History Top 100 Best Selling Audio Books

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive.

This is a collection of conversations between Michael Toms and the late Joseph Campbell, recorded over a span of 12 years.

His speeches stirred a generation to change - and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader and visionary of the civil rights movement, was first and foremost a preacher...

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up...

Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks...

A change in business is coming—one that is proving to be as profound as advances in information technology and global politics.

The pain of abandonment—both real and metaphorical—can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience.

The year was 1944. The village of Sighet in Hungary had been grasped by the evil and unrelenting hand of Hitler, and its people...

A new, completely revised, expanded and updated edition of the New York Times best seller that launched the entire Don't Know Much About series.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide.

For the past three decades, history books have been biased, overemphasizing America's racism, sexism, and bigotry while downplaying the greatness of her patriots.

When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?

In the summer of 1942, a band of citizen soldiers were brought together by the desire to be better than the other guy...

Esteemed professor Donald M.G. Sutherland provides a riveting account of the French Revolution, explaining how its effects varied greatly according to regional economies, social structures, and religious affiliations.

In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.

The courtroom trial has fascinated human beings from the beginning of recorded history. Trials are theater, trials are history, and the great trials of the twentieth century and beyond provide a unique window into American history and the sense of America's enduring commitment to law.

Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so....

"The Great War" as it was known at the time was also said to be the "war to end all wars." It seized all of Europe and much of the rest of the world in its grip of death and destruction.

This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.

Alexander the Great is the most famous king and conqueror known in the ancient world. In his lifetime, he was given honors equal to those of the gods.

Anne Frank’s extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit.