2022 National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction
Here are the available audiobooks for the 2022 National Book Award longlist for Nonfiction! Finalists in all five categories will be revealed on October 4th.
Lost & Found
A Memoir
By: Kathryn Schulz
Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “profound and beautiful” (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker’s Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“I will stake my reputation on you being blown away by Lost & Found.”—Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn... Read more
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His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa
Narrated by: Dion Graham, Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER.
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from... Read more
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds
A Memoir
By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER
From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s... Read more
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Breathless
The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
By: David Quammen
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic—a “luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time.” (The New York Times).
Breathless is a “gripping” (The Atlantic) but... Read more
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South to America
A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more
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Ted Kennedy
A Life
By: John A. Farrell
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
Length: 24 hours
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
An enthralling and ground-breaking new biography of one of modern America’s most fascinating and consequential political figures, drawing on important new sources, by an award-winning biographer who covered Kennedy closely for many years
John A. Farrell’s magnificent biography of Edward M.... Read more
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Uncommon Measure
A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
By: Natalie Hodges
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
How does time shape consciousness and consciousness, time? Do we live in time, or does time live in us? And how does music, with its patterns of rhythm and harmony, inform our experience of time? Uncommon Measure explores these questions from the perspective of a young Korean American who dedicated herself to perfecting her art until performance... Read more
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The Invisible Kingdom
Reimagining Chronic Illness
By: Meghan O'Rourke
Narrated by: Meghan O'Rourke
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases
A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether.... Read more
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Bad Mexicans
Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and... Read more
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