Nonfiction audiobooks

Design-Driven Growth

By: Molly Norris Walker

Narrated by: Susan Marlowe

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Here’s the cold, hard truth: ideas are cheap. Product follow-through is where the money is spent and made. That’s where heroes are forged, and excellent product design sparks what eventually becomes major growth. Today, products need to grow their user bases… from scratch, again and again. This book is a guide to the vital work of shaping a... Read more

Lucy

By: Donald C. Johanson & Maitland Edey

Narrated by: Donald C. Johanson

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues today. Bursting with all the suspense and... Read more

Rousseau and Revolution

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 57 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning volume on European civilization by acclaimed historians Will and Ariel DurantRousseau and Revolution, the tenth volume of the Story of Civilization, ranges over a Europe in ferment, but centers on the passionate rebel—philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great exponent of the romantic impulse toward self-exploration... Read more

The Age of Voltaire

By: Will Durant & Ariel Durant

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 42 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Age of Voltaire, the ninth volume of the Story of Civilization, is an in-depth examination of France and England in the first half of the eighteenth century. In this masterful work, listeners will encounter the English ideas that inspired the Enlightenment in France—skepticism, scientific experiment, constitutional government, "natural... Read more

Generations

By: Jean M. Twenge

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean... Read more

Holidays on Ice

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read more

Underland

By: Robert Macfarlane

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.



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Likeable Badass

By: Alison Fragale, PhD

Narrated by: Alison Fragale, PhD

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure that elusive corner office.

Over decades of research, speaking engagements, and mentorship, psychologist and professor Alison Fragale encountered recurring questions... Read more

The Day the World Came to Town

By: Jim DeFede

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded... Read more

Somehow

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love

“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is... Read more

If You Can't Take the Heat

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

Narrated by: Geraldine DeRuiter

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism.

“With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with ourselves.”—Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author... Read more

Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

Narrated by: Judith Butler

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Time, Elle, Kirkus, Literary Hub, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them.

"A profoundly urgent intervention.” —Naomi Klein

"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in re-imagining collective futurity.” —Claudia Rankine

From a global icon, a bold, essential... Read more

Memorial Drive

By: Natasha Trethewey

Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter... Read more

Abortion

By: Jessica Valenti

Narrated by: Jessica Valenti

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, “one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation” (Washington Post) takes on what’s become the country’s most resonant political issue.
 
In her most urgent book yet, New York Times bestselling author Jessica Valenti shines a light on the... Read more

A Carnival of Snackery

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris & Tracey Ullman

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the Audie Award in Humor

There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it.
 
If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight... Read more

We Were Dreamers

By: Simu Liu

Narrated by: Simu Liu

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu... Read more

Palo Alto

By: Malcolm Harris

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its... Read more

Talking as Fast as I Can

By: Lauren Graham

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.

In Talking as Fast as... Read more

The Book of Joy

By: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams

Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams, Francois Chau & Peter F...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
 
The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The... Read more

Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Susan Cain

Narrated by: Susan Cain

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the... Read more

I Take My Coffee Black

By: Tyler Merritt

Narrated by: Jimmy Kimmel, Tyler Merritt, James Iglehart, Je...

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a black man in America with truth, humor, and poignancy. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has... Read more

Redefining Realness

By: Janet Mock

Narrated by: Janet Mock

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population. Though undoubtedly an account of one woman’s... Read more

Malcolm Gladwell Box Set

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Author

Length: 23 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time all three of Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling, groundbreaking audiobooks are available together in an "instant classic" box set at a value-price.

THE TIPPING POINT: The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can... Read more