Social Science audiobooks

Are We Free Yet?

By: Tina Strawn

Narrated by: Tina Strawn

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Liberation is ultimately a celebration of our deepest humanity, and our fight for it must include a deeper examination of how we relate to oppressive systems while centering our joy, peace, and pleasure." — Tina Strawn
Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America is simultaneously a personal reflection and a collective examination... Read more

Women of Myth

By: Jenny Williamson & Genn McMenemy

Narrated by: Jennifer Williamson & Genn McMenemy

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures.

Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this... Read more

Homegrown

By: Bell Hooks & Amalia Mesa-Bains

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Homegrown, cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, Hooks and Mesa-Bains invite listeners to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships... Read more

Stealing My Religion

By: Liz Bucar

Narrated by: Esther White

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

We think we know cultural appropriation when we see it. Blackface or Native American headdresses as Halloween costumes—these clearly give offense. But what about Cardi B posing as the Hindu goddess Durga in a Reebok ad, AA's twelve-step invocation of God, or the earnest namaste you utter at the end of yoga class?



Liz Bucar unpacks the ethical... Read more

The Great Oklahoma Swindle

By: Russell Cobb

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another “flyover state.” A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States.Over the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homeland, a vibrant Socialist Party, armed rebellions... Read more

The Future of Humankind

By: John Hands

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work,... Read more

Trust the Plan

By: Will Sommer

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

""A story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it.” —Molly Jong-FastThe definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the... Read more

The Great Displacement

By: Jake Bittle

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence

The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities torn apart by disaster, and the... Read more

The Answers Are There

By: Libby Hoffman

Narrated by: Libby Hoffman, Clare Lockhart, Francess Alghali...

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Architecture for PeaceOur world desperately needs new ways to support community transformation. In The Answers Are There, Libby Hoffman shows us what is possible when outside aid animates, rather than obstructs, local leadership and recognizes and honors community wisdom, priorities, and resources.This book shares stories of individual and... Read more

Murder on the Inside

By: Catherine Fogarty

Narrated by: Catherine Fogarty

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days,... Read more

African American History

By: Jonathan Scott Holloway

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being.



This book considers how, for centuries, African... Read more

OCME

By: Bruce Goldfarb

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Goldfarb spent ten years with Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where every sudden or unattended death in the state is scrutinized.



Touching on numerous scandals, including Derek Chauvin's trial for the murder of George Floyd and the tragic killing in police custody of Freddie Gray, Goldfarb pulls back the curtain on a... Read more

Stranger Things Psychology

By: Travis Langley

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault & Julienne Irons

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware! Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to explore these and other questions to shine a light on true human nature through the Netflix series and cultural phenomenon Stranger Things. When do feelings of grief, guilt, depression, fear, and... Read more

A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space

By: Eliza VanCort

Narrated by: Eliza VanCort

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For too long, women have been told to confine themselves-physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space.

Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides... Read more

Uncovered

By: Steve Krakauer

Narrated by: Steve Krakauer

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the COVID lab leak theory to Hunter Biden's laptop to Jeffrey Epstein, media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer spotlights the problems of a news industry filled with geographically isolated, introspection-free, egomaniacal journalists. In Uncovered, America’s sharpest media critic, former CNN insider Steve Krakauer, reveals... Read more

What's Our Problem?

By: Tim Urban

Narrated by: Tim Urban

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to... Read more

Empathy

By: David Johnston

Narrated by: David Johnston

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The 28th Governor General's most personal and timely book to date: a passionate and practical guide for turning empathy into action.

As the world stumbles through the most severe pandemic of the last century, threatened by teetering economies, torn by political division, separated by unequal access to resources, and wrestling with issues as... Read more

The Deep State

By: Ian Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Mack Gordon

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the outward appearance of legitimate government and accountable officials there lurk hidden agendas, shadowy personalities and special interest groups seeking to seize control of the nation for their own ends. These 'states within a state', unfettered by legal norms and unworried by public opinion, are known as 'deep states'.
In this... Read more

How To Talk To Anyone

By: Mind Change Academy

Narrated by: Jack Henry Kison

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know How to Talk to Anyone? Do you want to know How to Talk to Anyone?It doesn’t have to be someone important who is speaking to us to make us feel important…or not. Even the person sitting next to us on the bus has the ability to make us feel significant, or, like we don’t matter at all. Regardless of how we may try to wiggle around it,... Read more

American Indian Symbolism

By: Manly Palmer Hal

Narrated by: Dennis Logan

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The North American India is commonly a symbolist, a spiritualist, and a savant. Like most: native people groups, his spirit was en affinity with the grandiose organizations appearing about him. Besides the fact that his Manidos controlled creation from their lifted up seats over the mists, however they additionally plunged into the universe of... Read more

Fix Marriage

By: Behnay Books

Narrated by: Gary Dickson

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Is your marriage turning out to be less than you had hoped it to be? Have you ever looked back on your time as newlyweds and wished to relive those feelings?Don't Panic! We're here to assist you in any way! You can restore the newlywed feeling to your marriage! Simply read this straightforward, easy-to-follow Fix Marriage book that every married... Read more

My Road from Damascus

By: Jamal Saeed

Narrated by: Pasha Ebrahimi

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his... Read more

This Won't Hurt

By: Marieke Bigg

Narrated by: Daphne Kouma

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research - and how to change it.

The idea that medicine is gender-neutral is a myth. This isn't inflammatory rhetoric; it's simply true. From the way pain is felt, to how heart attacks are diagnosed, to the very role society plays in the health of the body, the medical... Read more

Work Therapy: Or The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life

By: Naomi Shragai

Narrated by: Naomi Shragai

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Previously published as The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life, 2021.

'Is 2023 the year you want to change your working life? Perhaps you want to stop catastrophising about small mistakes, instil a better job/life balance or find new mechanisms to cope with a nightmare boss. Solutions to these problems, as well as an... Read more