Social Science audiobooks

Dividing Lines

By: Deborah N. Archer

Narrated by: Diana Blue

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day.



As Archer demonstrates, the... Read more

The Trouble with White Women

By: Kyla Schuller

Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist... Read more

Billionaire Wilderness

By: Justin Farrell

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by John Chancer takes you to Teton County, Wyoming, where the ultra-wealthy romanticize rural poverty and leverage the natural world to ascend even higher on the socioeconomic ladder Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural... Read more

Rage Becomes Her

By: Soraya Chemaly

Narrated by: Soraya Chemaly

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***
NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today

***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***
Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH

Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage.

As women, we’ve... Read more

American Like Me

By: America Ferrera

Narrated by: America Ferrera, Bambadjan Bamba, Joy Cho, Auli...

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Academy Award–nominated actress and 2023 SeeHer award recipient America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.

America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably... Read more

Boom Town

By: Sam Anderson

Narrated by: Sam Anderson

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin

Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was... Read more

Health and Safety

By: Emily Witt

Narrated by: Emily Witt

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NEW YORKER, PITCHFORK, LITHUB, AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City

"The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"—Emily Gould, The Cut

In the summer of 2016,... Read more

The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

By: Donald Shoup

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 21 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this no-holds-barred treatise, Donald Shoup argues that free parking has contributed to auto dependence, rapid urban sprawl, extravagant energy use, and a host of other problems. Planners mandate free parking to alleviate congestion but end up distorting transportation choices, debasing urban design, damaging the economy, and degrading the... Read more

Unassimilable

By: Bianca Mabute-Louie

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A scholar and activist’s brilliant socio-political examination of Asian Americans who refuse to assimilate and instead build their own belonging on their own terms outside of mainstream American institutions.In this hard-hitting and deeply personal book, a combination of manifesto and memoir, scholar, sociologist, and activist Bianca... Read more

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

By: Scott J. Shapiro

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.

It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know... Read more

Antisemitism in America

By: Chuck Schumer

Narrated by: Chuck Schumer

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In an urgent and personal new book, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism.

For the first time in generations, antisemitism has become a daily reality in America, and it’s getting... Read more

The Attention Merchants

By: Tim Wu

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch ( a New Yorker and Fortune Book of the Year) and who coined the term "net neutrality”—a revelatory, ambitious and urgent account of how the capture and re-sale of human attention became the defining industry of our time.
 
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business... Read more

Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

Narrated by: Clint Smith

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed.

Clint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world.... Read more

More, Please

By: Emma Specter

Narrated by: Erin deWard

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 • FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE!""Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart."" —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning... Read more

Jim Henson

By: Brian Jay Jones

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson

He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born... Read more

Presence

By: Amy Cuddy

Narrated by: Amy Cuddy

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with... Read more

Unforgetting

By: Roberto Lovato

Narrated by: Roberto Lovato

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year""Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador and the United States.""   —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes and Nickel and DimedAn urgent, no-holds-barred... Read more

Work Won't Love You Back

By: Sarah Jaffe

Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.

You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more

Sexed Up

By: Julia Serano

Narrated by: Julia Serano

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized–then offers a bold path for resistance Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it’s... Read more

The Meritocracy Trap

By: Daniel Markovits

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy 

It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal – that social and economic rewards should follow achievement... Read more

Afropessimism

By: Frank B. Wilderson, III

Narrated by: Frank B. Wilderson, III

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted • National Book Award (Nonfiction) Combining trenchant philosophy with lyrical memoir, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of Blackness. Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery—in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms—continue to... Read more

Biting the Hand

By: Julia Lee

Narrated by: Julia Lee

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Lee's narration of her brilliant memoir is penetrating with insight, raw with confessions, radiant with fury. Her meticulous writing is already stupendous, but the unguarded emotions that flow through her candid voice are a remarkable enhancement. Her tears of frustration and gratitude will surely prove contagious." - Booklist (starred... Read more

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By: David Treuer

Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal.

"Chapter after chapter, it's like one... Read more

The Vortex

By: Scott Carney & Jason Miklian

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of BengalIn November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a few hours, the Great Bhola Cyclone would kill... Read more