Social Science audiobooks

Deeds Not Words

By: Helen Pankhurst

Narrated by: Helen Duff

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.

Why is it taking so long?

Despite huge progress... Read more

The Evolution of Desire

By: David M. Buss

Narrated by: Greg Tremblay

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The groundbreaking, provocative book that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love.
If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest... Read more

Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a... Read more

The Strange Order of Things

By: Antonio Damasio

Narrated by: Steve West & Antonio Damasio

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.
 
The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes... 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

F You Very Much

By: Danny Wallace

Narrated by: Danny Wallace

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deliciously hilarious. If you care about people and enjoy a good laugh, I politely encourage you to read this book. Immediately."
--Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals

From the brilliant comedic mind behind the hit movie Yes Man, a hilarious and pitch-perfect look at the rudeness that's all around us -- where it comes from, how it affects... Read more

I've Got This Round

By: Mamrie Hart

Narrated by: Mamrie Hart

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilarious, candid, and full of shenanigans, YouTube sensation Mamrie Hart—the New York Times bestselling author of You Deserve a Drink—is back with more adventures.
 
When Mamrie simultaneously enters her 30s and finds herself single for the first time since college, the world is suddenly full of possibilities. Emboldened by the cool confidence... Read more

When I Was Puerto Rican

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the... Read more

Slutever

By: Karley Sciortino

Narrated by: Karley Sciortino

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Slutever is a call-to-arms, a confessional memoir, and a slut manifesto—and it's all thanks to a sex-radical hedonist in a pink PVC mini dress.

"Slut" is a great word. It just sounds perfect-so sharp and clear and beautiful. It's one of those satisfying four letter words, like cunt and fuck. Slut also happens to be an anagram for lust, which is... Read more

Starving in Search of Me

By: Marissa LaRocca

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confessions of an eating disorders survivorThis confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and... Read more

Brit(ish)

By: Afua Hirsch

Narrated by: Afua Hirsch

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Brit(ish): Why We Need to Talk About Race written and read by Afua Hirsch.

Afua Hirsch is British. Her parents are British. She was raised, educated and socialised in Britain. Her partner, daughter, sister and the vast majority of her friends are British. So why is her identity and sense of... Read more

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

By: Jeanne Theoharis

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of... Read more

The Art of Screen Time

By: Anya Kamenetz

Narrated by: Anya Kamenetz

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally: an evidence-based, reassuring guide to what to do about kids and screens, from video games to social media.
Today's babies often make their debut on social media with the very first sonogram. They begin interacting with screens at around four months old. But is this good news or bad news? A wonderful opportunity to connect around the... Read more

Black Fortunes

By: Shomari Wills

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller,... Read more

In Sickness and in Health

By: Ben Mattlin

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage

Ben Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this... Read more

The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

By: Padraic Colum

Narrated by: Ulf Bjorklund

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Before time as we know it began, gods and goddesses lived in the city of Asgard. Odin All Father crossed the Rainbow Bridge to walk among men in Midgard. Thor defended Asgard with his mighty hammer. Mischievous Loki was constantly getting into trouble with the other gods, and dragons and giants walked free. This collection of Norse sagas retold... Read more

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

By: Paul Ortiz

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights

Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar... Read more

Secret Slave

By: Anna Ruston

Narrated by: Faye Adele

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.



Growing up in a deeply troubled family, fifteen-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade.



Held captive by a... Read more

Nasty Women

By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay & Kate Harding

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When fifty-three percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and ninety-four percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump’s America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of talented women writers who seek to provide a broad look at how we got here and what we need to do to move... Read more

BRAVE

By: Rose McGowan

Narrated by: Rose McGowan

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same."" -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto – A voice for generationsRose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible... Read more

The Lessons of Ubuntu

By: Mark Mathabane

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Mathabane touched the hearts of millions with his sensational memoir, Kaffir Boy. A book highly-praised by Oprah and President Clinton for inspiring hope, Kaffir Boy described the effects of South Africa’s system of legalized racism and oppression on black lives in vivid prose. The book won the prestigious Christopher Award, was a finalist... Read more

The Making of a Dream

By: Laura Wides-Muñoz

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“A sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement. . . . Wides-Muñoz reminds us that thanks to the ability of young people to dream, what seems impossible today may yet prove achievable tomorrow.” —New York Times Book ReviewA journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights—the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the... Read more

How to Talk to Anyone

By: Jayden Haywards

Narrated by: Jason Burkhead

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the social skills and mindset to become better at talking to people.It’s not always easy to break the ice, know what to talk about, or even to get yourself to open your mouth. Besides that, there are many things to take into account, like whom you’re talking to, what social class or status that person has, differences in communication... Read more

The Rough Patch

By: Daphne de Marneffe

Narrated by: Daphne de Marneffe

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anyone grappling with the bewilderment of midlife…will be at once provoked and comforted by this enormously wise book” (Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage), from a psychologist who has worked for decades with people struggling to preserve and enhance their marriages and long-term... Read more