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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
Featured Article: Roll Out the Red Carpet for 2023's Award Season Listening Recommendations
Awards season is now upon us, with some of cinema's most gifted directors, actors, cinematographers, screenwriters, composers, costume and VFX artists, and beyond being rightly recognized for their talents and contributions to art and film over the past year. Here are some listening recommendations to keep you company while you place your bets on those winner brackets and plan that Best Picture-themed charcuterie board for your awards night soiree.
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance68
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Story69
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more...
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Worth the time
- By MadeYouLook on 02-08-19
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The Brothers
- The Road to an American Tragedy
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-07-15
- Language: English
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The Man Without a Face
- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall667
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Performance582
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Story577
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING The National Book Award winner's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. “In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in...
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A Preview of Authoritarianism in the USA
- By Jimmy O on 06-08-19
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The Man Without a Face
- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,077
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Performance944
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Story940
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia...
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The author is an international treasure
- By ThreeGems on 10-16-17
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-03-17
- Language: English
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Surviving Autocracy
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall557
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Performance468
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Story468
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING “When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on...
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Good But . . .
- By A reviewer on 06-02-20
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Surviving Autocracy
- Narrated by: Masha Gessen
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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El hombre sin rostro [The Man Without a Face]
- El sorprendente ascenso de Vladímir Putin [The Surprising Rise of Vladimir Putin]
- By: Masha Gessen, Marcos Pérez Sánchez - translator, Juan Manuel Ibeas Delgado - translator
- Narrated by: Angi Sansón
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
La fascinante historia de cómo Vladímir Putin, un agente mediocre del KGB, llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo....
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Not only narrates Putin's biography
- By Oscar Jimenez on 05-01-24
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El hombre sin rostro [The Man Without a Face]
- El sorprendente ascenso de Vladímir Putin [The Surprising Rise of Vladimir Putin]
- Narrated by: Angi Sansón
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 02-23-23
- Language: Spanish
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance55
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Story55
In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of...
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
- By Roberta L. Ruben on 06-16-18
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 06-13-17
- Language: English
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance34
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Story33
The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a “punk prayer” beseeching the “Mother...
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Therapy in these authoritarian times
- By Emeri Burks on 08-30-22
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-03-14
- Language: English
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Der Mann ohne Gesicht
- Wladimir Putin. Eine Enthüllung
- By: Masha Gessen
- Narrated by: Dana Geissler
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Das ist neu in Russland: Hunderttausende gehen gegen die gefälschten Wahlen auf die Straße. Ihr Protest richtet sich gegen den Mann, der hinter...
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Der Mann ohne Gesicht
- Wladimir Putin. Eine Enthüllung
- Narrated by: Dana Geissler
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 03-01-12
- Language: German
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