Environment & Nature audiobooks

The Sun Is a Compass

By: Caroline Van Hemert

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.​ During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to... Read more

The Last Whalers

By: Doug Bock Clark

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.

A New York Times Notable Book​
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner... Read more

How to Be a Good Creature

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more

What the Eyes Don't See

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.

“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times

“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The... Read more

Mozart's Starling

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Linda Henning

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart,... Read more

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future―all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the... Read more

Animal Madness

By: Laurel Braitman

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

**“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick**
**Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**People magazine Best Summer Reads**

“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).

Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How... Read more

The Sixth Extinction

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass... Read more

On Looking

By: Alexandra Horowitz

Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog and The Year of the Puppy, this “elegant and entertaining” (The Boston Globe) explanation of how humans perceive their environments “does more than open our eyes...opens our hearts and minds, too, gently awakening us to a world—in fact, many worlds—we’ve been missing” (USA... Read more

The Orchid Thief

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more

Sounds Natural

By: Derek Jones

Narrated by: Derek Jones, Brian Blessed, Bill Oddie, Spike M...

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Derek Jones meets celebrities with a love of wildlife in these 38 episodes from the classic nature-themed interview showBetween 1970 and 1980, broadcaster Derek Jones invited a host of famous names to chat about their enthusiasm for nature and their encounters with animals. Delving into the BBC Sound Archive to select some of their favourite... Read more

River Notes

By: Wade Davis

Narrated by: Wade Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From bestselling author, long-time former National Geographic Explorer, and anthropologist Wade Davis comes the story of America's Nile: how it once flowed freely and how human intervention has left it near exhaustion, altering the water temperature, volume, local species, and shoreline of the river Theodore Roosevelt once urged us to "leave it... Read more

Now Is the Time to Collect

By: Paul D. Brinkman

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum's famed collections



After the extinction of the dodo and Carolina parakeet and the collapse of the American bison population, naturalists expected many more vulnerable species to die out with spread of... Read more

Body & Glass

By: author

Narrated by: Rodney Koeneke

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Body & Glass extends Koeneke’s experimentations in Ertruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and sharpen the lyric’s usual corners. The ‘anonymous’ forms of folk song and epitaph, parable and textual fragment, arrange to sketch the selves, living and dead, who might say them. These are poems of an improvised... Read more

Ashkenazi Herbalism

By: Deatra Cohen & Adam Siegel

Narrated by: Adam Siegel

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive guide to the medicinal plant knowledge of Ashkenazi herbal healers--from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Until now, the herbal traditions of the Ashkenazi people have remained unexplored and shrouded in mystery. Ashkenazi Herbalism rediscovers the forgotten legacy of the Jewish medicinal plant healers who thrived in Eastern... Read more

Ingrained

By: Callum Robinson

Narrated by: Callum Robinson

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONFor fans of H Is for Hawk and Shop Class as Soulcraft comes a captivating literary memoir, immersing readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest... Read more

Dark of the Moon

By: Sara Teasdale

Narrated by: Martha H. Weller

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark of the Moon was first published in 1926. Its 92 poems are divided into 9 sections: There Will be Stars; Pictures of Autumn; Sand Drift; Portraits; Midsummer Nights; The Crystal Gazer; Berkshire Notes; Arcturus in Autumn; and The Flight. Teasdale repeatedly expresses the joy, wonder and freedom she feels when she is immersed in nature. Yet... Read more

CABIN

By: Patrick Hutchison

Narrated by: Patrick Hutchison

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.

Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a rundown, off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick... Read more

A Duration

By: author

Narrated by: Richard Meier

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured and heal, that die and continue... Read more

Wiesengeflüster

By: Katja Ritter

Narrated by: Judith Zierfuß

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Phantasievolle Geschichten und zauberhafte Illustrationen lassen uns eintauchen in die Welt der Kräuter. Sie verführen uns, die Sehnsucht des Schachtelhalmes zu verstehen, die Liebe des Löwenzahnes zu teilen, oder den Schmerz der Brennnessel zu fühlen. In 11 kurzweiligen Erzählungen verraten bekannte Heilkräuter ihre ganz eigenen zum Teil... Read more

Plan B für das Klima

By: Gerd Ganteför

Narrated by: Thomas Höricht

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Es wird wärmer und die Ursache ist das Kohlendioxid aus der Verbrennung von Kohle, Gas und Öl. Ein globaler Umstieg auf erneuerbaren Energien ist aber weder technisch noch finanziell rechtzeitig zu schaffen. Wir brauchen einen Plan B um Zeit zu gewinnen. Eine Chance bieten die Ozeane und Landpflanzen, die jedes Jahr rund die Hälfte der CO2... Read more

Cómo funciona el mundo

By: Vaclav Smil

Narrated by: Carlos Canales

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro. «Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto, por favor, lee este libro».
Paul Collier Vaclav Smil lleva cincuenta años estudiando las posibilidades que tenemos a nuestro alcance para garantizar el futuro energético de... Read more

Without Exception

By: Pam Houston

Narrated by: Pam Houston

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights.



"A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book" —CAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden



Written with equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United... Read more

Terrible Beauty

By: Auden Schendler

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their... Read more