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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
Stories are Weapons
By: Annalee Newitz
Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War–era... Read more
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The Year of Living Constitutionally
By: A.J. Jacobs
Narrated by: A.J. Jacobs
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in attempting to follow the original meaning of the Constitution, as he searches for answers to one of the most pressing issues of our time: How should we interpret America’s foundational document?
“I didn’t know how I learned so much while... Read more
How Infrastructure Works
By: Deb Chachra
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece.” —Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic... Read more
Operation Mincemeat
By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “the best book ever written” (Boston Globe). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat, he tells an extraordinary story that will delight his legions of fans.
In 1943, from a... Read more
Differ We Must
By: Steve Inskeep
Narrated by: Steve Inskeep
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller
A compelling and nuanced exploration of Abraham Lincoln’s political acumen, illuminating a great politician’s strategy in a country divided—and lessons for our own disorderly present
In 1855, with the United States at odds over slavery, the lawyer Abraham Lincoln wrote a note to his best friend, the son of a... Read more
Hope in the Dark
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that... Read more
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The Anarchy
By: William Dalrymple
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019
A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Dalrymple is a superb historian with a... Read more
When Women Ruled the World
By: Maureen Quilligan
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century.
Library Journal, "Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021"
Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilization of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars—yet it... Read more
Plunder
By: Brendan Ballou
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The authoritative exposé of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it
Private equity surrounds us. Firms like Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR are among the largest employers in America and hold assets that rival those of small countries. Yet few understand what these firms are or how... Read more
Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition
By: Edgar Villanueva
Narrated by: Edgar Villanueva
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.
The world is out of balance. With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that systemic racism and colonial structures are... Read more
City Limits
By: Megan Kimble
Narrated by: Megan Kimble
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward
“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF... Read more
Losing Our Religion
By: Russell Moore
Narrated by: Russell Moore
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Southern Baptist pastor and Christianity Today editor-in-chief Russell Moore calls for repentance and renewal in American evangelicalism
American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian... Read more
UFO
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded.” —The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history) comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our government’s decades-long... Read more
The Shadow Docket
By: Stephen Vladeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more
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Black Marxism
By: Cedric J. Robinson
Narrated by: David Sadzin
Length: 20 hours
Abridged: No
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of Black people and... Read more
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Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: 48 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic systemThomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up,... Read more
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
By: James Shapiro
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book
A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land.
“In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not... Read more
The Trauma of Caste
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Narrated by: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator... Read more
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 17 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 remains a cornerstone of American political journalism and one of the bestselling campaign books of all time. Thompson’s searing account of the battle for the 1972 presidency—from the Democratic primaries to the eventual showdown between George McGovern and Richard Nixon—is infused... Read more
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Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 5 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair—a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call... Read more
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The Biggest Prison on Earth
By: Ilan Pappe
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.
Publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a... Read more
God Save Texas
By: Lawrence Wright
Narrated by: Lawrence Wright
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR
The inspiration... Read more
Dirty Work
By: Eyal Press
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of America's most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who... Read more
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