased rather than earned. Bound to... Read more

Mr. American

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 23 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knew who Mark Franklin was when he disembarked at Liverpool in 1909 with a copy of Shakespeare's works, an old Mexican charro saddle and two Remingtons in his battered luggage. He was just another American, tall and softly-spoken. Even General Flashman never guessed the whole truth. Read more

Unfinished Desires

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.

It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.... Read more

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel... well, American history might have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and Flash Harry himself would have been spared one of the most hair-raising adventures of his misspent life. If only...... Read more

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically... Read more

Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

 A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. 

On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift:... Read more

The Red Door

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lancashire, England: June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even... Read more

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 25 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success... Read more

Celia's House

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Lesley Mackie

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In name and by birth, Celia was a Dunne. She had inherited the beautiful old family home by the Rydd Water – but was she bound to live her life by the principles of her predecessors? Was there some hidden restraint that compelled her to heed the past? Celia's house is a moving and poignant story of the struggle between old and young: the older... Read more

Showdown at Hole-In-the -Wall

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Since the publication of his first novel in 1994, Ralph Cotton has impressed readers and critics alike with gritty tales of the Old West. Some time ago, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack caught a bullet in the back. After a winter spent healing, he's now traveling to meet Memphis Beck, leader of the notorious Hole-in-the-Wall gang and the man who saved... Read more

The Eyre Affair

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a series of outlandishly clever adventures featuring the resourceful, fearless literary detective Thursday Next—a New York Times bestseller!In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a... Read more