Social Science audiobooks

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

By: Nina Renata Aron

Narrated by: Nina Renata Aron

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love

“Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles Times

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"I Have Nothing to Hide"

By: Heidi Boghosian

Narrated by: Charles Hubble

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An accessible guide that breaks down the complex issues around mass surveillance and data privacy and explores the negative consequences it can have on individual citizens and their communities.

No one is exempt from data mining: by owning a smartphone, or using social media or a credit card, we hand over private data to corporations and the... Read more

Rebel Folklore

By: Icy Sedgwick

Narrated by: Maite Jauregui

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebel Folklore gathers 50 of the darkest and most complicated folktale characters from around the world, showing readers why we should care about the rebels and misfits of ancient stories.

Folktales were humble stories, passed down generations by those on the fringes of society: women, peasants, outcast groups. Across the world, these ancient... Read more

Internet for the People

By: Ben Tarnoff

Narrated by: Ben Tarnoff

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?



In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do... Read more

The Collapse of Parenting

By: Leonard Sax

Narrated by: Leonard Sax

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face 

In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity,... Read more

Healing Grounds

By: Liz Carlisle

Narrated by: Liz Carlisle

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful movement is happening in farming—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change.



In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors' methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers... Read more

On Killing

By: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Narrated by: Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed." In World War II, only 15 to 20 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles.... Read more

Chasing the Scream

By: Johann Hari

Narrated by: Johann Hari

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Chasing the Scream written and read by Johann Hari.

Revised and Updated

The New York Times Bestseller

What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari’s journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question—and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than... Read more

The True Believer

By: Eric Hoffer

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New YorkerThe famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer... Read more

Why The Dutch Are Different

By: Ben Coates

Narrated by: Ciaran Saward

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Stranded at Schiphol airport, Ben Coates called up a friendly Dutch girl he'd met some months earlier. He stayed for dinner. Actually, he stayed for good.



In the first book to consider the hidden heart and history of the Netherlands from a modern perspective, the author explores the length and breadth of his adopted homeland and discovers why one... Read more

The Gay Revolution

By: Lillian Faderman

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 29 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heartbreaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this... Read more

Confessions of a Video Vixen

By: Karrine Steffans & Karen Hunter

Narrated by: Karrine Steffans

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs,... Read more

American Idolatry

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

Narrated by: Andrew L. Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.



Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of... Read more

The Uses of Enchantment

By: Bruno Bettelheim

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century and perhaps none of his books has been more influential than this revelatory study of fairy tales and their universal importance in understanding childhood development.



Analyzing a wide range of traditional stories, from the tales of Sindbad to "The Three Little... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

Pregnant Girl

By: Nicole Lynn Lewis

Narrated by: Nicky Sunshine

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection

“[T]his book is so much more than a memoir . . . . Her prose has the power to undo deep-set cultural biases about poverty and parenthood.”—New York Times Book Review

An activist calls for better support of young families so they can thrive and reflects on her experiences as a Black mother and college student... Read more

Astounding

By: Alec Nevala-Lee

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018""Enthralling…A clarion call to enlarge American literary history.” — Washington Post“Engrossing, well-researched… This sure-footed history addresses important issues, such as the lack of racial diversity and gender parity for much of the genre’s history.” — Wall... Read more

Demonic Grounds

By: Katherine McKittrick

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black women's geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Analyzing diverse literatures and material... Read more

Soul by Soul

By: Walter Johnson

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson... Read more

We Are Home

By: Ray Suarez

Narrated by: Ray Suarez

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many... Read more

Generations

By: William Strauss & Neil Howe

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading.



William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational... Read more

The Art and Science of Connection

By: Kasley Killam

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health—the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected—to truly flourish.Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness advice is focused on achieving and maintaining good physical and mental health. But Harvard-trained social... Read more

In Our Shoes

By: Brianna Holt

Narrated by: Brianna Holt

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part cultural critique, In Our Shoes uses pop culture and author Brianna Holt’s own lived experience to dissect the stereotypes and preconceived notions that young Black women must overcome in America today.

In this fresh exploration of cultural appropriation, wokeness, tone policing, and more, Holt carefully dismantles myths about... Read more

The Good Ally

By: Nova Reid

Narrated by: Nova Reid

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready?  Let’s get started,... Read more