Audiobooks of the Month: March 2023

Who Gets Believed

When the Truth Isn't Enough

By: Dina Nayeri
Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Why are honest asylum seekers dismissed as liars? Former refugee and award-winning author Dina Nayeri begins with this question, turning to shocking and illuminating case studies in this book, which grows into a reckoning with our culture’s views on believability. From persuading a doctor that she’d prefer a C-section to learning to “bullshit... Read more

Women Talk Money

Breaking the Taboo

By: Rebecca Walker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Soneela Nankani, Tanis Parenteau, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Aida Reluzco, Bahni Turpin & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker.

Women Talk Money is a groundbreaking collection that lifts the veil on what women talk about when they talk about money; it unflinchingly recounts the power of money to impact health, define... Read more

How to Think Like a Woman

Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more

The Last Assassin

The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar

By: Peter Stothard
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by... Read more

The Real Work

On the Mystery of Mastery

By: Adam Gopnik
Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Longtime New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn―and master―a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he became obsessed by a fundamental matter: How did the people he was writing... Read more

STFU

The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

By: Dan Lyons
Narrated by: Dan Lyons
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

“It probably hasn't escaped anyone's attention that we live in a world full of anger and people barking at people like dogs (or at least seals). So much noise! Dan Lyons is here to ask us to shut the 'F' up if we really want to communicate. We have to listen if we want to know who that other person is. With our own mouths flapping away like... Read more

I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts

Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

By: Kristin Chenoweth
Narrated by: Kristin Chenoweth & Melinda Sewak
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive bonus commentary.(How about some women, am I right?)From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, a book featuring philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure. Just... Read more

Against Democracy

By: Jason Brennan
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Christopher Ragland, who presents a bracingly provocative critique of one of our most cherished ideas and institutions

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political... Read more