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Ultra-Processed People
By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.
It’s not you, it’s the food.
How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more
Man's Search for Meaning
By: Viktor E. Frankl
Narrated by: Theo Solomon
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair.“This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNViktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in... Read more
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Democracy Awakening
By: Heather Cox Richardson
Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians.
“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post
“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the important facts of the last 150... Read more
The Emperor of All Maladies
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... Read more
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A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
Narrated by: Vikas Adams
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima... Read more
Arabs
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 25 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.... Read more
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Technofeudalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Narrated by: Yanis Varoufakis
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In a revelatory and path breaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world.
“The Thucydides of our time.” —Jeffrey Sachs
Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs... Read more
Pockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
Trail of the Lost
By: Andrea Lankford
Narrated by: Kristi Burns
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies.
As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led... Read more
Lies My Teacher Told Me
By: James Loewen
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 17 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in itself." -Howard Zinn A new edition of the national bestseller and American Book Award winner, with a new preface by the author Since its first... Read more
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Judaism Is About Love
By: Shai Held
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.
A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread... Read more
Debt - Updated and Expanded
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years,... Read more
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NeuroTribes
By: Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more
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Administrations of Lunacy
By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... Read more
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By: Stacy Schiff
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This "glorious" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron Chernow)—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and... Read more
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Normal Women
By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigue...
Length: 27 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.” —Dan Jones, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
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How to Think Like a Woman
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more
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Dead Wake
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR
“Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a... Read more
Powers and Thrones
By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: Dan Jones
Length: 24 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Not only an engrossing read about the distant past, both informative and entertaining, but also a profoundly thought-provoking view of our not-really-so-‘new’ present . . . All medieval history is here, beautifully narrated . . . The vision takes in whole imperial landscapes but also makes room for intimate portraits of key individuals, and... Read more
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Devil in the Grove
By: Gilbert King
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... Read more
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.
Roxanne... Read more
Vulture Capitalism
By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the... Read more
Flowers of Fire
By: Hawon Jung
Narrated by: Kathleen Li
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.
Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women... Read more
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
By: Tim Marshall
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestseller, updated for 2016, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling... Read more
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