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The Most-Rated History & Culture Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 2,194 unabridged History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

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

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1SpareThe Duke of Sussex Prince Harry15.7 hrs
2Into the WildJon Krakauer7 hrs
3Thirty Years A SlaveLouis Hughes4.9 hrs
4The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota HistoryJoseph Marshall11 hrs
5Henry Ford's Own StoryRose Wilder Lane4.5 hrs
6Geronimo's Story of His LifeGeronimo3.8 hrs
7Letters of a Woman HomesteaderElinore Pruitt Stewart5.3 hrs
8The Story of My LifeHelen Keller3.9 hrs
9The Story of Joan of ArcAndrew Lang2.1 hrs
10Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in AmericaMartin Dugard9.5 hrs
11The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin7.5 hrs
12Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass4.1 hrs
13Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American FamilyRobert Kolker13.1 hrs
14This is Going to Hurt: The Bestselling Secret Diaries of a Junior DoctorAdam Kay5.8 hrs
15Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive EditionAnne Frank9.9 hrs
16MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close CallsSteven Rinella5.3 hrs
17The Misadventures of Awkward Black GirlIssa Rae5.9 hrs
18Just As I AmCicely Tyson16.1 hrs
19My First Summer in the SierraJohn Muir7.2 hrs
20Great Expectations (Version 2)Charles Dickens17.9 hrs
21From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an IndianCharles Alexander Eastman3.8 hrs
22The Autobiography of Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt18.6 hrs
23Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal FamilyLeanda De Lisle16.4 hrs
24Call the MidwifeJennifer Worth12.1 hrs
25Napoleon: A LifeAndrew Roberts32.9 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. 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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