History audiobooks

The Cloud Of Unknowing

By: Evelyn Underhill (editor) & Chirag Patel (editor)

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the middle ages, Christianity shared much with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Read on to learn how Christian mystics came to the same conclusions as those from very different faiths. This edition has been adapted from the 1923 version into modern English to make the ideas more accessible to today's reader, the Cloud of Unknowing... Read more

170 Chinese Poems

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A selection of the very best of Chinese poetry over the course of a thousand years, from 100 years before Christ was born up of the middle ages. Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry are still the benchmark by which such translations are held, nearly two hundred years after he introduced the west to the wonder of classical Chinese... Read more

The Art Of War

By: Lionel Giles & Sun Tzu

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic... Read more

Futhark

By: Edred Thorsson

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Runes are the ancient Norse alphabet used for communication, divination, and magical work. In Futhark, American runologist Edred Thorsson introduces listeners to the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, their definitions, and mystic properties. The runic system of magic and mysticism is one of the most powerful forms of metaphysical thought available... Read more

Lieh Tzu

By: Lieh Tzu & Lionel Giles

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the four central works in Daoism. The Lie-Tzu, or Liezi, was originally thought to have been composed in the same period as the Dao and Zhuang Zi, around the 5th century BCE. However, it is now believed to have been compiled nearly a thousand years later, around 400 CE.
Lionel Giles, in fact, was one of the first to call out the Lieh Tzu’s... Read more

Spurgeon the Pastor

By: Geoffrey Chang

Narrated by: Graham Geisler

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How would you get more than 5,000 people to show up at your church?
 
Almost every pastor feels the pressure to get people in the doors. More people means more success, more stability, and more godly influence, right? Often, in their zeal for fruit and growth, pastors and church leaders adopt worldly mechanisms for church growth that end up... Read more

Born with a Tail

By: Doug Brod

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative, irreverent biography of Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, BORN WITH A TAIL chronicles a time when Americans could welcome a macabre showman into their living rooms via TheTonight Show, before a ginned-up hysteria known as the Satanic Panic would put a target on his shiny, shaven head.

When Anton LaVey burst onto... Read more

The Silver Snarling Trumpet

By: Robert Hunter

Narrated by: Fred Berman, Dennis McNally, Brigid Meier & Joh...

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s—a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of “the scene” in Palo Alto that gave rise to an incredible partnership of Hunter and Jerry Garcia, and then to the Grateful Dead itself—with a Foreword... Read more

Only in America

By: Richard Bernstein

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a... Read more

Madrid, metrópolis (neo)fascista

By: Pablo del Hierro

Narrated by: Simon Gómez & Santiago Gómez

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

La capital de España como una urbe fundamental en el proceso de reconfiguración del viejo movimiento totalitario. De la mano de Pablo del Hierro redescubrimos un Madrid que actuó como centro de negocios oscuros a menudo vinculados al mundo del arte, como refugio seguro para jerarcas fascistas donde la naciente justicia internacional no se... Read more

Fierce Desires

By: Rebecca L. Davis

Narrated by: Stephanie Dillard

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. It may seem as though debates over sex are more intense than ever, but as acclaimed historian Rebecca L. Davis demonstrates in Fierce Desires, we should not be too surprised, because Americans have been arguing over which kinds of sex are "acceptable"—and which are not—since before the founding itself.



From the... Read more

Hotel Lux

By: Maurice J. Casey

Narrated by: Maurice Casey

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters.



Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in... Read more

The Ageless Call to Serve

By: LTC Lanny Snodgrass MD

Narrated by: Dallas Britt

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An eighteen-year-old in the United States is still barred from buying alcohol, acquiring a pilot's license, or stepping into a casino. Yet, astonishingly, they can be enlisted in the military and deployed to a war zone. On the other side of the age spectrum, individuals over thirty-nine often encounter insurmountable obstacles to... Read more

Baikonur Man

By: Barry L. Stoddard

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the late Cold War, a tiny American start-up company forged a secret deal to place American scientific payloads aboard the Soviet space station MIR. Born out of sheer desperation after the Challenger explosion and grounding of the United States space shuttle program, the agreement was negotiated and approved behind the... Read more

A Life in the American Century

By: Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century"—a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivaled power—be it political, economic, or military—on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world... Read more

Selling Sexy

By: Lauren Sherman & Chantal Fernandez

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the brand’s tight grip on the industry finally slipped

Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential... Read more

Japan's Holocaust

By: Bryan Mark Rigg, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan... Read more

The Girl With Three Birthdays

By: Patti Eddington

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Patti Eddington always knew she was adopted, and her beloved parents seemed amenable enough to questions—but she never wanted to hurt them by expressing curiosity, so she didn't. The story of her mother cutting off and dying her hair when she was a toddler? She thought it was eccentric and funny, nothing more. When she discovered at fifteen that... Read more

Diary of a Crisis

By: Saul Friedländer

Narrated by: Barry Abrams

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust



Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedländer began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu's... Read more

Tremendous Trifles

By: GK Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful and whimsical collection of short essays on everything from sketching on brown paper and building toy theatres to the nature of Englishness and faith.
"Tremendous Trifles contains simply some of the best essays Chesterton ever wrote. They originally appeared in the Daily News, which Chesterton contributed to from 1901 to 1913, and... Read more

Vigilante Nation

By: Jon Michaels & David Noll

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the MAGA Republican strategy to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy—and prescribe a plan for beating the Christian nationalists at their own game.

Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white... Read more

The Hidden Globe

By: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2024

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker

"A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished... Read more

Alarms & Discursions

By: GK Chesterton

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impression which are here collected are very like the wrecks and riven blocks that were piled in a heap round my imaginary priest of the sun. They are very like that grey and gaping head of stone that I found overgrown with the grass. Yet I will venture to make even of these trivial fragments the... Read more

Justice on Trial

By: Sean Dupree

Narrated by: Sean Dupree

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the compelling narratives behind landmark legal battles that reshaped the fabric of justice in Justice on Trial: How High-Profile Court Cases Change the Law. Authored by Sean Dupree, this riveting book dives into cases that challenged societal norms, highlighted systemic flaws, and left an indelible mark on law and society.Explore the... Read more