Audicted cohosts Katie O’Connor and Kat Johnson, along with their fellow Audible Editor Christina Harcar, explore the intersection of history and historical fiction, and give complementary listening recommendations for different eras in each genre. The episode features an excerpt from an interview with international best-selling author Isabel Allende.
Othello: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition by William Shakespeare
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery, and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
The Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Our Harlem by Marcus Samuelsson
The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles
South to America by Imani Perry
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The King's General by Daphné du Maurier
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks
Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
White Queen by Philippa Gregory
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Dorsey Armstrong, The Great Courses
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Violeta by Isabel Allendale
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
The Podcaster by Christopher Chen
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir