Nonfiction audiobooks

Maps of Meaning

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

Length: 30 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning is now available for the first time as an audio download!

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? From the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to... Read more

Savings and Trust

By: Justene Hill Edwards

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for economic growth and self-determination. But only nine years after it opened, their trust was betrayed and the Freedman's Bank collapsed.



Fully... Read more

The House of War

By: Simon Mayall

Narrated by: Simon Mayall

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate written and read by Simon Mayall.

A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1,300 years of the Muslim caliphate.

From the taking of the holy city of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD by Caliph... Read more

Democracy in Retrograde

By: Sami Sage & Emily Amick

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to save our democracy but doesn’t know where to start.

In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated, doom scrolling, lacking a sense of purpose or community...it’s easy to become overwhelmed by... Read more

Will

By: Will Smith

Narrated by: Will Smith

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the... Read more

Cobalt Red

By: Siddharth Kara

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by the author.

An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.

Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the... Read more

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership

By: Marty Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz & Alexander Gra...

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context—whether in the private or the public sector—many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.



Ron Heifetz first defined this problem with his distinctive... Read more

Warriors Don't Cry

By: Melba Pattillo Beals

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard—opposition so intense that... Read more

Night Magic

By: Leigh Ann Henion

Narrated by: Leigh Ann Henion

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. 

In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh... Read more

First in the Family

By: Jessica Hoppe

Narrated by: Jessica Hoppe

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

“A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.” —Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing in Dreams

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today.com, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire, Publishers Weekly

In... Read more

End Times

By: Peter Turchin

Narrated by: Robin McAlpine

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But everyone needs to pay attention to the well-informed, convincing and terrifying analysis in this book.” —Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary... Read more

The Deadline

By: Jill Lepore

Narrated by: Jill Lepore

Length: 22 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A book to be listened to and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best. Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary... Read more

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

By: Scott J. Shapiro

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.

It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know... Read more

Truth and Repair

By: Judith Lewis Herman

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors
 
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of... Read more

The Way of the Rose

By: Clark Strand & Perdita Finn

Narrated by: Clark Strand, Perdita Finn & Sophie Strand

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when a former Zen Buddhist monk and his feminist wife experience an apparition of the Virgin Mary?

“This book could not have come at a more auspicious time, and the message is mystical perfection, not to mention a courageous one. I adore this book.”—Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit

Before a vision of a mysterious “Lady”... Read more

Roctogenarians

By: Mo Rocca & Jonathan Greenberg

Narrated by: Mo Rocca

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.

Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been late-in-life achievers, those... Read more

Aware

By: Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel, MD

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller · This groundbreaking book from New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., introduces readers to his pioneering, science-based meditation practice.

Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's... Read more

A Brief History of Black Holes

By: Dr Becky Smethurst

Narrated by: Dr Becky Smethurst

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio edition is narrated with dazzling enthusiasm by the author, Dr Becky Smethurst.

Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.

The Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole, the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.

In A Brief History of Black Holes, the award-winning... Read more

Ageless Aging

By: Maddy Dychtwald & Kate Hanley

Narrated by: Rebecca Stern

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

We are in the midst of a longevity revolution. And that’s particularly true for women: -Women can expect to live five years longer than men. -A 50-year-old woman can expect to live another 35 years, on average. -Women comprise 80% of centenarians, now the fastest growing segment of the world’s population. But despite these incredible statistics... Read more

From Here to Equality

By: William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major... Read more

The Open Society and Its Enemies

By: Karl Popper

Narrated by: Liam Gerrard

Length: 23 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New... Read more

The Patriarchs

By: Angela Saini

Narrated by: Sohm Kapila

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat it

For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past... Read more

Grunt

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Abby Elvidge

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.... Read more

From Cradle to Stage

By: Virginia Grohl

Narrated by: Virginia Grohl

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl—former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters—From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships

While the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together... Read more