Like many people, I have much more time to listen to audiobooks than I do to read books. Unfortunately, the choice of academic histories available on Audible etc is pretty limited, and can be difficult to find anything good when you're trawling through 15 pages of titles like The Incredible True Story of The Marines of X Company. Particularly when you are looking to learn about new eras or regions and you don't recognise any of the more interesting authors working in the field.
So I thought we could maybe have a monthly or fortnightly feature focused entirely on history audiobooks.
Perhaps this could be the first: slightly passe, I suppose, but I recently finished Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule, and The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist, both on Audible. They were each excellent in their own way, although I found Baptist to be rather overwritten. And he strangely loses his way from an economic history of slavery told "from below" between 1850 and 1860 to make it a more or less "straight" political history of American slavery. But the early chapters of the book are excellent, particularly when he forgets about his metaphors and concentrates on allowing enslaved people to describe the economic system they were in in their own words.
Hi there - thanks for your suggestion. It will be passed on to the mod team as a whole, but I would note that initiatives such as regular features are not something we undertake lightly, as they tend to require a fair bit of ongoing effort to maintain, and even with the best efforts their popularity tends to drop off fairly quickly.
That said, there is absolutely nothing stopping you using the weekly Friday Free-For-All thread for a regular discussion of audiobook, either in terms of a more structured bookclub or just as a place to share thoughts and recommendations. You don't need mod permission to do this, and if it does become a popular regular discussion, there will be a more concrete case to turn it into a standalone feature.