Historical Biographies Audiobooks
From adventurers and explorers to politicians and royalty, some of the most fascinating and eye-opening listens can be found in historical biography and memoir audiobooks. Learn more about the intimate lives of inspiring people like Gandhi, Lincoln, Tesla, Anne Frank, and more historical legends. Find the historical memoir audiobooks from our lists of essential listens.
From adventurers and explorers to politicians and royalty, some of the most fascinating and eye-opening listens can be found in historical biography and memoir audiobooks. Learn more about the intimate lives of inspiring people like Gandhi, Lincoln, Tesla, Anne Frank, and more historical legends. Find the historical memoir audiobooks from our lists of essential listens.
Trending audiobooks
Man's Search for Meaning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Moveable Feast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Papillon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bonhoeffer Abridged: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shakespeare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lincoln Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne Frank Remembered Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Black Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caesar: Life of a Colossus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alexander Hamilton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Queen of Scots Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Witches: Salem, 1692 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cleopatra: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Others you might like
Adventurers & Explorers
Artists and Musicians
Business Biographies
Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Biographi…
Criminals & Outlaws
Entertainers and the Rich & Famous
LGBTQIA+ Biographies
Literary Biographies
Medical Biographies
Military Biographies
Personal Memoirs
Political Biographies
Religious Biographies
Royalty Biographies
Sports Biographies
There’s more to discover in Historical Biographies
A Blaze of Autumn Sunshine: The Last Diaries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Bondage and My Freedom: An American Icon In His Own Words Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Melania Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let Me Go Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: A Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agatha Christie Close Up: A radio investigation into the Queen of Crime Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scarlet Sisters: My nanna’s story of secrets and heartache on the banks of the River Thames Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJune bugs and Summer Nights: Heartstories from the Midwest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Last Castle: Book Summary & Analysis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWaco: A Survivor's Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5President McKinley: Architect of the American Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEternity Through the Rearview Mirror: How Simple Faith Changes Everything - Seventeen Extraordinary Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaesar's Conquest: The Unveiling of a Visionary Leader: A Journey into the Life, Triumphs, and Legacy of Julius Caesar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBoutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behind the Black Door Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Queen: Her Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5George VI (Penguin Monarchs): The Dutiful King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRemarkable Diaries: The World's Greatest Diaries, Notebooks, and Letters Explored and Explained Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters To My Grandchildren Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Where Madness Lies: The Double Life of Vivien Leigh Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Always By My Side: Losing the love of my life and the fight to honour his memory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hurricane Girls: The inspirational true story of the women who dared to fly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Captain Robert Falcon Scott: The Controversial Life and Expeditions of the British Explorer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYoung Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill & Son Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume 1): Birth to Mahad (1891-1929) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrue Reagan: What Made Ronald Reagan Great and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cochise and Geronimo: The Lives and Legacies of the Most Famous Apache Warriors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Times of My Life and My Life with The Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hemingway's Passions: His Women, His Wars, and His Writing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catherine the Great: Book Summary and Analysis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNights in White Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove Stories: Love Stories of World War II Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUntold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHarriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJefferson: Architect of American Liberty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bau: Artist at War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill: Walking with Destiny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lost in America: A Journey with My Father Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Prairie Girl's Faith: The Spiritual Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reagan: The Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe West: A New History in Fourteen Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seven Years in Tibet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGenghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals--Lessons in Living and Loving Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRobert E. Lee: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Borgias: The Hidden History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElizabeth: The Forgotten Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5KNOW ABOUT "Voltaire": A French Writer, Historian, and Philosopher. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAva's Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Isabella: The Warrior Queen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and Migration Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Ordinary Man: An Autobiography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/533 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Romanovs: The Final Chapter Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNapoleon: A Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5J.M.W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCompeting with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCalhoun: American Heretic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alexander Hamilton Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Waco: Booktrack Edition: A Survivor's Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rasputin File Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Death of Hitler: The Final Word Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCleopatra: A Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Frank Lloyd Wright Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Habsburgs: To Rule the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The World Remade: America in World War I Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witches: Salem, 1692 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSix Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Traitor's Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, My Mother's Odyssey to Freedom from Her Secret