Nonfiction audiobooks

Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes

By: David Horowitz

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The anti-white racism of the political left remains one of the few taboo subjects in America. In this book, David Horowitz, a former confidante of the Black Panthers, lays bare the liberal attack on “whiteness,” the latest battle in the war against American democracy.Horowitz acknowledges that America’s political culture is the creation of... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

By: Carl Van Doren

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 32 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin’s activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.In this Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

Empire - Abridged

By: Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. Here at last, in a uniquely full and brilliantly documented biography by a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative team, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.Hughes had always been... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet Museum (“Velveteria”) in Portland, Oregon. A 13-foot Styrofoam scale model of Stonehenge. The Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, Kansas . . . or is it in Darwin, Minnesota?

Roadside attractions are the staples of the American road trip. Many are... Read more

The Think Big Manifesto

By: Michael Port

Narrated by: Michael Port

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Every year, millions of people fall victim to a debilitating disease—a disease that cripples careers, destroys relationships, and undermines the health and happiness of the entire world. This disease is responsible for poverty, crime, war, natural disasters, and our economic ills. It has had no name until now—it's called small thinking. Its... Read more

Stop the Retirement Rip-off

By: David B. Loeper

Narrated by: Erik Synnesvetd

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

How much more secure would your retirement be with an extra $100,000 or more? What would you do if you could retire three years earlier? What would you do in retirement with an extra $7,000 per year? While it may seem too good to be true, you can achieve these retirement goals, if you learn how to put the expenses of your retirement... Read more

How to Win a Cosmic War

By: Reza Aslan

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other.

The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According to... Read more

The Power of Small

By: Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval

Narrated by: Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers.

Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our biggest goals, say Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval.... Read more

The Day We Found the Universe

By: Marcia Bartusiak

Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it possible. On January 1, 1925, thity-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced findings that... Read more

The First Tycoon

By: T.J. Stiles

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 28 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.

Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington’s presidency, he rose... Read more

Red Orchestra

By: Anne Nelson

Narrated by: Anne Nelson

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting account of German resistance is based on years of research by the distinguished journalist Anne Nelson. This is a beautiful and moving portrait of ordinary but heroic figures—an untold story of a circle of Germans and German-Americans in Berlin who took a principled stand against Hitler and the Holocaust. They expressed their... Read more

Who Is Mark Twain?

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Twain] was, in the phrase of his friend William Dean Howells, ‘the Lincoln of our literature’... At the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American qualities: irreverence.”
— Washington Post “More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.... Ninety-nine years after... Read more

For You, Mom. Finally.

By: Ruth Reichl

Narrated by: Ruth Reichl

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women 

A former New York Times restaurant critic, editor in chief of Gourmet, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure in the food world and beyond. Not Becoming My... Read more

Perfectly Imperfect

By: Lee Woodruff

Narrated by: Lee Woodruff

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can tell a woman’s whole life story from the possessions in her jewelry box. Like reading a palm, you can trace the points where her life has intersected with memorable events, people, places, and loves. You can speculate on the essence of her personality, all from what she has accumulated in that box.”—from Perfectly Imperfect

In her... Read more

NPR Road Trips: National Park Adventures

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Canyon National Park is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders, with 4.4 million visitors each year. Who keeps them safe, fed, and happy? When the wind blows at White Sands National Monument, legend says the centuries-old ghost of a Mexican maiden appears in the shifting sands. In Yosemite National Park, there’s a guy who tracks road... Read more

Outcasts United

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Postcards from Around the Globe

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Colin Angus and Julie Wafael, who spent two years circumnavigating the globe using their hands and feet. Turn on the radio in Katmandu and hear music from the 70s. Learn how robot jockeys are solving a human rights problem in Dubai. (It has to do with camel races.) Get ready for carnival in Rio. And walk through old Beijing before it’s... Read more

Curious? - Abridged

By: Todd Kashdan

Narrated by: Todd Kashdan

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Curious? is one of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world.”
—Arianna Huffington “This is the perfect book to read when you are having second thoughts about challenging yourself to explore that next step in life!”
—Stephen Post, Ph.D., coauthor of Why Good Things Happen to Good People

Discover the missing ingredient to a... Read more

Outcasts United - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Hana's Suitcase

By: Karen Levine

Narrated by: Stephanie Wolfe

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children’s Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind – the German word for orphan.Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko... Read more

Uranium

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uranium could master the world.



Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to... Read more

House of Cards

By: William D. Cohan

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 25 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had... Read more

American History to 1877

By: Robert D. Geise

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. Classroom-style notes emphasize important facts, remind you what you need to remember for term papers and exams, and help guide you through the complexities of lectures and... Read more

Finding Grace

By: Donna VanLiere

Narrated by: Donna VanLiere

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding Grace is the powerful, often humorous, and deeply moving story of one woman's journey of broken dreams. It is the story of how a painful legacy of the past is confronted and met with peace. This book is for anyone who has struggled to understand why our desires—even the simplest ones—are sometimes denied or who has questioned where God... Read more