Historical Diaries

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    • The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
    • By: Nancy E. Turner
    • Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
    • Series: Sarah Agnes Prine, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,823 ratings
    • A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire....

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    • By: Sandra Dallas
    • Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 391 ratings
    • No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him....

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    • By: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 50 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Eminent historian C. Vann Woodward's Mary Chesnut’s Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of the incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut's journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.

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    • From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

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    • By: Mary Chesnut
    • Narrated by: Mary Baker
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • This is the original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was an aide to President Jefferson Davis. It is a fascinating narrative...

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    • By: John L. Ransom
    • Narrated by: James Keller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • John L. Ransom was taken prisoner in 1863 when his regiment was split into two smaller forces in East Tennessee. Ransom’s diary is important as it provides information on the notorious Andersonville prison camp that may not have been known otherwise....

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    • By: Anna Bennett
    • Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
    • Series: Debutante Diaries, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Miss Fiona Hartley’s huge dowry should have ensured that finding a husband would be quick. True, she’s a tad older than the average debutante and spends too much time sketching brutally honest character portraits. She desperately needs a husband, so she can access her dowry....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Hunter S. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 955 ratings
    • Begun in 1959 by a 22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s....

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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Anne Frank
    • Narrated by: Selma Blair
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,208 ratings
    • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....

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    • The World's Greatest Diaries, Notebooks, and Letters Explored and Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Remarkable Diaries traces the history of the diary in all its forms, from ancient times to the present day. It brings together historical and literary diaries, artists' sketchbooks, explorers' journals, and scientists' notebooks....

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    • Duchess Diaries, Book 1
    • By: Karen Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Alison Larkin
    • Series: Duchess Diaries Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • Urged by her favorite nephew, the intimidating Duchess of Roxburghe agrees to transform a thorny Scottish rose into a lovely bloom....

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    • Daughter of the Nile, 57 B.C.
    • By: Kristiana Gregory
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, 12-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety....

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    • The Wartime Diaries of Churchill’s Youngest Daughter
    • By: Mary Churchill, Emma Soames - editor, Erik Larson - introduction
    • Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Emma Soames
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1939, seventeen-year-old Mary found herself in an extraordinary position at an extraordinary time: it was the outbreak of World War II and her father, Winston Churchill, had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty; within months he would become prime minister....

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    • Glass and Steele, Book 4
    • By: C. J. Archer
    • Narrated by: Marian Hussey
    • Series: Glass and Steele, Book 4
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,090 ratings
    • India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble....

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    • Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician
    • By: Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Series: Cecelia and Kate, Book 1-3
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Enter Regency-era England—and a world in which magical mayhem and high society go hand in hand—with three novels featuring cousins Cecelia and Kate....

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    • A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
    • By: Elizabeth Brown Pryor
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic....

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    • Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
    • By: Kathryn Lasky
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Welcome to the bizarre court of Henry VIII, where even a princess fears losing her head like her mother....

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    • The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
    • By: Carolyn Meyer
    • Narrated by: Renee Raudman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • In this fictionalized journal, Anastasia Romanov lives again....

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