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Braiding Sweetgrass
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
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The Age of Magical Overthinking
By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
Utilizing the linguistic insights of her āwitty and brilliantā... Read more
The Anthropocene Reviewed
By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
āMasterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human conditionāand a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.ā āAdam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is... Read more
Cultish
By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
āOne of those life-changing reads that makes you seeā or, in this case, hearāthe whole world differently.ā āMegan Angelo, author of FollowersThe author of the widely praisedĀ WordslutĀ analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate... Read more
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There's Always This Year
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ A āpowerfulā (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and homeāfrom the author ofĀ the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
āMesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book Iāve ever read but one of the most moving books Iāve ever read, period.āāSteve James, director of Hoop Dreams
Growing... Read more
How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the National Book Awardāwinning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes aĀ āgroundbreakingā (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselvesānow updated, with a new preface.
āThe most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.āāThe... Read more
Talking to Strangers
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more
Doppelganger
By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."āThe New York Times
āIf ever a book was necessary, itās this one.ā āBill McKibben
āThoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ OPRAHāS BOOK CLUB PICK ā¢ āAn instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.āāDwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prizeāwinning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows... Read more
The Radium Girls
By: Kate Moore
Narrated by: Angela Brazil
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorousāthe girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.
As the... Read more
The Dawn of Everything
By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more
Morning After the Revolution
By: Nellie Bowles
Narrated by: Nellie Bowles
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their mindsāand how she almost did, too.
As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter,Ā and frequent attendee at her local gay bars,Ā Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San FranciscoĀ neighbors and friendsāuntil she started... Read more
Feel It All
By: Casey Tanner
Narrated by: Casey Tanner
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels the stale cultural attitudes about sex that leave too many feeling inadequate, and offers an expansive, attachment-based framework to free us and develop bolder, more satisfying relationships with our sexual selves.When it comes to sex, most people feel insecure. But itās not because weāre... Read more
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Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER ā¢ NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ā¢ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKĀ ā¢ āA searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sisterās murderer to justice years after the factā (The Boston Globe), from āone of Mexicoās greatest living writersā (Jonathan Lethem).
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āPart memoir, part true-crime story, Garzaās chronicle is both... Read more
The Warmth of Other Suns
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 22 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE... Read more
Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ The Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making aĀ āprovocative and compellingā (NPR)Ā argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star... Read more
Magical/Realism
By: Vanessa AngƩlica Villarreal
Narrated by: Vanessa AngƩlica Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop cultureāfrom BeyoncĆ© to Game of Thronesāto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa AngĆ©lica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmotherās... Read more
Black Disability Politics
By: Sami Schalk
Narrated by: Imani Barbarin
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... Read more
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Knife
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduringāand survivingāan attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
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On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the... Read more
The Color of Law
By: Richard Rothstein
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate... Read more
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Hood Feminism
By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
āThe fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.ā āIbram X. Kendi,Ā #1 New York Times-bestselling author ofĀ How to Be an Antiracist, in The... Read more
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more
The 1619 Project
By: Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ā¢ NPR ā¢ Marie Claire
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In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of... Read more
How the Word Is Passed
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in Americaāand how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarksāthose that are honest about the past and those that are notāthat... Read more