Nonfiction audiobooks

No One Cares About Crazy People

By: Ron Powers

Narrated by: Ron Powers

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author Ron Powers offers a searching, richly researched narrative of the social history of mental illness in America paired with the deeply personal story of his two sons' battles with schizophrenia.

From the centuries of torture of "lunatiks" at Bedlam Asylum to the infamous eugenics era to the follies of the... Read more

Irena's Children

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot comes an extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler—the “female Oskar Schindler”—who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.

In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to... Read more

Ghettoside

By: Jill Leovy

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read more

Dreamer

By: Nazem Kadri

Narrated by: Nazem Kadri

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s  first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem... Read more

Book and Dagger

By: Elyse Graham

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the... Read more

Eden Undone

By: Abbott Kahler

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible true story of murder, romance, and a fateful search for utopia in the Galápagos—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ghosts of Eden Park

“Abbott Kahler’s wickedly gothic tale confronts an essential truth about those who ditch civilization: Try as we might, humans cannot elude the tyranny of our own nature.”—Hampton... Read more

Why We Love Football

By: Joe Posnanski

Narrated by: Joe Posnanski

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A Kirkus Reviews Most Anticipated Book of the Fall

A moving celebration of the history of American football from the New York Times bestselling author of Why We Love Baseball

After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one... Read more

Merkel's Law

By: Melissa Eddy

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Notorious RBG, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on more than a decade’s worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel from New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy.

Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new... Read more

Mississippi Swindle

By: Shad White

Narrated by: Eric Burgher

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

How America’s youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history of the nation’s poorest state

“A must read” with all the thrills of a John Grisham novel — for fans of shocking true crime exposés like Black Edge and Bad Blood (Peter Schweizer, author of Secret Empires)

This riveting exposé details how a small... Read more

1974

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Francine Prose

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of irony—give rigor and, finally, an unexpected poignancy to an emotional, artistic, and political coming-of-age tale set in the 1970s—the decade, as she... Read more

I've Tried Being Nice

By: Ann Leary

Narrated by: Ann Leary

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.

Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home... Read more

Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

Narrated by: J. Dana Trent

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more

Unlearning Silence

By: Elaine Lin Hering

Narrated by: Elaine Lin Hering

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Unlearning Silence is the book I wish I had when I started my career….This book is going to change the workplace for the better."—Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist & best-selling author of Real Self-Care

“A necessary read…Unlearning Silence offers an opportunity and tools to change things within and around us – for... Read more

Selling the Dream

By: Jane Marie

Narrated by: Jane Marie

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they, and countless other... Read more

Infectious Generosity

By: Chris Anderson

Narrated by: Chris Anderson

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you want to help create a more equitable world but don’t know where to start, Infectious Generosity is for you.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes 

The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future

Let’s face it:... Read more

Sex with a Brain Injury

By: Annie Liontas

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Meghan O’Rourke’s The Invisible Kingdom, Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected Schizophrenias, and Melissa Febos’s Girlhood, a powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays that sheds light on the silent epidemic of head trauma.

Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about... Read more

MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)

By: Steven Rinella & Clay Newcomb

Narrated by: Steven Rinella & Clay Newcomb

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters.

Steven Rinella (The MeatEater Podcast) and Clay Newcomb (MeatEater's Bear Grease... Read more

Gator Country

By: Rebecca Renner

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus conversation between the author and Officer Jeff Babauta (who led the undercover investigation known as Operation Alligator Thief) and an introduction read by the author.

"John Pirhalla offers a first-rate narration. His facility with accents gives atmosphere to this true-crime work. He varies his tone, pitch, and... Read more

Behind the Seams

By: Dolly Parton

Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE • A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time,... Read more

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn

By: Will Harris

Narrated by: Will Harris

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." —Ruth Reichl

From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate

Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited... Read more

Exit Interview

By: Kristi Coulter

Narrated by: Kristi Coulter

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.

"A unique and brilliant book." —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth?... Read more

Strip Tees

By: Kate Flannery

Narrated by: Kate Flannery

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

“Compelling and brave, Kate’s story is a must read for all young women learning how to navigate adulthood and identity.” —Lili Reinhart, New York Times bestselling author

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent college graduate and what happens when her... Read more

First to the Front

By: Lorissa Rinehart

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The first authoritative biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents.

"I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power."

From the beginning of World War... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more