Nonfiction audiobooks

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

By: Mariame Kaba

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you... Read more

I Am Maria

By: Maria Shriver

Narrated by: Maria Shriver

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A book like no other, I Am Maria weaves Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry. I Am Maria reminds readers there is strength and love on the other side of all of our hardest days.

I Am Maria is a powerful collection of Maria Shriver’s own poems that grapple with identity, grief, love, loss, longing, heartbreak and... Read more

I Never Thought of It That Way

By: Mónica Guzmán

Narrated by: Mónica Guzmán

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions.

Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted—twice—for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool... Read more

Boat Baby

By: Vicky Nguyen

Narrated by: Vicky Nguyen

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.

Starting in 1975, Vietnam’s “boat people”—desperate families seeking freedom—fled the Communist government and... Read more

Before We Were Trans

By: Dr. Kit Heyam

Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"An unflinching and deeply absorbing memoir of grief and loss, expertly narrated by the author."—Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Crosley’s narration is frank and articulate, a perfect complement to the wit and candor of her prose."—BookPage

"Crosley's fresh imagery and pithy one-liners are delivered with perfect timing."—AudioFile

This program is... Read more

Why We're Polarized

By: Ezra Klein

Narrated by: Ezra Klein

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra... Read more

The Comfort of Crows

By: Margaret Renkl

Narrated by: Margaret Renkl

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE PERFECT AUDIOBOOK FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces... Read more

Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 35 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! 

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust... Read more

Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

Narrated by: Jill Duggar

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting. Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing the secrets, manipulation, and intimidation behind the show in this “no-holds barred” (People)... Read more

The Boys in the Boat

By: Daniel James Brown

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race.

For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about... Read more

The End of Everything

By: Katie Mack

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Katie Mack

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AN NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and THE GUARDIAN

From the cohost of the podcast The Universe with John Green and one of the most dynamic stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” (The New York... Read more

In Defense of Witches

By: Mona Chollet

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.

Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique... Read more

Hunt, Gather, Parent

By: Michaeleen Doucleff

Narrated by: Michaeleen Doucleff

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them?

“Hunt, Gather, Parent is full of smart ideas that I immediately wanted to force on my own kids.” —Pamela Druckerman, The New York Times Book Review

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother,... Read more

Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first... Read more

We Will Be Jaguars

By: Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson

Narrated by: Christine Ann-Roche

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM A FEARLESS, INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an Indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.

She... Read more

Yes Please

By: Amy Poehler

Narrated by: Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, Mike Schur & Kathle...

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

GRAMMY NOMINEEAudie Award, Humor, 2015Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you're invited! Welcome to the audiobook edition of Amy Poehler's Yes Please. The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy's parents - Yes Please is the ultimate... Read more

Cellar Rat

By: Hannah Selinger

Narrated by: Hannah Selinger

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when a career you love doesn’t love you back?

As Hannah Selinger will tell you, to be a good restaurant employee is to be invisible. At the height of her career as a server and then sommelier at some of New York’s most famed dining institutions, Selinger was the hand that folded your napkin while you were in the bathroom, the... Read more

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history.




Roxanne... Read more

The Memory Palace

By: Nate DiMeo

Narrated by: Nate DiMeo, Jad Abumrad, Daniel Alarcón, Betsy ...

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace.

“One doesn’t often find the words imagination and history in the same sentence. Nate DiMeo has forever woven them together. The Memory Palace wants you to linger, to stay awhile, and... Read more

Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S. C. Gwynne

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*

This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

Why We Sleep

By: Matthew Walker

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.” —Bill Gates

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) is a fascinating dive into the purpose and... Read more

Saving Time

By: Jenny Odell

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire

“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more