RTP Readers Recommend Historical Fiction

One Thousand White Women

The Journals of May Dodd

The One Thousand White Women Series: Book #1

By: Jim Fergus
Narrated by: Laura Hicks
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

“Have you ever wonder what if this happened another way than it actually did? Well that’s exactly what this author wrote. He took a fact from history and wrote what it could have been like had the government said yes to the deal the chief of this tribe requested by exchanging 1,000 white women to marry and birth a child with the natives in return... Read more

The Nightingale

A Novel

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Polly Stone
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War... Read more

Empress of the Seven Hills

Empress of Rome: Book #3

By: Kate Quinn
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Powerful, prosperous, and expanding ever farther into the untamed world, the Roman Empire has reached its zenith under the rule of the beloved Emperor Trajan. But neither Trajan nor his reign can last forever...




Brash and headstrong, Vix is a celebrated ex-gladiator returned to Rome to make his fortune. The sinuous, elusive Sabina is a senator's... Read more

Moonlight Over Paris

A Novel

By: Jennifer Robson
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over.Spring, 1924Recovering from a broken wartime engagement and a serious illness that left... Read more

The First Man in Rome - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: David Ogden Stiers
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

"The First Man in Rome was not the best man: he was the First among other men who were his equals...To be the First Man in Rome was something far better than kingship..."

In the first century B.C. at the height of the Roman Republic, two men set their sights on becoming the First Man - the Roman more respected than any other. Marius, a... Read more

Through a Glass Darkly - Abridged

By: Karleen Koen
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Sparkles with all of the passion, extravagance and scandal of a grand and glorious era…
As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. From aristocrats to scoundrels, its rich, vivid characters create their own immortality. Here is the story of a great family... Read more

The Velvet Hours

By: Alyson Richman
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young Frenchwoman closes the door to her late grandmother’s treasure-filled apartment, unsure if she’ll ever return.An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian had cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre.... Read more

Resistance Women

A Novel

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

“Based upon the life of American Mildred Fish Harnack. Mildred, Arvid & Greta meet as graduate students in Wisconsin. Arvid returns to Germany to work. Mildred follows him & they are married. Greta is forced to return to Germany because of the depression. The book follows the rise of Hitler, the increasing persecution of the intelligencia... Read more