The best history or biography audiobooks, by award record: every Audie History or Biography winner

Looking for a history or biography audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's History or Biography category — 18 winners from 2009 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best history or biography production of each year. The most recent winner is Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs, narrated by Ron Butler.

Last verified 2026-06-10 · Source: Wikipedia + APA

Year	Narrator	Audiobook	Author
2026	Ron Butler	Baldwin: A Love Story	Nicholas Boggs
2025	Edward F. O'Keefe	The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created the President	Edward F. O'Keefe
2024	Simon Vance	Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh	Ann Thwaite
2023	Kevin Hart	Summer of '85	Chris Morrow, Kevin Hart, et al.
2022	Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish	Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other	Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
2021	JD Jackson	His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope	Jon Meacham
2020	Stephen Graybill	American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race	Douglas Brinkley
2019	John Rafter Lee	Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought Us Back from the Brink	Anthony McCarten
2018	Adenrele Ojo, MacLeod Andrews	Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case	Patricia Hruby Powell
2017	Mark Boyett	In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors	Doug Stanton
2016	Bronson Pinchot	A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts	Andrew Chaikin, Tom Hanks
2015	Edward Herrmann	The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism	Doris Kearns Goodwin
2014	Peter Francis James	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America	Gilbert King
2013	Dan John Miller	The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret	Kent Hartman
2012	Jonathan Davis	1861: The Civil War Awakening	Adam Goodheart
2011	Robert Fass	Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic	Gordon S. Wood
2010	Michael Prichard	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath	Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman
2009	John Curless	Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age	Arthur Herman

Every Audie History or Biography finalist (the full nominee record)

The Audie History or Biography category names finalists alongside each winner. These 51 audiobooks were nominated but didn't win — also sourced; each title's full record is in the A–Z index.

Year	Finalist	Author	Narrator(s)
2026	Mark Twain	Ron Chernow	Jason Culp
2026	The Fate of the Day	Rick Atkinson	Grover Gardner, Rick Atkinson
2026	The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty	John Seabrook	Dion Graham
2026	The Zorg	Siddharth Kara	Dion Graham
2025	Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space	Adam Higginbotham	Jacques Roy
2025	Codename Nemo	Charles Lachman	Qarie Marshall
2025	The Demon of Unrest	Erik Larson	Will Patton, Erik Larson
2025	The Showman	Simon Shuster	Daniel Gamburg
2024	Elon Musk	Walter Isaacson	Jeremy Bobb, Walter Isaacson
2024	Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk	Buddy Levy	Will Damron
2024	King: A Life	Jonathan Eig	Dion Graham
2024	The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder	David Grann	Dion Graham, David Grann
2023	An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States	Kyle T. Mays	Shaun Taylor-Corbett
2023	His Name is George Floyd	Robert Samuels; Toluse Olorunnipa	Dion Graham, Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
2023	Last Slave Ship	Ben Raines	Kevin R. Free
2023	Undelivered	Jeff Nussbaum	Adam Gifford, Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, Garrick Hagon, Glen McCready, Greg Lockett, James Lailey, Jeff Nussbaum, Johnny Heller, Kathleen Chalfant, Kurt Kanazawa, Lance Blair
2022	A Weekend with Pablo Picasso	Herbert Sigüenza	Herbert Sigüenza
2022	Music Is History	Ahmir Khalib Thompson (Questlove)	Ahmir Khalib Thompson (Questlove)
2022	Somersett: Benjamin Franklin and the Masterminding of American Independence	Philip Goodrich	Robert Petkoff, Joe Morton, Simon Jones, Euan Morton, Nicola Barber
2022	The Code Breaker	Walter Isaacson	Kathe Mazur, Walter Isaacson
2021	Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South	Matthew Van Meter	Brad Sanders
2021	J. R. R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend	Colin Duriez	Simon Vance
2021	Just Us: An American Conversation	Claudia Rankine	Janina Edwards
2021	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X	Les Payne; Tamara Payne	Dion Graham
2021	The Lincoln Conspiracy	Brad Meltzer; Josh Mensch	Scott Brick
2020	Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee	Casey Cep	Hillary Huber
2020	The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington	Brad Meltzer; Josh Mensch	Scott Brick
2020	The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth	Josh Levin	January LaVoy
2020	Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense	Dan Abrams; David Fisher	Roger Wayne, Dan Abrams
2019	Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Navy History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man	Lynn Vincent; Sara Vladic	John Bedford Lloyd
2019	Robin	Dave Itzkoff	Fred Berman, Dave Itzkoff
2019	The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers	Maxwell King	LeVar Burton
2019	We Were Soldiers Once… and Young	Harold G. Moore; Joseph L. Galloway	Jonathan Davis
2018	Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud	Shaun Considine	January LaVoy
2018	Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope	Wendy Holden	Elizabeth Wiley
2018	Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II	Liza Mundy	Erin Bennett
2018	My Life, My Love, My Legacy	Coretta Scott King; Barbara Reynolds	Phylicia Rashad, January LaVoy
2018	The Home Front: Life in America During World War II	Audible Originals; Martin Sheen; Dan Gediman	Martin Sheen
2017	A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy	Robert Moore	Pete Cross
2017	Paul McCartney: The Life	Philip Norman	Jonathan Keeble
2017	The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606	James S. Shapiro	Robert Fass
2017	Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution	Nathaniel Philbrick	Scott Brick
2016	In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife	Hugh Aldersey-Williams	Simon Vance
2016	Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide	Eric Bogosian	Eric Bogosian
2016	Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers	Simon Winchester	Simon Winchester
2016	Texas Rising: The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic	Stephen L. Moore	P. J. Ochlan
2015	A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal	Ben Macintyre	John Rafter Lee
2015	Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed	John F. Ross	Edward Herrmann
2015	Enemy Coast Ahead: Uncensored	Guy Gibson	Simon Vance
2015	In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette	Hampton Sides	Arthur Morey
2015	Lincoln's Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months That Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War	Todd Brewster	Todd Brewster

See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.