Nonfiction audiobooks

Sonny Boy

By: Al Pacino

Narrated by: Al Pacino

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant New York Times Bestseller

“The book is a beautiful trip.” (New York Times Magazine) • “Soulful . . .  Feels like hanging out within a history of American movies over the last 50 years.” (Los Angeles Times) • “Startlingly cinematic ... A fine memoir.” (The Guardian)

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an... Read more

The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more

Cue the Sun!

By: Emily Nussbaum

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer—“a must-read for anyone interested in television or popular culture” (NPR)

“Passionate, exquisitely told . . . With muscular prose and... Read more

We Will Rest!

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance
 
We don’t believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The... Read more

Fight Like Hell

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.

Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more

The Untethered Soul

By: Michael A. Singer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out
how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of
experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In The Untethered Soul,
spiritual... Read more

Chaos

By: Tom O'Neill

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

By: Matthew Perry

Narrated by: Matthew Perry

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!

The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more

Loud

By: Drew Afualo

Narrated by: Drew Afualo

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by podcast star Drew Afualo.

Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. Loud is part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir. It makes it clear that behind her... Read more

We Have Never Been Woke

By: Musa al-Gharbi

Narrated by: Musa al-Gharbi

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without helping the marginalized and disadvantagedSociety has never been more egalitarian—in theory. Prejudice is taboo, and diversity is strongly valued. At the same time, social and economic inequality have exploded. In We Have Never Been Woke, Musa... Read more

Me and White Supremacy

By: Layla F. Saad

Narrated by: Layla F. Saad

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never... Read more

ADHD for Smart Ass Women

By: Tracy Otsuka

Narrated by: Tracy Otsuka

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery.ADHD is one of the most common neurological disor­ders in the United States—yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gen­der gap in medical research, which does not account... Read more

Black Pill

By: Elle Reeve

Narrated by: Elle Reeve

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences.

Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not surprised by the... Read more

Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An Audie Award Winner

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.

Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As... Read more

Strongmen

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.



For ours is the age of authoritarian rulers:... 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

The Truths We Hold

By: Kamala Harris

Narrated by: Kamala Harris

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller

From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, comes a book about the core truths that unite us and how best to act upon them. 

"A life story that genuinely entrances." —Los Angeles Times

“An engaging read that provides insights into the influences of [Harris’s]... Read more

Poetry Unbound

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and... Read more

The Way Out

By: Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv

Narrated by: Alan Gordon

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.

Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain.

Alan Gordon, a psychotherapist and the... Read more

Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené... Read more

Be a Revolution

By: Ijeoma Oluo

Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more

Invisible Rulers

By: Renee DiResta

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society.

Renée DiResta’s powerful, original investigation into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed... Read more