History bestsellers
The top 50 History audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 2,000+ partner bookstore locations.
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Spare
By Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Narrated by: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Spare
“Surprisingly enjoyable, especially on audio. Prince Harry is a smart man, with some pointed insights, and is a delightful narrator.”
Melissa, Watermark Books
Bestseller #2
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 29 hours 9 minutes
A Promised Land
“No one really needs my blurb to help sell this book, but I wanted to give it anyway, especially for the audiobook, narrated by Barack Obama himself. If you want to know his incredible knowledge and wisdom that guided him through major decisions, and also hear him drop a few F-bombs, you need to listen to this fantastically written book. ”
Amber, Quail Ridge Books
Bestseller #3
Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
By Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Talking to Strangers
“Talking To Strangers is perfect on audio. It reads (listens) like a podcast including audio clips from interviews, etc.”
Jessica, Main Street Books Davidson
Bestseller #4
The 1619 Project
A New Origin Story
By Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of... Read more »
Bestseller #5
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
If you enjoyed The Warmth of Other Suns, then you’ll love Caste (Oprah's Book Club).
“This is an important and beautifully written book examining the links and common elements between the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany. Highly recommended.”
Mike, A Great Good Place for Books
Bestseller #6
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
By Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Sapiens
“I don't own many books. I read books and give them away. However, I will NOT be giving away my copy of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. It's a keeper! Sapiens was an intense read for me. I found myself taking breaks every dozen pages or so. Not because I was bored - just the opposite. I needed time to let the author's perspective on the history of our species (you, me, us!) sink in. Yuval Noah Harari is irreverent at times and makes mind-blowing assertions in his book. You may not agree with all of his theories, but what he claims will make you see yourself as the animal you are in a refreshing new light. It's even possible that after you read Sapiens your view of the human condition will have shifted dramatically. Superbly translated from the original Hebrew into English by the author himself, Sapiens is accessible to readers of all types of non-fiction and fiction alike.”
Catherine, The Bookloft
Bestseller #7
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
By David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
If you enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel, then you’ll love The Dawn of Everything.
“In this brilliant and sometimes funny reexamination of human history, the authors argue that we are less free than our ancestors, and that it was not inevitable "progress" that brought us here. Using evidence from the last few decades of archeology, the authors contend that the centralization of power in the hands of a few was often avoided in prehistory. This analysis is a hopeful one of a world where we could again have three basic freedoms: the freedom to disobey, the freedom to go somewhere else, and the freedom to create new social arrangements.”
Michael, A Great Good Place for Books
Bestseller #8
South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.”
—Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
An essential, surprising journey...
Read more »Bestseller #9
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
If you enjoyed Long Time Coming, then you’ll love How the Word Is Passed.
“From plantation to Angola Prison. From Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, VA to the African Burial Ground in New York City. From Île de Gorée to Whitney Plantation. From the Emancipation Proclamation to Juneteenth. Clint Smith takes us on an unforgettable journey through the history of slavery in the United States, revealing many truths we’ve never been told. Using lyrical prose, he creates a mesmerizing history lesson told through his personal lens. The facts are punctuated by his reactions to the spaces he visits and the stories he hears in each space. Hard truths told in beautiful language make this a book both highly informative and extremely accessible. Every American should listen to or read it; most of us have a great deal to learn and unlearn. And Smith’s poetic prose and personal voice keep it from feeling like the invaluable sociology and history lesson it is. Definitely one of the best books of the year.”
Nancy, Raven Book Store
Bestseller #10
Mythos
By author
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes
Mythos
“I'm really enjoying listening to Stephen Fry's narration of his book Mythos. Told with a wink and a nod, he brings the classical mythologies alive with great zest. Weaving the many personalities and stories into a whole tapestry of delight. Wonderful fun for making that walk longer.”
Liesl, Boulder Book Store
Bestseller #11
Cobalt Red
How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Cobalt Red
“We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in our world even in 2023. Exposés like this force us to see and understand how our choices can affect people on the other side of the earth from us. Changes need to be made starting at the major corporations and then trickle down to the individual. Once we know what is happening we cannot un-know it.”
Ellen, Banter Bookshop
Bestseller #12
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
By Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman
Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the... Read more »
Bestseller #13
Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
By Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Say Nothing
“Say Nothing is a chilling chronicle of The Troubles of Northern Ireland and its aftermath, with special focus on the orchestrated disappearance of civilian mother of ten Jean McConville. Per the author, Patrick Radden Keefe, the book is not a comprehensive history, but as someone who knew virtually nothing about The Troubles going in, I found Say Nothing to be a great place to start. I found the account of the Price sisters to be particularly fascinating. This is a compelling story about people standing up for what they believe in, filled with betrayal and deadly consequences. Matthew Blaney’s narration is exquisite.”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Bestseller #14
We Don't Know Ourselves
A Personal History of Modern Ireland
By Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes
In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history.
