Social Science audiobooks
![Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward](http://covers.libro.fm/9781635577839_1120.jpg)
![Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward](http://covers.libro.fm/9781635577839_1120.jpg)
Men We Reaped
By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine
The two-time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in the rural South.
“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we... Read more
![So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781538475324_1120.jpg)
![So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781538475324_1120.jpg)
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
View audiobook![Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez](http://covers.libro.fm/9781684579297_1120.jpg)
![Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez](http://covers.libro.fm/9781684579297_1120.jpg)
Jesus and John Wayne
By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which explains how... Read more
View audiobook![The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063226913_1120.jpg)
![The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063226913_1120.jpg)
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more
View audiobook![Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250339003_1120.jpg)
![Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250339003_1120.jpg)
Code Dependent
By: Madhumita Murgia
Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus interview with the author.
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making
On the surface, a British poet, an... Read more
![Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797107110_1120.jpg)
![Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797107110_1120.jpg)
Big Friendship
By: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Narrated by: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.
Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their... Read more
![I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593908945_1120.jpg)
![I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593908945_1120.jpg)
I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
By: Glynnis MacNicol
Narrated by: Glynnis MacNicol
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“A delight, the literary equivalent of a long catch-up with a brilliant friend.” —New York Times
“One of the most talked-about books of the year.” —Gayle King
When you’re a woman of a certain age, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie?
Come to Paris, August 2021, when the City of... Read more
![My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP](http://covers.libro.fm/9781662154300_1120.jpg)
![My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP](http://covers.libro.fm/9781662154300_1120.jpg)
My Grandmother's Hands
By: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility
In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body... Read more
![Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown](http://covers.libro.fm/9781849354547_1120.jpg)
![Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown](http://covers.libro.fm/9781849354547_1120.jpg)
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 audiobook![Stolen Focus by Johann Hari](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593505991_1120.jpg)
![Stolen Focus by Johann Hari](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593505991_1120.jpg)
Stolen Focus
By: Johann Hari
Narrated by: Johann Hari
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.
“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again
“Read this book to... Read more
![Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi](http://covers.libro.fm/9798855513745_1120.jpg)
![Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi](http://covers.libro.fm/9798855513745_1120.jpg)
Stamped from the Beginning
By: Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
Length: 23 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
In... Read more
![The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062883537_1120.jpg)
![The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062883537_1120.jpg)
The Power of Ritual
By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more
View audiobook![Loud by Drew Afualo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350312_1120.jpg)
![Loud by Drew Afualo](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250350312_1120.jpg)
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
![Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593684702_1120.jpg)
![Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593684702_1120.jpg)
Better Living Through Birding
By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.
"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World
Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more
![Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha](http://covers.libro.fm/9781515947776_1120.jpg)
![Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha](http://covers.libro.fm/9781515947776_1120.jpg)
Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
View audiobook![The Will to Change by bell hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797104355_1120.jpg)
![The Will to Change by bell hooks](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797104355_1120.jpg)
The Will to Change
By: bell hooks
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all, with a new introduction by poet Ross Gay.
Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.
Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know... Read more
![The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250332141_1120.jpg)
![The Exvangelicals by Sarah McCammon](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250332141_1120.jpg)
The Exvangelicals
By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... Read more
![Ace by Angela Chen](http://covers.libro.fm/9780807013922_1120.jpg)
![Ace by Angela Chen](http://covers.libro.fm/9780807013922_1120.jpg)
Ace
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more
![The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3 by Robert A. Caro](http://covers.libro.fm/9780307914125_1120.jpg)
![The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3 by Robert A. Caro](http://covers.libro.fm/9780307914125_1120.jpg)
The Power Broker: Volume 1 of 3
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 22 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.
Robert Caro's... Read more
![White Women by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593613238_1120.jpg)
![White Women by Regina Jackson & Saira Rao](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593613238_1120.jpg)
White Women
By: Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao & Deanna Anthony
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times Bestseller!
A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy from the team behind Race2Dinner and the documentary film, Deconstructing Karen
It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be "nice," but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to... Read more
![Fire Weather by John Vaillant](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593740491_1120.jpg)
![Fire Weather by John Vaillant](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593740491_1120.jpg)
Fire Weather
By: John Vaillant
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce
“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David... Read more
![Madness by Antonia Hylton](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668635407_1120.jpg)
![Madness by Antonia Hylton](http://covers.libro.fm/9781668635407_1120.jpg)
Madness
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system.
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
![Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250870728_1120.jpg)
![Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250870728_1120.jpg)
Uncultured
By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult." —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño
"Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s... Read more
![The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander](http://covers.libro.fm/9781464048258_1120.jpg)
![The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander](http://covers.libro.fm/9781464048258_1120.jpg)
The New Jim Crow
By: Michelle Alexander
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of... Read more