Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
The Demon of Unrest
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil Warāa simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Time, Los Angeles Times, Menās Health,... 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 Hundred Years' War on Palestine
By: Rashid Khalidi
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi & Rashid Khalidi
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an introduction read by the author.
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home... Read more
A Promised Land
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 29 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the makingāfrom the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE ā¢ NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post ā¢... 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
True Reconciliation
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Narrated by: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.
There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbiaās... Read more
An Unfinished Love Story
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The perfect gift for Motherās Day and Fatherās Day!
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris... Read more
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
By: Angela Y. Davis
Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis & Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's... Read more
Opinions
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Roxane Gay
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, āa strikingly fresh cultural criticā (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling... Read more
View audiobook
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
Cobalt Red
By: Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an author's note read by the author.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congoās cobalt mining operationāand the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposƩ of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more
Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Judith Butler
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them.
"A profoundly urgent intervention.ā āNaomi Klein
"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.ā āClaudia Rankine
From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more
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
Prequel
By: Rachel Maddow
Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERĀ ā¢ Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis.
Ā
āA ripping readāwell rendered, fast-paced and delivered with the same... Read more
Nuclear War
By: Annie Jacobsen
Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller
āIn Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians failā¦Terrifying.āāWall Street Journal
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours:... Read more
The Splendid and the Vile
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Devil in the White CityĀ andĀ Dead WakeĀ delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post ā¢ HuffPost ā¢ The Seattle Times ā¢ Lit Hub ā¢ The Week ā¢ PopSugar
On Winston Churchillās first day as... Read more
So You Want to Talk about Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of todayās racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race,... Read more
View audiobook
Age of Revolutions
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutionsāpast and presentāthat define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic riskāthe early decades of the 21st century may... Read more
New Cold Wars
By: David E. Sanger
Narrated by: Robertson Dean & David E. Sanger
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ The fast-paced inside story of Americaās plunge into a volatile rivalry with the other two great nuclear powersāXi Jinpingās China and Vladimir Putinās Russiaāfrom the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning journalist and bestselling author of The Perfect Weapon
Ā
ā[A] cogent, revealing account of how a generation of American... Read more
Surrender
By: Bono
Narrated by: Bono
Length: 20 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Bonoāartist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2āhas written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life heās lived, the challenges heās faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive... Read more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
By: Nathan Thrall
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for a school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a... Read more
A New World Begins
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
Narrated by: Pete Cross & Jeremy D. Popkin
Length: 21 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just societyāeven if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the... Read more
View audiobook
The Sum of Us
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ā¢ One of todayās most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyoneānot just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ā¢ ONE... Read more
How to Hide an Empire
By: Daniel Immerwahr
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 17 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and... Read more
View audiobook