Born to a working-class family in the... Read more »
Bestseller #15
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
By Ilyon Woo
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as “his” slave.
In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of... Read more »
Bestseller #16
All That She Carried
The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
By Tiya Miles
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize,... Read more »
Bestseller #17
How to Hide an Empire
A History of the Greater United States
By Daniel Immerwahr
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
How to Hide an Empire
“A hilarious sparkler of historical quirks burns down to a dangerous fuse of tampering, territory, and transnational economics in this history of the USA not as the nation you just pictured, but as the complete global network of Americans, many without the rights the Lower 48 believe in, most segregated into cells of power that occasionally overheat. Explosive. Narrator Luis Moreno delivers both bitter reality and hilarious asides with a tone of candor and clarity: A+”
Nialle, The Haunted Bookshop
Bestseller #18
Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
By Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Christopher Dontrell Piper
Length: 18 hours 32 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IN RACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS
FINALIST FOR THE 2016 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION
THE MOST AMBITIOUS BOOK OF 2016 —The Washington Post
A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2016
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2016
A CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF... Read more »
Bestseller #19
The Nineties
A Book
By Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman & Dion Graham
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
The Nineties
“Born in the mid-nineties but truly a child of the 2000’s, I have always romanticized the nineties. Klosterman uniquely provides a broad but also individual look at my favorite decade. Only having fleeting knowledge of various aspects of the decade- Y2K, OJ Simpson, landlines, watching Friends live- I loved Klosterman’s take and insights on the times!”
Miranda, Loganberry Books
Bestseller #20
The Palace Papers
Inside the House of Windsor--the Truth and the Turmoil
By Tina Brown
Narrated by: Tina Brown
Length: 17 hours 56 minutes
The Palace Papers
“I highly recommend as an audio book--it's narrated by the author, who has insider knowledge and who was awarded the Commander of the British Empire by the Queen for her services to journalism. Which is to say: the writing is excellent, and even those who have followed the royal family for years will learn new things here. I loved this, and I have newfound respect for the often-misunderstood Prince Charles.”
Donna, A Great Good Place for Books
Bestseller #21
The Splendid and the Vile
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
By Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
The Splendid and the Vile
“An excellent account of the darkest hour through the intimate details of the Churchill family, and accounts and diaries of staff and English, German and American leaders and soldiers. Larson expertly shows Churchill's highs and lows and how his oration skills, charisma and spirit buoyed society at the exact right time. Excellent for WWII buffs or if you are new to reading about defining moments of history. Great audiobook!”
Karin, Bookworm of Edwards
Bestseller #22
Vanderbilt
The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in...
Read more »Bestseller #23
Four Lost Cities
A Secret History of the Urban Age
By Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Four Lost Cities
“Analee Newitz looks at the fate of four so-called 'lost' cities on three continents in this book. They describe the way modern day archeologists are turning their findings into stories about what life was like in these early urban centers. For a book about falling civilizations, I found it incredibly optimistic! Political and environmental factors may have led to their downfall, but Newitz discusses the way people found ways to resettle and thrive elsewhere (and as someone who sometimes worries about political and environmental issues, I found this very comforting!)”
Lisa, The Booksmith
Bestseller #24
Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
By Dipo Faloyin
Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.
Starting with an... Read more »
Bestseller #25
Debt - Updated and Expanded
The First 5,000 Years
By David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more »
Bestseller #26
The Will to Change
Men, Masculinity, and Love
By bell hooks
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental... Read more »
Bestseller #27
Capitalist Realism
Is There No Alternative?
By Mark Fisher
Narrated by: Russell Brand
Length: 2 hours 48 minutes
Capitalist Realism
“A founding text of the modern online left. Written in 2009 by the late Mark Fisher in response to the Global Financial Crisis, it diagnoses the state and workings of capitalism in the post USSR world. An essential read to understand the current American political climate/situation.”
Andrew, Brilliant Books Audio
Bestseller #28
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
By Sarah Jaffe
Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more »
Bestseller #29
Ain't I a Woman
Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition
By Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more »
Bestseller #30
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
By David Graeber
Narrated by: Roger Davis
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes
The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in...
Bestseller #31
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2022 and a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our... Read more »
Bestseller #32
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
A Little Devil in America
“I loved Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America. This essential book explores a handful of Black performers—some world-famous, others everyday people—across a wide variety of disciplines, seamlessly woven into snippets and stories from Hanif’s own life about Black culture and the performance of Blackness. JD Jackson’s low and easy narration is the perfect complement. Hanif’s commentary on tenderness and rage is especially moving.”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Bestseller #33
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Killers of the Flower Moon
“One of the most horrific chapters in American history is brought back to the national consciousness with alarming detail in Killers of the Flower Moon. After the Osage Indian Nation strikes oil, its members become rich beyond their wildest dreams, only to encounter a vast and murderous conspiracy that will leave more than 60 members of the nation dead. David Grann reconstructs those murders and the subsequent investigations with astonishing care and reveals the depths of a conspiracy that stretched from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C. This story will certainly be one of the most important books of 2017.”
