Chaos
By: Tom O'Neill
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more
The Invention of Prehistory
By: Stefanos Geroulanos
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three... Read more
View audiobookAlexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 35 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust... Read more
Life on the Mississippi
By: Rinker Buck
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor
The eagerly awaited return of master... Read more
The Princess Spy
By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more
Unfamiliar Fishes
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catheri...
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Sarah Vowell thinks of Hawaii as the most American state. She argues that it’s “breathtaking in its beauty, sometimes hideously developed, overwhelmingly religious, impoverished (except for pockets of staggering wealth), crass and spiritual all at once.” In Unfamiliar Fishes, she will explore the exceptional history of Hawaii with her personal... Read more
View audiobook1177 B.C.
By: Eric H. Cline
Narrated by: Eric H. Cline
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline offers a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened... Read more
Everest, Inc.
By: Will Cockrell
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest.
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to... Read more
We Keep the Dead Close
By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more
Slow Noodles
By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more
Slouch
By: Beth Linker
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow recounts the strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture”
In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture”... Read more
Seven Games
By: Oliver Roeder
Narrated by: William Sarris
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such... Read more
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
*2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018* Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review, Michigan Daily*American Booksellers Association... Read more
View audiobookMiss Dior
By: Justine Picardie
Narrated by: Justine Picardie
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior's "New Look" created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace, making him—and his last name—famous overnight. One woman informed Dior's vision more than any other: his sister, Catherine, a Resistance... Read more
View audiobookA Little Devil in America
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity—from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The... Read more
New Cold Wars
By: David E. Sanger
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & David E. Sanger
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
The fast-paced inside story of America’s plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powers—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon
“[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American officials have grappled with... Read more
Children of Ash and Elm
By: Neil Price
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive history of the Vikings—from arts and culture to politics and cosmology—by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise
The Viking Age—from 750 to 1050—saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to... Read more
Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter
“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a... Read more
The Only Plane in the Sky
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This... Read more
Filterworld
By: Kyle Chayka
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
"[Filterworld] is about how algorithms changed culture…[Chayka asks] what is taste? What is a sense of aesthetics? And what... Read more
Girly Drinks
By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
From Los Angeles Times bestselling author Mallory O’Meara comes a lively and engrossing feminist history of women drinking through the ages
Strawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. These are the cocktails that come in... Read more
Except for Palestine
By: Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly... Read more
View audiobookWhere Are Your Boys Tonight?
By: Chris Payne
Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the... Read more
View audiobookKing: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!
This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.
"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more