Social Science audiobooks

Living the Secular Life

By: Phil Zuckerman

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A guidebook for living a life without religion, combining sociological insight and personal inspiration Over the last twenty-five years, "no religion" has become the fastest growing religion in the United States. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people have turned away from the traditional faiths of the past and embraced a secular-or... Read more

The World's Greatest Arguments In Favor Of Same-Sex Marriage

By: Trevor Clinger

Narrated by: Trevor Clinger

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the insights into the discourse surrounding same-sex marriage in this thought-provoking scholarly article. Delve into three compelling arguments frequently employed by proponents of same-sex marriage to sway opinions and foster inclusivity. Authored by an individual holding a Bachelor's in Business Management and an Associates Degree in... Read more

Claudia Rankine: Poetry and Racism

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine says that the small moments that carve gaps of misunderstanding between Americans lead to big, national moments of misunderstanding, like events in Ferguson and New York. Rankine explores these disruptions and how they lead to conflict in her new book, Citizen. Read more

Lives in Ruins

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, the Valley of the Kings, the Parthenon—the names of these legendary archaeological sites conjure up romance and mystery. The news is full of archaeology: treasures found and treasures lost. Archaeological research tantalizes us with possibilities (are modern humans really part Neanderthal?). Where are the archaeologists... Read more

God’ll Cut You Down

By: John Safran

Narrated by: Tom Bromhead

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

God'll Cut You Down combines an unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson.A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South... Read more

Singers and Tales

By: Michael Drout

Narrated by: Michael Drout

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this course, Professor Michael D. C. Drout traces literature back to its ultimate sources in oral tradition. Drout shows us how works as varied as the Odyssey, Beowulf, the Finnish Kalevala, and epic songs from the former Yugoslavia were shaped by their origins as songs sung - and composed - before a live audience. Understanding the oral... Read more

Busted

By: Wendy Ruderman & Barbara Laker

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI... Read more

Drunk Mom

By: Jowita Bydlowska

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestseller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism.Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked... Read more

Science...For Her!

By: Megan Amram

Narrated by: Megan Amram

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the funniest—and most subversive—books of the year” (Esquire): Megan Amram, a writer for Parks and Recreation, delivers a politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect “textbook” that will have women screaming with laughter, and men dying to know what the noise is about.

“Laugh-out-loud funny…an exuberantly scathing takedown of... Read more

Inside the Criminal Mind (Newly Revised Edition)

By: Stanton Samenow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.
 
“Utterly compelling reading, full of raw insight into the dark mind of the criminal.”—John... Read more

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By: Jared Diamond

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 26 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past... Read more

Who Knows Tomorrow

By: Lisa Lovatt-Smith

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Spain and raised by a struggling single mother, Lisa Lovatt-Smith became an editor at British Vogue at nineteen, the youngest in Cond├® Nast history. She helped launch Spanish Vogue and partied across Europe with celebrities, fashion designers, photographers, and supermodels.By her thirties Lisa has her dream career and a glamorous life... Read more

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Jill Lepore

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism

Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as... Read more

The Woman Code

By: Sophia A. Nelson

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Every woman lives by a code, whether she realizes it or not. It informs how she treats others and herself, how much she expects of herself, and how far she is willing to go in order to find success. But is the code we're living by truly helping us create the lives of purpose and fulfillment we desire? Or are we sacrificing the deeper things for... Read more

Playing Big

By: Tara Mohr

Narrated by: Tara Mohr

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world.
 
In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were "playing small" in their lives and careers, were frustrated by it, and wanted to "play... Read more

Even This I Get to Experience

By: Norman Lear

Narrated by: Norman Lear

Length: 18 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling memoir from the creator of some of the most iconic television programs ever, including All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

“Charming, candid, and copious . . . There is still a lot of zest, passion, and whimsy in the man who taught Americans to laugh at their... Read more

Getting Life

By: Michael Morton

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 13, 1986, just one day after his thirty-second birthday, Michael Morton went to work at his usual time. By the end of the day, his wife Christine had been savagely bludgeoned to death in the couple's bed—and the Williamson County Sherriff's office in Texas wasted no time in pinning her murder on Michael, despite an absolute lack of... Read more

Losing Our Way

By: Bob Herbert

Narrated by: Bob Herbert

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert comes a wrenching portrayal of ordinary Americans struggling for survival in a nation that has lost its way

In his eighteen years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey... Read more

Deep Down Dark

By: Héctor Tobar

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more

Hand to Mouth

By: Linda Tirado

Narrated by: Linda Tirado

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the eye-opening and controversial essay on poverty that was read by millions comes the real-life Nickel and Dimed, and Linda Tirado explains what it’s like to be working poor in America, and why poor people make the decisions they do.
 
We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her... Read more

On Immunity

By: Eula Biss

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.

In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and... Read more

The News Sorority

By: Sheila Weller

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists.” --Vanity Fair

For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women—Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour—broke into the newsroom’s once... Read more

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

By: Anne Helen Petersen

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown, and allegations against Woody Allen. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be.




Part biography, part cultural history, the stories contained in this book... Read more

Enough

By: Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

Narrated by: Mark Kelly

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabrielle Giffords's documentary Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down is now in theaters nationwide!

Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.

After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed... Read more