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