History audiobooks

Hostile Takeover

By: Matt Kibbe

Narrated by: George Newbern & Matt Kibbe

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“My friend Matt Kibbe uniquely understands what the Tea Party movement is really all about, where it’s going, and why it’s happening now.”
—Glenn BeckMatt Kibbe, the high-profile leader of FreedomWorks—which the New York Times calls, “the most influential Tea Party-aligned group in Washington”—now offers an intelligent, aggressively argued attack... Read more

The Story of Earth

By: Robert M Hazen

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and... Read more

American Tapestry

By: Rachel L. Swarns

Narrated by: Claudia Alick

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself. In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research—in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family—author Swarns, a respected... Read more

Decision in Normandy

By: Edith Sheffer & Carlo D’Este

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Field Marshal Montgomery's battle plan for Normandy, following the D-day landings on June 6, 1944, resulted in one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. Carlo D'Este's acclaimed book gives the fullest possible account of the conception and execution of Montgomery's plan, with all its problems and complexities. It brings to... Read more

A Bridge Too Far

By: Cornelius Ryan

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War IIA Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan’s masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshaled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-day.In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the... Read more

Charles Dickens

By: Claire Tomalin

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 16 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When Charles Dickens died in 1870, The Times of London successfully campaigned for his burial in Westminster Abbey, the final resting place of England's kings and heroes. Thousands flocked to mourn the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England. His books had made them laugh, shown them the squalor and greed of English life, and... Read more

The Wrecking Crew

By: Kent Hartman

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

If you were a fan of popular music in the 1960s and early '70s, you were a fan of the Wrecking Crew—whether you knew it or not.

On hit record after hit record by everyone from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees to the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, Sonny &  Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel, this collection of West Coast studio... Read more

The Obamians

By: James Mann

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policyWhen Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisors intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq. Now the acclaimed author of Rise of... Read more

The Lost Bank

By: Kirsten Grind

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and... Read more

Road to Valor

By: Aili McConnon & Andres McConnon

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Gino Bartali is best known as an Italian cycling legend: the man who not only won the Tour de France twice, but also holds the record for the longest time span between victories.  During the ten years that separated his hard-won triumphs, his actions, both on and off the racecourse, ensured him a permanent place in Italian hearts and minds.

In... Read more

Cowards

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck provides readers with the truth about the issues the media and politicians are scared to touch.

COURAGE > COWARDS

As we approach the most important presidential election in America’s history, something has been lost among all of the debates, attack ads, and... Read more

I Am Spartacus!

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Michael Douglas

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman’s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklistOne of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction... Read more

Darwin's Ghosts

By: Rebecca Stott

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The Sunday Telegraph (London)

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the... Read more

Superman

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The first full-fledged history not just of the Man of Steel but of the creators, designers, owners, and performers who made him the icon he is today, from the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy

“A story as American as Superman himself.”—The Washington Post
 
Legions of fans from Boston to Buenos Aires can recite the... Read more

Michael Morpurgo

By: Maggie Fergusson

Narrated by: Stephen Thorne

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The life of Michael Morpurgo OBE, as a biography, and autobiographical stories. Michael Morpurgo OBE is a national treasure. With books such as ‘Private Peaceful’, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and ‘The Wreck of the Zanzibar’ he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived... Read more

The Poison Tree

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

1831: as England emerges from the post war depression, the country is changing, and the birth pains of the Reform Act bring it to the brink of revolution.

The violent times breed violent acts, both outside and inside the Morland family. Sophie's life is shattered by a hideous crime. Rosamund learns that achieving her dreams brings as much pain as... Read more

Not Lost Forever

By: Carmina Salcido & Steve Jackson

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Not Lost Forever is Carmina Salcido’s remarkable story of survival and healing following the 1986 murderous rampage by her father, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido in the wine country of Sonoma Valley, California. Left for dead at three years old—her throat brutally slashed—Carmina miraculously survived what is widely considered one of... Read more

The Devil's Horse

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 19 hours

Abridged: No

1820: the landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the country pioneers the steam-driven machine age.

The Morlands, too, face change: Cousin Africa returns from St Helena to startle society with her unconventional ideas; Lucy brings her sons home from their Grand Tour, brimming with ideas for their future. In Manchester, Sophie and... Read more

The Abyss

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrated by: Terry Wale

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

1833: the industrial age is sweeping through England and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken- a railway line from Liverpool to London.

At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict, had been banished forever, but railway fever has brought Benedict back to Yorkshire as an engineer on the... Read more

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

By: Dan Ariely

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lively tour through the impulses that cause many of us to cheat, the book offers especially keen insights into the ways in which we cut corners while still thinking of ourselves as moral people.”  — TimeDan Ariely, behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, returns... Read more

As Texas Goes...

By: Gail Collins

Narrated by: Gail Collins

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most timely political books in years, Gail Collins declares that “what happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas anymore.”
 
Gail Collins’s fascination with Texas began rather abruptly in that distant spring of 2009 when she heard Governor Rick Perry—back to the wall, boots to the ground—address a Tea Party rally full of passionate... Read more

Confront and Conceal

By: David E. Sanger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Stunning revelations…This is an account that long will be consulted by anyone trying to understand not just Iran but warfare in the 21st century…an important book.” –Tom Ricks, New York Times
 
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE INHERITANCE, A REVEALING  AND NEWS-BREAKING ACCOUNT OF OBAMA’S AGGRESSIVE USE OF INNOVATIVE WEAPONS AND NEW TOOLS OF... Read more

The Mansion of Happiness

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.... Read more

Hell in the Pacific

By: Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettably immersive chronicle of horror and heroism.

Made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific, McEnery's rifle company—the... Read more