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Grant
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 47 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017
Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser... Read more »
The Chapo Guide to Revolution
By: Chapo Trap House
Narrated by: Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker & Virgil Texas
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestseller
“Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker
The creators of the cult-hit podcast Chapo Trap House deliver a manifesto for everyone who feels orphaned and alienated—politically, culturally, and economically—by the lanyard-wearing Wall Street centrism of the left and the lizard-brained... Read more »
The World as It Is
By: Ben Rhodes
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Ben Rhodes
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of Barack Obama’s closest aides comes a revelatory behind-the-scenes account of his presidency—and how idealism can confront harsh reality and still survive—in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.
For nearly ten years, Ben Rhodes saw almost everything that happened at the... Read more »
Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition)
By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more »
The Soul of America
By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Jon Meacham
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Science Monitor • Southern Living
Our current climate of... Read more »
Fascism: A Warning
By: Madeleine Albright
Narrated by: Madeleine Albright
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From one of the most admired international leaders, comes a timely, considered, and personal look at the history and current resurgence of fascism today and the virulent threat it poses to international freedom, prosperity, and peace.
At the end of the 1980s, when the Cold War ended, many, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,... Read more »
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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... Read more »
Maid
By: Stephanie Land & Barbara Ehrenreich
Narrated by: Stephanie Land
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of... 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 Only Plane in the Sky
By: Holter Graham & Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!
Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
By: Kristen R. Ghodsee
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capitalism is bad for women and how, when done right, socialism leads to economic independence, better labor conditions, better work-life balance and, yes, even better sex.
In a witty, irreverent op-ed piece that went viral, Kristen Ghodsee argued that women had better sex under socialism. The... Read more »
From the Corner of the Oval
By: Beck Dorey-Stein
Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?
“[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times
RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice... 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 »
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The Road to Unfreedom
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read more »
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Author in Chief
By: Craig Fehrman
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 15 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years.” —Thomas Mallon, The Wall Street Journal
“Fun and fascinating…It’s witty, charming, and fantastically learned. I loved it.” —Rick Perlstein
Based on a decade of research and reporting, Author in Chief tells the story of America’s presidents as authors—and offers a... Read more »
Unbroken
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014’s Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil,... Read more »
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 1 hour 1 minute
Abridged: No
New York Times Best Seller
A Skimm Reads Pick
An NPR Best Book of 2017
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise... Read more »
Life Undercover
By: Amaryllis Fox
Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more »
The Poison Squad
By: Deborah Blum
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad.
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change
By the end... Read more »
Wandering in Strange Lands
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down
“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book Riot
From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more »
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Thanks, Obama
By: David Litt
Narrated by: David Litt
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.
More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young... Read more »
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Dear America
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at it's core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about... Read more »
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Rising Out of Hatred
By: Eli Saslow
Narrated by: Scott Brick & Eli Saslow
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he... Read more »
The Storm Before the Storm
By: Mike Duncan
Narrated by: Mike Duncan
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.
The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization.... Read more »