Nonfiction audiobooks

Cradle to Cradle

By: Michael Braungart & William McDonough

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much... Read more

iGen

By: Jean M. Twenge

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“We’ve all been desperate to learn what heavy use of social media does to adolescents. Now, thanks to Twenge’s careful analysis, we know: It is making them lonely, anxious, and fragile—especially our girls. If you are a parent, teacher, or employer, you must read this fascinating book.”—Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

Born after... Read more

Islam

By: Karen Armstrong

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong presents a concise and articulate history of Islam, the world's fastest-growing faith. Beginning with the Prophet Muhammad's flight from Medina and concluding with an examination of modern Islamic practices and concerns, Armstrong delivers an unbiased overview. She contends that... Read more

The Power of Your Dreams

By: Stephanie Ike Okafor

Narrated by: Stephanie Ike Okafor

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How would your life look if you gained years of wisdom, guidance, and strategy while you were asleep? That’s exactly what you receive when you tap into the power of God’s voice in your dreams!

“The Power of Your Dreams isn’t just words on a page; it’s a tool every believer needs to receive personal instruction for their... Read more

How to Win an Information War

By: Peter Pomerantsev

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won?

In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea.... Read more

Flush

By: Bryn Nelson

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Bill Bryson’s The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson.

The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we’ve been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our... Read more

Food for Life

By: Tim Spector

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. In his new book, Tim Spector creates a unique, thorough, evidence-based guide to the real science of eating. Moving away from misleading notions of calories or nutritional breakdowns, Food for Life empowers us to... Read more

The Cottage Fairy Companion

By: Paola Merrill

Narrated by: Paola Merrill

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A Cottagecore Inspired Guide For Mindful Living Anywhere#1 Best Seller in Small Homes & Cottages, Folkcrafts, Architectural Decoration and Ornaments, Fiber Arts & Textiles, Seasonal Crafts, Architecture, Home Design Decorating & DesignThe Cottage Fairy Companion is your accessible and beautiful guide to mindful living. It teaches the... Read more

Key to the City

By: Sara C. Bronin

Narrated by: Rachel Perry

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact—and its potential for good. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of... Read more

I Did a New Thing

By: Tabitha Brown

Narrated by: Tabitha Brown

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“America’s Mom” Tabitha Brown presents an inspirational guide for encouraging positive changes in your life—one day and one challenge at a time.I did a new thing today!Years ago, Tabitha Brown started a 30-day personal challenge that she called “I Did a New Thing!” The challenge was simple. Every day she would do... Read more

Fowl Play

By: Sally Coulthard

Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sally Coulthard tells the fascinating – and sometimes shocking – story of the domestic chicken.
The chicken can fly only a few metres but – somehow – this unlikely evolutionary descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex has conquered the world. Earth is now home to more than twenty billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every... Read more

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

""A masterpiece of women’s wisdom.""—Christiane Northrup, M.D. ""The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story.""—Publishers WeeklyIn celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author’s classic work of... Read more

To Start a War

By: Robert Draper

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020

“The detailed, nuanced, gripping account of that strange and complex journey offered in Robert Draper’s To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq is essential reading—now, especially now . . . Draper’s account [is] one for the ages . . . A must-read for all who care about presidential... Read more

Fordlandia

By: Greg Grandin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford's failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia. "Fordlandia is . a genuinely readable history recounted with a novelist's sense of pace and an eye for character. It is a... Read more

Every Living Thing

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Christopher Timothy

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.

Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more

Birth Control

By: Allison Yarrow

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Birth Control, award-winning journalist Allison Yarrow reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals.



Ever since doctors stole control of birth from midwives in the... Read more

Unapologetically ADHD

By: Pete D. Wright & Nikki Kinzer

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray & Sara Van Beckum

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Step-by-step yet flexible blueprint to plan long term goals, projects, and tasks when living with ADHD



Written by Nikki Kinzer and Pete D. Wright, cohosts of the hit podcast Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast with more than one million annual downloads, Unapologetically ADHD helps listeners plan for long term goals, projects, and tasks that need to... Read more

Woodrow Wilson

By: Christopher Cox

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely reassessment of Woodrow Wilson and his role in the long national struggle for racial equality and women’s voting rights.

More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn reassesses his life and his role in the movements for racial equality... Read more

Rethinking Diabetes

By: Gary Taubes

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening investigation into the history of diabetes research and treatment by the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Why We Get Fat • "[Gary] Taubes’s meticulous, science-based work makes him the Bryan Stevenson of nutrition, an early voice in the wilderness for an unorthodox view that is increasingly becoming... Read more

The Bottom Line for Baby

By: Tina Payne Bryson

Narrated by: Tina Payne Bryson

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Apply the best science to all your parenting decisions with this essential A–Z guide for your biggest questions and concerns from the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline

Every baby- and toddler-care decision sends parents scrambling to do the right thing, and often down into the rabbit hole of... Read more

Break It Up

By: Richard Kreitner

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).

The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have... Read more

Power

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Pfeffer [blends] academic rigor and practical genius into wonderfully readable text. The leading thinker on the topic of power, Pfeffer here distills his wisdom into an indispensable guide.” —Jim Collins, author of New York Times bestselling author Good to Great and How the Mighty FallSome people have it, and others don’t. Jeffrey Pfeffer... Read more

On Death and Dying - Abridged

By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Narrated by: Carol Bilger

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The world-famous bestseller that brought new insight, hope and understanding to millions now available on CD!

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study, nor is it a "how-to" manual for managing death. Rather, it refocuses on... Read more

A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II.



Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular... Read more