Nonfiction audiobooks

The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

Narrated by: Margaret Strom

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research— the distant laboratories of Barbados, the bowerbird habitats of Australia, and the ravaged mid-Atlantic coast after Hurricane... Read more

The Wright Brothers

By: David McCullough

Narrated by: David McCullough

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly—Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers—bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio—changed history.... Read more

Party of One

By: Meghan Keane

Narrated by: Meghan Keane

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A WARM, WITTY, AND AFFIRMING GUIDE TO LEARNING HOW TO GET TO KNOW AND LOVE YOURSELF, BECOMING YOUR OWN SOULMATE, AND LIVING A FULFILLING LIFE WHETHER YOU PARTNER OR NOT, FROM THE CREATOR OF NPR’S LIFE KIT.Meghan Keane spent most of her adult life without being in a serious, long-term relationship, and for much of that time, being single wasn’t... Read more

Why We Read

By: Shannon Reed

Narrated by: Paige McKinney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist

We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more

The Address Book

By: Deirdre Mask

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary debut in the tradition of classic works from authors such as Mark Kurlansky, Mary Roach, and Rose George.An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity.When most people think about street addresses, if they think... Read more

Everything is F*cked

By: Mark Manson

Narrated by: Mark Manson

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller“Just because everything appears to be a mess doesn’t mean you have to be one. Mark Manson’s book is a call to arms for a better life and better world and could not be more needed right now.” — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the EnemyFrom the author of the international... Read more

Bourdain

By: Laurie Woolever

Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Christopher Bourdain, José And...

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best.When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives... Read more

Staying with the Trouble

By: Donna J. Haraway

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and... Read more

Celebrating Birds

By: Natalia Rojas & Ana Maria Martinez

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Timothy Andrés Pabon & Laura...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, featuring recorded vocalizations of each, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.

Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate portrayal of bird habitats, and its gameplay, the bird-focused board game Wingspan has become an international... Read more

Essentialism

By: Greg McKeown

Narrated by: Greg McKeown

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE LIFE-CHANGING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD

“Essentialism holds the keys to solving one of the great puzzles of life: How can we do less but accomplish more?”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again

Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.

Have... Read more

Your Face Belongs to Us

By: Kashmir Hill

Narrated by: Kashmir Hill

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it

“The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new... Read more

Revolutionary Spring

By: Christopher Clark

Narrated by: Christopher Clark

Length: 33 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward, with deep resonance and frightening parallels to today.

As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions... Read more

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful

By: Jack Lowery

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.

In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out... Read more

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

Narrated by: Charli Burrow

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"A beautifully written and argued book." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby



There is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite... Read more

We Refuse

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

Narrated by: Kellie Carter Jackson

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression,... Read more

The Hammer

By: Hamilton Nolan

Narrated by: Hamilton Nolan

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan.
 
Inequality is America’s biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits... Read more

Crashed

By: Adam Tooze

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Adam Tooze

Length: 25 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European... Read more

Who Moved My Cheese?

By: Spencer Johnson

Narrated by: Tony Roberts & Karen Ziemba

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!

A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.

It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze.
If the same old routines worked.
If they'd just stop... Read more

Miracle and Wonder

By: Malcolm Gladwell & Bruce Headlam

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam & Paul Simon

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A musical biography unlike any you’ve ever heard: Paul Simon in conversation with Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Headlam, discussing Simon’s greatest hits, artistic struggles, and what it means to move people through music, now with a new epilogue that finds Paul in Texas continuing to wrestle songs from the universe including for his latest album... Read more

How Do You Stop a Moving Train?

By: Lucy D. Hayes & Madeline J. Hayes

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered how astronauts float in space, or how your pizza gets from your plate to your mouth? Basic principles of physics, including learning about distance, displacement, speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, friction, gravity, and Newton’s laws of motion, are explored through informative and engaging text in this newest addition... Read more

The Social Climber

By: Amanda Pellegrino

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When you’re on top, you can get away with anything...

It’s the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza’s meticulous planning is about to pay off. She’s become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent, blue-blood Walker family – Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job, and a designer label wardrobe. 

But as the big day... Read more

Chaos

By: Tom O'Neill

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Hypnobirthing

By: Siobhan Miller

Narrated by: Siobhan Miller

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOUR BIRTH BETTER. IT IS FOR EVERY WOMAN AND EVERY TYPE OF BIRTH.

AS FEATURED ON DRAGONS' DEN.

'Siobhan manages to completely demystify hypnobirthing, making it accessible and relevant to all women and all births. This book will be a complete game changer and I will be recommending it to mums-to-be from now on' Sarah Turner,... Read more