The short answer
We hold 21,865 history audiobooks. 468 of them carry at least 20 listener ratings, and these are the 48 rated highest — 48 of them with the narrator named, and the running time on every one.
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's 'Band of Brothers'
Audiobook · 8 hrs 7 mins
Audiobook · 16 hrs 36 mins
Unruly: The Number One Bestseller ‘Horrible Histories for grownups’ The Times
Audiobook · 11 hrs 39 mins
To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
Audiobook · 10 hrs 12 mins
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Audiobook · 10 hrs 19 mins
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Audiobook · 14 hrs 10 mins
The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Audiobook · 9 hrs 42 mins
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian
Audiobook · 11 hrs 42 mins
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Audiobook · 12 hrs 55 mins
Audiobook · 8 hrs 44 mins
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
Audiobook · 6 hrs 50 mins
Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Audiobook · 10 hrs 18 mins
The Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail
Audiobook · 16 hrs 48 mins
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Audiobook · 10 hrs 15 mins
The narrators with the most well-rated history audiobooks in our catalogue. Every one has a page listing their work.
Every corner of history, with the full catalogue behind each one.
No page of ours should call a book one of the best because one person gave it five stars. Every title here had to clear the same bar:
Stock, prices and samples come from Audiobooks.com. Running times are theirs too, and we publish them only where the stored figure is credible.
LoveReading has been recommending books for two decades, with named experts behind the reviews. Members of the panel include:
Julia Eccleshare MBEAward-winning children’s literature expert and former Guardian Children’s Editor
Maxim JakubowskiCrime writer, editor and critic, and founder of London’s Murder One bookshop
Alison FloodBooks journalist and critic whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Observer and Sunday Times
Andrea ReeceChildren’s literature expert, editor and former children’s publisher
Joanne OwenAuthor, publishing expert, and LoveReading’s Literary Fiction Champion and YA Lead Reviewer
Liz RobinsonLoveReading reviewer since 2014 and former judge of the CWA Gold Dagger
Paul BlezardMulti-award-winning broadcaster, author and literary commentator
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Julie VuongPublishing journalist, BookBrunch feature writer and Mslexia columnist
Lyndy CookeFormer Managing Director of Hay Festival, with more than 35 years in books and literature
Lois CudjoeBook critic, content creator and passionate cross-genre reader
Maureen StapletonWriter and journalist with international publishing experience
Joy CourtLeading children’s literature expert and former Chair of the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals
Tricia AdamsFormer Director of the School Library Association and Carnegie & Kate Greenaway judging Chair
Victoria GoldmanAuthor, health journalist and editor with more than 25 years’ experience
Reader reviews on our book pages come from our 900-strong Reader Review Panel. More about our editorial experts.
