History audiobooks

The Demon of Unrest

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best,... Read more

A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more

On Tyranny

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)

“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the... Read more

A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 29 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post •... Read more

The Wager

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Dion Graham & David Grann

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on... Read more

Nexus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Vidish Athavale

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist

“This deeply important book comes at a critical... Read more

The Small and the Mighty

By: Sharon McMahon

Narrated by: Sharon McMahon

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the... Read more

Say Nothing

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Matthew Blaney

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century
 
"Masked intruders... Read more

Talking to Strangers

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more

Challenger

By: Adam Higginbotham

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Stunning…A heart-pounding thriller…Challenger is a remarkable book.” —The Atlantic • “Devastating…A universal story that transcends time.” —The New York... Read more

Democracy Awakening

By: Heather Cox Richardson

Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post

“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the... Read more

Spare

By: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

Narrated by: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing.

“Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year)

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s... Read more

An African History of Africa

By: Zeinab Badawi

Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Already a major international bestseller, Zeinab Badawi’s sweeping and much-needed survey of African history traces the continent’s extraordinary legacy from prehistory to the present from the African perspective.“Equal parts gripping and galvanizing. . . . Researched across more than 30 countries, it brings the dazzling civilizations of... Read more

On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.

This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.

In this exclusive audiobook edition, which... Read more

The Bookshop

By: Evan Friss

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography

One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times

"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub,... Read more

How to Hide an Empire

By: Daniel Immerwahr

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and... Read more

Wild Faith

By: Talia Lavin

Narrated by: Talia Lavin

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy.

All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and... Read more

The Dawn of Everything

By: David Graeber & David Wengrow

Narrated by: Mark Williams

Length: 24 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more

Sapiens

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill GatesOfficial U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the... Read more

The 1619 Project

By: Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein

Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

The Shock Doctrine - Abridged

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she... Read more

The Sirens' Call

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society

We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We... Read more

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by: Jason Reynolds

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America

This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.

The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more