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The Longest History & Culture Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 180 unabridged History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The History & Culture shelf sits under Biography & Memoir on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1The Prophet: The Life of Leon TrotskyIsaac Deutscher62.7 hrs
2The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 3: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965Paul Reid53.4 hrs
3Churchill: Walking with DestinyAndrew Roberts50.5 hrs
4Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43Chips Channon48.5 hrs
5Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57Chips Channon48.3 hrs
6The New Negro: The Life of Alain LockeJeffrey C. Stewart45.6 hrs
7Adolf HitlerJohn Toland44.8 hrs
8Mark TwainRon Chernow44.6 hrs
9Peter the Great: His Life and WorldJohn E. Dowling43.6 hrs
10Plutarch’s Lives, Vol. 1Plutarch42.4 hrs
11HitlerJoachim C. Fest41.4 hrs
12The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. 1: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932William Manchester41.3 hrs
13On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson RockefellerRichard Norton Smith40.9 hrs
14About Face: The Odyssey of an American WarriorJulie Sherman40.7 hrs
15W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963David Levering Lewis40.7 hrs
16The Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38Chips Channon39.2 hrs
17James Madison: A BiographyRalph Ketcham38.1 hrs
18Metternich: Strategist and VisionaryWolfram Siemann37 hrs
19Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomDavid W. Blight37 hrs
20Che Guevara: A Revolutionary LifeJon Lee Anderson36.7 hrs
21The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin FranklinH.W. Brands36.7 hrs
22The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George IIIAndrew Roberts36 hrs
23George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood MonarchAndrew Roberts36 hrs
24Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen CranePaul Auster35.8 hrs
25A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheehan35.8 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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