Nonfiction audiobooks

Except for Palestine

By: Mitchell Plitnick & Marc Lamont Hill

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism on both Israel and the United States. Except for Palestine deftly... Read more

Good for a Girl

By: Lauren Fleshman

Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

* A New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award
* A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female... Read more

Witchcraft

By: Marion Gibson

Narrated by: Rose Akroyd

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller
A New Yorker Best Book of 2024

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.

This “inventive and... Read more

On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more

In Pieces

By: Sally Field

Narrated by: Sally Field

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting memoir, an American icon tells her story of a challenging childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful legacy that shaped her journey as a daughter and a mother.

One of the most celebrated and beloved actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than five... Read more

The Indifferent Stars Above

By: Daniel James Brown

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves,... Read more

Madame Restell

By: Jennifer Wright

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history—Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic, yet tragically overlooked, feminist heroine: a... Read more

Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw

By: Eddie Ndopu

Narrated by: Eddie Ndopu

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir penned with one good finger, Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful
 
Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn’t live beyond age five and yet, Ndopu thrived. He grew up loving pop... Read more

She Come By It Natural

By: Sarah Smarsh

Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People).

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular... Read more

Wandering in Strange Lands

By: Morgan Jerkins

Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more

What the Chicken Knows

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from Sy Montgomery, “one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world” (The New York Times).

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of... Read more

Stories I Might Regret Telling You

By: Martha Wainwright

Narrated by: Martha Wainwright

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more. Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed and genre-defying singer Rufus Wainwright,... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

By: Leah Price

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more

The Six

By: Loren Grush

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures

In this account of America’s first women astronauts “Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation’s desire to conquer space, but... Read more

Butts

By: Heather Radke

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” —The Washington Post

“Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” —Esquire, Best Books of 2022

A “carefully researched... Read more

Bitch

By: Lucy Cooke

Narrated by: Lucy Cooke

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom  Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser.  Since Charles... Read more

Off the Edge

By: Kelly Weill

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age. Beautiful, probing, and often empathetic . . . An insightful, human look at what fuels... Read more

All In

By: Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard & Maryanne Vo...

Narrated by: Billie Jean King

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.

In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career--six years as... Read more

Weird but Normal

By: Mia Mercado

Narrated by: Mia Mercado

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal.Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo. Whether it’s spending $30 on a... Read more

She Came to Slay

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history—Harriet Tubman—a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonate today.

Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading... Read more

JELL-O Girls

By: Allie Rowbottom

Narrated by: Allie Rowbottom

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A "gorgeous" (New York Times) memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its facade - told by the inheritor of their stories.

In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn... Read more

A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased... Read more

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)

By: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy

Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy...

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and... Read more

The Hilarious World of Depression

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Inspired by his podcast of the same name, this combination memoir and informational text is narrated by its author with sincere emotional investment and subtle humor." -- AudioFile Magazine

A moving portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression

"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are... Read more