Nonfiction audiobooks

Generations

By: Jean M. Twenge

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean... Read more

In Defense of Witches

By: Mona Chollet

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.

Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique... Read more

Brave the Wild River

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran... Read more

Guns, Germs, and Steel

By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Doug Ordunio

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history.
 
Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary... Read more

Rich AF

By: Vivian Tu

Narrated by: Vivian Tu

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From TikTok star and Your (favorite) Rich BFF Vivian Tu, the definitive book on personal finance for a new generation

When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was making more money than she had ever seen in her life. But it wasn’t until she found a mentor of her own on the trading floor that... Read more

The Mushroom at the End of the World

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions,... Read more

10 to 25

By: David Yeager

Narrated by: David Yeager

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches, and mentors everywhere.

“Ambitious and revelatory...10 to 25 offers baffled adults new approaches—and... Read more

What in the World?!

By: Leanne Morgan

Narrated by: Leanne Morgan

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon

The beloved comedy sensation packs a hilarious punch with real talk about what it’s like to be a woman today—from rebelling against the latest diet trends to dealing with perimenopausal mean girls... Read more

Have I Told You This Already?

By: Lauren Graham

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes an “insightful, honest, funny, and moving collection of captivating stories” (BuzzFeed).

“Graham is fast and furiously funny. . . . Where Graham leads, we will definitely follow.”—E! Online

Lauren Graham... Read more

King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator!

This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.

"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He... Read more

Somehow

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love

“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is... Read more

Awe

By: Dacher Keltner

Narrated by: Dacher Keltner

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller!

"Read this book to connect with your highest self.” —Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet

“We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find it.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

“Awe is awesome in both... Read more

The Collected Schizophrenias

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying... Read more

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

By: Bess Kalb

Narrated by: Bess Kalb

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED

“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi Picoult

Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible,... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

Crucial Conversations

By: Emily Gregory, Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Jo...

Narrated by: Emily Gregory & Joseph Grenny

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation—especially difficult ones—leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back... Read more

It Didn't Start With You

By: Mark Wolynn

Narrated by: Mark Wolynn

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our... Read more

Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Zadie Smith

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Smith’s] slim collection of essays captures this peculiar moment with startling clarity. . . . The personal and political intermingle for a powerful indictment of America’s social systems.” —TIME, The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

“While quarantined amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Smith penned six dazzling, trenchant essays burrowing deep into our... Read more

In the Weeds

By: B.K. Borison

Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One incredible weekend in Maine, and Beckett Porter is officially a distracted man. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. He knows how it goes. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh, her hand pressed flat against his chest, her smiling mouth at his neck, her... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

Glucose Revolution

By: Jessie Inchauspe

Narrated by: Jessie Inchauspe

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * TRANSLATED INTO FORTY-ONE LANGUAGES

Improve all areas of your health from your sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, weight, and even slow down aging, with “simple and accessible science-based hacks” (Michael Mosley, MD, #1 New York... Read more

1491

By: Charles C. Mann

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in... Read more

World Travel

By: Anthony Bourdain & Laurie Woolever

Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Shep Gordon, Christopher Bourd...

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos... Read more

Congratulations, The Best Is Over!

By: R. Eric Thomas

Narrated by: R. Eric Thomas

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Here for It returns with a collection of “funny and compulsively readable” (Vogue), “hilarious and incisive” (Time) essays about what happens after happily ever after.

“How is it possible that I liked this book even more than his last one? Phenomenal.”—Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more