History

From Silk to Silicon

Jeffrey E. Garten; read by Jonathan Yen

The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments. Learn More

Frontier Rebels

by Patrick Spero; read by Joe Barrett

Frontier Rebels is the untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Learn More

Frontline Bodies

by Nicolas Martin-Breteau; translated by Lucy Garnier; foreword by Damion L. Thomas; read by Amir Abdullah

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A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. Learn More

The Fruit of All My Grief

by J. Malcolm Garcia; read by Danny Campbell

Real-life stories of Americans living on the edge of survival, outside the bright lights of the media. Learn More

Funny Weather

by Olivia Laing; read by Sophie Aldred

"One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction" (Harper's Bazaar) explores the role of art in the tumultuous twenty-first century. Learn More

A Furious Sky

by Eric Jay Dolin; read by Bob Souer

Kirkus Best 100 Nonfiction Books of 2020

With A Furious Sky, bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Learn More

The Future of War

by Lawrence Freedman; read by Michael Page

In 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. At the time, it was dismissed by the British generals and admirals of the day not because the idea of submarines was technically unfeasible, but because no one could imagine that any nation would be so depraved as to sink civilian merchant shipps. The future of war more often than not surprises us less because of some fantastic technical or engineering dimension but because of some human, political, or moral threshold that we had never imagined wanting to cross. Learn More

The Gamesmaster

by Flint Dille; read by Eric Michael Summerer

Flint Dille's memoir is an entertaining blend of pop culture, social history, and reportage about the exciting, groundbreaking 1980s, and the parts he and his colleagues, collaborators, employers, and friends played in making it a genuine Golden Age. Learn More

Gandhi

by Ramachandra Guha; Derek Perkins

New York Times Notable Books 2018
Kirkus Best of 2018 Nonfiction

The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in world history. Learn More

Gandhi Before India

by Ramachandra Guha; read by Derek Perkins

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Learn More

Gateway to Freedom

Eric Foner; read by J.D. Jackson

The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Learn More

Gene Smith's Sink

by Sam Stephenson; read by Coleen Marlo

The result of twenty years of research, Gene Smith's Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer's beguiling legacy and the subjects around him. Learn More

Genetics in the Madhouse

by Theodore M. Porter; read by Mike Chamberlain

A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one. It is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for "feebleminded" children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. Learn More

George Washington

by Kevin J. Hayes; read by David Colacci

This sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America. Learn More

Germany, 1923

by Volker Ullrich; translated by Jefferson Chase; read by Christopher Douyard

From a New York Times bestselling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis that threatened to unravel the Weimar Republic. Learn More

Germany: A History

by Francis Russell: read by A.T. Chandler

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Franics Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany—from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron rule of Otto von Bismarck, and from the formation of the Weimar Republic to the fighting of two world wars. Learn More

Getting Russia Right

by Thomas Graham; read by Daniel Henning

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders persist in pursuing it? Was there another path that would have produced more constructive relations or better prepared Washington to face the challenge Russia poses today? Learn More

The Ghost

by Jefferson Morley; read by John Pruden

In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. Learn More

A Ghost in the Throat

by Doireann Ní Ghríof; read by Siobhan McSweeney

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize
A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022
An NPRBest Book of 2021

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's. Learn More

Ghost Work

by Mary L. Gray & Siddharth Suri;read by Will Damron

In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory exposé of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work. Learn More

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