March 13, 2024

45 Best Political Audio Books from the Past Five Years

The past five years have been an interesting time for politics, both in the United States and around the world. Thousands of audio books have been published about our contemporary political situation, and we’ve added many of them to our catalog at LearnOutLoud.com. No matter what your political beliefs are, we’ve got political audiobooks to choose from for all the politically inclined. You can now browse:

Over 4,000 Political Audio Books to Download on LearnOutLoud.com

To help narrow down your choice, we’ve put together a list of 45 of the best political books on audio from the past five years. Many of these have been bestsellers and they’re all highly rated. Hopefully you find one that intrigues you! Browse our list of the best political audiobooks below:

45 Best Political Audio Books from the Past Five Years

Best Conservative Politics Audio Books:

Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweizer
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
Don’t Burn This Book by Dave Rubin
The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro
A Republic, If You Can Keep It by Neil Gorsuch
The Conservative Sensibility by George Will

Best Political Audio Books Covering Contemporary Issues:

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The Soul of America by Jon Meacham
The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Best European Politics Audio Books:

All Out War by Tim Shipman
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw
Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe by Sheri Berman
Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
How They Broke Britain by James O’Brien

Best Global Politics Audio Books:

Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
Chip War by Chris Miller
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
The World for Sale by Javier Blas
Putin’s People by Catherine Belton

Best Liberal Politics Audio Books:

A People’s History of the United States (Unabridged Edition) by Howard Zinn
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert B. Reich

Best Political Figures Audio Books:

Conversations with RBG by Jeffrey Rosen
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
Peril by Bob Woodward
The Great Successor by Anna Fifield
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Best Political Philosophy Audio Books:

Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky
The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
The Republic of Plato Translated by Allan Bloom
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

Best U.S. Government Audio Books:

First Principles by Thomas E. Ricks
Presidents of War by Michael Beschloss
Kill Switch by Adam Jentleson
How to Read the Constitution – and Why by Kim Wehle
The Everything American Government Book by Nick Ragone
The Supremes’ Greatest Hits by Michael G. Trachtman

Learn about contemporary politics with all these political audio books from the past five years.