Steven Shonder, Anderson's Bookshop
Bestseller #34
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
A Memoir
By Séamas O'Reilly
Narrated by: Séamas O'Reilly
Length: 5 hours
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
“I read a lot of memoirs, but this one was different. Séamas O'Reilly was 5 when his mother died leaving him, his 10 siblings, and his father to manage life on their own. In any other author's hands, this might have been a tragic tale. In O'Reilly's it is joyous, raucous, and gut-bustingly funny. In 1990s Derry, the Troubles are in the background, but not very real to a young boy who was more interested in attention, dinosaurs, and Star Wars than he was in politics. The author's father shines as the imperfect, grief-stricken, unstoppable hero in this book. This is a love story for crazy families everywhere. Share it with yours.”
Kelly, Fountain Bookstore
Bestseller #35
Myth America
Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
By Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer
Narrated by: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses & Sasha LaPointe
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past
The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible... Read more »
Bestseller #36
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By Stacy Schiff
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Thomas Jefferson once asserted that "for depth of purpose, zeal, and sagacity, no man in Congress exceeded, if any equaled, Sam Adams." John Adams called him "the most elegant writer, the most sagacious politician, and celebrated patriot perhaps of all." But in spite of his celebrated status among America's founding fathers as a revolutionary... Read more »
Bestseller #37
The 48 Laws of Power
By Robert Greene
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 23 hours 6 minutes
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control—from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.
In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost... Read more »
Bestseller #38
Mediocre
The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
By Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more »
Bestseller #39
And There Was Light
Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
By Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Jon Meacham
Length: 17 hours 49 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.
“In his captivating new book, Jon Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis... Read more »
Bestseller #40
Heroes
The Greek Myths Reimagined
By Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read more »
Bestseller #41
In the Heart of the Sea
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
By Nathaniel Philbrick
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
From the author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition, the riveting and critically acclaimed bestseller and a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, directed by Ron Howard.
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, and Brendan Gleeson star in a film based on this National Book Award–winning account of the true events behind... Read more »
Bestseller #42
Realigners
Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy
By Timothy Shenk
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar & Timothy Shenk
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Introduction read by the author.
An eye-opening new history of American political conflict, from Alexander Hamilton to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
These days it seems that nobody is satisfied with American democracy. Critics across the ideological spectrum warn that the country is heading toward catastrophe but also complain that nothing seems to...
Bestseller #43
The Library Book
By Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
The Library Book
“A love letter to books, librarians, and libraries (and the often quirky communities that inhabit them), The Library Book sets out to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Los Angeles Public Library Fire of 1986. As always, Orleans exhibits her talent for translating historic details into engrossing narratives, while thrilling the reader with all sorts of surprising twists and outlandish characters that you really couldn’t make up if you tried. Witty, poignant, riveting, Orlean’s performance is fabulous! A must-listen for every devotee of bookstores and libraries.”
Noelle, Oblong Books
Bestseller #44
American Nations
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By Colin Woodard
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth. North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or... Read more »
Bestseller #45
One Hundred Saturdays
Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
By Michael Frank
Narrated by: Michael Frank
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
One Hundred Saturdays
“It was such an honor to hear stories from the life of Stella Levi who is now almost one hundred years old. She has seen and lived through so much this past century! Having grown up in a secular Jewish community, La Judería, on the Island of Rhodes, and speaking a barely-known language, Judaeo-Spanish, her childhood home and culture was one that’s now almost entirely gone from living memory. This biography (partial memoir?) was emotionally moving, unique, and has stayed with me after finishing. It made me think about how we define what home is and our relationship with our memories, and how language has a big part in both of these aspects in our lives...I especially liked that the audio version had snippets of the author’s interviews with Stella so you get to hear her talk about some memories and songs that have stuck with her over the decades.”
Leah, Bright Side Bookshop
Bestseller #46
The Road to Jonestown
Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By Jeff Guinn
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 17 hours 30 minutes
2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime
“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling... Read more »
Bestseller #47
The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
By Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.
As the... Read more »
Bestseller #48
Becoming Kin
An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By Patty Krawec
Narrated by: Patty Krawec
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home."
Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and... Read more »
Bestseller #49
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
By S. C. Gwynne
Narrated by: David Drummond
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Empire of the Summer Moon
“An engrossing read tracing the historic rise and fall of the Comanches, the masters of war.”
James, Bookstore1Sarasota
Bestseller #50
Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
By Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain
Narrated by: Various
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Four Hundred Souls
“An absolutely stunning history of African America for people who do not normally read history. Compiled of short stories, essays, and poems, it is perfect for someone who is intimidated by lists of names and dates. Each individual voice stands on its own but together they truly make a 'choir' that flows together beautifully. This is a one-of-a-kind history that is essential reading for everyone.”
Tia, Quail Ridge Books