Social Commentary

Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

“An ecological, fungi-based restructuring of your world view given to us as only a brilliant biologist could offer. Sheldrake says, 'Without this fungal web my tree would not exist. Without [...] fungal webs no plant would exist anywhere. All life on land, including my own, depends on these networks.' Read more

Gathering Moss

A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Very helpful for the construction of my moss habitat! Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“This is so inspirational and informative. A collection of essays that are wonderful to listen to. Read more

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Length: 45 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah

"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

90s Bitch

Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

By: Allison Yarrow
Narrated by: Allison Yarrow
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. ""Yarrow’s biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced — or “bitchified” — women at... Read more

The Age of AI

And Our Human Future

By: Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher
Narrated by: Eric Pollins
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular... Read more

Shutdown

How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze
Narrated by: Simon Vance & Adam Tooze
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed.

The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone... Read more

Rez Rules

My Indictment of Canada's and America's Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples

By: Chief Clarence Louie
Narrated by: Chief Clarence Louie
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.

In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four... Read more

RedHanded

An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick

By: Suruthi Bala & Hannah Maguire
Narrated by: Suruthi Bala, Hannah Maguire & Denise Mina
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made.

Features an audiobook exclusive interview: Suruthi and Hannah interview award-winning author Denise Mina on the "the less dead", equality and bigotry in crime, the... Read more

Cultish

The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers“At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too... Read more

The 9.9 Percent

The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture

By: Matthew Stewart
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

A “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone—including themselves.

In 21st-century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground.... Read more

Back to Earth

What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet—And Our Mission to Protect It

By: Nicole Stott
Narrated by: Nicole Stott
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change

When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home.

In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving,... Read more

How to Innovate

An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

By: Aristotle
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times—the ancient Greeks.



When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions—democracy, the alphabet,... Read more

A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister
Narrated by: Kate Lister
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatize particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world.... Read more

Bad Feminist

Essays

By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.”  — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe •... Read more

Courage Is Calling

Fortune Favors the Brave

The Stoic Virtues Series

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
 
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

Essays

By: Phoebe Robinson
Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

“[A]nother hilarious essay collection from Phoebe Robinson.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Strikes the perfect balance of brutally honest and laugh out loud funny. I didn’t want it to end.”
—Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Why Not Me?

With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture references, and her always unforgettable... Read more

The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Jesse Martin
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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

A Brief History of a Perfect Future

Inventing the world that we can proudly leave our kids by 2050

By: Chunka Mui, Paul B. Carroll & Tim Andrews
Narrated by: Stephanie Dillard
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

A Brief History of a Perfect FutureWhat if, instead of trying to predict the future, we could just pick the one we want—and then invent it? Well, we can.Think of the wealth of technological resources already available to us. The computing power in that smartphone in your pocket could have guided 120 million Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon and... Read more

Stride Toward Freedom

The Montgomery Story

King Legacy

By: Martin Luther King, Jr
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who,... Read more