The Anthropocene Reviewed
By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is... Read more
Braiding Sweetgrass
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
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By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times
“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben
“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more
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
The Dawn of Everything
By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more
Eve
By: Cat Bohannon
Narrated by: Cat Bohannon
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer
Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly... Read more
The Warmth of Other Suns
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 22 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE... Read more
Burn Book
By: Kara Swisher
Narrated by: Kara Swisher
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times Bestseller
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution... Read more
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Isabel Wilkerson
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows... 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.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star... Read more
How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, Time, The Washington Post, Vulture, Shelf Awareness, Goodreads, Esquire, The Atlantic, NPR, and Barack Obama
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break... Read more
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
By: Emily Nagoski
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.
For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less... Read more
Cultish
By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.
What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson... Read more
Talking to Strangers
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more
Unmasking Autism
By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity
“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP,author of... Read more
One Way Back
By: Christine Blasey Ford
Narrated by: Christine Blasey Ford
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News.
The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation
On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the... 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
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more
White Fragility
By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... 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
View audiobookThis American Ex-Wife
By: Lyz Lenz
Narrated by: Lyz Lenz
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz
“This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a... Read more
Between Two Kingdoms
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more
How the Word Is Passed
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that... Read more
Burnout
By: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game-changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Dare to Lead
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize... Read more