Nonfiction audiobooks

Think Faster, Talk Smarter

By: Matt Abrahams

Narrated by: Matt Abrahams

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Develop the life-changing ability to excel in spontaneous communication situations—from public speaking to interviewing to networking—with these essential strategies from a Stanford lecturer, coach, and host of the popular Think Fast, Talk Smart The Podcast.

“A roadmap to mastering the art of thinking quickly and speaking confidently, this is... Read more

Chaos

By: Tom O'Neill

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

Wherever You Go, There You Are

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Find quiet reflective moments in your life—and reduce your stress levels drastically—with this classic bestselling guide updated and featuring a new introduction and afterword. When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Hypnobirthing

By: Siobhan Miller

Narrated by: Siobhan Miller

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOUR BIRTH BETTER. IT IS FOR EVERY WOMAN AND EVERY TYPE OF BIRTH.

AS FEATURED ON DRAGONS' DEN.

'Siobhan manages to completely demystify hypnobirthing, making it accessible and relevant to all women and all births. This book will be a complete game changer and I will be recommending it to mums-to-be from now on' Sarah Turner,... Read more

Sellout

By: Dan Ozzi

Narrated by: Chris Abell

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, 'Our Band Could Be Your Life.'"--New York Times Book Review

A raucous history of punk, emo, and hardcore’s growing pains during the... Read more

People Buy You

By: Jeb Blount

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Far too many of todays books on sales and selling deal with the mechanics of selling and pay little or no attention to the emotional-side of selling; however, when all things are equal (and in todays competitive world they almost always are) people buy you--the salesperson. Designed to connect sellers to buyers, People Buy You makes it... Read more

Surprise, Kill, Vanish

By: Annie Jacobsen

Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units.
Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace.
When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA... Read more

Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.

For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the... Read more

No Ordinary Assignment

By: Jane Ferguson

Narrated by: Jane Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

""A haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence.”—Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war—from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul.Jane Ferguson... Read more

A People’s History of the World

By: Chris Harman

Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan

Length: 29 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to... Read more

Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

By: Sarah Jaffe

Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... 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.” —Naomi Klein

"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia Rankine

From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more

Team

By: David Allen & Edward Lamont

Narrated by: Edward Lamont & David Allen

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking book about how to harness the power of collaboration and work most effectively in groups—coauthored by Getting Things Done’s David Allen

When Getting Things Done was published in 2001, it was a game changer. By revealing the principles of healthy high performance at an individual level, it transformed the experience of work and... Read more

Zero to One

By: Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Narrated by: Blake Masters

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta

“Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla

The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to... Read more

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.

Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed... Read more

Die With Zero

By: Bill Perkins

Narrated by: Bill Perkins

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich

Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
 
The only thing you wasted along the way was…your life.
 
Die with Zero presents a startling... Read more

Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

Length: 30 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to... Read more

Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias

By: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough

Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson & Susana Ballesteros

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las... Read more

Savings and Trust

By: Justene Hill Edwards

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman's Bank collapsed.



Fully... Read more

White Poverty

By: Reverend Dr. William Barber II

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A generational work with far-ranging social and political implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the most influential books in recent years.



One of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most... Read more

Reagan

By: Max Boot

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 32 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “monumental and impressive” biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president’s aides, friends, and family members, as well as thousands of newly available documents, Boot... Read more

Supremacy

By: Parmy Olson

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now... Read more