reading is resistance

You Must Stand Up

The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America

By: Amanda Becker
Narrated by: Amanda Becker
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Bloomsbury presents You Must Stand Up written and read by Amanda Becker.

The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement during the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization— overturning the constitutional right to abortion... Read more

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“Hearing Coates narrate his writings made this all the more impactful. Highly recommend for everyone. Read more

Not the End of the World

How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie
Narrated by: Hannah Ritchie
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will... Read more

The Power Worshippers

Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

By: Katherine Stewart
Narrated by: Tosca Hopkins
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Bloomsbury presents The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart, read by Tosca Hopkins.

The inspiration for the documentary God & Country

For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right’s rise to political power.

For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied... Read more

Dark Money

The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?
     The... Read more

Burning the Books

A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

By: Richard Ovenden
Narrated by: Simon Slater
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts and the broader themes... Read more

We Become What We Normalize

What We Owe Each Other in Worlds That Demand Our Silence

By: David Dark
Narrated by: David Dark
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

From one of the most respected thinkers and public intellectuals of our day comes a book that is both a cultural critique of the state of our country and a robust summons to resist complicity. As we move through the world, we constantly weigh our conscience against what David Dark calls "deferential fear"—going along just to get along,... Read more

On Freedom

Four Songs of Care and Constraint

By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long... Read more

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more

How Fascism Works

The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer

“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A Yale... Read more

American Teenager

How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era

By: Nico Lang
Narrated by: Nico Lang
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight
trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily
triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America
today.
Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be
allowed to live, but what is incredibly... Read more

Real Queer America

LGBT Stories from Red States

By: Samantha Allen
Narrated by: Samantha Allen
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's... Read more

Men Who Hate Women

From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

By: Laura Bates
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.



Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote... Read more

The Fall of Roe

The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias & Lisa Lerer
Narrated by: Lipica Shah
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

“The most important book in the lead up to this election.” —Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC

“As Dias and Lerer write, the fight against legal abortion is tied inextricably to the fight for America’s soul.” —New York magazine

“A tour de force. However you read books, hardcover, ebook, audio… Just read it.” —Alex Wagner on Alex Wagner Tonight

This program... Read more

Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton
Narrated by: C. Riley Snorton
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives. Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on... Read more

Before We Were Trans

A New History of Gender

By: Dr. Kit Heyam
Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity  

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.  
 
Before We Were Trans illuminates... Read more

The Women of NOW

How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

By: Katherine Turk
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

The history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members.

In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the... Read more

Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“In Fight Like Hell, Kim Kelly celebrates the untold stories and unsung heroes of the American labor movement, taking great care to center voices that have historically been sidelined or silenced in mainstream conversations around workers' rights. The result is an inclusive, fascinating, and galvanizing retrospective that mines the depths of the... Read more

Fight like a Mother

How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

By: Shannon Watts
Narrated by: Shannon Watts
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news broke of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. In one moment, she went from outraged to engaged and decided to do something about it. What started as a simple Facebook group to connect with other frustrated parents grew into Moms Demand Action, a national movement with... Read more

An Abolitionist's Handbook

12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World

By: Patrisse Cullors
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

The audiobook features an introduction written and read by Prentis Hemphill as well as an exclusive bonus conversation with the author and adrienne maree brown.

In AN ABOLITIONIST’S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the... Read more