Historical Fiction audiobooks

Till We Have Faces

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

C. S. Lewis reworks the timeless myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction in this novel about the struggle between sacred and profane love. Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself,... Read more

Shanghai Girls

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, ... Read more

Song of Solomon - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Milkman Dead was born shortly after... Read more

Summer at the Lake

By: Andrew M. Greeley

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends. The rich and prominent "Old House" families of Chicago banded together to... Read more

The Secret Speech

By: Tom Rob Smith

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved... Read more

The Ace

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Americans—a twenty-year-old social outcast, a breezily iconoclastic Army officer, a ruthless US senator, and a guilt-ridden heiress—are inexorably drawn together in their struggles to deal with America's chaotic involvement in World War I. Their interwoven destinies lead from poverty-stricken slums through the opulence of 1917–1918... Read more

King Solomon’s Mines

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold elephant hunter journeys to an unknown land in search of fabled lost treasure. But terrible dangers threaten anyone who approaches the wonderful diamond mines of King Solomon.On board a ship bound for Natal, adventurer Allan Quatermain meets Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good. His new friends have set out to find Sir Henry’s younger... Read more

Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)

By: Yuri Rasovsky

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before Western writers had even conceived the idea of writing detective stories, the Chinese had developed a long tradition of literary works that chronicled the cases of important district magistrates. One of the most celebrated of these was Judge Dee, who lived in the seventh century AD.This book, written anonymously in the eighteenth... Read more

The Black Tulip

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandre Dumas’s novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes, and glorious victories. In The Black Tulip, the real hero is no musketeer, but a flower.The novel, a deceptively simple story, is set in Holland in 1672 during the amazing tulipmania of the seventeenth century that brought wealth to... Read more

Alexandria

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In first-century-AD Rome, during the reign of Vespasian, Marcus Didius Falco works as a private "informer," often for the emperor, ferreting out hidden truths and bringing villains to ground. But even informers take vacations with their wives, so in AD 77, Falco and his wife, Helena Justina, with others in tow, travel to Alexandria, Egypt. But... Read more

The Poet Slave of Cuba

By: Margarita Engle

Narrated by: Yesenia Cabrero, Chris Nunez, Ozzie Rodriguez &...

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Together we belonged
along with countless others
human beasts of burden
to the proud Marquesa . . .

Juan Francisco Manzano has never known any other life. Born into the household of a wealthy slaveowner in Cuba in 1797, he spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mamá, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an... Read more

Squire

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When Keladry of Mindelan is chosen by the legendary Lord Raoul to be his squire, the conservatives of the realm hardly think she’s up to the job. Kel quickly proves her ability as a jouster, warrior, and guardian of a fiery griffin, ultimately earning respect and admiration among the men, as well as the affection of a fellow squire. In addition... Read more

Scandal's Bride

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

How can an honourable lady like Lady Catriona Hennessy unite with a rake like Richard Cynster? Though charmed by his commanding presence, she cannot give up her independence. Marriage had not previously been on Richard's agenda, but perhaps taming the lady was just the challenge he needs—if he can have the rights of the marriage bed without... Read more

Stone's Fall

By: Iain Pears

Narrated by: Roy Dotrice, John Lee & Simon Vance

Length: 24 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity.

In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer,... Read more

All Other Nights

By: Dara Horn

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, it is a question his commanders have answered for him: on Passover in 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.



After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself? The answer comes when his... Read more

Golden Days

By: D.E. Stevenson

Narrated by: Hilary Neville

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Tim goes to the Highlands of Scotland and is involved in a plot to rescue a naval officer from the toils of a siren; but, alas, the best laid plans "gang aft agley". The characters are skilfully drawn, from the fierce Mrs London with her heart of gold to the garrulous Mrs Falconer whose muddled stories of her girlhood make excruciatingly... Read more

Warrior

By: Allan Mallinson

Narrated by: Errick Graham

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

1828: Matthew Hervey of the Sixth Light Dragoons has been urgently recalled to South Africa. The stability of the Cape Colony has been threatened by Xhosa tribesman who have been making incursions across the borders. When Hervey is told by his old friend, Sir Eyre Somervile, that the Zulu warrior king, Shaka, is about to make war on neighbouring... Read more

Magic Flutes - Abridged

By: Eva Ibbotson

Narrated by: Teresa Gallagher

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Magic Flutes is an enchanting story of love, music and secret princesses from Eva Ibbotson.

Spring, 1922. Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess – who's given up her duties to follow her heart, working for nothing backstage at the Viennese opera. No one there knows who she really is, or that a fairy-tale castle is missing its princess,... Read more

A Murder on the Appian Way

By: Steven Saylor

Narrated by: Scott Harrison

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient Rome has been in a state of turmoil as the rival gangs of Publius Clodius, a high-born, populist politician, and his arch-enemy, Titus Milo, have fought to control the consular elections. When Clodius is murdered on the famed Appian Way and Milo is accused of the crime, the city explodes with riots and arson, and even the near sacrosanct... Read more

The Surrender Tree

By: Margarita Engle

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How can there be
a little war?
Are some deaths
smaller than others,
leaving mothers
who weep
a little less?

Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. Her people have been rounded up in reconcentration camps, where there is always too little food and too much illness. Rosa knows how to heal sickness with medicines made from... Read more

Tropical Secrets

By: Margarita Engle

Narrated by: Matt Green, Vane Millon, Ozzie Rodriguez & Robe...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Last year, in Berlin
on the Night of Crystal
my grandfather was killed
while I held his hand.

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away the ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.
As the tropical island begins... Read more

Delicious

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly praised Sherry Thomas for her "steamy and smart" prose featuring "deft plotting and sparkling characters." Delicious presents Verity Durant, an irresistible woman of a more elegant age. Verity is renowned from London to Paris for her succulent cuisine-and for her rapacious carnal appetite. And she's... Read more

The Rogue's Return

By: Jo Beverley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rogue's Return continues the popular Company of Rogues series by New York Times best-selling author Jo Beverley. Simon St. Bride has been in Canada fighting the War of 1812-but the war is over now, and Simon is ready to come home. Before he leaves, however, Simon must defend a young woman's honor. What does her past hide? "... an exquisitely... Read more

The Sea of Trolls

By: Nancy Farmer

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon village had never before seen berserkers. "Of course. People don't make ships and swords unless they... Read more