History audiobooks

The American Future

By: Simon Schama

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of  Rough Crossings offers an... Read more

We Two

By: Gillian Gill

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century–and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery... Read more

The Inside Story of Afghanistan

By: Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For millennia the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies, and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, Tartar, and in more recent times, British, Russian, and American. Many people in the U.S. have no idea of the hidden dimensions that lay beneath the current... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants, Vol 1

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Narrated by: Avery Brooks

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Basketball legend and New York Times bestselling author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life. ". a knowledgeable, passionate tour guide ."-New York Times Read more

The Bell Messenger

By: Alton Gansky & Robert Cornuke

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventurer and author Robert Cornuke delivers an archaeological thriller that crosses the globe and spans two centuries. With these hopeful words, a dying Confederate lad bequeaths his Bible to the Union soldier who just shot him: "Be God's messenger as I have been." And so begins the journey of Elijah Bell's cherished Bible as it travels the... Read more

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

By: Danzy Senna

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When Danzy Senna’s parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. A white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man raised by a struggling single mother, these two beautiful young American writers were boldly challenging long-held racial biases. When their marriage violently disintegrated eight years later, it... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde

By: Paul Schneider

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In Paul Schneider's hands, the legend behind the daring movie that revolutionized Hollywood becomes the true story of Bonnie and Clyde. Told in the lovers' own voices, it offers verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.



Strictly nonfiction—no dialogue or other material has been made up—and set in the dirt-poor Texas... Read more

Censorship

By: Brian Jennings

Narrated by: Jesse Boggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Freedom of speech. It is our most cherished privilege as Americans, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 1791.

But our current presidential administration threatens to sharply curtail or silence altogether the freedom of expression that distinguishes America from the average dictatorship. What is under direct attack?... Read more

Paul Newman

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... Read more

Red and Me

By: Bill Russell

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book."" — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book ReviewIn Red and Me, Boston Celtics... Read more

12 Strong - Abridged

By: Doug Stanton

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon!

“A thrilling action ride of a book” (The New York Times Book Review)—the New York Times bestselling, true-life account of a US Special Forces team deployed to dangerous, war-ridden Afghanistan in the weeks following 9/11.

In the weeks following the... Read more

Paul Newman - Abridged

By: Shawn Levy

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] absorbing, affectionate portrait manages to bring [Newman] back to us. . . . Paul Newman leaves readers with a surprisingly cheering message. If the rest of us can’t aspire to having Newman’s life, we can at least take inspiration from the way he lived his.”—The Washington Post

“A graceful tribute to a... Read more

Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys - Abridged

By: Neil Oliver

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stories of heroism, exploration, and sacrifice -- including Apollo XIII and Scott of the Antarctic -- that inspire boys to be courageous, selfless, and open to adventureTales of brave and selfless deeds used to be part of every boy’s education. We grew up sharing stories with our fathers, uncles, and grandfathers of how other men had lived their... Read more

A-Rod - Abridged

By: Selena Roberts

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Diligent, detailed, and overpowering. This is not a book of conjecture: It’s one of bootstrap journalism.” —New York magazine The New York Times calls sports journalist Selena Roberts’s blistering biography, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, “Important…devastating…merciless.” A columnist for Sports Illustrated, Roberts pulls no punches... Read more

Nonviolence

By: H.H. Dalai Lama & Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: Richard Dreyfuss

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred... Read more

Destiny Disrupted

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 17 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With storytelling brio and evenhanded sympathy to all sides of the story, Ansary clarifies how the Muslim world views the history of the world and what they therefore make of our own version of events.Until about 1800, the West and the Islamic realm were like two adjacent, parallel universes, each assuming itself to be the center of the world... Read more

Golf’s Greatest Championship

By: Julian I. Graubart

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The 1960 US Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all US Open championships. In 1960, the young lions of the game were eager to reach the top-tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. In this championship game,... Read more

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

By: Roy Porter

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

In this boldly drawn portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered run the gamut, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages. This text’s broad scope makes it a must-have for... Read more

A Short History of Africa

By: Roland Oliver & J. D. Fage

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

During the twentieth century the center of the world shifted. The dramatic alterations in political power have corrected the once prevalent vision of a European-centered world. While the centers of European culture flourished, decayed, and sprouted in turn, empires in Africa rose, ruled, resisted, and succumbed. Much of Africa's past has now... Read more

The Road From Home

By: David Kherdian

Narrated by: Adriana Sevan

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population. Read more

Dreams, with eBook

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1915 and 1917, Sigmund Freud delivered a series of well-received lectures at the University of Vienna on his theories of psychoanalysis. Nine of them focused on Freud's theories about dreams—what they are and what they mean. The content of these lectures are presented in Dreams.



Freud covered a lot of ground in his lectures, focusing... Read more

Fabric of America

By: Andro Linklater

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Using the same blend of narrative and rhetorical brilliance that made his critically acclaimed debut history so successful, Andro Linklater begins with premier U.S. surveyor Andrew Ellicott calculating the Pennsylvania-Virginia border in 1784- using telescope, chronograph, and astronomical tables. As pioneers move westward, Ellicott and his kind... Read more

The Great Terror

By: Robert Conquest

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 30 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive work on Stalin’s purges, The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. In recent years, even the former Soviet Union has come to call it the definitive account of the period. While the original volume relied heavily on unofficial sources, later developments within the Soviet Union provided an avalanche... Read more

Rudyard Kipling

By: Andrew Lycett

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping biography mixes intimate detail with a thorough understanding of the social, intellectual, artistic, and political climate of the time to unravel the intricate story of the misunderstood genius who wrote Kim, The Jungle Books, and the poem “If.”Growing up in both England and India, this descendant of a high-achieving family crossed... Read more