Historical Fiction audiobooks
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
By:
V. E. Schwab
Narrated by:
Julia Whelan, Katie Leung & Marisa Calin
Length:
18 hours 26 minutes
Abridged:
No
A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Fantasy!“Julia Whelan skillfully narrates Sabine's story of bloodlust and decay…Katie Leung's soft Scottish accent suits the grieving Alice…Lottie is portrayed by Marisa Calin, whose crisp English accent reminds listeners of Lottie's high-society past.”—AudioFile“Julia Whelan, Katie Leung and Marisa Calin... Read more about Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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James
By:
Percival Everett
Narrated by:
Dominic Hoffman
Length:
7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged:
No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR... Read more about James
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The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick
By:
Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by:
Jane Oppenheimer & Ariel Lawhon
Length:
15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and... Read more about The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick
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Wuthering Heights
By:
Emily Brontë
Narrated by:
Aimee Lou Wood & Kristin Atherton
Length:
13 hours 58 minutes
Abridged:
No
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor.Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There... Read more about Wuthering Heights
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The Song of Achilles
By:
Madeline Miller
Narrated by:
Frazer Douglas
Length:
11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged:
No
“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the... Read more about The Song of Achilles
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Katabasis
By:
R. F. Kuang
Narrated by:
Morag Sims & Will Watt
Length:
18 hours 34 minutes
Abridged:
No
Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of... Read more about Katabasis
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I, Medusa
By:
Ayana Gray
Narrated by:
Tyla Collier & A'rese Emokpae
Length:
11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “captivating villain origin story” (People Book of the Week) reimagining one of the most iconic monsters in Greek mythology as a provocative and powerful young heroine“Ayana Gray brings her fresh, dynamic storytelling to one of the most monstered, maligned, and misunderstood women of Greek myth, imagining all the... Read more about I, Medusa
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
By:
V. E. Schwab
Narrated by:
Julia Whelan
Length:
17 hours 31 minutes
Abridged:
No
"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –BooklistIn the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life... Read more about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Hamnet
By:
Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by:
Ell Potter
Length:
12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged:
No
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston GlobeIn 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary,... Read more about Hamnet
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Babel
By:
R. F. Kuang
Narrated by:
Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length:
21 hours 46 minutes
Abridged:
No
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An... Read more about Babel
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
By:
Shannon Chakraborty
Narrated by:
Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal
Length:
16 hours 59 minutes
Abridged:
No
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied... Read more about The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
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Buckeye: A Read with Jenna Pick
By:
Patrick Ryan
Narrated by:
Michael Crouch
Length:
15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.“Mesmerizing.”—People“Captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review“A once-in-a-decade novel .... Read more about Buckeye: A Read with Jenna Pick
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By:
Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by:
Shane Ghostkeeper, Marin Ireland & Owen Teale
Length:
15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged:
No
A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for HorrorSelected as One of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books of 2025 A Barack Obama Summer Read A Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Toronto Star, and Publishers Weekly Best of the Year Kirkus Reviews Best Historical Fiction The New York Times bestseller and “horror masterpiece” (NPR) from... Read more about The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
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Circe
By:
Madeline Miller
Narrated by:
Perdita Weeks
Length:
12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged:
No
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not... Read more about Circe
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So Far Gone
By:
Jess Walter
Narrated by:
Edoardo Ballerini
Length:
8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged:
No
National Bestseller Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels... Read more about So Far Gone
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When the Tides Held the Moon
By:
Venessa Vida Kelley
Narrated by:
Joel de la Fuente & Lee Osorio
Length:
12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged:
No
The Shape of Water meets The Greatest Showman in this queer historical cozy fantasy, as a young Puerto Rican immigrant goes through a journey of love and self-discovery after capturing a merman for a Coney Island sideshow act in turn-of-the-20th-century New York. "A lushly historical romance … This book is a charming... Read more about When the Tides Held the Moon
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Isola: Reese's Book Club
By:
Allegra Goodman
Narrated by:
Fiona Hardingham & Allegra Goodman
Length:
12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged:
No
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name“A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction.”—Vogue... Read more about Isola: Reese's Book Club
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North Woods
By:
Daniel Mason
Narrated by:
Mark Bramhall, Michael Crouch, Jason Culp, Mark...
Length:
11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it... Read more about North Woods
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The Mad Wife
By:
Meagan Church
Narrated by:
Susan Bennett
Length:
9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged:
No
From bestselling author Meagan Church comes a haunting exploration of identity, motherhood, and the suffocating grip of societal expectations that will leave you questioning the lives we build—and the lies we live.They called it hysteria. She called it survival.Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the perfect 1950s... Read more about The Mad Wife
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By:
James McBride
Narrated by:
Dominic Hoffman
Length:
12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged:
No
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTIONFROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND... Read more about The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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Mexican Gothic
By:
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by:
Frankie Corzo
Length:
10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker,... Read more about Mexican Gothic
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Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
By:
Heather Fawcett
Narrated by:
Genevieve Cocke
Length:
11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged:
No
A woman who runs a cat rescue in 1920s Montréal turns to a grouchy but charming magician to help save her shelter in this heartwarming cozy fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of the Emily Wilde series.“Absolutely magnificent! Full of cats and magic, this is the kind of book you want to instantly reread. I loved every character,... Read more about Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter
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Lincoln in the Bardo
By:
George Saunders
Narrated by:
George Saunders, Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, ...
Length:
7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged:
No
WINNER OF THE AUDIE AWARD FOR AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters,... Read more about Lincoln in the Bardo
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Black Sun
By:
Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by:
Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab & Shaun Ta...
Length:
12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged:
No
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies,... Read more about Black Sun
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