History audiobooks
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
By:
John Green
Narrated by:
John Green
Length:
5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific... Read more about Everything Is Tuberculosis
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A Marriage at Sea
By:
Sophie Elmhirst
Narrated by:
Marisa Calin
Length:
5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged:
No
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE“This is nonfiction that reads like fiction – the best kind. Elmhirst’s retelling is a triumph, second only to the seemingly impossible... Read more about A Marriage at Sea
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A People's History of the United States
By:
Howard Zinn
Narrated by:
Jeff Zinn
Length:
34 hours 10 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,... Read more about A People's History of the United States
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Black AF History
By:
Michael Harriot
Narrated by:
Michael Harriot
Length:
15 hours 42 minutes
Abridged:
No
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more about Black AF History
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Challenger
By:
Adam Higginbotham
Narrated by:
Jacques Roy
Length:
17 hours 9 minutes
Abridged:
No
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • Winner of the Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notable Book NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Stunning…A heart-pounding thriller…Challenger is a remarkable book.” —The Atlantic • “Devastating…A universal... Read more about Challenger
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To Catch a Fascist
By:
Christopher Mathias
Narrated by:
Matt Godfrey
Length:
10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged:
No
A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist groups working to expose and stop these hateful factions. Demonized as “extremist” by conservatives and liberals alike, “antifa” became a bogeyman during Donald Trump’s first term. But few Americans... Read more about To Catch a Fascist
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107 Days
By:
Kamala Harris
Narrated by:
Kamala Harris
Length:
9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged:
No
For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.Your Secret Service code name is Pioneer. You are the first woman in history to be elected vice president of the United States. On July 21,... Read more about 107 Days
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A Promised Land
By:
Barack Obama
Narrated by:
Barack Obama
Length:
29 hours 10 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 PEOPLENAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post •... Read more about A Promised Land
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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... Read more about The 1619 Project
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1929
By:
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Narrated by:
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Length:
13 hours 30 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“It is one of the best narrative histories I’ve read.”—The Wall Street JournalA New York Times Notable Book of 2025 • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025 • Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 by The Washington Post, TIME, The Economist, Air Mail, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Katie Couric Media, and HistoryFrom the... Read more about 1929
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Sapiens
By:
Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by:
Derek Perkins
Length:
15 hours 18 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... Read more about Sapiens
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Family of Spies
By:
Christine Kuehn
Narrated by:
Erin Bennett
Length:
8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged:
No
"[Narrator Erin] Bennett’s reading is never overdone; her directness neither shies away from [author Christine] Kuehn’s unpleasant revelations nor sensationalizes them...her light expression lets the dramatic details speak for themselves." — Booklist"[Narrator Erin] Bennett's enunciation is clear and precise, and she credibly affects various... Read more about Family of Spies
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How the Word Is Passed
By:
Clint Smith
Narrated by:
Clint Smith
Length:
10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged:
No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that... Read more about How the Word Is Passed
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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 • A Kirkus Reviews... Read more about Say Nothing
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When Trees Testify
By:
Beronda L. Montgomery
Narrated by:
Melinda Sewak
Length:
8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged:
No
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stories of long-lived trees. The histories of trees in America are also the histories of Black Americans. Pecan trees were domesticated by an enslaved African named Antoine; sycamore trees were... Read more about When Trees Testify
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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 TimesThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the... Read more about Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
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The Gales of November
By:
John U. Bacon
Narrated by:
Johnny Heller
Length:
10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged:
No
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking, the bestselling author of The Great Halifax Explosion tells the definitive story of the “Mighty Fitz.” For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world... Read more about The Gales of November
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Raw Dog
By:
Jamie Loftus
Narrated by:
Jamie Loftus
Length:
9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged:
No
One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." —The New York Times"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." —BookPage Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more about Raw Dog
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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... Read more about The Wager
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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 about The Dawn of Everything
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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 PresMalcolm 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 about Talking to Strangers
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The Barn
By:
Wright Thompson
Narrated by:
Wright Thompson
Length:
11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged:
No
The instant New York Times bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe • Nominated for a PEN America Literary Award“It literally changed my outlook on the world…incredible.” —Shonda Rhimes"The Barn is serious history and skillful... Read more about The Barn
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Killers of the Flower Moon
By:
David Grann
Narrated by:
Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length:
9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE“A... Read more about Killers of the Flower Moon
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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 about On Tyranny
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