Nonfiction audiobooks

Strangers to Ourselves

By: Rachel Aviv

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2022
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The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and... Read more

Happier Hour

By: Cassie Holmes

Narrated by: Cassie Holmes

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.

Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture... Read more

California Burning

By: Katherine Blunt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)

A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more

Quarterlife

By: Satya Doyle Byock

Narrated by: Satya Doyle Byock

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An innovative psychotherapist tackles the overlooked stage of Quarterlife—the years between adolescence and midlife—and provides a “fascinating” guide “on how to navigate and thrive—rather than just survive—these odd years” (PureWow).

“Quarterlife is an insightful, revealing look at the messy and uncharted paths to wholeness, and a powerful tool... Read more

Split Decision

By: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Ice-T, Spike & Douglas Century

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.

Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall... Read more

Wastelands

By: Corban Addison

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham
 
The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices... Read more

Back to the Prairie

By: Melissa Gilbert

Narrated by: Melissa Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Includes a foreword written and read by Timothy Busfield

The New York Times bestselling author and star of Little House on the Prairie returns with a hilarious and heartfelt memoir chronicling her journey from Hollywood to a ramshackle house in the Catskills during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the... Read more

No Escape

By: Nury Turkel

Narrated by: Stewart Lang

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more

Inspired

By: Matt Richtel

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more

The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson

By: Chris Joyner

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commitThis is the story of Clarence Henderson, a wrongfully accused Black sharecropper, who was sentenced to die three different times for a murder he didn’t commit, and of the prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him... Read more

Return to Nature

By: Emma Loewe

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the new science and ancient wisdom on why nature makes us healthier and happier in body and soul from the co-author of The Spirit Almanac and mindbodygreen’s Senior Sustainability Editor.For centuries, we have known that getting outside is good for us. Yet we have become increasingly disconnected from the earth that nourishes us, with... Read more

Paradise Falls

By: Keith O'Brien

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters.

Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an... Read more

The Worth of Water

By: Gary White & Matt Damon

Narrated by: Gary White & Matt Damon

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good

On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with water—and think nothing of it.
 
But around... Read more

The Devil Never Sleeps

By: Juliette Kayyem

Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why... Read more

The Emergency

By: Thomas Fisher

Narrated by: Thomas Fisher

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind

“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more

Every Good Boy Does Fine

By: Jeremy Denk

Narrated by: Jeremy Denk

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical music—its power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselves—from the MacArthur “Genius” Grant–winning pianist

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially... Read more

Saving Yellowstone

By: Megan Kate Nelson

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From historian and critically acclaimed author of The Three-Cornered War comes the captivating story of how Yellowstone became the world’s first national park in the years after the Civil War, offering “a fresh, provocative study…departing from well-trodden narratives about conservation and public recreation” (Booklist, starred review).

Each year... Read more

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

By: Georgia Pritchett

Narrated by: Katherine Parkinson

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflection of her. Its tenderness sneaks up on you and really packs a punch. What a magnificent read!”—Julia Louis DreyfusJenny Lawson meets Nora Ephron in this joyful memoir-in-vignettes on living—and thriving—with anxiety from a multiple Emmy... Read more

In the Shadow of the Mountain

By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life—one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us.”—Elizabeth Gilbert

This audiobook is read by the author.

"Through her narration, Vasquez-Lavado, whose first language... Read more

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

By: Brian Cox

Narrated by: Brian Cox

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible rags-to-riches story of acclaimed actor Brian Cox, best known as Succession’s Logan Roy, from a troubled, working-class upbringing in Scotland to a prolific career across theatre, film and television.

From Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter to media magnate Logan Roy in HBO's Succession, Brian Cox has made his name as an actor of... Read more

Organizing for the Rest of Us

By: Dana K. White

Narrated by: Dana K. White

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE AUTHOR. Listen while you organize in real time! So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want to be able to find your kids' socks but aren't looking to spend your 401(k) on clear bins? You long for a little more peace but minimalism isn't sparking joy? Discover 100 practical,... Read more

How to Examine a Wolverine

By: Philipp Schott, DVM

Narrated by: Geet Arora

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Crammed with useful info, funny recollections, heartfelt anecdotes, and lots of cute furry creatures, a collection for all animal lovers! This collection of over 60 stories and essays, drawn from Dr. Schott’s 30 years in small animal practice, covers an astonishing breadth of experiences, emotions, and species. Schott has tales of... Read more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

By: Ai Weiwei

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more

Being Seen

By: Elsa Sjunneson

Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more