History bestsellers
The top 50 History audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 3,000+ partner bookstore locations.
All bestsellers Bestsellers by genreThe Demon of Unrest
A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“A chilling story of our country falling apart, this is a fascinating dive into the lead-up to the beginning of the Civil War: the time between Lincoln’s election and the fall of Fort Sumter. This compelling, essential and eminently readable book is based on letters, journals and political records from the time. Read more
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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
By: Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.
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A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
Narrated by: Dion Graham & David Grann
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“How has this story been kept under wraps for so long? It plays like a novel with vivid characters and escalating tension. Fans of Erik Larson or Patrick O'Brian will love this equally. Read more
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The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This is an important and beautifully written book examining the links and common elements between the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany. Highly recommended. Read more
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By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 29 hours 9 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“No one really needs my blurb to help sell this book, but I wanted to give it anyway, especially for the audiobook, narrated by Barack Obama himself. If you want to know his incredible knowledge and wisdom that guided him through major decisions, and also hear him drop a few F-bombs, you need to listen to this fantastically written book. Read more
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By: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Narrated by: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Surprisingly enjoyable, especially on audio. Prince Harry is a smart man, with some pointed insights, and is a delightful narrator. Read more
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A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi & Rashid Khalidi
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home... Read more
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What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“If you're thinking about giving audiobooks a try, I highly recommend starting off your audiobook experience with Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers. I just finished this last night and love the work Gladwell put into the production of it, and of course Gladwell delivers, as always, an in-depth analysis of a topic that will flip your worldview. Read more
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A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I was blown away by this book. I listened to the audio and Jason Reynold's narration is engaging, funny, and moving all rolled into one. I found myself interested in history in ways I have not been in the past. As white women I found myself grieving for the crimes my race has committed. For hatred that continued to take root and spread. Yet I... Read more
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The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By: David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Did you know that the richest people per capita in the world in the 1920s were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma? Me neither. Soon after oil was discovered under their land, a series of murders plagued the Osage Nation and one by one members were killed off, along with those who attempted to get to the bottom of this mystery. This is a... Read more
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By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I'm really enjoying listening to Stephen Fry's narration of his book Mythos. Told with a wink and a nod, he brings the classical mythologies alive with great zest. Weaving the many personalities and stories into a whole tapestry of delight. Wonderful fun for making that walk longer. Read more
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A World History of Women and Alcohol
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“What! A! Book! As an avid nonfiction reader I don't say this lightly: Girly Drinks might be one of the best written 'untold stories' I've ever come across. O'Meara covers several centuries and nearly every continent in this sweeping history. Her tone is playful without dismissing the importance of her record-correcting work. Girly Drinks updated... Read more
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A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The perfect gift for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day!
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris... Read more
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Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
By: Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish
Narrated by: Diana Gabaldon, Graham McTavish & Sam Heughan
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Winner of the Audie Award 2022 for Best History/Biography Audiobook. Earphones Award Winner 2021.
A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander - Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare.
Narrated by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, with a foreword written and... Read more
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The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Timothy Egan
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Some pride themselves on knowing historical facts and hidden histories, and yet, Egan, with his horror story about the KKK, will stop you in your tracks. Wasn't this just a 19th century Southern phenomenon? Who knew American Terror happened literally in our own backyard. Read more
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A Memoir
By: RuPaul
Narrated by: RuPaul
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Read by Ru Paul
***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame... Read more
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The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Jacob York
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more
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A Brief History of Humankind
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I don't own many books. I read books and give them away. However, I will NOT be giving away my copy of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. It's a keeper! Sapiens was an intense read for me. I found myself taking breaks every dozen pages or so. Not because I was bored - just the opposite. I needed time to let the author's perspective on the... Read more
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A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“What do you do when a 700-page book about the entirety of human history has been sitting unopened on your desk for weeks, taunting you every time you pass it because you know you're going to love it but, man, it's intimidating? You download the audiobook. I've been listening to this radical, invigorating reexamination of the history of... Read more
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Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system.
