Historical Fiction Audiobooks

From World War II secret code breakers to 20th century Japanese life, fascinating history-based fiction audiobooks can make you feel like you’ve time traveled. Historical fiction audiobooks intimately connect us to different eras via brilliant characters and accurate details from the world’s past. Treat your ears to a myriad of amazing narrators and compelling history-based stories below.

From World War II secret code breakers to 20th century Japanese life, fascinating history-based fiction audiobooks can make you feel like you’ve time traveled. Historical fiction audiobooks intimately connect us to different eras via brilliant characters and accurate details from the world’s past. Treat your ears to a myriad of amazing narrators and compelling history-based stories below.

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The Witching Tide
The Witching Tide
The Witching Tide
The Witching Tide
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The Witching Tide

byMargaret Meyer

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England. East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived peacefully for more than four decades in her beloved seaside village of Cleftwater. Having lost her voice as a child, Martha has not spoken a word in years. One autumn morning, a sinister newcomer appears in town. A “witchfinder,” Silas Makepeace has been blazing a trail of destruction along the coast, and his arrival in Cleftwater strikes fear into the heart of the community. Within a day, local women are being detained. Martha is enlisted to search the accused women for “devil’s marks,” and finds herself a silent witness to the hunt. Martha is caught between suspicion and betrayal; between shielding herself or condemning the women of the village. In desperation, she revives a wax witching doll that belonged to her mother, in the hope that it will bring protection. But the doll’s true powers are unknowable, Martha harbors a terrible secret, and the gallows are looming… Set over the course of a few weeks that forever changed history, and for readers of Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood, The Witching Tide “illuminates a dark historical period and cautions against its recreation” (Kirkus Reviews).

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About Historical Fiction

From ancient times to 20th century Japanese life, historical fiction can make you feel like you’ve time traveled. Historical fiction audiobooks intimately connect us to a different era via brilliant characters and details from the past. We take up arms alongside Civil War soldiers or teeter in a cobblestone alley in 18th century London. Often pulling rich detail from in-depth research, historical fiction can retell a familiar true-life story from a different perspective, creating fictionalized accounts of real-life events. Subcategories include historical fantasy, romance, African American historical fiction, medieval and even WWII fiction. Civil War historical fiction contains titles such as Old Hollow and The Third Mrs. Galway. Ancient fiction covers stories set in Egyptian times and in ancient Mesopotamia. Renaissance fiction carries several titles from much loved author Philippa Gregory. More than other genres, historical fiction audiobooks offer listeners the opportunity to slip into the mind of a character from another era. From The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini to Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, step back in time with compelling voices and story. Find yourself immersed in a distant past when you start one of these captivating and great historical fiction audiobooks.

From ancient times to 20th century Japanese life, historical fiction can make you feel like you’ve time traveled. Historical fiction audiobooks intimately connect us to a different era via brilliant characters and details from the past. We take up arms alongside Civil War soldiers or teeter in a cobblestone alley in 18th century London. Often pulling rich detail from in-depth research, historical fiction can retell a familiar true-life story from a different perspective, creating fictionalized accounts of real-life events. Subcategories include historical fantasy, romance, African American historical fiction, medieval and even WWII fiction. Civil War historical fiction contains titles such as Old Hollow and The Third Mrs. Galway. Ancient fiction covers stories set in Egyptian times and in ancient Mesopotamia. Renaissance fiction carries several titles from much loved author Philippa Gregory. More than other genres, historical fiction audiobooks offer listeners the opportunity to slip into the mind of a character from another era. From The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini to Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, step back in time with compelling voices and story. Find yourself immersed in a distant past when you start one of these captivating and great historical fiction audiobooks.