Nonfiction audiobooks
Tough Titties
By: Laura Belgray
Narrated by: Laura Belgray
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover a brutally honest, hilarious, and relatable account of being a late bloomer on the dating scene, trying to master adulthood, and embracing your inner dork: "a hilarious, must-read permission slip to be 100% you" (Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author).
What does it take to grow up cool and popular, master adulthood, fast... Read more
How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending
By: Reductress
Narrated by: Mara Wilson & Jay Aaseng
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A biting humor collection about the cult of productivity and the feeling of impending doom that comes with it, from Reductress.
Juggling careers, maintaining relationships, managing side gigs, and sustaining an engaging social media presence is hard––and we're expected to do it all while battling the ever-present feeling of existential dread... Read more
Slow AF Run Club
By: Martinus Evans
Narrated by: Martinus Evans
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club.
Ten years ago, Martinus Evans got some stern advice from his doctor: “Lose weight or die.” First defensive, but then defiant, Evans vowed that day to run a marathon, though his doctor thought he was crazy. Since... Read more
The Forgotten Girls
By: Monica Potts
Narrated by: Monica Potts
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth... Read more
Built from the Fire
By: Victor Luckerson
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 19 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification
“Ambitious . . . absorbing . . . By the end of Luckerson’s outstanding book, the idea of building something new from the ashes of what has... Read more
Walking with Sam
By: Andrew McCarthy
Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An intimate, funny, and poignant New York Times bestseling travel memoir following award-winning author and actor Andrew McCarthy as he walks the Camino de Santiago with his son Sam.
When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more... Read more
Homegrown
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection—from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.
Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement.
Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people... Read more
Unmoored
By: J. R. Roessl
Narrated by: J. R. Roessl
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s the sixties. Everything’s groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author’s young life. She doesn’t swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn’t protest the Vietnam War or fight for women’s rights.... Read more
View audiobookThe Shotgun Conservationist
By: Brant MacDuff
Narrated by: Brant MacDuff
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems.
The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain... Read more
Wonder Boy
By: Angel Au-Yeung & David Jeans
Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
"Kurt Kanazawa presents this absorbing story of the initial success and later downward spiral of Tony Hsieh, tech founder and former CEO of Zappos. Kanazawa's youthful tone and vocal energy connect with Hsieh's wealth and celebrity status without glossing over his descent into drugs, alcohol, and mental health problems."-- AudioFile
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Body Horror
By: Anne Elizabeth Moore
Narrated by: Anne Elizabeth Moore
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and... Read more
View audiobookA Wing and a Prayer
By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.
Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds... Read more
STFU
By: Dan Lyons
Narrated by: Dan Lyons
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"Lyons is an able narrator who brings self-deprecation and humor to parts that may lose their impact in print. His emphatic delivery is dynamic, and listeners may find themselves nodding along in agreement."- Library Journal
New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons is here to tell you—and don't take this the... Read more
Transitional
By: Munroe Bergdorf
Narrated by: Mia Juul
Length: 4 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The wise, life-changing, ground-breaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf.Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition—a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.As time goes on, we all... Read more
View audiobookThe Darkness Manifesto
By: Johan Eklöf
Narrated by: Owen Findlay
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American*
This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own... Read more
Code Name Blue Wren
By: Jim Popkin
Narrated by: Jim Popkin
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to be published upon her release from prison, for readers of Agent Sonya and A Woman of No Importance.
Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to... Read more
Drinking Games
By: Sarah Levy
Narrated by: Sarah Levy
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.
On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her... Read more
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly
By: Margareta Magnusson
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.
In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the... Read more
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
By: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill
Narrated by: Clint Hill
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Mrs. Kennedy and Me comes another New York Times bestseller, which reveals never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill’s travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through Europe, Asia, and South America. Featuring more than two hundred rare and... Read more
Rap Capital
By: Joe Coscarelli
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.
From mansions to trap houses, office buildings to strip clubs, Atlanta is defined by its rap music.... Read more
Nerd
By: Maya Phillips
Narrated by: Maya Phillips
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.
From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V:... Read more
Savor
By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell
Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.
“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines... Read more
Over My Dead Body
By: Greg Melville
Narrated by: Will Tulin
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its... Read more
View audiobookWhen McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world
"Meticulously reported, and ultimately devastating, this is an important... Read more