{"id":37248,"count":13,"description":"History, on the surface, doesn't seem like a great subject for <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/audiobooks\/\">audiobooks<\/a>. Getting through almost any serious work of history involves some speed reading, as it's not unusual for award-winning books like Mary Fulbrook's <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/reckonings-by-mary-fulbrook\/\"><em>Reckonings<\/em><\/a>, the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/history-2019-wolfson-prize-shortlist\/\">the 2019 Wolfson Prize<\/a>, to stretch to 500+ pages. (And if you're working your way through a tome by the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/annals-by-tacitus\/\"><em>Annales<\/em><\/a> school of historians, you'd be getting off lightly with 500 pages).\r\n\r\nBelow is a list of all the most recommended titles in our <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history\/\">history book section<\/a>, specially selected so they are also manageable as audiobooks.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/audiobooks\/best-history-audiobooks\/","name":"Best History Audiobooks","slug":"best-history-audiobooks","taxonomy":"category","parent":31765,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/37248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/31765"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=37248"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=37248"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=37248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}