Nonfiction audiobooks

Surviving Autocracy

By: Masha Gessen

Narrated by: Masha Gessen

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times

“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview

As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to... Read more

The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more

The Mountain is You

By: Brianna Wiest

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile. But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and... Read more

Nuclear War

By: Annie Jacobsen

Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller

Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize

“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrifying.”—Wall Street Journal

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the... Read more

How to Hide an Empire

By: Daniel Immerwahr

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and... Read more

Framed

By: John Grisham & Jim McCloskey

Narrated by: Michael Beck, John Grisham & Jim McCloskey

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.

“Each of these stories is told with astonishing... Read more

The New Menopause

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD

Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more

Want

By: Gillian Anderson

Narrated by: Anonymous & Gillian Anderson

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?“The book you hold in your hands started as an invitation to women across the world, a call for... Read more

Finding Me

By: Viola Davis

Narrated by: Viola Davis

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!Narrated by Viola DavisIn my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central... Read more

The Best Minds

By: Jonathan Rosen

Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •  Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023

“Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New York Times

“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall... Read more

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

By: Aubrey Gordon

Narrated by: Aubrey Gordon

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER

“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to... Read more

The Bookshop

By: Evan Friss

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times

"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book."
—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of... Read more

My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

Narrated by: Barbra Streisand

Length: 48 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television

PLEASE NOTE The audiobook edition is read by Barbra Streisand. Features additional anecdotes and music that are exclusive to the My Name is Barbra audiobook.

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has... Read more

How To Tell When We Will Die

By: Johanna Hedva

Narrated by: Johanna Hedva

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.   In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to... Read more

Lifeform

By: Jenny Slate

Narrated by: Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Vanessa Bayer & W...

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).
 
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human... Read more

Soldiers and Kings

By: Jason De León

Narrated by: Jason De León

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.”
—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America

“An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read.”
—Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of... Read more

Rest Is Resistance

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more

How the Word Is Passed

By: Clint Smith

Narrated by: Clint Smith

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that... Read more

Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

Narrated by: Elliot Page

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn’t simply a book on what it means to be trans, it’s about what it means to be human." —Alok Vaid-Menon

"Actor Elliot Page, who starred in the movie JUNO, gives an emotional, intimate performance of his gorgeous memoir... He... Read more

Democracy Awakening

By: Heather Cox Richardson

Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians, with a new afterword by the author.

“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post

“An excellent primer for anyone who needs the... Read more

Emergent Strategy

By: adrienne maree brown

Narrated by: adrienne maree brown

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us... Read more

The Splendid and the Vile

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson

Length: 17 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post • HuffPost • The Seattle Times • Lit Hub • The Week • PopSugar

On Winston Churchill’s first day as... Read more

Good Energy

By: Casey Means, MD & Calley Means

Narrated by: Casey Means, MD

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?
    Our ability to prevent and reverse these... Read more

The Art of Gathering

By: Priya Parker

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
 
From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the... Read more