Social Science audiobooks

Our Tribal Future

By: David R. Samson

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism, and how we can learn to harness it to improve the world around us.

What do you think of when you hear the word “tribalism?” For many, it conjures images of bigotry, xenophobia, and sectarian violence. Others may envision their own tribe: family, friends, and the bonds of loyalty... Read more

Everybody Come Alive

By: Marcie Alvis Walker

Narrated by: Marcie Alvis Walker

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we’ve inherited—from the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends.

“Marcie Alvis Walker writes with an honesty that is both dauntless and compassionate.”—Cole Arthur Riley, author of This Here Flesh

In her debut book, Everybody Come... Read more

American Slavers

By: Sean M. Kelley

Narrated by: Christopher Douyard

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation



A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive... Read more

Language and Mediated Masculinities

By: Robert Lawson

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically... Read more

Australia on the Brink

By: Ian Lowe

Narrated by: Ian Lowe

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determined that, ‘Overall, the state and trend of... Read more

Worst Cases

By: Lee Clarke

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book.
Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails... Read more

Truth Telling

By: Michelle Good

Narrated by: Megan Tooley

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER High Plains Book AwardFINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public PolicyFINALIST for the Indigenous Voices AwardLonglisted for the First Nation Communities READA bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.With authority and insight,... Read more

Belonging

By: Bell Hooks

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?



These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks examines in Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which Hooks... Read more

Embodied Activism

By: Rae Johnson, PhD

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A radically different approach to social and environmental justice work for fans of adrienne maree brown and Bessel van der Kolk

Instead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people's minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies--how we feel in them and relate to others through them--as the sites of... Read more

Hey, Hun

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

Narrated by: Emily Lynn Paulson

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid . . . scheme.Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing is the eye-opening, funny, and dangerous personal... Read more

This Is My Jail

By: Melanie Newport

Narrated by: Faith Connor

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

While state and federal prisons like Attica and Alcatraz occupy a central place in the national consciousness, most incarceration in the US occurs within the walls of local jails. In This Is My Jail, Melanie D. Newport situates the late twentieth-century escalation of mass incarceration in a longer history of racialized, politically repressive... Read more

Laid and Confused

By: Maria Yagoda

Narrated by: Maria Yagoda

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A refreshingly honest, deeply researched, and frequently hilarious deep-dive into the cultural crisis of bad sex, as one brave sex columnist recruits the counsel of coaches, psychologists, pro-dommes, and peers in the pursuit of pleasure.

Far more alarming than the millennial “sex recession"—the phenomenon of... Read more

Hoodoo in Your Life 3-Books-in-1

By: Amina Waynes

Narrated by: Daiannie Vera

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever thought how great it can be to influence something in your life or someone else's life or to attract someone or something to you? With Hoodoo you could get it.This is a 3-in-1 book with +90 Spells:"Hoodoo for Beginners" What is Hoodoo, the story and correlation with Voodoo How to Practice Hoodoo 25+ Spells and Rituals Magical Power... Read more

Célia é quem não viu - Abridged

By: Ricardo Santos David

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Segundo Célia, os médicos disseram que a entendiam, mas que ela ainda era muito nova e poderia ter outros filhos mais tarde. Eles ainda a alertaram na época de que a criança poderia vir com alguma deficiência ou talvez nem chegasse a nascer. Eu sou nova, sim, mas já sei o que é melhor para mim. Posso ter outros filhos depois, mas nunca serão... Read more

Extracampo - Abridged

By: Angelo Marcos Canuto da Silva

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O Brasil tem a terceira maior população carcerária do mundo, ficando atrás apenas dos Estados Unidos e China. O cotidiano do cárcere é uma realidade de quase um milhão de brasileiros e pouco sabemos a respeito desses excluídos do Brasil. Homens e mulheres que carregam o estigma de presidiário e, mesmo após o cumprimento da pena, irão conviver... Read more

X Marks the Spot

By: Michael Scott

Narrated by: Michael Scott

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ancient shipwrecks in crystal seas, mythical princesses preserved in ice and astonishing lost rituals - this is the story of archaeology.

Professor Michael Scott uncovers the true stories behind history's most monumental discoveries, unearthing traps, curses and buried treasure along the way. Full of extraordinary characters - from glory hunters... Read more

Madres arrepentidas

By: Orna Donath

Narrated by: Esther Cordero

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Aman a sus hijos, pero se arrepienten de ser madres. #madresarrepentidas es un tratado de pensamiento radical que no dejará indiferente a nadie. #madresarrepentidas pone sobre la mesa algo de lo que apenas se habla: las muchas mujeres que, una vez han sido madres, no han encontrado la «profetizada» plenitud. Aman a sus hijos por a su vez no... Read more

Fight Like a Girl

By: Della O’Sullivan

Narrated by: Della O’Sullivan

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too – it may not look the same as your power, but it’s there and I can claim it.’ It should never be a woman’s job to have to protect herself – but choosing to learn about self-defence can be incredibly liberating. Fight Like... Read more

Poor

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and... Read more

Routes - Abridged

By: Rhiya Pau

Narrated by: Farhana Kalique

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on... Read more

Mitos africanos: Historias fascinantes, cuentos populares, dioses y diosas de la mitología africana

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Luis Trumper

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

¿Le gustan las historias sobre dioses y espíritus, gigantes y monstruos, damiselas en apuros y héroes inteligentes?Puede disfrutar todo esto dentro del folclore africano, en un vasto y variado entramado de historias de cientos de culturas, cada una con sus propias tradiciones y valores. A veces sus héroes son seres divinos que bajan del cielo... Read more

Flawless

By: Elise Hu

Narrated by: Elise Hu

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Porchlight's Business Books of the Year | One of Vox's Best Books of 2023 | An NPR Book of the Day | Required Reading from New York Post | One of Nylon's 13 May Books to Add to Your Reading List | One of PureWow's 14 Books to Read for AAPI Heritage Month | One of W Magazine's 14 Books to Dive Into This Summer | One of Betches' Best Summer... Read more

Dwelling Place

By: Erskine Clarke

Narrated by: Langston Darby

Length: 29 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804–1863), whose family owned more than... Read more

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

By: Matt Baume

Narrated by: Matt Baume

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

For decades, amidst the bright lights, studio-audience laughs, and absurdly large apartment sets, the real-life story of American LGBTQ+ liberation unfolded in plain sight in front of millions of viewers, most of whom were laughing too hard to mind. From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from... Read more