Nonfiction audiobooks

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

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

Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame

By: Patricia DeYoung

Narrated by: Vicki-Jo Eva

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful synthesis of relational and attachment theory, neurobiology, and contemporary psychoanalysis, Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma has been internationally recognized as an essential text on shame. Integrating new theory about trauma, shame resilience, and self-compassion, this second... Read more

Seduction

By: Karina Longworth

Narrated by: Karina Longworth

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power and publicity trapped, abused, or benefitted women who dreamt of... Read more

The 272

By: Rachel L. Swarns

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice... Read more

The Pope at War

By: David I. Kertzer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The most important book ever written about the Catholic Church and its conduct during World War II.”—Daniel Silva

“Kertzer brings all of his usual detective and narrative skills to [The Pope at War] . . . the most comprehensive account of the Vatican’s relations to the Nazi and fascist regimes before and during the... Read more

Cruising Utopia

By: José Esteban Muñoz

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.

Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz... Read more

The Fifties

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 34 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick... Read more

Seabiscuit

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more

Finding Your Third Place

By: Richard Kyte, PhD

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a Third Place? Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize. As more of our lives are spent online and in digital spaces, these often overlooked "Third Places" play a crucial role in keeping our communities vibrant. In a timely and thoughtful examination, Richard Kyte, PhD,... Read more

Smile at Fear

By: Pema Chödrön & Carolyn Rose Gimian

Narrated by: Pema Chödrön

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

We all have fears, but when we look closely at them, we discover that behind each fear resides a basic fear of ourselves. We’re afraid to look at our habitual styles of thinking and behaving because we might not always like what we see. Ironically it is this fear of honest self-reflection that keeps us trapped in patterns of stress and... Read more

What Every BODY is Saying

By: Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to ""speed-read"" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you.... Read more

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have... Read more

Mondrian

By: Nicholas Fox Weber

Narrated by: Patty Nieman

Length: 25 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber

"As fastidiously passionate as his subject's paintings. How wonderful it... Read more

Supremacy

By: Parmy Olson

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, who now... Read more

Means of Control

By: Byron Tau

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.

“A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the... Read more

Polyamory

By: Martha Kauppi

Narrated by: Kim Niemi

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Your favorite long-term client tells you they want to open up their relationship. Are you ready to help them?



This groundbreaking guide to consensual nonmonogamy offers a listening experience that feels like consulting with a trusted advisor. Martha Kauppi equips you with the skills to be a true ally to clients who want to explore polyamory.... Read more

How to Survive a Plague

By: David France

Narrated by: Rory O'Malley

Length: 24 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book

The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic—from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague.

A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the grassroots movement of activists, many of them in a life-or-death struggle, who seized upon scientific... Read more

All the Worst Humans

By: Phil Elwood

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is ready by Audie Award–winning narrator Holter Graham.

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media—from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain.

After nearly two... Read more

Life After Power

By: Jared Cohen

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States.

Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III believed that George Washington’s departure after two terms made him “the greatest character... Read more