16 must-read audiobook books like The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris

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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage

By: John Harris

4.08

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A stunning behind the curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in …

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1. Washington: A Life

By: Ron Chernow

4.16

Format: 904 pages, Hardcover

The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a brea… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Many mickles make a muckle."

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self- criticism. “I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors,"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this, because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults or remove the prejudices whic…"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

"An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that all…"

-Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life

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2. Æthelstan: The Making of England

By: Tom Holland

4.03

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more

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  • audiobook
"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

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4. Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more

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5. The Slave Ship: A Human History

By: Marcus Rediker

4.73

Format: None pages,

The missing link in the chain of American slavery For three centuries slave ships carted millions o… read more

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6. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • audiobook
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8. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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10. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

By: Stuart A. Reid

4.40

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

By: Andrea Elliott

4.72

Format: 602 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, pov… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
".. they assume that intelligence is a pre-ordained trait, [...], their perceived destiny, which flows from another belief, that the poor are to blame for their condition. Poverty is the proof of defi…"

-Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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12. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Three Assassins

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

By the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train, the high-octane new thriller, set in Tok… read more

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  • audiobook
"All the knowledge and science that human beings have, it only helps humans. Get it? No living thing in the world besides humans is happy that humans exist."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

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14. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

By: Guy de la Bédoyère

3.87

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)

By: Christoffer Carlsson

3.93

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the sa… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series) by Bradley M. Gottfried

18. Lincoln Comes to Gettysburg: The Creation of the Soldiers' National Cemetery and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (Emerging Civil War Series)

By: Bradley M. Gottfried

4.16

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–Bestselling The story of the battle’s aftermath—the burial of the dead, and Lincoln’… read more

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19. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920

By: Manisha Sinha

4.23

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of thi… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)

By: Frank M. Snowden III

4.40

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

A wide-ranging study that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage

By: John Harris

4.08

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A stunning behind the curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in … read more

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  • american
  • history
  • race
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Top history books like The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage by John Harris

Transform Your Habits

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Æthelstan: The Making of England

Tom Holland

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

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18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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