Bestsellers
The most popular titles available at Audible.com, generating buzz from critics, publishers, and your fellow audio enthusiasts.All Categories
Top 77-
-
Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- By: Sheri Fink
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
-
-
Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- By Cynthia on 09-15-13
-
1. Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $22.50 or 1 credit
Sale price: $22.50 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
-
-
fascinating
- By Sara on 10-20-08
-
2. The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-09-08
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $19.26 or 1 credit
Sale price: $19.26 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
-
-
A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- By Susan K Donley on 06-17-05
-
3. The Johnstown Flood
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-17-05
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $16.46 or 1 credit
Sale price: $16.46 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- By: Ted Koppel
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
-
-
Too much poetry, not enough prose
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 11-27-15
-
4. Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.14 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.14 or 1 credit
-
-
-
A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
-
-
Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
-
5. A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-27-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $24.95 or 1 credit
Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit
-
-
-
3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- By: Sean Flynn
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...
-
-
a book about a very heroic breed
- By Andy on 06-03-03
-
6. 3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-02-03
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $23.36 or 1 credit
Sale price: $23.36 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
-
-
Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
-
7. Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $24.95 or 1 credit
Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Ruthless Tide
- The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
- By: Al Roker
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker....
-
-
Mispronunciation bothers me
- By Tracy on 09-08-18
-
8. Ruthless Tide
- The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-22-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $22.49 or 1 credit
Sale price: $22.49 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
-
-
Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- By Kathy in CA on 07-05-18
-
9. Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-24-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $14.28 or 1 credit
Sale price: $14.28 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- By: Juliette Kayyem
- Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....
-
-
An important and thoroughly engaging book
- By Robert S. Taylor on 04-21-22
-
10. The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 03-29-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $18.13 or 1 credit
Sale price: $18.13 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Deep Dark
- Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....
-
-
Started out not so great, but very glad I stayed w
- By farmhouselady on 01-14-20
-
11. The Deep Dark
- Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-13-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $24.95 or 1 credit
Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- By: Henry Fountain
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....
-
-
Fascinating to hear the full story
- By Debby A Davis on 08-18-17
-
12. The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $18.00 or 1 credit
Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- By: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
-
-
Therapeutic
- By Quiltedwings on 05-07-15
-
13. Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-07-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $29.95 or 1 credit
Sale price: $29.95 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Disappearing Act
- The Impossible Case of MH370
- By: Florence de Changy
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory....
-
-
Random Facts in Need of a Coherent Thesis
- By Navillus82 on 03-27-21
-
14. The Disappearing Act
- The Impossible Case of MH370
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-04-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $29.03 or 1 credit
Sale price: $29.03 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- By: Nick Timiraos
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
-
-
Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- By NL on 04-17-22
-
15. Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-01-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $22.46 or 1 credit
Sale price: $22.46 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
-
-
One of the Best books this year!
- By Nazir on 05-26-22
-
16. The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-29-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $28.79 or 1 credit
Sale price: $28.79 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- By: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path....
-
-
Gripping
- By Christina Webster on 04-24-24
-
17. Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-16-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $21.49 or 1 credit
Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- By: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....
-
-
Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- By howard bascom on 09-02-21
-
18. Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-17-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.14 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.14 or 1 credit
-
-
-
A Nation Forsaken
- EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe
- By: F. Michael Maloof
- Narrated by: Mike Ortego
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future....
-
-
Excellent information and well written book.
- By Alan on 05-18-14
-
19. A Nation Forsaken
- EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Mike Ortego
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-24-14
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $14.95 or 1 credit
Sale price: $14.95 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- By: Jake Johnston
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
-
-
A must read for anyone interested in Haiti
- By Matthew Smith on 04-02-24
-
20. Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-30-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $25.00 or 1 credit
Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit
-