Nonfiction audiobooks

Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered

By: Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark

Narrated by: Georgia Hardstark, Karen Kilgariff & Paul Giamatti

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors, with Paul Giamatti, and includes sections recorded in front of a live audience.

The highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder!

Sharing never-before-heard stories ranging from their struggles with depression, eating disorders,... Read more

We Have Never Been Woke

By: Musa al-Gharbi

Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa... Read more

Every Valley

By: Charles King

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah

"A delicious history of music, power, love, genius, royalty and adventure."—Simon Sebag Montefiore,... Read more

Eat a Peach

By: David Chang & Gabe Ulla

Narrated by: David Chang

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious—an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Fortune, Parade, The... Read more

Before We Were Trans

By: Dr. Kit Heyam

Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.  
 
Before We Were Trans illuminates... Read more

How To Win Friends And Influence People

By: Dale Carnegie

Narrated by: Andrew Macmillan & Andrew Macmillian

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Updated for today’s readers, Dale Carnegie’s timeless bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic that has improved and transformed the professional and personal and lives of millions.

One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated... Read more

Loving Corrections

By: adrienne maree brown

Narrated by: adrienne maree brown

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown knows we need each other more than ever and offers a practice for holding collective power, righting wrongs, and generating true belonging. Ethical, pondering, and wondrous, adrienne maree brown’s Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements... Read more

Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection

Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries... Read more

Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written

By: Haim Shapira

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking an amusing and digestible look at the usually dry world of probability and statistics, this is the ultimate guide to how you can incorporate them into everyday life, from one of the world’s most sought-after experts in game theory. This book reveals how statistics and probability are fundamental to our everyday lives—from advertisements... Read more

Bomb Shelter

By: Mary Laura Philpott

Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice
One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year

“A beautifully wrought ode to life…a precious gift to the world.” —The Washington Post

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope.

As a... Read more

Ain't I a Woman

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must–read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, Hooks attempts to... Read more

Why Nations Fail

By: Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich... Read more

Real Self-Care

By: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Narrated by: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian

NPR's "Books We Love for 2023"

Forbes' "Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time"

"Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle

"This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a... Read more

I Am, I Am, I Am

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by: Daisy Donovan

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"I Am I Am I Am is a gripping and glorious investigation of death that leaves the reader feeling breathless, grateful, and fully alive. Maggie O’Farrell is a miracle in every sense. I will never forget this book."
—Ann Patchett

An extraordinary memoir—told entirely in near-death experiences—from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of... Read more

ADHD 2.0

By: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D.

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your... Read more

Quit Like a Woman

By: Holly Whitaker

Narrated by: Holly Whitaker

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30... Read more

Smoke and Ashes

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most... Read more

Erasing History

By: Jason Stanley

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’ve never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism.” —Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth GilbertThe Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was... Read more

Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

Narrated by: Genevieve Kingston

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The most “profound” (Booklist, starred review) memoir you will ever read about the power of love.

Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story.

Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen’s... Read more

Together

By: Vivek H. Murthy

Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more

Over the Top

By: Jonathan Van Ness

Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOOGLE'S BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2019NPR'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARINDIE BESTSELLERGOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER: BEST MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A laugh-and-cry-out-loud memoir from the beloved star of Netflix’s Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness, sharing never before told, deeply personal stories of growing up gay, transforming... Read more

Good Night, Body

By: Britney Winn Lee

Narrated by: Britney Winn Lee

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive note to parents and a breathing meditation with music to help your child relax and fall asleep. “A soothing nighttime routine and an age-appropriate introduction to mindfulness.” —Kirkus ReviewsBedtime can be full of big emotions for kids! Calm anxious, busy thoughts with this body scan meditation... Read more