Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

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Title: Sayonara: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: September 8, 2015

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman. Stationed in the exotic Far East, Major Lloyd Gruver considers himself lucky. The son of a general, dating the daughter of another powerful military family, he can look forward to a bright future. And he just can’t understand guys like Private Joe Kelly, who throw away their lives in the States by marrying local girls. But then Lloyd meets Hana-ogi. After that, nothing matters anymore . . . nothing but her.   Praise for James A. Michener   “A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—The New York Times   “Michener has become an institution in America, ranking somewhere between Disneyland and the Library of Congress. You learn a lot from him.”—Chicago Tribune   “While he fascinates and engrosses, Michener also educates.”—Los Angeles Times

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Title: The Bridges at Toko-Ri: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Release date: September 8, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

In one of his beloved early bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener crafts a tale of the American men who fought the Korean War, detailing their exploits in the air as well as their lives on the ground. Young and innocent, they arrive in a place they have barely ever heard of, on a ship massive enough to carry planes and helicopters. Trained as professionals, they prepare for the rituals of war that countless men before them have endured, and face the same fears. They are American fighter pilots. Together they face an enemy they do not understand, knowing their only hope for survival is to win.   Praise for The Bridges at Toko-Ri   “A vivid and moving story, as well as an exciting one . . . The humanity of the people is deeply felt.”—Chicago Tribune   “The Banshees screaming over Korea, the perilous landings on an aircraft carrier deck ‘bouncing around like a derelict rowboat,’ a helicopter rescue from the freezing waters . . . all are stirringly rendered.”—The Denver Post   “Michener’s best . . . a story of action, ideas, and civilization’s responsibilities.”—Saturday Review

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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrator: John Greenman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Release date: September 7, 2015

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Among the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North's view of slavery. In fact, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Lincoln is said to have commented, "So you're the little lady whose book started the Civil War." First published on March 20, 1852, the story focuses on the tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave, the central character around whose life the other characters-both fellow slaves and slave owners-revolve. The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings.

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Title: The Girl from Krakow: A Novel

Author: Alex Rosenberg

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2015

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store—marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests turn to defeat, she seeks a way to prevent the inevitable doom of Nazism from making her one of its last victims. Can her passion and resolve outlast the most powerful evil that Europe has ever seen? In an epic saga that spans from Paris in the ’30s and Spain’s Civil War to Moscow, Warsaw, and the heart of Nazi Germany, The Girl from Krakow follows one woman’s battle for survival as entire nations are torn apart, never to be the same.

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Title: The Gilded Hour

Series: #1 of The Gilded Hour Series

Author: Sara Donati

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 31 hours 38 minutes

Release date: September 1, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love. The year is 1883, and in New York City it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie—both graduates of the Woman’s Medical School—treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy. Anna’s work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor—and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel that proves Sara Donati is an author at the height of her powers.

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Title: Noonday

Series: #3 of The Life Class Trilogy

Author: Pat Barker

Narrator: Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid, Finlay Robertson, Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2015

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson From the Booker Prize-winning and Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the Girls The final novel in Pat Barker's acclaimed 'Life Class' trilogy - an unforgettable story of art and war, from one of our greatest writers on war and the human heart 'Bold, hard-hitting, unforgettable, with luminous and unsparing insight' Independent on Sunday 'Barker's command of detail and gift for metaphor are as sharp as ever... Noonday is in the first rank' Mail on Sunday '[There is] no end to her talent in describing how conflicts rupture the soul' Arifa Akbar, Independent London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. As the bombing intensifies, the constant risk of death makes all three of them reach out for quick consolation. Old loves and obsessions re-surface until Elinor is brought face to face with an almost impossible choice. Writing about the Second World War for the first time, Pat Barker brings the besieged and haunted city of London into electrifying life. The Life Class trilogy: Life Class Toby's Room Noonday

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Title: The Invisible Hand

Author: Ayad Akhtar

Narrator: Ayad Akhtar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make. In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets. '[A] tense, provocative thriller about the unholy nexus of international terrorism and big bucks....'-Seattle Times 'Ahktar again turns hypersensitive subjects into thought-provoking and thoughtful drama'-Newsday 'The prime theme is pulsing and alive: when human lives become just one more commodity to be traded, blood eventually flows in the streets'-Financial Times 'Whip-smart and twisty'-Time Out New York 'The Invisible Hand offers genuine insight into the future of the West' (Village Voice).

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Title: The Book of Lost and Found: A Novel

Author: Lucy Foley

Narrator: Fiona Hardingham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 20

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From London to Corsica to Paris — as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List.  Kate Darling's enigmatic mother — a once-famous ballerina — has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Kate's mother, Kate uncovers a mystery that may upend everything she thought she knew. Kate's journey to find the true identity of the woman in the portrait takes her to some of the world's most iconic and indulgent locales, revealing a love story that began in the wild 1920s and was disrupted by war and could now spark new love for Kate. Alternating between Kate's present-day hunt and voices from the past, The Book of Lost and Found casts light on family secrets and love — both lost and found.

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Title: Texas: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 65 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 24

Ratings of Narrator: 3.2 of Total 5

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

"A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman doing honorable work....He manages to make history vivid and palatable to the reader." THE BOSTON GLOBE Texas. A land of sprawling diversity and unparalleled richness; a dazzling chapter in the history of our nation, a place like no other on earth. Through the remarkable lives of four families, this epic saga spans four centuries and two continents and charts the dramatic formation of several great dynasties from the age of the conquistadors to the present day. A richly compelling novel of a proud people eager to meet the challenge of the land, TEXAS is James Michener's most magnificent achievement.

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Title: Space: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 37 hours 32 minutes

Release date: August 25, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women—people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world.   Praise for Space   “A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.”—The Wall Street Journal   “A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.”—BusinessWeek   “Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.”—The New York Times