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Who Is a Worthy Mother?
By: Rebecca Wellington
Narrated by: April Doty
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely—and deeply researched—account amplifies previously marginalized voices and exposes the social... Read more
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Ghostland
By: Colin Dickey
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016
“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review
From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously... Read more
The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - “The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the... Read more
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The Black Jacobins
By: C.L.R. James
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.
This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794–1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the... Read more
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 Half Known Life
By: Pico Iyer
Narrated by: Pico Iyer
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE
“Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.” —Washington Post
“Dazzling.” —Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023
From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of... Read more
I Shall Not Hate
By: Izzeldin Abuelaish
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish—now known simply as the "Gaza doctor"—captured hearts and headlines around the world in the aftermath of horrific tragedy: On January 16, 2009, Israeli shells hit his home in the Gaza Strip, killing three of his daughters and his niece.
By turns inspiring and heartbreaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is... Read more
City of Quartz
By: Mike Davis
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last... 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
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
The Cruelty Is the Point
By: Adam Serwer
Narrated by: Adam Serwer
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No... Read more
Figuring
By: Maria Popova
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
Length: 21 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the... Read more
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How Music Works
By: David Byrne
Narrated by: Andrew Garman & David Byrne
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation.
“How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey,... Read more
Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
One Summer
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 17 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.
The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became... Read more
The Wordy Shipmates
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Sarah Vowell
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means -- and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the... Read more
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The Man from the Future
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet... Read more
Cocktails with George and Martha
By: Philip Gefter
Narrated by: Alexa Morden
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"Very smart and entertaining . . . dishy-yet-earnest . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ‘60s like a torpedo."—NPR, Fresh Air
“Raucous, unpredictable, wild, and affecting.”—Entertainment Weekly
An award-winning writer reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the provocative play, the groundbreaking film it became, and how... Read more
The Swerve
By: Stephen Greenblatt
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt's works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. "More wonderfully... Read more
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The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman & Dion Graham
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller!
“Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed
“Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ
From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between,... Read more
The Story of the World, Vol. 2 Audiobook
By: Susan Wise Bauer
Narrated by: Jim Weiss
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
History will never be the same again! This spirited reading of the first in Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World history series brings to life the stories and records of the peoples of ancient times. Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives-and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the... Read more
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Palestinian Walks
By: Raja Shehadeh
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic, and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a... Read more
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Shogun
By: A.L. Sadler
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 17 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan.
For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his... Read more
The Gulf
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction—the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic.
When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's... Read more