In 2013, I first posted a list of some of my favorite history-related audiobooks. Here’s an updated list of 106 books, all available on Audible.com.

My selection principle has been pretty fluid. These are books I have enjoyed and learned from. Some of these books are published by university presses, some by trade presses. Some were written by self-identified historians, others by economists, journalists, or members of other professions. I’ve left off some books that work well on the page but not as well in the ear. Historians who like audiobooks may be especially interested by one item on this list: Matthew Rubery’s Untold Story of the Talking Book.

[The original post said 105 books, but I inadvertently left out Sheldon Stern’s Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory, which is great.]

Title	Author	Length
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created	Charles C. Mann	17h 46m
1861: The Civil War Awakening	Adam Goodheart	18h 50m
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1	David Hackett Fischer	29h 40m
All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw	Theodore Rosengarten	23h 17m
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin	26h 30m
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power	Danielle L. McGuire	10h 52m
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World	Joshua B. Freeman	13h 43m
Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, The	Clay Risen	12h 49m
Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, The	Tom Reiss	13h 30m
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy	Heather Ann Thompson	22h 46m
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin	Timothy Snyder	18h 15m
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin	Jill Lepore	11h 36m
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet	John G. Turner	19h 36m
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America	Kathleen Belew	10h 35m
Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, The	Betty Medsger	25h 32m
But Where is the Lamb?: Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac	James Goodman	9h 35m
Capital in the Twenty-First Century	Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer (translator)	24h 58m
Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The	Carlo Ginzburg, Anne C. Tedeschi – translator, John Tedeschi – translator	7h 57m
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism	Bartow J. Elmore	11h 22m
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution	Simon Schama	36h 48m
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York	Tyler Anbinder	24h 37m
Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies	Alan Taylor	20h 36m
Comanche Empire, The	Pekka Hamalainen	19h 51m
Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths Versus Reality, The	Sheldon Stern	7h 40m
Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence	Bryan Burrough	22h 13m
Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics, The	Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith	11h 45m
Embracing Defeat	John W. Dower	21h 38m
Empire of Cotton: A Global History	Sven Beckert	20h 15m
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution	Priya Satia	17h 53m
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People	Elizabeth A. Fenn	10h 32m
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time	Ira Katznelson	22h 35m
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq	Thomas E. Ricks	10h 15m
Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, The	Joanne B. Freeman	11h 19m
Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, The	Eric Foner	18h 7m
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City	Greg Grandin	15h 25m
Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War, The	Victoria E. Bynum	7h 47m
Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science	Alice Dreger	10h 39m
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad	Eric Foner	9h 3m
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea	Mitchell Duneier	10h 8m
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right	Jennifer Burns	13h 36m
Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, The	Marc Levinson	11h 39m
Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of America, The	Daniel Okrent	14h
Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, The	Edward E. Baptist	19h 47m
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin	Hampton Sides	15h 9m
Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, The	Annette Gordon-Reed	30h 36m
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race	Margot Lee Shetterly	10h 47m
History of White People, The	Nell Irvin Painter	14h 9m
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States	Daniel Immerwahr	17h 25m
Hunt for Vulcan: …And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe, The	Thomas Levenson	5h 49m
Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero, The	Timothy Egan	14h 9m
Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, The	Alan Taylor	15h 27m
Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy	Eri Hotta	13h 16m
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling	Richard Lyman Bushman	28h 52m
Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America , The	Paul E. Johnson, Sean Wilentz	7h 6m
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East	Scott Anderson	23h 45m
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World	Maya Jasanoff	16h 10m
Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness	Joshua Wolf Shenk	11h 40m
Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America, The	Mae M. Ngai	8h 58m
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention	Manning Marable	22h 4m
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South	Keri Leigh Merritt	17h 32m
Mellon: An American Life	David Cannadine	35h 57m
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming	Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes	13h 9m
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel	Ari Shavit	20h 45m
New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, The	Michelle Alexander	13h 16m
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America	Rick Perlstein	36h 46m
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda	Sean Naylor	19h 36m
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America	Kevin M. Kruse	12h 58m
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland	Christopher R. Browning	8h 57m
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line	Martha A. Sandweiss	14h 12m
Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, A	Donald Worster	19h 10m
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon	Bronwen Dickey	11h 52m
Polio: An American Story	David M. Oshinsky	14h 37m
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945	Tony Judt	43h 1m
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Caroline Fraser	21h 26m
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing: History of Computing	Marie Hicks	11h
Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, The	Alan Brinkley	21h 21m
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory	David W. Blight	20h 27m
Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, The	Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff	21h 32m
Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, The	Kate Moore	15h 52m
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788	Pauline Maier	23h 5m
Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America	Joshua Specht	9h 28m
Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency	David Greenberg	22h 15m
Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929, A	Paul K. Conkin	11h 7m
Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, The	Timothy Snyder	10h 10m
Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party	Geoffrey Kabaservice	21h 12m
Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, A	Alistair Horne	29h 56m
Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, The	Linda Gordon	7h 43m
Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left, The	Landon R. Y. Storrs	13h 47m
Second World War, The	Antony Beevor	39h 18m
Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America, The	Nigel Cliff	10h 51m
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939	Adam Hochschild	15h 26m
Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire, The	Karl Jacoby	9h 29m
Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina	Bernard B. Fall	13h 10m
Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, The	Michael Grunwald	16h 21m
Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary	Louis Hyman	14h 17m
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age	W. Bernard Carlson	16h 11m
These Truths: A History of the United States	Jill Lepore	29h
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War	Drew Gilpin Faust	10h 54m
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation	Dan Fagin	18h 31m
Untold Story of the Talking Book, The	Matthew Rubery	11h 31m
Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease, The	Meredith Wadman	19h 13m
Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future, The	W. Patrick McCray	11h 4m
Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, The	Isabel Wilkerson	22h 40m
Washington’s Crossing	David Hackett Fischer	18h 9m
Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico, A	Amy S. Greenberg	12h 46m
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre	Heather Cox Richardson	14h 33m