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
View audiobookThe 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 “witty and brilliant”... Read more
Knife
By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Salman Rushdie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution,... Read more
The Anthropocene Reviewed
By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam 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
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
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, 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 glamorous—the 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
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."—The New York Times
“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben
“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more
There's Always This Year
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve 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 • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The... Read more
Cultish
By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see— or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of FollowersThe author of the widely praised Wordslut 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
View audiobookHow to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning... Read more
Between Two Kingdoms
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more
ADHD for Smart Ass Women
By: Tracy Otsuka
Narrated by: Tracy Otsuka
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery.ADHD is one of the most common neurological disorders in the United States—yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gender gap in medical research, which does not account... Read more
View audiobookPoverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) 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
Briefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me... Read more
View audiobookMe and White Supremacy
By: Layla F. Saad
Narrated by: Layla F. Saad
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never... Read more
View audiobookCome As You Are: Revised and Updated
By: Emily Nagoski
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.
For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less... 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 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 Prize–winning 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
Solito
By: Javier Zamora
Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more
White Fragility
By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... Read more
The Gifts of Imperfection: 10th Anniversary Edition
By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller, featuring a new foreword.
For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and,... 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