Modern in History & Nonfiction Audiobooks

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The American Way of Killing

The Invention of an Epidemic

by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell ...

Unabridged

5 hours 18 min

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.Drawing ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.Drawing
... Read more
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The Hidden Hand

The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda

by Warren Kinsella ...

Narrated by Matt Baram ...

Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day—a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were slaughtered or kidnapped, in the most barbaric fashion possible by the Iran-backed, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. The ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day—a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were slaughtered or kidnapped, in the most barbaric fashion possible by the Iran-backed, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. The
... Read more
Audiobook

Redwood

The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

by Ben Macintyre ...

Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

Unabridged

17 hours 24 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” (The Guardian) about a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw ... Read more

$37.00 CAD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” (The Guardian) about a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw
... Read more
Audiobook

Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Anne Applebaum ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat themA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times"A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless.”—John Simpson, The Guardian ... Read more

$23.50 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat themA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Times"A masterful guide to the new age of authoritarianism... clear-sighted and fearless.”—John Simpson, The Guardian
... Read more
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul

A People's History of Afghanistan

by Lyse Doucet ...

Narrated by Lyse Doucet ...

Unabridged

13 hours 52 min

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the ... Read more

$39.00 CAD

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEThe story of a hotel. The story of a nation.**When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world.More than fifty years on, the
... Read more
Audiobook

The Spy in the Archive

How one man tried to kill the KGB

by Gordon Corera ...

Narrated by Gordon Corera ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily
... Read more
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Bush War Operator

Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

by A.J. Balaam ...

Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time—the Selous Scouts.Twice decorated—with ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time—the Selous Scouts.Twice decorated—with
... Read more
Audiobook

Jane Austen at Home

A Biography (250th Birthday Edition)

by Lucy Worsley ...

Narrated by Lucy Worsley ...

Unabridged

17 hours 17 min

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley*'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I devoured this. Jane's story is told in vivid prose and a compassionate manner.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*-------------Where better to celebrate ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The remarkable true story of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, narrated by Lucy Worsley*'This book is a delight . . . I will return to Austen's novels with a greater appreciation of the hardships and hopes of her heroines.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I devoured this. Jane's story is told in vivid prose and a compassionate manner.' - LISTENER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*-------------Where better to celebrate
... Read more
Audiobook

Path Between the Seas

by David McCullough ...

Narrated by Nelson Runger ...

Unabridged

31 hours 36 min

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough.A national bestseller and testament to human determination, The Path Between the Seas tells the ... Read more

$53.99 CAD

The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that transformed global trade routes and shaped modern American history, as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master historian David McCullough.A national bestseller and testament to human determination, The Path Between the Seas tells the
... Read more
Audiobook

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

23 hours 52 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL
... Read more
Audiobook

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed or Fail

by Ray Dalio ...

Narrated by Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb ...

Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York TimesFrom legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD“A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to understand today.” —Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York TimesFrom legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New
... Read more
Audiobook

Midnight in Chernobyl

The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

13 hours 55 min

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov... ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov...
... Read more
Audiobook

How to be a Victorian

by Ruth Goodman ...

Narrated by Patience Tomlinson ...

Unabridged

15 hours 1 min

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson.How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth GoodmanWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and ... Read more

$22.99 CAD

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman, read by Patience Tomlinson.How to be a Victorian - a time traveller's guide to Victorian Britain by the BBC's Ruth GoodmanWe know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and
... Read more
Audiobook

A Dangerous Game

by Mandy Robotham ...

Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London.‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it down!’ Suzanne Kelman, author of The Bookseller of ParisLondon, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in 1950s London.‘A gripping story of revenge, guilt and redemption, sweetened by love.’ Daisy Wood, author of The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris‘A truly brilliant read—I couldn’t put it down!’ Suzanne Kelman, author of The Bookseller of ParisLondon, 1952. Seven years after the chaotic aftermath of World War II, London
... Read more
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Einstein

His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Unabridged

21 hours 31 min

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s
... Read more
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Early America’s Most Important Expeditions: The History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Zebulon Pike’s Expeditions

by Charles River Editors ...

