Historical Fiction audiobooks

One Corpse Too Many

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

When Shrewsbury Castle falls, Brother Cadfael discovers a murder mystery amidst the wreckage

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls,... Read more

Always and Forever

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Blackboard best-selling author of The Taming of Jessi Rose comes another tale of passion in the Old West. Prim and proper, Grace Atwood is escorting a group of brides from Chicago to their prospective husbands in southern Kansas. But she desperately needs a man to lead their wagon train on the long trip. Former lawman Jackson Blake... Read more

Through the Storm

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Essence and Blackboard best-selling author Beverly Jenkins writes passionate, historically-grounded stories of betrayal and redemption. Beginning in 1864, Through the Storm chronicles the tumultuous lives of onetime lovers, Raimond Le Veq and Sable Fontaine. The Le Veq family was a proud, prominent black New Orleans family until their fortune... Read more

The Rose Rent

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A young window’s gain could be the Abbey’s loss if Brother Cadfael can’t unravel a thorny case of murder

A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses by June 22nd. On that day the young widow Perle must receive one white rose as rent for the house she has given to benefit the abbey, or... Read more

El simbolo perdido

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Gustavo Rex

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

El símbolo perdido, la sensacional continuación de El código Da Vinci, es un golpe maestro de la narrativa: una carrera mortal a través de un auténtico laberinto compuesto por códigos y verdades ocultas, bajo la mirada vigilante de un ser villano aterrador. La acción de El símbolo perdido, que tiene lugar en el interior de una serie de túneles y... Read more

All About Love

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Alasdair Cynster, known to his intimates as Lucifer, decides to rusticate in the country before the matchmaking skills of London's mamas become firmly focused on him, the last unwed Cynster. But an escape to Devonshire leads him straight to his destiny in the irresistible form of Phyllida Tallent, a willful, independent beauty of means who... Read more

The Master of Ballantrae

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Stevenson’s tragic masterpiece unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, where the 1745 Jacobite rising is dividing the country against itself. Amidst this outer conflict, one family finds itself devastatingly divided from within, as two brothers discover their opposing loyalties. Their rivalry soon spreads from war to love, as... Read more

Home for the Holidays

By: Johanna Lindsey

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time in her sheltered life, Larissa Ascot’s wishes for a merry Christmas seem to be in peril. Her father is off to the Colonies on business, but is far overdue to be home. Thus Larissa is left to handle the rumors of her family’s bankruptcy, panicked creditors pounding on her door, and eviction. On top of all that, she must now... Read more

New York: The Novel

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 37 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

The Fisherman's Testament

By: César Vidal

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the year AD 62. The notorious Roman emperor Nero orders Marco Junio Vitalis, a seasoned military general, to assist him in a most peculiar legal proceeding. Vitalis interrogates an elderly Jewish fisherman called Peter, who many years earlier had been a close friend of a man known as Jesus—the same Jesus condemned to death in Jerusalem by... Read more

New York: The Novel - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

A Rogue's Proposal

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Demon Cynster has seen love bring his brethren to their knees, and he's vowed that he will not share their fate … until he spies Felicity Parteger sneaking about his racing stable. Demon remembers Felicity as a mere chit of a girl, but now she stands before him, all lush curves and sparkling eyes …

Felicity knows Demon was one of the town's most... Read more

Before the Dawn

By: Beverly Jenkins

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Blackboard best-selling author Beverly Jenkins is "headed for superstar status in romance," according to the Detroit Free Press. Tavern manager Leah Barnett can scarcely believe the path that destiny has chosen for her. Travelling from Boston to Colorado, Leah has come to face Ryder Damien, the son of her mother's recently deceased lover. Ryder,... Read more

A Secret Love

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

And now, Stephanie Laurens has created her boldest Cynster yet—Gabriel—a man who has known the pleasure of many women, but who has given his heart to no one.

She was desperate for his help …

When a mysterious lady, her face hidden by a black veil, begs Gabriel Cynster for his help, he cannot refuse her plea. For despite her disguise, Gabriel finds... Read more

No Less Than Victory

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.

After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and... Read more

Rainwater

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Victor Slezak

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas.

Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship’s captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a... Read more

The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 19 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds—an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity will take readers to... Read more

Persona Non Grata

By: Ruth Downie

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

At long last, Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, are headed home—to Gaul. Having received a note consisting only of the words "COME HOME!" Ruso has (reluctantly, of course) pulled up stakes and brought Tilla to meet his family.



But the reception there is not what Ruso has hoped for: no one will admit to sending for him, and his brother... Read more

Crossers

By: Philip Caputo

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 21 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico to the manicured lawns of suburban Connecticut, from the hot and dusty air of an isolated ranch to New York City in the wake of 9/11, Philip Caputo gives us an impeccably crafted story about three generations of an Arizona family... Read more

Peter West

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Nick McArdle

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Beth Kerr is the daughter of the boatman in the small village of Kintoul. Her mother died at an early age, after an unhappy marriage that caused her family to cast her aside. As the years pass, Beth grows into a beautiful young woman, watched over by the quiet Peter West. The owner of Kintoul House, Peter is a lonely man with a weak heart and... Read more

A Christmas Promise

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a freezing winter day in London, 1895, when two young girls have a chance meeting. The pair turn out to have much in common: both are poor, both are parentless. But Minnie Maude, only eight, has even worse problems: the uncle with whom she lived has just been murdered, and if that's not enough, the family's donkey has run away. Her new... Read more

The Cloud Pavilion

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile. But just as Yanagisawa's true motives begin to emerge, Sano's estranged... Read more

Fit to Be Tied

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and Idaho rancher Cleo Arlington knows everything about horses but nothing about men. So when charged with transforming English aristocrat Sherwood Statham from playboy into cowboy, she’s totally disconcerted. So is Statham, who’s never encountered a woman succeeding in a “man’s world.” Their bumpy trot into romance is frustrating,... Read more

Splendor

By: Anna Godbersen

Narrated by: Nina Siemaszko

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Gossip Girl meets the Gilded Age in this delicious and compelling novel, the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series from author Anna Godbersen.In the dramatic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Luxe series, Manhattan’s most dazzling socialites chase dreams, cling to promises, and tempt fate. Only one question... Read more