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
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Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Set during the Dust Bowl, amidst the Great Depression, a dedicated group of basketball beauties, the Cardinals of Oklahoma Presbyterian College, are determined to challenge societal strictures and Babe Didrickson on their quest for the National Championship title. Faced with much criticism, judged less feminine for participating in a competitive... Read more
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Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
“Sides has mastered the art of you-are-there historical narrative. A thrilling and necessary update to one of history’s... Read more
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A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller
“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrifying.”—Wall Street Journal
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours:... Read more
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The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good
By: Elise Loehnen
Narrated by: Elise Loehnen
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Whether you identify as a Christian or not, you will be persuaded by Loehnen's argument that the centuries old Seven Deadly Sins continue to exert harmful power over the behavior and lives of women causing us to suppress our healthy desires for agency, autonomy and personal power. Read more
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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the... Read more
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A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Smith has crafted a resource, narrative and detailed explanation into how we teach the legacy of slavery. He recounts visits from everywhere from NYC to the Whitney Plantation, integrating stories of people and visitors today. This book is lays a beautiful written foundation for interrogating the history we've been taught. Particularly... Read more
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Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“The Devil in the White City is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Set amidst the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Erik Larson's historical narrative interweaves the stories of two men who would come to define it, for better and for worse. One is Daniel Burnham, chief architect of the Fair, who threw his entire being into creating a... Read more
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A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023... Read more
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A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“An excellent account of the darkest hour through the intimate details of the Churchill family, and accounts and diaries of staff and English, German and American leaders and soldiers. Larson expertly shows Churchill's highs and lows and how his oration skills, charisma and spirit buoyed society at the exact right time. Excellent for WWII buffs... Read more
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A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Say Nothing is a chilling chronicle of The Troubles of Northern Ireland and its aftermath, with special focus on the orchestrated disappearance of civilian mother of ten Jean McConville. Per the author, Patrick Radden Keefe, the book is not a comprehensive history, but as someone who knew virtually nothing about The Troubles going in, I found... Read more
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Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“I loved Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America. This essential book explores a handful of Black performers—some world-famous, others everyday people—across a wide variety of disciplines, seamlessly woven into snippets and stories from Hanif’s own life about Black culture and the performance of Blackness. JD Jackson’s low and easy narration... Read more
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Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
By: Dana Mattioli
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt & Dana Mattioli
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Most Anticipated by Foreign Policy, Globe and Mail
“Riveting and explosive.” – Christopher Leonard
From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any... Read more
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A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes, and Empires
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 25 hours 33 minutes
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.... Read more
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Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the 21st century may... Read more
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Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked... Read more
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By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more
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A New Origin Story
By: Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of... Read more
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The Puzzle of Polynesia
By: Christina Thompson
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest... Read more
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A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“The very word 'Viking' conjures up all kinds of thrilling images: horned warriors, bloodthirsty berserkers, many-oared longships, brutal battles, and pillaged monasteries all spring to mind. However, in CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM, archaeologist Neil Price peels back centuries of myth and misconception and propaganda to paint a fascinating,... Read more
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How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in our world even in 2023. Exposés like this force us to see and understand how our choices can affect people on the other side of the earth from us. Changes need to be made starting at the major corporations and then trickle down to the individual. Once we know what is happening we cannot un-know it. Read more
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Nine Hundred Years of Making History
By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, Nneka Okoye, James Goode & Joe Jameson
Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.” —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
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How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Believe it or not Christianity and American politics were separated at one point. However in the last century Evangelical Christianity has become synonymous with conservative politics. This book walks you through the time frame of how that happened and how we are feeling that divide today. We also see how figures like John Wayne became symbols... Read more
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By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.
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Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
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The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World
By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Any fan of Nabokov’s Lolita will be enthralled by Sarah Weinman’s investigation of the real-life kidnapping and sexual assault that became the basis for the 20th-century masterpiece. Weinman dives deep into the archives to piece together the ties between fact and fiction, even when the author or the victim’s family refused to discuss history.... Read more
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Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
By: Shai Held
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.
A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread... Read more
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How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
By: Olivia Campbell
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.
In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they... Read more
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Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Ned Blackhawk
Narrated by: Jason Grasl
Length: 17 hours 18 minutes
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American... Read more
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Women in the Greek Myths
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more
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A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
By: Adeeb Khalid
Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
Length: 17 hours 28 minutes
This engaging audiobook narrated by Aaqil Ahmed explores how Central Asia has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the... Read more
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