Social Science audiobooks

Can't Nothing Bring Me Down

By: Ida Keeling

Narrated by: Lisa Renee' Pitts

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression and the civil rights movement--but her greatest trials were yet to come.Miss Ida, as she is known in her community in the Bronx, grew up as a child... Read more

White like Her

By: Gail Lukasik

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century... Read more

Descent to Mars

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

Classic Krakauer

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism.

His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists... Read more

Regretting Motherhood

By: Orna Donath

Narrated by: Mandy Kaplan

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhood
 
Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be... Read more

Gender Trouble

By: Judith Butler

Narrated by: Emily Beresford

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.



Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, "essential" notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category "woman" and continues in this vein... Read more

After the Fall

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

Fred Beckey Is Still On the Loose

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

Living Under the Volcano

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance

By: Emma Gray

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""If not you, then who?  If not now, then when? We need more women to speak up and make their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives.  We need you in this fight.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, from a Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance  So—the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you... Read more

The Abundance of Less

By: Andy Couturier

Narrated by: Adam Riley

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiring stories of 10 urbanites who decided to ‘the simple life’ in the rural mountains of Japan—for anyone interested in sustainable living, Japanese culture, and Eastern spirituality.
 
“Subversive in the best possible way.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author

The Abundance of Less captures the texture of sustainable lives well... Read more

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

By: Annelise Orleck

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food... Read more

Don't Call Me Princess

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays—funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”... Read more

Stranger

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & Jorge Ramos

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is”.

Jorge Ramos, an Emmy... Read more

Invisible

By: Michele Lent Hirsch

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut

This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses

Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.

Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab... Read more

The Future

By: Nick Montfort

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this volume of the MIT Press's Essential Knowledge series, Nick Montfort argues that the future is something to be made, not predicted. Montfort offers what he considers essential knowledge about the future, as seen in the work of writers, artists, inventors, and designers (mainly in Western culture) who developed and described the core... Read more

Embrace the Misery

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

Loving Them to Death

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

Mark Foo's Last Ride

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

A Long Way from Home

By: Cathy Glass

Narrated by: Denica Fairman

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn’t make sense. ... Read more

Inside Studio 54

By: Mark Fleischman

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most... Read more

Mommy Burnout

By: Sheryl G. Ziegler

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate handbook for the modern mother: a practical, and positive tool to help free women from the debilitating notion of being the ""perfect mom,"" filled with funny and all too relatable true-life stories and realistic suggestions to stop the burnout cycle, and protect our kids from the damage burnout can cause.Moms, do you feel tired?... Read more

Superfans

By: George Dohrmann

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.

There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from... Read more

Backwards and in Heels

By: Alicia Malone

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”—Ann RichardsWomen have been instrumental in the success of American cinema since its very beginning. One of the first people to ever pick up a motion picture camera was a woman, as was the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards,... Read more