Nonfiction audiobooks

The Hawk and the Dove

By: Nicholas Thompson

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and surviving—that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War's most frightening moments, and fought epic... Read more

Oneida

By: Ellen Wayland-Smith

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery... Read more

Tamed and Untamed

By: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery & Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Extraordinary new insights into the minds and lives of our fellow creatures from two of the world’s top animal authors, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and Sy Montgomery. A Mail on Sunday “Critic's Pick” Best Read of the Year "In their writing and in their lives and in their remarkable friendship, Liz and Sy break down false barriers and carry us... Read more

Life After Capitalism

By: George Gilder

Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For over two-hundred years, capitalist systems have overtaken the global economy, spreading near-universal growth and opening the floodgates for limitless human potential.



Yet something is going terribly wrong in the world economy.



Creativity and faith in the future have been traded for a slippery slope of cautionary paranoia, popular despair, and... Read more

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed then too controversial to publish), Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He... Read more

Stronger After Stroke, Third Edition

By: Peter G. Levine

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in its third edition, Stronger After Stroke gives the power of recovery to the listeners by providing simple-to-follow instructions for reaching the highest possible level of recovery. The book's neuroplastic recovery model stresses repetition of task-specific practice, proper scheduling of practice, setting goals, and measuring progress to... Read more

The Vanishing Velázquez

By: Laura Cumming

Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016

“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it.

When John... Read more

Robert Redford

By: Michael Feeney Callan

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-anticipated biography of Robert Redford.

Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the... Read more

Four Points of the Compass

By: Jerry Brotton

Narrated by: Liam Garrigan

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia.

North, south, east, and west: almost all societies use these four cardinal directions to orientate themselves and to understand who... Read more

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

By: Sri Swami Satchidananda

Narrated by: M.A. Jayashree & Indunil Peiris

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Swami Satchidananda's popular translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali now in unabridged audiobook form, with additional features and bonus tracks included in this 9-1/2 hour program. Each sutra chanted in Sanskrit by Dr. M. A. Jayashree, renowned for her flawless pronunciation and classical articulation of the Sanskrit, which... Read more

The Great Transformation

By: Odd Arne Westad & Chen Jian

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORYOdd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These... Read more

The Iron Cage

By: Rashid Khalidi

Narrated by: Shawn K. Jain

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the ground today, a context that has been, until now, notably lacking in our... Read more

The Unshaming Way

By: David Bedrick

Narrated by: A'rese Emokpae

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this astute work, David Bedrick provides a deep investigation of shame, the most debilitating of our mind states, and offers a workable, practice-based, and accessible path to divesting ourselves from it.”
—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

An empowering, stigma-free approach to dismantling... Read more

Peggy and Me

By: Miranda Hart

Narrated by: Miranda Hart

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The hilarious and heartwarming account of Miranda and her life changing dog, the inimitable and most lovable Peggy.

Hello dear audiobook browser and welcome to Peggy and Me. The story of my life since getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy.

Some of you may be thinking: ... Read more

From the Moment They Met It Was Murder

By: Alain Silver & James Ursini

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary.
 
From real crime to serial to novel to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is... Read more

Dangerous Games

By: Joseph P. Laycock

Narrated by: Roman Howell

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

The Enneagram Letters

By: Sarajane Case

Narrated by: Sarajane Case

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Through her poetry and personal essays, Enneagram expert Sarajane Case encourages her readers to embrace all nine personality types within themselves in The Enneagram Letters.

From the writer of the popular self-help book The Honest Enneagram comes a deeper dive into all nine types of the enneagram personality structure and what they can teach us... Read more

One Fair Wage

By: Saru Jayaraman

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the country, more than six million people earned their living as tipped workers in the service industry. They served us in cafes and restaurants, they delivered food to our homes, they drove us wherever we wanted to go, and they worked in nail salons for as little as $2.13 an hour—the federal tipped... Read more

The Genius of Jesus

By: Erwin Raphael McManus

Narrated by: Erwin Raphael McManus

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking manifesto decoding the phenomenon of genius through the life of Jesus of Nazareth, revealing the untapped potential within every human being—from the bestselling author of The Artisan Soul, The Last Arrow, and The Way of the Warrior.

“IF ALL GENIUS IS TOUCHED BY MADNESS, THEN IT IS ALSO TOUCHED BY THE DIVINE.”

In every realm of... Read more

Total Reset

By: Greg Campbell, Lulu & The Goolarabooloo Family

Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith

Length: 36 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991 the author met Lulu, a widely respected Aboriginal elder and powerful maban (shaman) in the remote Kimberley region of Australia. He asked Greg to work with him and the Goolarabooloo people to write one book. Its purpose: enable people to view reality through the lens of original knowledge and apply it for the well-being of one another... Read more

Do Your Best

By: Bear Grylls

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential handbook for the scout in all of us -- by BEAR GRYLLS OBE, Chief Ambassador of World Scouting

What more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers from pitching a tent, leading a team, how to keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, identify... Read more

Spiderweb Capitalism

By: Kimberly Kay Hoang

Narrated by: Kathleen Li

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy, uncovering the mechanics behind the invisible, mundane networks of lawyers, accountants,... Read more

The Gilded Page

By: Mary Wellesley

Narrated by: Mary Wellesley

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII.Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status—part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because... Read more