Nonfiction audiobooks

How Iceland Changed the World

By: Egill Bjarnason

Narrated by: Einar Gunn

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] joyously peculiar book." -- The New York Times

‘Bjarnason’s intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it’s tailor-made to be read on the beach.’ –New Statesman

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries.

The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated... Read more

Bad Mormon

By: Heather Gay

Narrated by: Heather Gay

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named one of Entertainment Tonight’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2023
As seen in The New York Times, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Bustle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interview

“No stone goes unturned” (People) in this memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay’s... Read more

Selling Sexy

By: Lauren Sherman & Chantal Fernandez

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of how Victoria’s Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to a retail phenomenon with more than $8 billion in annual sales at its peak—all while defining an impossible beauty standard for generations of American women—before the brand’s tight grip on the industry finally slipped

Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential... Read more

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

Subtract

By: Leidy Klotz

Narrated by: Leidy Klotz & Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction and epilogue read by the author.

Blending evidence across science and design, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers a revolution in problem-solving: proving why we overlook subtraction, and how we can access its true potential

We pile on “to-dos” but don’t consider “stop-doings.” We create incentives... Read more

Before the Storm

By: Rick Perlstein

Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel

Length: 28 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of... Read more

The Happiness Advantage

By: Shawn Achor

Narrated by: Shawn Achor

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An engaging, deeply researched guide to flourishing in a world of increasing stress and negativity—the inspiration for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time

“Powerful [and] charming . . . A book for just about anyone . . . The philosophies in this book are easily the best wire frames to build a happy and... Read more

Too Much and Never Enough

By: Mary L. Trump

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social... Read more

Bad Blood

By: John Carreyrou

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.

“Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more

Finding the Mother Tree

By: Suzanne Simard

Narrated by: Suzanne Simard

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery

“Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The... Read more

The Wannabe Fascists

By: Federico Finchelstein

Narrated by: Tom Beyer

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship.



With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the combined histories of fascism... Read more

Rules of Estrangement

By: Joshua Coleman, PhD

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide for parents whose adult children have cut off contact that reveals the hidden logic of estrangement, explores its cultural causes, and offers practical advice for parents trying to reestablish contact with their adult children.

“Finally, here’s a hopeful, comprehensive, and compassionate guide to navigating one of the most painful... Read more

Algorithms to Live By

By: Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

Narrated by: Brian Christian

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.

“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San... Read more

In the Enemy's House

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been... Read more

Made to Stick

By: Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to make your ideas stick.

“Anyone interested in influencing others—to buy, to vote, to learn, to diet, to give to charity or to start a revolution—can learn from this book.”—The Washington Post
 
Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway... Read more

Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson

Narrated by: Jessica Simpson

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times BestsellerIncludes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.
Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique... 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

Prairie Fires

By: Caroline Fraser

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls-the pioneer girl who survived blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous... Read more

You Are a Badass® (Ultimate Collector's Edition)

By: Jen Sincero

Narrated by: Jen Sincero

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD

The first ever self-development book to help millions of people around the globe transform their lives using humor, irreverence, and the occasional curse word—now with an exclusive new chapter on the power of intuition and inspiring reader testimonials, as well as an updated foreword... Read more

Good Morning, Monster

By: Catherine Gildiner

Narrated by: Deborah Burgess

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Catherine Gildiner is nothing short of masterful—as both a therapist and writer. In these pages, she has gorgeously captured both the privilege of being given access to the inner chambers of people's lives, and the meaning that comes from watching them grow into the selves they were meant to be." —Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling... Read more

Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

Narrated by: John Doerr, William Davidow, Brett Kopf, Jini K...

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive. 

In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest... Read more

Mortal Republic

By: Edward J. Watts

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author.

In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome... Read more

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

By: Caitlin Doughty

Narrated by: Caitlin Doughty

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop... Read more