Social Science audiobooks

Workin' Our Way Home

By: Ron Hall

Narrated by: Barry Scott & Daniel Butler

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Autobiography/MemoirThe heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion to Debbie led them to work toward fulfilling her... Read more

To the End of June

By: Cris Beam

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their... Read more

The Food Explorer

By: Daniel Stone

Narrated by: Daniel Stone

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate.

“Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus •... Read more

Fair Shot

By: Chris Hughes

Narrated by: Chris Hughes

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating audiobook, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues that the best way to fight income inequality is with a radically simple idea: a guaranteed income for working people, paid for by the one percent.

The first half of Chris Hughes’s life played like a movie reel right out of the “American Dream.” He grew up in a small town in... Read more

Close Encounters with Humankind

By: Sang-Hee Lee

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What can fossilized teeth tell us about our ancient life expectancy? What can big data on fossils reveal about farming's problematic role in human evolution? How can simple geometric comparisons of skull and pelvic fossils suggest an origin to our social nature?

In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some... Read more

Everything You Love Will Burn

By: Vegas Tenold

Narrated by: Vegas Tenold

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power

Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the... Read more

The Great Stain

By: Noel Rae

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 24 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Comprising personal accounts from an intensely consequential chapter in human history, the transatlantic slave trade, The Great Stain takes listeners from the depths of suffering to the heights of human dignity.There have been numerous books about the why, when, and where of slavery in America, but there is a dearth of material exposing what... Read more

Ndrangheta - en bok om maffian i Kalabrien

By: Tomas Lappalainen

Narrated by: Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Våld, blodsband och decennier långa vendettor omgärdade av en uråldrig mur av tystnad. Det här är en bok om världens mäktigaste maffia, 'ndranghetan i Kalabrien, som gått från att ha ansetts vara en primitiv kidnappningsorganisation till att spela en avgörande roll i den europeiska droghandeln. - Read more

Den brinnande chefen

By: Lennart Matikainen & Rickard Carlsson

Narrated by: Magdi Saleh

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Framtidens ledare sitter inte längre bakom skrivbord och pekar med hela handen. Framtidens ledarskap handlar om att både utvecklas som chef och utveckla personalen samt att kombinera de ekonomiska och tekniska perspektiven i ett företag. Framtidens ledarskap innebär att utveckla en hållbar verksamhet där personlig utveckling och... Read more

How To Seduce Women Born On July 6 Or Secret Sexual Desires Of 10 Million People

By: Kate Bazilevsky

Narrated by: Kevin Iggens

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This book reveals, legalizes a recipe of seduction applicable to ALL of approximately 10 million women born on July 6 of common years (or July 5 of leap years) and provides details about their sexual factor: behavior, preferences, desires, fantasies, dislikes; frequency of sexual activity, potency, preferred positions, attitude towards monogamy... Read more

The Flight of the Wild Gander

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell—in his first collection of essays, written between 1944 and 1968—explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm’s fairy tales to American Indian legends. Originally published in 1969, this collection describes the... Read more

Cheap Sex

By: Mark Regnerus

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other—the Pill and high-quality pornography—and its distribution made more efficient by a third technological innovation, online dating. Together, they drive down the cost of real... Read more

Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect

By: Gregory Smithsimon

Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

When we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occurred. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory Smithsimon brings us a much sharper understanding of cause and effect, and shows how we can use it to approach some of our most daunting collective problems.



Smithsimon begins by... Read more

Texas Business and Culture from Texas Monthly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles highlighting Texas business and culture are now available in a bundle as an audio download:

* "The Slow Life and Fast Death of DJ Screw" by Michael Hall, read by Matt Bull
* "Dreaming of Her" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell
* "He Ain't Going Nowhere" by John Spong, read by Bruce... Read more

High-Risers

By: Ben Austen

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project.Built in the 1940s atop an... Read more

Just Jen

By: Jen Powley

Narrated by: Christine Brubaker

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley’s life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Powley’s writing pulls no punches. She is lively, bold and unapologetic,... Read more

White Awake

By: Daniel Hill

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Hill will never forget the day he heard these words: "Daniel, you may be white, but don't let that lull you into thinking you have no culture. White culture is very real. In fact, when white culture comes in contact with other cultures, it almost always wins. So it would be a really good idea for you to learn about your culture."



Confused... Read more

The Shelf Life of John Mackey

By: Tom Foster

Narrated by: Matt Bull

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Tom Foster's "The Shelf Life of John Mackey" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led... Read more

All the Pieces Matter

By: Jonathan Abrams

Narrated by: Jonathan Abrams, January LaVoy, Prentice Onayem...

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation.

Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal... Read more

Witnessing Whiteness

By: Shelly Tochluk

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Witnessing Whiteness invites listeners to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color.... Read more

My Firefly

By: Maggie Kirton

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A horrifying account of torture and humiliation at the hands of her family, My Firefly will pull you in and grab hold of your spirit. Seen from the perspective of the family home, this young girl struggles to stay alive as she is slowly ripped apart emotionally, physically and sexually by her father. You'll experience an abundance of feelings... Read more

Flirtology

By: Jean Smith

Narrated by: Jean Smith

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Flirtology, written and read by Jean Smith.

. How can I tell when someone is flirting with me?
. How can I be a more confident flirt?
. How do I avoid rejection?
. Where are all the good men and women hiding?

Flirtology is THE dating guide for the 21st century. In an age of swiping left and right, and... Read more

Klittra mera

By: Ylva Franzén

Narrated by: Susanna Helldén

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Det är dags för kvinnor att njuta på sina egna villkor och befria sig från det manliga och kulturella förtryck som under hundratals år begränsat deras liv. Forskningen om klitoris har nu kommit så långt att det för första gången är möjligt att beskriva detta organ. Den här boken handlar endast om klitoris och om kvinnliga orgasmer.Sex beskrivs... Read more

Text Me When You Get Home

By: Kayleen Schaefer

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It's high time that we start seeing it that way."--NPR, 2018's Great Reads

A personal and sociological... Read more