Narrated by Mary Rossman ...

Unabridged

2 hours 27 min

Throughout his presidency at the beginning of the 19th century, Thomas Jefferson had worried about the future of the western U.S., seeing that settlements in the Ohio Valley and lower South relied upon the Mississippi River. France’s controls over the region, in his estimation, put the U.S. at a severe disadvantage. His solution proved successful beyond his wildest imagination, for Napoleon did ... Read more

$10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout his presidency at the beginning of the 19th century, Thomas Jefferson had worried about the future of the western U.S., seeing that settlements in the Ohio Valley and lower South relied upon the Mississippi River. France’s controls over the region, in his estimation, put the U.S. at a severe disadvantage. His solution proved successful beyond his wildest imagination, for Napoleon did
... Read more
Audiobook

The Wake

The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntrye ...

Narrated by Linden MacIntyre ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up ... Read more

$15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up
... Read more
Audiobook

The Siege

A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

by Ben Macintyre ...

Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

Unabridged

14 hours 27 min

**“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”—The Washington PostA thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

**“For six days, it was the Iranian Embassy on Princes Gate in London that riveted the world. . . . Macintyre’s superb reconstruction restores it to vivid, complex life.”—The Washington PostA thrilling tick-tock recounting of one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from the true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation
... Read more
Audiobook

Princes at War

The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII

by Deborah Cadbury ...

Narrated by Veida Dehmlow ...

Unabridged

15 hours 22 min

The personal lives of the British Royals were successfully kept out of the public eye by mutual agreement of the press and royal family, but this all changed in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and spurned his responsibility for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson. In Princes at War, Deborah Cadbury reveals evidence that the Duke and Duchess of ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

The personal lives of the British Royals were successfully kept out of the public eye by mutual agreement of the press and royal family, but this all changed in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated the throne and spurned his responsibility for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee, Wallis Simpson. In Princes at War, Deborah Cadbury reveals evidence that the Duke and Duchess of
... Read more
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The Secret of Life

Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

by Howard Markel ...

Narrated by Donald Corren ...

Unabridged

15 hours 5 min

An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and whywere they the ones who succeeded?In truth, the ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and whywere they the ones who succeeded?In truth, the
... Read more
Audiobook

Hitler's Secret Army

A Hidden History of Spies, Saboteurs, and Traitors in World War II

by Tim Tate ...

Narrated by George Newbern ...

Unabridged

14 hours 4 min

Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column:
... Read more
Audiobook

The Next World War: The new age of global conflict and the fight to stop it

by Peter Apps ...

Narrated by Peter Apps ...

Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

'Incredibly well sourced . . . One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare'TELEGRAPH'Blends vivid reporting with shrewd analysis'ECONOMIST'Truly excellent . . . a gripping tour de force. Every politician and military expert needs to read this book'IAIN DALE'Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller . . . The fact it doesn't feel like scaremongering says a lot about t... ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

'Incredibly well sourced . . . One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare'TELEGRAPH'Blends vivid reporting with shrewd analysis'ECONOMIST'Truly excellent . . . a gripping tour de force. Every politician and military expert needs to read this book'IAIN DALE'Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller . . . The fact it doesn't feel like scaremongering says a lot about t...
... Read more
Audiobook

Victorian London

The Life of a City 1840-1870

by Liza Picard ...

Narrated by Anton Lesser ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Life of London
Abridged

6 hours 39 min

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Like her previous books, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life - and the conditions in which most people lived - so often left out of history books. This period of mid Victorian London covers a huge span: Victoria's wedding and the place of the royals in popular esteem; how the very poor lived, the underworld, prostitution, crime, prisons
... Read more
Audiobook

The Spy and the Traitor

The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

by Ben Macintyre ...

Narrated by John Lee ...

Unabridged

13 hours 20 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction**If anyone could ... Read more

$29.50 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Operation Mincement and The Siege comes the thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War.“The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction**If anyone could
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