Past Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBose: The Untold Story (Part 1): The Untold Story Of An Inconvenient Nationalist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYou Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Betsy Ross and the Making of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdolf Hitler: A Biography of Power and Paranoia (Rise to Power, History, & Facts) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoward Hughes: The Untold Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Hindu Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCuster's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Flyers: In Search of Wilbur & Orville Wright Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Folk Heroes of the Frontier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Crime in the Family: A World War II Secret Buried in Silence--and My Search for the Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robert E. Lee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinston Churchill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson: The Lives of the Wild West’s Most Famous Lawmen Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Viking Saint: Olaf II of Norway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSimon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wu: The Chinese Empress Who Schemed, Seduced and Murdered Her Way to Become a Living God Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoratio's Drive: America's First Road Trip Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edith Wharton: Ambassador Book Awards Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill and the King: The Wartime Alliance of Winston Churchill and George VI Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Honoring Anna Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen of Hope: Doctors of the Church Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQueen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: The Controversial History of Cousins Turned Rivals Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Herman Melville Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew - Insights from colleagues and friends Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vaccines and Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHis Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5KNOW ABOUT "WILLIAM OF OCKHAM": UNVEILING THE RAZOR-SHARP MIND OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBirdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5KNOW ABOUT "PROPHET MUHAMMAD": The Founder of Islam. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Power Broker: Volume 3 of 3: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York: Volume 3 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/521 Biblical Characters: Heroes And Heroines Of Sacred History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Yeager Tapes: General Chuck Yeager in His Own Words Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWinston Churchill: A Biography of the Bulldog of Britain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding Clara: The Biography of Clara Fuller and Her Colonial Ancestors, 1875–1638 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMan's Search for Meaning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5KNOW ABOUT "GALILEO GALILEI": The Father of Modern Science & The Father of Observational Astronomy. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe American Film Institute's 5 Greatest Actors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGood-Bye to All That: An Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIzabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Most Famous Women of the Wild West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYuri Bezmenov and Anatoliy Golitsyn: The Controversial History of the Soviet Union’s Most Impactful Defectors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Divided Land: A Tale of Survival in War-Torn Korea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAndrew Johnson: The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLight-Horse Harry: A Biography of Washington's Great Cavalryman, General Henry Lee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRiding with Reagan: From the White House to the Ranch Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5KNOW ABOUT "CHANAKYA": Who Shape The Mauryan Empire. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest Generals of the Ancient World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatrick Henry: Champion of Liberty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Gentleman from Japan: The Untold Story of an Incredible Journey from Asia to Queen Elizabeth’s Court Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKNOW ABOUT "John Locke": One of The most influential figures of the Enlightenment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Victoria & Abdul (Movie Tie-in): The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeonardo Da Vinci Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMetamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho Killed The President?: The Truth About The JFK Assassination Between Theories And Conspiracies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Emperor of China Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Eagle in the Mirror Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEighteen: The Sunday Times Bestseller: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hollywood’s 10 Greatest Actors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMade in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Read what you want, how you want
From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

About Historical Biographies
Historical biographies and memoirs, whether they’re about explorers, thinkers, politicians or writers, give us some of the most intriguing and inspiring audiobooks. You’ll find out much more about the lives and passions of historical figures like Leonardo Davinci, Tesla, Ben Franklin, Emily Dickinson and other incredible figures from our shared past. These are the kinds of people who made changes in the past that helped shape our present. There’s no shortage of must-listen historical biography audiobooks. Learn all about Julius Caesar's life, for example, in Adrian Goldsworthy’s historical biography that covers not only the famous Roman emperor's accomplishments as a conquering general, but also intimate aspects of his life that shaped him and his leadership. There is an array of award-winning historical biographies that show us the full complexity of our historical heroes and why they remain important in our modern world. Check out some of the top historical biography audiobooks, like the bestsellers Caesar: Life of a Colossus, My Experiments with Truth, Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon, and The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
Historical biographies and memoirs, whether they’re about explorers, thinkers, politicians or writers, give us some of the most intriguing and inspiring audiobooks. You’ll find out much more about the lives and passions of historical figures like Leonardo Davinci, Tesla, Ben Franklin, Emily Dickinson and other incredible figures from our shared past. These are the kinds of people who made changes in the past that helped shape our present. There’s no shortage of must-listen historical biography audiobooks. Learn all about Julius Caesar's life, for example, in Adrian Goldsworthy’s historical biography that covers not only the famous Roman emperor's accomplishments as a conquering general, but also intimate aspects of his life that shaped him and his leadership. There is an array of award-winning historical biographies that show us the full complexity of our historical heroes and why they remain important in our modern world. Check out some of the top historical biography audiobooks, like the bestsellers Caesar: Life of a Colossus, My Experiments with Truth, Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon, and The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies