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Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“Yeah, yeah we all know how income inequality has skyrocketed in recent decades, but do you want to get fired up about it? Matthew Desmond targets the usual suspects in this damning manifesto, but he also asks complicated, nuanced questions about how all of us are complicit in the status quo. An important read for everyone interested in creating... Read more

Disability Intimacy

Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms.

What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating... Read more

We Are the Middle of Forever

Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

By: Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth—countless species becoming extinct, pandemics claiming millions of lives, and climate crisis causing worldwide social and environmental upheaval—was not apparent... Read more

More than a Glitch

Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

By: Meredith Broussard
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? Meredith Broussard demonstrates in More Than a Glitch how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held... Read more

When You Care

The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others

By: Elissa Strauss
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

In this “urgent and necessary book” (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and communal lives, weaving together research and stories from parents and caregivers with a feminist bent.

Behind our current caregiving crisis, in which a... Read more

Dear Bi Men

A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure

By: J.R. Yussuf
Narrated by: J.R. Yussuf
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

An unapologetic guide for readers who are Black, masc, and bi—unlearning biphobia, coming out, combatting erasure, and embodying your whole self

Through cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers Blackness in a practical and deeply... Read more

Unbroken Chains

The Hidden Role of Human Trafficking in the American Economy

By: Melissa Ditmore
Narrated by: Jenni Wilson
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

An urgent exposition of the pervasive human trafficking that lies just beneath the surface of the US economy—from the stories of its survivors

The years of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light the exploitation of workers. In this moment of heightened visibility, Unbroken Chains demands that readers examine the hidden sector of American... Read more

The White Bonus

Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

By: Tracie McMillan
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

This unflinching book from award-winning investigative reporter Tracie McMillan examines what white privilege delivers—in dollars and cents—not only to white people of wealth but also to white people from the poor to the middle class.



McMillan begins with her own downwardly mobile middle-class family and takes us through a personal history marked... Read more

The Way That Leads Among the Lost

Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos

By: Angela Garcia
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction treatment centers where mothers send their children to escape the violence of the drug war.

The Way That Leads Among the Lost reveals a hidden place where care and... Read more

We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker,... Read more

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse

A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times

By: Athena Aktipis
Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call... Read more

Alien Earths

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

This program features an introduction and epilogue read by the author.

"In the grand tradition of Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, we now have a new tour guide to the cosmos."―Charles Cockell, Professor of Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh

"Absorbing, informative, and entertaining."―Kirkus (Starred Review)

“[Dr. Lisa] Kaltenegger's... Read more

The Beauty of Falling

A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

By: Claudia de Rham
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson shares the story of a world-renowned physicist who seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body's buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian... Read more

Every Living Thing

The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By: Jason Roberts
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth—a competition “with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice).

“[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important,... Read more

The Weight of Nature

How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern
Narrated by: Clayton Page Aldern
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

A New York Times Editors' Choice

A Next Big Idea Club and Sierra Magazine Must-Read Book

A Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List Pick

A Financial Times Best Summer Book

A deeply reported, eye-opening book about climate change, our brains, and the weight of nature on us all.

The march of climate change is stunning and vicious, with rising seas,... Read more

In the Shadow of Liberty

The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States

By: Ana Raquel Minian
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, David Shih, Marie-Françoise Theodore, Rebecca Gibel, Sheldon Romero & Victor Colome
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

“Meticulous . . . Storytelling allows Minian to convey the physical and emotional toll of detention with potent specificity. The result is a book-length plea against dehumanization, at least for those who are willing to listen.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant... Read more

Barons

Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture. Mike benefited from deregulation of the American food industry, a phenomenon that... Read more

Twilight Prisoners

The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India

By: Siddhartha Deb
Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India's descent into authoritarianism.



Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The... Read more

We Loved It All

A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological... Read more

Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth

How to Live with Care and Purpose in an Endangered World

By: Kate Schapira
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Climate anxiety is real—and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth. Summer after summer is the hottest on record. People’s homes are flooding, burning, blowing away. We live with the loss, pain, and grief of what’s happened, and... Read more