Nonfiction audiobooks

Wicked Beyond Belief

By: Michael Bilton

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 21 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major TV series ‘A masterpiece that reads like a thriller’ Time Out A gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history. It is over 40 years since Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking 7 more. Still, he remains a killer of almost mythical... Read more

Butterfly

By: Yusra Mardini

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Butterfly is an inspiring audiobook about how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning—and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer.

When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation: she dove into the water. Surfacing, she... Read more

The How of Happiness - Abridged

By: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Narrated by: Sonja Lyubomirsky

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You can change your personal capacity for happiness. Research psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's pioneering concept of the 40% solution shows you how. Read more

The Republic of Pirates

By: Colin Woodard

Narrated by: Lewis Grenville

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, “Black Sam” Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates—former... Read more

Being Henry

By: Henry Winkler

Narrated by: Henry Winkler

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Kindhearted and approachable Winkler shines in his narration of his memoir commemorating 50 years of showbiz work...An engaging and endearing memoir by a genuine Hollywood treasure whose work spans generations."—Library Journal

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry... Read more

Strong Passions

By: Barbara Weisberg

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton's "old New York," recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by... Read more

Wear It Well

By: Allison Bornstein

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Personal stylist Allison Bornstein has mastered the art of helping people look good and feel good. In Wear It Well, she shares her philosophy and outlines systems that will bring your style into alignment and create a wardrobe that delights your spirit.



Wear It Well will inspire you to identify, articulate, and develop your personal style, and... Read more

The Almost Nearly Perfect People

By: Michael Booth

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover... Read more

The Anxiety Audit

By: Lynn Lyons, LICSW

Narrated by: Lynn Lyons

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask people to describe anxiety and they'll start with the familiar symptoms: racing heart, sweaty palms, difficulty breathing. Anxiety, they might add, is "freaking out," a panic attack, or a frightening loss of control. But anxiety isn't always what we think it is, especially now. Anxiety has become the new normal, constant and simmering,... Read more

Write for Life

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program

Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, first broke open the conversation around art.

Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart: the art and practice of writing.

Over the course of six weeks, Cameron carefully guides... Read more

Blues People

By: LeRoi Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this... Read more

That Librarian

By: Amanda Jones

Narrated by: Amanda Jones

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more

Local

By: Jessica Machado

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.Born and raised in Hawai‘i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land and a mother from the American South, Jessica Machado wrestles with what it means to be “local.” Feeling separate from the history and tenets of... Read more

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

By: Lerone A. Martin

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nation.



Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under J. Edgar Hoover's leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI... Read more

About Time

By: David Rooney

Narrated by: David Rooney

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks: city sundials in ancient Rome, medieval water clocks in imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS... Read more

Birth Without Fear

By: January Harshe

Narrated by: January Harshe & Cynthia Barrett

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life that puts mothersfirst, offering straightforward guidance on all the options and issues that matter most to them (and their partners) when preparing for a baby.

In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe--founder of the global online community Birth... Read more

Why Am I Like This?

By: Kobe Campbell

Narrated by: Kobe Campbell

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Why does our past pain continue to affect our present?Though many of us can point to patterns of brokenness in our lives, we don’t know why they're there. No matter how hard we work, we can’t seem to outrun the very things that break our hearts. That's because our everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds.In Why... Read more

A Furious Sky

By: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of... Read more

Left of Bang

By: Patrick Van Horne & Jason A. Riley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave.

You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger and something stops you.

You interview a potential new employee who has the résumé to do the job, but something tells you not to offer the position.

These scenarios all represent "left of bang," the moments before... Read more

Bones Would Rain from the Sky

By: Suzanne Clothier

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bones Would Rain from the Sky, Suzanne Clothier takes a radical new direction in understanding our life with dogs . . . and our mutual love. Drawing on a lifetime of experience with dogs, this nationally renowned dog trainer brings us astonishing new lessons about our animals—and ourselves.



Gently, with intelligence, humor, and unfailing... Read more

Any Person is the Only Self

By: Elisa Gabbert

Narrated by: Elisa Gabbert

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or with friends? Right now or in memory? How does time transform us and the art we love?
In sixteen dazzling, expansive essays, the acclaimed essayist and... Read more

Resistance

By: Halik Kochanski

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 46 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental history that finally integrates the many resistance movements against Nazi hegemony across Europe into a single, sweeping narrative.



It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

There Are No Children Here

By: Alex Kotlowitz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This national bestseller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang... Read more