History audiobooks

Bonhoeffer

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner & Eric Metaxas

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor... Read more

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

By: Donald J. Robertson

Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through... Read more

Liftoff

By: Eric Berger

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. 

In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the... Read more

JFK Jr.

By: RoseMarie Terenzio & Liz McNeil

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell, Kevin R. Free, Lanna Joff...

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fascinating…the fullest portrait of Kennedy ever written.” —The Washington Post

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate and detailed look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Rinker Buck

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor

The eagerly awaited return of master... Read more

Lay Them to Rest

By: Laurah Norton

Narrated by: Laurah Norton

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases. Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to “getting the bad... Read more

His Very Best

By: Jonathan Alter

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 31 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, “splendid” (The Washington Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and Nobel Prize–winning humanitarian.

Jonathan Alter tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his improbable journey from... Read more

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin

By: Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman

Narrated by: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels,...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the entire Dunder Mifflin gang on a journey back to Scranton: here's the hilarious inside story of how a little show that barely survived its first season became the most watched series in the universe.Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the cast and creators of The Office—the actors, writers, producers, directors,... Read more

Life Lessons From Historical Women

By: Eleanor Morton

Narrated by: Eleanor Morton

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. In Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton celebrates the ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday lives resonate with us today.

Taking inspiration from the thriving self-help genre, Morton... Read more

From Here to Equality

By: William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major... Read more

Nothing to Envy

By: Barbara Demick

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings... Read more

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

By: Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Visiting Martin Luther King Jr., at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self defense, King assured him. It was not the only weapon King kept for such a purpose; one of his advisors remembered the reverend's Montgomery, Alabama home as an arsenal. Like King, many... Read more

Women in the Valley of the Kings

By: Kathleen Sheppard

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before... Read more

The Narrow Corridor

By: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics and the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail

"Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy? The best recent work on this subject comes from a remarkable pair of scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. In their latest book, The Narrow Corridor,... Read more

The Island at the Center of the World

By: Russell Shorto

Narrated by: Russell Shorto

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.

In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence,... Read more

Been There, Done That

By: Rachel Feltman

Narrated by: Rachel Feltman

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way.

Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical... Read more

Disarming Leviathan

By: Caleb E. Campbell

Narrated by: Caleb E. Campbell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism has taken over large swaths of the United States. And he's suffered the relational fallout of standing against it, both in his community and his church. While it's possible to be both a Christian and hold Christian nationalist ideas, Christian nationalism itself is an un-Christian... Read more

The Gender Binary is a Big Lie

By: Lee Wind

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you discovered that the whole concept of a gender binary is an illusion?




While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a construct created by those who benefit from that belief. The reality is that gender is naturally diverse, falling inside... Read more

Her Lotus Year

By: Paul French

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor–her one year in China.

Before she was the Duchess of Windsor, Bessie Wallis Warfield was Mrs. Wallis Spencer, wife of Earl “Win” Spencer, a US Navy aviator. From humble beginnings in Baltimore,... Read more

Tablets Shattered

By: Joshua Leifer

Narrated by: Eli Schiff

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in.
 
Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon... Read more

The Idea Factory

By: Jon Gertner

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the 1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1,200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell... Read more

The Wretched of the Earth

By: Frantz Fanon

Narrated by: Aaron Goodson

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive English translation by Constance Farrington.   First published in 1961, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth offers a powerful exploration of race, colonialism, and the psychological impact of oppression. This seminal text has inspired generations of revolutionaries and activists, influencing movements from decolonization... Read more

Atlantic

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon... Read more

Armageddon

By: Bart D. Ehrman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.

You’ll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery,... Read more