History audiobooks

Endangered Eating

By: Sarah Lohman

Narrated by: Sarah Lohman

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle,... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more

First to the Front

By: Lorissa Rinehart

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.

"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."

From the beginning of World War... Read more

The Rooster House

By: Victoria Belim

Narrated by: Amrita Acharia

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and deeply moving story of family, history, and UkraineIn 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim’s personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown, Kyiv, was gripped by protests and violence. Crimea, where she’d once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was... Read more

Don't Call It Hair Metal

By: Sean Kelly

Narrated by: Sean Kelly

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s



There may be no more joyous iteration in all of music than 1980s hard rock. It was an era where the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock 'n' roll of the '50s, '60s, and '70s were taken to dizzying heights of neon excess.... Read more

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

By: Chris Payne

Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the... Read more

Built from the Fire

By: Victor Luckerson

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 19 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification

“Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has... Read more

Holding the Note

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey & David Remnick

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time—intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more.

The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing... Read more

The LGBTQ + History Book

By: DK

Narrated by: Willow Heath

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.

Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments,... Read more

Mott Street

By: Ava Chin

Narrated by: Ava Chin

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“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 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians... Read more

Without Children

By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose childless lives, others who wanted children but never had them, and still others—the vast... Read more

Woman, Captain, Rebel

By: Margaret Willson

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.



This is her remarkable story.



Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the... Read more

Dickens and Prince

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and... Read more

My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy

By: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill

Narrated by: Clint Hill

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and... Read more

Rap Capital

By: Joe Coscarelli

Narrated by: Landon Woodson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.

From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music.... Read more

Declassified

By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch

Narrated by: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The best masterclass in classical music you never knew you needed.

Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life. After... Read more

When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world

"Meticulously reported, and ultimately devastating, this is an important... Read more

One Hundred Saturdays

By: Michael Frank

Narrated by: Michael Frank

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audible Editor's Selection

One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal

The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose... Read more

California Burning

By: Katherine Blunt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)

A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more

The Redhead of Auschwitz

By: Nechama Birnbaum

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more

Phasers on Stun!

By: Ryan Britt

Narrated by: Ryan Britt

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An Esquire Best Book of 2022!

Written with inside access, comprehensive research, and a down-to-earth perspective, Phasers on Stun! chronicles the entire history of Star Trek, revealing that its enduring place in pop culture is all thanks to innovative pivots and radical change.
 
For over five decades, the heart of Star Trek’s pro-science,... Read more

No Escape

By: Nury Turkel

Narrated by: Stewart Lang

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more

Vagina Obscura

By: Rachel E. Gross

Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.

The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.

Today, a new... Read more

The Bald Eagle

By: Jack E. Davis

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious... Read more