Nonfiction audiobooks

The World

By: Richard Haass

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller

“A clear and concise account of the history, diplomacy, economics, and societal forces that have molded the modern global system.” —Foreign Affairs

An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many... Read more

Becoming Nicole

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Amy Ellis Nutt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.

Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl

When Wayne... Read more

We Are What We Eat

By: Alice Waters

Narrated by: Alice Waters

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the... Read more

Standing at the Edge

By: Joan Halifax

Narrated by: Joan Halifax

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive... Read more

All the Black Girls are Activists

By: EbonyJanice Moore

Narrated by: EbonyJanice Moore

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”
Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice’s book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness as tools of liberation. 
All The Black Girls Are Activists is a love letter to... Read more

Muppets in Moscow

By: Natasha Lance Rogoff

Narrated by: Emily Lahey Shoov

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.In Muppets in Moscow: The... Read more

White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

Narrated by: Harry Lloyd

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time

Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space... Read more

Wanting

By: Luke Burgis

Narrated by: Luke Burgis & Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.

Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful—yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart,... Read more

The Land of Open Graves

By: Jason De León

Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of U.S. immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to... Read more

Liftoff

By: Eric Berger

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX—and Elon Musk—from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. 

In 2006, SpaceX—a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees—rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll. After a groundbreaking launch from the... Read more

Atlantic

By: Simon Winchester

Narrated by: Simon Winchester

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

""Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account."" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, New York Times bestselling author Simon... Read more

Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

Narrated by: M.T.A

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether Gaza has been a victim of decades of political shortcomings or whether its innocence has been distorted by propaganda and malicious political manipulations. In this detailed analysis, Norman G. Finkelstein uncovers the hardships endured by Palestinians, reveals the insincerity of... Read more

Make Your Own Rules

By: Andrew Huang

Narrated by: Andrew Huang

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY Bestseller

YouTube sensation Andrew Huang offers practical tips and hard-won advice for creatives seeking financial stability while staying authentic.

How does a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live, and no industry connections carve a path to millions of followers and lucrative royalty checks? In Make Your Own... Read more

Native Country of the Heart

By: Cherrie Moraga

Narrated by: Cherríe Moraga

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherríe Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherríe and her mother, and of their people, are... Read more

Ladies Who Punch

By: Ramin Setoodeh

Narrated by: Ramin Setoodeh

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star... Read more

Start with Why

By: Simon Sinek

Narrated by: Simon Sinek

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY

Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand... Read more

Into the Raging Sea

By: Rachel Slade

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.”
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookOn October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole,... Read more

Deep Work

By: Cal Newport

Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, learn to master one of our economy’s rarest skills–the ability to focus–and achieve groundbreaking results.

Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time–a superpower in... Read more

Moneyland

By: Oliver Bullough

Narrated by: Oliver Bullough

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies

This program is... Read more

Blues People

By: LeRoi Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this... Read more

All Things Are Too Small

By: Becca Rothfeld

Narrated by: Ruth Crawford

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more

The Unclaimed

By: Pamela Prickett & Stefan Timmermans

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”—Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Poverty, by America

“A work of grace . . . Both cleareyed and disturbing, yet pulsing with empathy.”—The New York Times (Editors’... Read more

Night Vision

By: Mariana Alessandri

Narrated by: Gisela Chípe

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Gisela Chípe shares a philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern psychology, they can... Read more

Great-Uncle Harry

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry.

Some years ago a stash of family records was handed down to Michael Palin, among which were photos of an enigmatic young man in army uniform, as well as photos of the same young man as a teenager looking uncomfortable at family... Read more