History audiobooks

Between Man and Beast

By: Monte Reel

Narrated by: Bob Walter

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution

In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West... Read more

Young Titan

By: Michael Shelden

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40, he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchill's early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that... Read more

Battle Ready

By: Mark L. Donald & Scott Mactavish

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald, Battle Ready.

As A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable.

From the rigors of BUD/S training to... Read more

Wild Boy

By: Mary Losure

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

One day, villagers from Lacaune, in the mountains of southern France, returned from the woods with a startling story. They’d glimpsed a naked boy digging in the leaves. A year later—in 1798—the strange, scarred boy appeared again, and this time woodsmen captured him and marched him down the mountain to the village square, where everyone crowded... Read more

Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch

By: Ben Thompson

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch!This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You're here to witness the catastrophically awesome exploits of history's greatest badasses. Not only that,... Read more

Onward

By: Dolores Johnson

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Henson's destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary in 1887. An African-American son of poor farmers, Henson shared Peary's desire to be the first person to reach the North Pole. In 1909, the men set out one one of their many voyages together. They battled sub-zero temperatures, deadly ice formations, and bone-chilling... Read more

Red Scarf Girl

By: Ji-li Jiang

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly Best BookALA Best Book for Young AdultsALA Notable Children's BookALA Booklist Editors' ChoiceIn the tradition of The Diary of Anne Frank and I Am Malala, this is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It's 1966, and twelve-year-old... Read more

Leonardo da Vinci: The Genius Who Defined the Renaissance

By: John Phillips

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Leonardo da Vinci was born in a small Italian town in 1452. He trained to be a painter, but he only completed around 13 paintings-one of which was the famous Mona Lisa. Even though Leonardo wanted to learn all he could, he never received a formal education. Struggling to make a living in his 20s, he then moved to Milan, where he flourished. New... Read more

Out of Order

By: Sandra Day O'Connor

Narrated by: Sandra Day O'Connor

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories of the Court and the Justices that come from the ‘out of order’ moments... Read more

Rita Moreno

By: Rita Moreno

Narrated by: Rita Moreno

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this luminous memoir, Rita Moreno shares her remarkable journey from a young girl with simple beginnings in Puerto Rico  to Hollywood legend—and one of the few performers, and the only Hispanic, to win an Oscar, Grammy, Tony and two Emmys.

Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in the idyll of Puerto Rico, Moreno, at age five, embarked on a harrowing sea... Read more

The Goldfish Club

By: Danny Danziger

Narrated by: Annie Aldington, David Thorpe, Jeff Harding & S...

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayday. Mayday. Mayday . . .

Every member of the Goldfish Club has been forced to broadcast these terrifying words from a stricken aircraft, making them one of the most unusual fellowships in the world. Formed during the Second World War to foster comradeship among pilots who had been forced to bail out over water, the Goldfish Club has taken on... Read more

Conquistadors

By: Michael Wood

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Following in the footsteps of the greatest Spanish adventurers, Michael Wood retraces the path of the conquistadors from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Machu Picchu. As he travels the same routes as Hern├ín Cort├®s, Francisco, and Gonzalo Pizarro, Wood describes the dramatic events that... Read more

Baseball Forever!

By: Jason Turbow & John Miley

Narrated by: Bob Costas

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence—a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport's history. His archive contains classic moments, like the Shot Heard 'round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie... Read more

Islands of Destiny

By: John Prados

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

John Prados enjoys well-deserved acclaim for his work as a World War II historian and military intelligence expert. In this dramatically told reassessment of the Allies' battle for the Solomon Islands, Prados demonstrates how this campaign -- and not Midway, as commonly thought -- turned the tide in the Pacific. Read more

Eighty Days

By: Matthew Goodman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day—and heading in the opposite direction by train—was a young journalist from The... Read more

Salt Sugar Fat

By: Michael Moss

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Atlantic • The Huffington Post • Men’s Journal • MSN (U.K.) • Kirkus Reviews • Publishers Weekly

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATURE

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of... Read more

Terrible Swift Sword

By: Joseph Wheelan

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H.
Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most
responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman's famous
march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced
scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that
compelled... Read more

Marco Polo and the Wonders of the East

By: Hal Marcovitz

Narrated by: Bill Brooke

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the Italian tourist who became the first European to completely cross Asia and document his experieces in a book, The Travels of Marco Polo Read more

No Silent Night

By: Leo Barron & Don Cygan

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

On Christmas Eve, the holiest of nights for the many Christian peoples of Europe, Adolf Hitler was unleashing the full fury of his remaining Luftwaffe bomber force on Bastogne. For hundreds of German and American soldiers facing off in the siege, the events of Christmas 1944 would destroy any sense of holiness and peace on Earth. For the... Read more

The Age Edison

By: Ernest Freeberg

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other... Read more

American Slavery, American Freedom

By: Edmund S. Morgan

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that... Read more

The Great Persuasion

By: Angus Burgin

Narrated by: Derek Shetterly

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as today’s observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in... Read more

Whitey

By: Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.
 
Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is... Read more

Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of the New World

By: Carole Gallagher

Narrated by: Bill Brooke

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Columbus never knew he had discovered a New World. He died unaware that his determined voyages had changed the world forever. This biography teaches young listeners about the life of the famous Italian explorer who became the first European to discover the West Indies. Read more