Social Science audiobooks

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 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - “The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the... Read more

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.

“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New... Read more

Cassandra Speaks

By: Elizabeth Lesser

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected... Read more

The Burning Earth

By: Sunil Amrith

Narrated by: Esh Alladi

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024



In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of... Read more

Do Better

By: Rachel Ricketts

Narrated by: Rachel Ricketts

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
San Francisco Chronicle’s 10 Books to Pick * HelloGiggles’ 10 Books to Pick Up for a Better 2021 * PopSugar’s 23 Exciting New Books * Book Riot’s 12 Essential Books About Black Identity and History * Harper’s Bazaar’s 60+ Books You Need to Read in 2021

“A clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise on... Read more

Invisible Women

By: Caroline Criado-Perez

Narrated by: Caroline Criado-Perez

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our... Read more

The Language Puzzle

By: Steven Mithen

Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today  

The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most... Read more

Crypt

By: Alice Roberts

Narrated by: Alice Roberts

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER
CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2024

'Compulsive . . . A wonderful display of how modern archaeology can bring hidden histories to life' Daily Telegraph 

'Gripping . . . I found it hard to put down' Evening Standard

'Another really good book from archaeologist Alice Roberts . . . Helps... Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?

“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more

Bonk

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred... Read more

Unapologetic

By: Charlene Carruthers

Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition.

Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic... Read more

Killing the Black Body

By: Dorothy Roberts

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of  the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over... Read more

Restoring the Kinship Worldview

By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) & Darcia Narvaez, PhD

Narrated by: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez, Ph...

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future.

Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe... Read more

It's Not Hysteria

By: Dr. Karen Tang

Narrated by: Dr. Karen Tang

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An inclusive and essential new resource for reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing—from leading expert and fierce advocate Dr. Karen Tang

Did you know that up to 90% of women experience menstrual... Read more

In Defense of Witches

By: Mona Chollet

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.

Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique... Read more

As You Wish

By: Cary Elwes & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Cary Elwes, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, Rob Reiner...

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes the New York Times bestselling account of the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as... Read more

Africa Is Not a Country

By: Dipo Faloyin

Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories.



Starting with an... Read more

We Are the Weather

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Jonathan Safran Foer

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.

Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

The Resilience Myth

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the “must-read” (NPR) Rage Becomes Her presents a powerful manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology.

We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. But with her distinctive “skill, wit, and sharp insight” (Laura... Read more

The Trouble with White Women

By: Kyla Schuller

Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist... Read more

Race After Technology

By: Ruha Benjamin

Narrated by: Mia Ellis

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more

Black on Both Sides

By: C. Riley Snorton

Narrated by: C. Riley Snorton

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on... Read more

Memento Mori

By: Joanna Ebenstein

Narrated by: Joanna Ebenstein

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life

Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.

This life-changing book will give... Read more