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Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
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Age of Revolutions
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that 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 risk—the early decades of the 21st century may... Read more
Extreme Ownership
By: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Narrated by: Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
"These guys are intense. And they bring that same fire to their narration in the audiobook. Listen to these insanely competent SEAL officers tell you exactly how to make a team successful through their firsthand experiences in business and combat." - The Hustle
An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership audiobook that took... Read more
The Truths We Hold
By: Kamala Harris
Narrated by: Kamala Harris
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller
From Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment... Read more
Emergent Strategy
By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us... 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 Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 17 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more
The Power Broker: Volume 3 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 20 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
Ghosted
By: Nancy French
Narrated by: Nancy French
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by the author.A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story.Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the... 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
Joe Biden
By: Evan Osnos
Narrated by: Evan Osnos & David Remnick
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
*A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR*
A concise, brilliant, and trenchant examination of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s successful lifelong quest for the presidency by National Book Award winner Evan Osnos.
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest—fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career... Read more
White Rural Rage
By: Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles
“This is an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump.”—David Corn, New York Times bestselling author of American... Read more
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
By: Mariame Kaba
Narrated by: Diana Blue
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more
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Limitarianism
By: Ingrid Robeyns
Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
How much money is too much? Is it ethical, and democratic, for an individual to amass a limitless amount of wealth, and then spend it however they choose? Many of us feel that the answer to that is no—but what can we do about it? Ingrid Robeyns has long written and argued for the principle she calls limitarianism—or the need to limit extreme... Read more
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The Persuaders
By: Anand Giridharadas
Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and... Read more
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Why We're Polarized
By: Ezra Klein
Narrated by: Ezra Klein
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra... Read more
The Intersectional Environmentalist
By: Leah Thomas
Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change. The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental... Read more
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Viral Justice
By: Ruha Benjamin
Narrated by: Ruha Benjamin
Length: 13 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Ruha Benjamin offers an inspiring and uniquely personal vision of how we can build a more just world one small change at a time
“A book as urgent as the moment that produced it.”—Jelani Cobb, Columbia Journalism School
Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and... Read more
What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
Narrated by: Bill Maher
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, most opinionated, and most necessary book ever—a brilliantly astute and acerbically funny vivisection of American life, politics, and culture.
Some of the smartest commentary about what’s happening in America is coming from a comedian—this comedian... Read more
The Klansman's Son
By: R. Derek Black
Narrated by: R. Derek Black
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the former heir apparent to White nationalism, an astonishing memoir of a childhood built on fear, and of breaking from a community of hateDerek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s... Read more
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In True Face
By: Jonna Mendez
Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to... Read more
Weapons of Math Destruction
By: Cathy O'Neil
Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword
“A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial Times
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more
From Beirut to Jerusalem
By: Thomas L. Friedman
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.
"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it." —Seymour M. Hersh
One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world.... Read more
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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