History audiobooks

Le Loup-Garou

By: Alain Grumbach

Narrated by: Alain Grumbach

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Durant des siècles, le loup-garou a hanté l'âme des hommes. Déjà connu des grecs et des romains, le loup-garou connaît son apogée au XVI ème et XVII ème siècles. Nous le verrons bientôt déguerpir, chassé des consciences par les lumières de la raison. Mais avant, poursuivons-le, accompagné d'historiens, d'ethnologues et d'analystes... Car au... Read more

The Original Argument - Abridged

By: Glenn Beck

Narrated by: Pat Gray & Adam Grupper

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset, returns with his contemporary adaptation of The Federalist Papers with the inclusion of his own commentary and annotations to help readers interpret and understand the Constitution.

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New... Read more

The Invisible Line

By: Daniel J. Sharfstein

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist Daniel J. Sharfstein cuts through centuries of myth to deliver this groundbreaking work. Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, three American families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved-how the... Read more

Challenge for the Pacific

By: Robert Leckie

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated—and ultimately foiled—attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of... Read more

The Kennedys

By: Peter Collier & David Horowitz

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 20 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are the Kennedys? Are they the brilliant, heroic, extraordinary people their admirers believe them to be? Or are they arrogant, competitive, self-absorbed children of a willful and immensely rich patriarch, as their detractors claim? In fact, they are all of these things and more.Years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews with... Read more

Render Unto Rome

By: Jason Berry

Narrated by: Jason Berry

Length: 17 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INVESTIGATION OF EPIC FINANCIAL INTRIGUE, RENDER UNTO ROME EXPOSES THE SECRECY AND DECEIT THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE VALUES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

The Sunday collection in every Catholic church throughout the world is as familiar a part of the Mass as the homily and even Communion. There is no doubt that historically the Catholic Church has been... Read more

The Big Fight

By: Sugar Ray Leonard & Michael Arkush

Narrated by: Sugar Ray Leonard

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unflinching and inspiring autobiography, the boxing legend faces his single greatest competitor: himself.Sugar Ray Leonard's brutally honest and uplifting memoir reveals in intimate detail for the first time the complex man behind the boxer. The Olympic hero, multichampionship winner, and beloved athlete waged his own personal battle... Read more

The Greater Journey

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

History expert David McCullough speaks with The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik about his latest book, The Greater Journey, which details the impact generations of Americans travelling to Paris in the 19th century had on the U.S. upon their return. Read more

Pathways to the Gods

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Kent Cassella

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A spaceport in the Andes! A computer chart in Egyptian ruins! Primitive sculptures of figures wearing space suits!



Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods stunned the world with the archaeological discovery that alien beings once colonized earth. Now, in Pathways to the Gods, von Däniken reveals the story of his travels following the trail of... Read more

The Hare with Amber Eyes

By: Edmund de Waal

Narrated by: Micheal Maloney

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
An Economist Book of the Year
Costa Book Award Winner for Biography
Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots—which are then sold, collected, and handed on—he has a particular sense of the... Read more

Civilization and Its Discontents

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1930, Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the most influential works of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud. Focusing on the tension between the primitive drives of the individual and the demands of civilization for order and conformity, Freud draws upon his psychoanalytic theories to explain the fundamental... Read more

Shadow Of The Emperor The (BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature)

By: Isabel Hilton

Narrated by: Isabel Hilton

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

1911 saw the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of the last Emperor in China. 100 years on, Isabel Hilton describes how China coped with the collapse and looks for any lingering legacy in this BBC Radio 3 report originally broadcast as the 'Sunday Feature' on 23 January 2011. After living under the comparative stability of an Imperial... Read more

The Murder of the Century

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police... Read more

Elixir

By: Brian M. Fagan

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today. It is a story of human endeavor: our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every human culture has been shaped by its relationship to water.



For the earliest hunter-gatherers,... Read more

Through My Eyes

By: Tim Tebow

Narrated by: Tom Wayland

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

FormerUniversity of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for theDenver Broncos, and devout Christian Tim Tebow tellsthe story of his faith, his life, and his career in football in Through MyEyes. Written with Nathan Whitaker, the New York Times bestsellingcoauthor of Quiet Strength, with Tony Dungy, Through My Eyes givesfans a... Read more

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York’s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

Even before he was shot dead on... Read more

The Post-American World 2.0

By: Fareed Zakaria

Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Kant 3.0 - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl & Lesch Harald

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl & Harald Lesch

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WWW so heißt heute die Lösung für die meisten Probleme. Ein kurzer Blick ins Internet und schon ist die Frage gelöst. WWW so könnte man auch Immanuel Kants Projekt der Philosophie nennen: Kant 3.0: Was kann ich wissen? Was soll ich tun? Was darf ich hoffen? Damit hat Kant die Philosophie auf den Punkt gebracht. Seine Antworten darauf haben auch... Read more

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet–like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central... Read more

The Gold of the Gods

By: Erich von Daniken

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Erich von Däniken, whose books have enthralled millions of readers around the world, now presents astonishing new confirmation for his revolutionary theories.



Erich von Däniken's The Gold of the Gods unveils new evidence of an intergalactic "battle of the gods" whose losers retreated to, and settled, Earth. He explores a vast, mysterious... Read more

Children and Fire

By: Ursula Hegi

Narrated by: Ursula Hegi

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by book groups.

Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi's Children and Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever transform the... Read more

Those Guys Have All the Fun

By: Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller

Narrated by: James Andrew Miller, Matt McCarthy & Joan Baker

Length: 27 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams.
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most... Read more

The Alice Behind Wonderland

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London.

Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling... Read more

The Stem Cell Hope

By: Alice Park

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives.

Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised by using embryos. But in the last decade, stem cell research has made huge advances toward eliminating some of our most intractable... Read more