Nonfiction audiobooks

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

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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

Young Woman and the Sea

By: Glenn Stout

Narrated by: Gisela Chipe

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The exhilarating true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and inspire a “wave of confidence and emancipation” for women in sports (Parade).By age twenty, at the height of the Jazz Age, Trudy Ederle was the most accomplished swimmer in the world. She’d won Olympic gold and set a host of world records. But the... Read more

Straight Shooter

By: Stephen A. Smith

Narrated by: Stephen A. Smith

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

AN NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE

America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this “raw, deeply authentic, and immensely entertaining” (Bob Iger, #1 New York Times bestselling author and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in... Read more

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new... Read more

Hell's Angels

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author Hunter S. Thompson rocked the literary world with his mind-bending style of Gonzo journalism. First published in 1966, Hell's Angels is Thompson's up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared. "[Thompson's] language is brilliant . [he] has... Read more

It's Not Just You

By: Tori Tsui

Narrated by: Tori Tsui

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The world is in desperate need of this book’ - Greta Thunberg

'It's Not Just You is a galvanising breath of fresh air' - Mikaela Loach

'Tori Tsui is changing the conversation around mental health and the climate crisis' - Vogue

‘A must-read for anyone who would love to understand the intersections of mental health and the climate crisis’ -... Read more

Writing My Wrongs

By: Shaka Senghor

Narrated by: Shaka Senghor

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100

Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s... Read more

Imperial Twilight

By: Stephen R. Platt

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
 
As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China... Read more

The Fred Factor

By: Mark Sanborn

Narrated by: Mark Sanborn

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Seize the chance to be extraordinary.

Who has made the biggest difference in your life? Whose words and actions have uplifted and motivated you to excel? Chances are it was someone like Fred the Postman -- so outstanding in his service that Mark Sanborn realized this mail carrier could be an example for any person wanting to be... Read more

All That Moves Us

By: Jay Wellons

Narrated by: Jay Wellons

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“The surgical interventions in these pages are dizzying, but the fact that Jay Wellons can write as well as he can operate provides a whole other level of amazement.”—Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“A powerful and moving account of the intense joys and sorrows of being a pediatric neurosurgeon.”—Henry Marsh,... Read more

Dream

By: Mirin Fader

Narrated by: Gogo Lomo-David & Mirin Fader

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The life and legacy of pioneering international basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon, a two‑time NBA champion whose Hall of Fame career forever changed the game, both in the United States and around the globe—from the New York Times bestselling author of Giannis, Mirin Fader.

It’s now the norm for NBA and collegiate teams to have international... Read more

Arbitrary Lines

By: M. Nolan Gray

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling.



The good news is that reform is in the air, with states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In cities as diverse as Minneapolis, Fayetteville, and... Read more

Hack Your Bureaucracy

By: Marina Nitze & Nick Sinai

Narrated by: Julian Thomas

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes. Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo... Read more

Rogues

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue

"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR

“Fast-paced...Keefe is a... Read more

Noopiming

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of... Read more

The Force of Nonviolence

By: Judith Butler

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst... Read more

Pound Foolish

By: Helaine Olen

Narrated by: Lyn Landon

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

If you’ve ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a radio show about getting out of debt, or attended a seminar to help you plan for your retirement, you’ve probably heard some version of these quotes:

“What’s keeping you from being rich? In most cases, it is simply a lack of belief.” —SUZE ORMAN,... Read more

Dead Weight

By: Emmeline Clein

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they've wrought

"An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self.”—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood

“Electric with insight, and suffused with a strange,... Read more

Excellent Advice for Living

By: Kevin Kelly

Narrated by: Philip Hernandez

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A shorthand manual for living with kindness, decency, and generosity of spirit.” —Maria Popova

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wise, practical advice for life.” —Gretchen Rubin, via Twitter

“One hundred years from now, when so much of the nonsense of our age is forgotten, people... Read more