Nonfiction audiobooks

The Lost Tomb

By: Douglas Preston

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents jaw-dropping true stories of Egyptian burial chambers, prehistoric ruins, pirate treasure, bizarre crimes, and more… 

What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found... Read more

Aftermath

By: Harald Jähner

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of the ashes of defeat and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.
 
The years... Read more

The World

By: Richard Haass

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller

“A clear and concise account of the history, diplomacy, economics, and societal forces that have molded the modern global system.” —Foreign Affairs

An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many... Read more

Becoming Nicole

By: Amy Ellis Nutt

Narrated by: Amy Ellis Nutt

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.

Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl

When Wayne... Read more

We Are What We Eat

By: Alice Waters

Narrated by: Alice Waters

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the... Read more

The Best and the Brightest

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 37 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.

"A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times

Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons... Read more

My Black Country

By: Alice Randall

Narrated by: Alice Randall

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music.

Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history:... Read more

Eyeliner

By: Zahra Hankir

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick

“Cosmetic, tool of rebellion, status signifier: Eyeliner has been all these and more. Moving through millenniums and across civilizations, Hankir gives the makeup its eye-opening due.” —The New York Times Book Review

“An impressive, rigorously researched, winding path through centuries and over... Read more

Muppets in Moscow

By: Natasha Lance Rogoff

Narrated by: Emily Lahey Shoov

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the timing appeared perfect to bring Sesame Street to millions of children living in the former Soviet Union. With the Muppets envisioned as ideal ambassadors of Western values, no one anticipated just how challenging and dangerous this would prove to be.In Muppets in Moscow: The... Read more

Wanting

By: Luke Burgis

Narrated by: Luke Burgis & Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.

Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there’s a psychological force just as powerful—yet almost nobody has heard of it. It’s responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart,... Read more

Scar Tissue

By: Anthony Kiedis

Narrated by: Rider Strong

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest... Read more

On Democracy

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.”These words were written by E. B. White in 1947.Decades before our current political turmoil, White crafted eloquent yet practical political statements that continue to resonate. “There’s only one kind of press that’s any good—” he proclaimed, “a press free from any taint of the... Read more

Read & Riot

By: Nadya Tolokonnikova

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance.The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist,... Read more

Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

Narrated by: M.T.A

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether Gaza has been a victim of decades of political shortcomings or whether its innocence has been distorted by propaganda and malicious political manipulations. In this detailed analysis, Norman G. Finkelstein uncovers the hardships endured by Palestinians, reveals the insincerity of... Read more

The Teacher Wars

By: Dana Goldstein

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools.

“[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review

In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of... Read more

Make Your Own Rules

By: Andrew Huang

Narrated by: Andrew Huang

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY Bestseller

YouTube sensation Andrew Huang offers practical tips and hard-won advice for creatives seeking financial stability while staying authentic.

How does a musician with acute hearing loss, a refusal to perform live, and no industry connections carve a path to millions of followers and lucrative royalty checks? In Make Your Own... Read more

Ladies Who Punch

By: Ramin Setoodeh

Narrated by: Ramin Setoodeh

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star... Read more

Start with Why

By: Simon Sinek

Narrated by: Simon Sinek

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY

Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand... Read more

Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By: Ilan Pappe

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 21 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Revealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US, and others



In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?



Ilan Pappe unveils how a lobby changed the map of the Middle East. Zionists exerted pressure on the Congress, cracked... Read more

Great Falls, MT

By: Reggie Watts

Narrated by: Reggie Watts

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America’s heartland—and having a blast doing it.

Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who’s seen his multifaceted, entirely improvised comedy and music shows knows that.... Read more

Into the Raging Sea

By: Rachel Slade

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.”
—Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of FacebookOn October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole,... Read more

Deep Work

By: Cal Newport

Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, learn to master one of our economy’s rarest skills–the ability to focus–and achieve groundbreaking results.

Deep work is the power to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time–a superpower in... Read more

All Things Are Too Small

By: Becca Rothfeld

Narrated by: Ruth Crawford

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more

Revolutionary Suicide

By: Huey P. Newton

Narrated by: C.T. Hayes & Fredrika Newton

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton

Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and... Read more