Nonfiction audiobooks

Time Reborn

By: Lee Smolin

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What is time?



This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles—come... Read more

The Evolving Self

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi ( Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A... Read more

Dreamland

By: Carly Goodman

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States... Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: Henry O. Arnold

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the secret sauce for every kind of organization?What is the secret to organizational success? Whether the goal is developing a new product, establishing a new location, launching a new initiative, starting a new team, or improving your existing one, what will determine its success? The leaders! For any team, small business, large... Read more

Dark City

By: Eddie Muller

Narrated by: Eddie Muller & Erin Bennett

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, taking readers on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive, highly illustrated volume.

Dark City expands with new chapters and a fresh collection of restored photos that illustrate the mythic landscape of the imagination.... Read more

We Share the Same Sky

By: Rachael Cerrotti

Narrated by: Rachael Cerrotti

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasn’t a... Read more

Start-Up Nation

By: Saul Singer & Dan Senor

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the... Read more

Eating on the Wild Side

By: Jo Robinson

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The next stage in the food revolution: a radical way to select fruits and vegetables and reclaim the flavor and nutrients we've lost.

Ever since farmers first planted seeds 10,000 years ago, humans have been destroying the nutritional value of their fruits and vegetables. Unwittingly, we've been selecting plants that are high in starch and sugar... Read more

Manboobs

By: Komail Aijazuddin

Narrated by: Komail Aijazuddin

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A blazing new talent’s hilarious memoir about coming of age and coming out in Pakistan, moving to America, looking for love, and falling in love with himself along the wayWhat do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of... Read more

Lydia Maria Child

By: Lydia Moland

Narrated by: Lydia Moland

Length: 17 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists.By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a beloved and self-sufficient female author. Best known today for the immortal poem “Over the River and through the... Read more

Lucid Dying

By: Sam Parnia

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a groundbreaking look at what happens to us when we die, based on the largest-ever research study run on recalled experiences of death.

Today, for the first time in history, the scientific exploration of death and what happens... Read more

Hábitos atómicos

By: James Clear

Narrated by: Francesc Góngora

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro fascinante que cambiará el modo en que vivimos nuestro día a día. MÁS DE 400.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN ESPAÑA. MÁS DE 20 MILLONES DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS EN TODO EL MUNDO. «Sumamente práctico y útil.» MARK MANSON, autor de El sutil arte de que (casi todo) te importe una mi*rda «Paso a paso, cambiará tu rutina.» Financial Times A menudo... Read more

Radio Free Afghanistan

By: Saad Mohseni & Jenna Krajeski

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan’s largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how... Read more

Our History Has Always Been Contraband

By: Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley & Keeanga-Y...

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high... Read more

Psychonauts

By: Mike Jay

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind



Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind... Read more

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles

By: Pedro Lemebel

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz, Idra Novey & Gwendolyn Harper

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Intoxicating . . . Sexy, political and deeply humane . . . We all owe Penguin Classics a round of shots for A Last Supper of Queer Apostles.” —The Washington Post

A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all... Read more

Duped

By: Saul Kassin, Ph. D.

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“As you read this blurb, you know you would never confess to a crime you didn’t commit. Read this compelling study and you’ll change your mind. Dr. Kassin lays bare the dirty tricks used by police to make innocents confess. And he describes, convincingly, what should be done to stop them.”
– John Grisham, #1 New York Times-bestselling... Read more

Betrayal of Trust

By: Laurie Garrett

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 35 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.



The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial... Read more

The King of Sting

By: Coyote Peterson

Narrated by: Coyote Peterson

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wildlife expert and Emmy Award-winning Coyote Peterson brings his 12.5 million YouTube subscribers and legions of kid fans a full-color exploration of his "Sting Zone" adventure series, featuring shots from the episodes and culminating in his thrilling encounter with the "King of Sting"--the Executioner Wasp.

Coyote Peterson, YouTube star,... Read more

Belichick

By: Ian O'Connor

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 21 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL's most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL-the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he's led the... Read more

The Hawk and the Dove

By: Nicholas Thompson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and surviving—that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic... Read more

Oneida

By: Ellen Wayland-Smith

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery... Read more

Bombs Away

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers

A Penguin Classic

On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his... Read more

Life After Capitalism

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential.



Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.



Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and... Read more