The Longest The Americas Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 247 unabridged The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The The Americas shelf sits under History on the store.

#	Title	Author	Length
1	The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York	Robert A. Caro	66.1 hrs
2	The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox	Shelby Foote	58.5 hrs
3	The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972	William Manchester	57.5 hrs
4	A Patriot’s History of the United States, Updated Edition: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to America’s Age of Entitlement	Michael Allen	55.8 hrs
5	The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian	Shelby Foote	52.9 hrs
6	A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror	Michael Allen	50.2 hrs
7	Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Volume One)	Michael Burlingame	49.4 hrs
8	A History of the American People	Paul Johnson	48.3 hrs
9	Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980	Rick Perlstein	45.3 hrs
10	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63	Taylor Branch	45.3 hrs
11	Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years	Carl Sandburg	44.3 hrs
12	The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville	Shelby Foote	43.1 hrs
13	U.S. History Audiobook	Todd Pfannestiel	42.4 hrs
14	Team of Rivals	Doris Kearns Goodwin	41.5 hrs
15	On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller	Richard Norton Smith	40.9 hrs
16	W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963	David Levering Lewis	40.7 hrs
17	No Ordinary Time	Doris Kearns Goodwin	39.8 hrs
18	Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era	James Macpherson	39.7 hrs
19	Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans	T. R. Fehrenbach	39.4 hrs
20	The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan	Rick Perlstein	39.1 hrs
21	John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People	Randall Woods	38.4 hrs
22	The Growth of the American Republic - Complete and Unabridged Edition (1763-1917): Maple Spring Classic Edition	Henry Steele Commager	38.2 hrs
23	President Carter: The White House Years	Stuart E. Eizenstat	38 hrs
24	Diplomacy	Henry Kissinger	37.9 hrs
25	Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	37.3 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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