Non-Fiction Favorites

What an Owl Knows

The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly

From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination

With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls... Read more

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

By: Edward Dolnick
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick is as utterly entertaining as any best-selling novel. The entire time I read Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party I told everyone around me to read it. The knowledge of dinosaurs has obviously, never not been part of my life. But I had never thought about the initial discovery or urge to understand the... Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“Read this, listen to this, let it touch your heart, and share it with others. This is the perfect gift - AND the print edition will keep running out of stock this season, so why not try the audiobook, which is narrated by the author. Fans of Braiding Sweetgrass will be satisfied here, and the small, unassuming size will attract a new audience to... Read more

George

A Magpie Memoir

By: Frieda Hughes
Narrated by: Frieda Hughes
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

“As someone whose passive love of birds transformed into a more fervent birding habit over the last few years, I enjoyed poet and painter Freida Hughes’s recounting of taking in the funny, naughty, and remarkably memorable George. It was the perfect listen during a stressful week. Read more

Pillars of Creation

How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

By: Richard Panek
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.

Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the... Read more

The Third Gilmore Girl

A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop
Narrated by: Kelly Bishop
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

“What an unexpected surprise this gem of a memoir is! Kelly managed to spill the tea while still maintaining her positive and respectful approach to life and all people. What an amazing trail blazer she is! Read more

The Ravenmaster

My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

By: Christopher Skaife
Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

“Yeoman warder Christopher Skaife describes himself as being ornithivorous in relation to his job, inhaling all that there is about ravens, no matter the area of study (science, mythology, art, etc.). And while he covers some of those topics in this book, it’s his personal stories that kept me reading late into the night. Skaife’s voice will... Read more

The Indian Card

Who Gets to Be Native in America

By: Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
Narrated by: Amy Hall
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

“I found this book to be both radically personal and deeply intriguing. Schhuettpelz answers many questions I’ve had about the process of enrolling into a Native American tribe that I would have googled to oblivion but never asked. How does blood quantum work? What is it like seeking connection after generations of separation from a culture? What... Read more

The Museum of Whales You Will Never See

And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums

By: A. Kendra Greene
Narrated by: A. Kendra Greene
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.

Iceland is home to only 330,000 people (roughly the population of Lexington, Kentucky) but more than 265 museums and public collections--nearly one for every ten people.... Read more

The Geography of Bliss

One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

By: Eric Weiner
Narrated by: Eric Weiner
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is.

Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar,... Read more

The Nordic Theory of Everything

In Search of a Better Life

By: Anu Partanen
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary,... Read more

The Art Thief

A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“I confess: I am mostly untroubled by art crimes, whether thefts or forgeries. I even find them a little charming, mostly victimless, and a kind of art in themselves. And that's surely how Stéphane Breitwieser, a Frenchman who, with his girlfriend Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, pulled off an incredible series of thefts—over 200 in the eight years... Read more

The Six

The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

By: Loren Grush
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“This book was like a mini-biography of each of America's first six women astronauts. It was really uplifting to read about their professional successes especially at a time where women were not seen as equals to men in a scientific realm. A great addition to the library of anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with six heroic and courageous... Read more

The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

“I really enjoyed this collection of ponderings on current events and current thought processes. Amanda Montell has her finger on the pulse of society today! I listened to the author read this on Libro.fm! It felt like having a great conversation with a friend. Read more

Mott Street

A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

By: Ava Chin
Narrated by: Ava Chin
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Winner of the Chinese American Librarians... Read more

Beaverland

How One Weird Rodent Made America

By: Leila Philip
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

An intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that has surprisingly shaped American history and may save its ecological future.  From award-winning writer Leila Philip, Beaverland is a masterful work of narrative science writing, a book that highlights, though history and contemporary storytelling, how... Read more

Crossings

How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they're practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. In Crossings, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb travels throughout the... Read more

American Midnight

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor""A riveting, resonant... Read more

My First Popsicle

An Anthology of Food and Feelings

By: Zosia Mamet
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Danson, Matt Flanders, Tony Hale, Katie Holmes, Hamish Linklater, Rosie Perez, Busy Philipps, Andrew Rannells, Gabourey Sidibe, Patti Smith & Full Cast
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.

Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more