How to Be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.
“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The... Read more »
Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS... Read more »
A Promised Land
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Barack Obama
Length: 29 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer... Read more »
G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
By: Beverly Gage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 36 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington... Read more »
Surrender
By: Bono
Narrated by: Bono
Length: 20 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive... Read more »
Hood Feminism
By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The... Read more »
Watergate
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Jacques Roy & Garrett M. Graff
Length: 25 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, comes the first definitive narrative history of... Read more »
The Big Break
By: Ben Terris
Narrated by: Tim Andrés Pabon
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In this fascinating investigation into the real life inner workings of a post-Trump American government, uncover the odd and eccentric personalities grappling for their own bit of power in D.C.
The Big Break investigates how Washington works, and how different kinds of people try to make it work for them. Ben Terris presents an inside history of... Read more »
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free
By: Alice Faye Duncan
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Booklist starred reviewBlack activist Opal Lee had a vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone. This true story celebrates Black joy and inspires children to see their dreams blossom. Growing up in Texas, Opal knew the history of Juneteenth, but she soon discovered that many Americans had never heard of the holiday. Join Opal on her... Read more »
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So You Want to Talk about Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race,... Read more »
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We Don't Know Ourselves
By: Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
Length: 22 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history.
Born to a working-class family in the... 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 »
The Youngest Marcher
By: Cynthia Levinson
Narrated by: Tyla Collier
Length: 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham’s segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the preacher’s words, smooth as glass, she sat up tall. And when she heard the plan—picket those white stores! March to protest those unfair... Read more »
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King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 20 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards.
"Dion Graham superbly narrates this riveting audiobook, emulating the majestic cadence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, speeches. He captures the Civil Rights leader's deep, resonant tone;... Read more »
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.
Roxanne... Read more »
A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Length: 34 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more »
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Cobalt Red
By: Siddharth Kara
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes an author's note read by the author.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more »
The Sum of Us
By: Heather McGhee
Narrated by: Heather McGhee
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE... Read more »
Sissy
By: Jacob Tobia
Narrated by: Jacob Tobia
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review
A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d)... Read more »
Palo Alto
By: Malcolm Harris
Narrated by: Patrick Harrison
Length: 28 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip assemblers, showing how Northern California created the world as we know it Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high... Read more »
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How to Do Nothing
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is... Read more »
Chip War
By: Chris Miller
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).
You may be surprised to learn that microchips... 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 »
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated... Read more »