Nonfiction audiobooks

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Masha Gessen

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD  

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST,  BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE,... Read more

American Midnight

By: Adam Hochschild

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor""A riveting, resonant... Read more

Ordinary Men

By: Christopher R. Browning

Narrated by: Kevin Gallagher

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

“A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.""—Newsweek 
Now available in audio for the first time, Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers... Read more

The Sea-Ringed World

By: Maria Garcia Esperon

Narrated by: David Bowles

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The... Read more

We Need to Talk

By: Celeste Headlee

Narrated by: Celeste Headlee

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“WE NEED TO TALK.”They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four words in the English language. But in her timely, insightful, and wonderfully practical audiobook, We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee—who earns a living by talking on the airwaves of National Public Radio—makes the case that they are urgently needed.Today most of us communicate from behind... Read more

Winners Take All

By: Anand Giridharadas

Narrated by: Anand Giridharadas

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today’s news.

Former New York Times columnist... Read more

The Worst Hard Time

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Jacob York

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
 
The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more

The Color of Everything

By: Cory Richards

Narrated by: Cory Richards

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights.

“An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Becoming Nicole

“In order to escape madness, I will live madly. I... Read more

Born Standing Up

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.

In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit... Read more

The Fourth Turning

By: William Strauss & Neil Howe

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play.
 
First comes a High, a period of... Read more

The Body Is Not an Apology

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

Narrated by: Sonya Renee Taylor

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A global movement guided by love

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted... Read more

The Secret Life of Plants

By: Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird

Narrated by: D. Michael Hope

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

""Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book."" — John White, San Francisco ChronicleExplore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research,... Read more

Sontag

By: Benjamin Moser

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read more

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

By: Madeline Pendleton

Narrated by: Madeline Pendleton

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism • Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from negotiating pay and building credit to putting home... Read more

I'm Still Here

By: Austin Channing Brown

Narrated by: Austin Channing Brown

Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.

“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open... Read more

Isaac's Storm

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City

“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review

September 8, 1900,... Read more

The Deepest Well

By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress can lead to lifelong health problems, and shows us what we can do to break the cycle.

Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness. Even though these events may have occured long ago,... Read more

Making of the Atomic Bomb

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 37 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**

The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to... Read more

Truth & Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Ann Patchett

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

""A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — PeopleNew York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.Ann Patchett and... Read more

Star-Spangled Jesus

By: April Ajoy

Narrated by: April Ajoy

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this hilarious memoir, a social media star and podcast host shares about her time deeply entrenched in Christian Nationalism and how she left it behind to better follow Jesus.

Social media influencer and podcast host April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the... Read more

How the World Ran Out of Everything

By: Peter S. Goodman

Narrated by: Michael David Axtell

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

By the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain—exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network... Read more

Confidence Man

By: Maggie Haberman

Narrated by: Maggie Haberman

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller.

“This is the book Trump fears most.” —Axios

“Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” —Joe Klein, The New York Times

“A uniquely illuminating portrait.” —Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post

“[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency.” —David Shribman,... Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

By: Michelle McNamara

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews | Library Journal | Bustle Winner of the Goodreads... Read more

The 6 Types of Working Genius

By: Patrick M. Lencioni

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that will change the way we think about work and teams forever.The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy—and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout.Beyond the... Read more