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