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Generations
By: Jean M. Twenge
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking, âlavishly informativeâ (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one anotherâfrom the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.
Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean... Read more
The Freaks Came Out to Write
By: Tricia Romano
Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979,... Read more
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Minor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST â˘Â NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER⢠ONE OF TIMEâS 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLEâ˘Â A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
âBrilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.ââClaudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
Narrated by: Kent Klineman
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II.
Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular... Read more
Nice Racism
By: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.
In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple... Read more
Sunshine State
By: Sarah Gerard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Rising literary star and Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award finalist Sarah Gerard uses her experiences growing up along Floridaâs gulf coast to illuminate the struggles of modern human survivalâphysical, emotional, environmentalâthrough a collection of essays exploring intimacy, addiction, obsession, religion, homelessness, and... Read more
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Wifedom
By: Anna Funder
Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood & Jane Slavin
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century âand a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world
"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full."Â âGeraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize,... Read more
The Women of NOW
By: Katherine Turk
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The history of NOWâits organization, trials, and revolutionary missionâtold through the work of three members.
In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the... Read more
Entitled
By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent exploration of menâs entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl
âKate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable.ââRebecca TraisterÂ
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC
In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher... Read more
Not "A Nation of Immigrants"
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States
Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly... Read more
Hillbilly Elegy
By: J. D. Vance
Narrated by: J. D. Vance
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of Americaâs white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisisâthat of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a... Read more
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Red Tarot
By: Christopher Marmolejo
Narrated by: Christopher Marmolejo
Length: 17 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot interrogates the images, themes, and power structures that have been read into and onto the cardsâand guides readers to radical and empowering reclamation.
Today, we have a wealth of tarot resources with many goalsâbut few address the historically marginalized.
Red Tarot speaks to anyone who is othered... Read more
The Turnaway Study
By: Diana Greene Foster
Narrated by: Samantha Desz & Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
âIf you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.â âGloria Steinem
The âremarkableâ (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on womenâs livesâemotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and... Read more
Magical/Realism
By: Vanessa AngĂŠlica Villarreal
Narrated by: Vanessa AngĂŠlica Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop cultureâfrom BeyoncĂŠ to Game of Thronesâto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa AngĂŠlica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmotherâs... Read more
The Night Parade
By: Jami Nakamura Lin
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers ⢠The Boston Globe ⢠San Francisco Chronicle ⢠The Millions ⢠Library Journal ⢠Debutiful ⢠and many more! In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyoâthe... Read more
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The Cruelty Is the Point
By: Adam Serwer
Narrated by: Adam Serwer
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that âreal hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plainâin all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemismâ (The New York Times).
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR ⢠âNo... Read more
We Are Home
By: Ray Suarez
Narrated by: Ray Suarez
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From a veteran broadcaster and historian comes a richly reported portrait of the newest Americans, immigrants from all over the globe who are living all across the country, filled with their own voices. We are a nation of immigrants, never more than now. In recent decades, the numbers have skyrocketed, thanks to people coming from many... Read more
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The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960sâand still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - âThe finest essay Iâve ever read.â âTa-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwinâs early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the... Read more
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Decolonizing Wealth, Second Edition
By: Edgar Villanueva
Narrated by: Edgar Villanueva
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer.
The world is out of balance. With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that systemic racism and colonial structures are... Read more
Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an  âilluminatingâ (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
After the Ivory Tower Falls
By: Will Bunch
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of collegeâthe great political and cultural fault line of American lifeWinner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | ""This book is simply terrific."" âHeather Cox Richardson | ""Ambitious and... Read more
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Your Face Belongs to Us
By: Kashmir Hill
Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it
âThe dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hillâs fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new... Read more
Our Migrant Souls
By: HĂŠctor Tobar
Narrated by: AndrĂŠ Santana
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A new audiobook by the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner HĂŠctor Tobar's... Read more
White Evangelical Racism
By: Anthea Butler
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures?... Read more
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