Hamilton‘s smart lyrics, catchy music, diverse cast, and unique way of telling our country’s history have created a cultural phenomenon—along with a die-hard fan base. And now Hamilton is streaming on Disney+, letting all of us finally see the show we’ve been listening to for years.
Extend the excitement (and fill the void once you’ve streamed it once…or five times) by listening to audiobooks that some of the Hamilton cast members and alumni lend their voices to.
Gmorning, Gnight! is written AND read by Hamilton creator and former lead Lin-Manuel Miranda. Before he was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day, the best of which are now compiled into this audiobook.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls will inspire young girls to be confident, to dream big, to cultivate their strength. Trade in princesses for presidents. Swap out Cinderella for Cleopatra tonight. Read in part by Broadway’s original Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Phillipa Soo.
Devorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing. Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls. They’ve spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the same street. Their paths never crossed…until one day, they did. One of the narrators of this audiobook is Leslie Odom, Jr. who you may know as Broadway’s original Aaron Burr.
Awesome! Wow!: Books read by actors who have played King George III
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic—from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. Read by Rory O’Malley.
Broadway darling Andrew Rannells narrates his heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad highlights as he chases his dreams in New York City.
Join a daring expedition into strange new lands with this official Minecraft novel! When a young man is ripped from his quiet life and stranded far from home, he must learn not only how to survive, but how to live. Read by Euan Morton.
Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks are searching for a lost treasure of Montezuma. When it comes to gold, even friendship doesn’t keep men from killing each other. Read by actor Brian D’Arcy James.
More Stories from the Hamilverse
The biography that started it all. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time.
The Schuylers are proud to be one of their country’s founding families, and even prouder of their daughters—Angelica, Peggy, and Eliza. Though Eliza would rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel. When Alex and Eliza meet one fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.