Social Science audiobooks

A House Full of Daughters

By: Juliet Nicolson

Narrated by: Julie Teal

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous... Read more

The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten

By: Karlene Faith

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age off twenty-one, Leslie Van Houten was sentenced to death, along with Charles Manson and his other disciples, for the infamous murder rampage spanning two nights in August 1969. Leslie, who was present at the Rosemary and Leno LaBianca stabbings, serenely accepted her sentence, wishing only that she had better served Manson in carrying... Read more

Who Killed These Girls?

By: Beverly Lowry

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it.

The facts are brutally straightforward. On December... Read more

Modified

By: Caitlin Shetterly

Narrated by: Caitlin Shetterly

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary discussion about genetically modified foods.

GMO... Read more

Tranny

By: Laura Jane Grace

Narrated by: Laura Jane Grace

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BILLBOARD'S "100 GREATEST MUSIC BOOKS OF ALL TIME": The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.

It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic... Read more

The Social Organism

By: Oliver Luckett

Narrated by: Oliver Luckett

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

"A must-read for business leaders and anyone who wants to understand all the implications of a social world." -- Bob Iger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company

From tech visionaries Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media -- how it works, how it's changing human life, and... Read more

They Can't Kill Us All

By: Wesley Lowery

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.

Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting... Read more

Against Empathy

By: Paul Bloom

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family.Most people, including many policy makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to... Read more

How to Win at Feminism

By: Reductress, Beth Newell, Sarah Pappalardo & Ann...

Narrated by: Anna Drezen & Nicole Silverberg

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Feminism is all about demanding equality and learning to love yourself. But not too much — men hate that! From the writers of Reductress, the subversive, satirical women’s magazine read by over 2.5 million visitors a month, comes HOW TO WIN AT FEMINISM: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some!This ultimate guide to winning... Read more

Bound for Canaan

By: Fergus Bordewich

Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez

Length: 19 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An important book of epic scope on America’s first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for changeThe civil war brought to a climax the country’s bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery’s denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what... Read more

The Age of Dignity

By: Ai-jen Poo

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

By 2035, 11.5 million Americans will be over the age of eighty-five, more than double today’s 5 million, living longer than ever before. To enable all of us to age with dignity and security in the face of this coming Age Wave, our society must learn to value the care of our elders. The process of building a culture that supports care is a key... Read more

Lives in Ruins

By: Marilyn Johnson

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Pompeii, Machu Picchu, the Valley of the Kings, the Parthenon—the names of these legendary archaeological sites conjure up romance and mystery. The news is full of archaeology: treasures found and treasures lost. Archaeological research tantalizes us with possibilities (are modern humans really part Neanderthal?). Where are the archaeologists... Read more

Pendulum

By: Michael R. Drew & Roy H. Williams

Narrated by: Michael R. Drew & Roy H. Williams

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Politics, manners, humor, sexuality, wealth, even our definitions of success are periodically renegotiated based on the new values society chooses to use as a lens to judge what is acceptable.

Are these new values randomly chosen or is there a pattern? Pendulum chronicles the stuttering history of western society; that endless back-and-forth... Read more

Dr. Mary's Monkey

By: Edward T. Haslam

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage
for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert
government operations over the course of three decades. Following a
trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical
journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical... Read more

The American Way of Eating

By: Tracie McMillan

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you can't afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn't escape as she watched the debate about America's meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food's true cost—which is to say, pay more. So in 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat... Read more

Bad Religion

By: Ross Douthat

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the author of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails—and... Read more

Sister Citizen

By: Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked room that shames them and shapes their experiences as... Read more

Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve Years a Slave is the autobiographical account of Solomon Northup, an African American who was born free in New York in the early 1800s. In 1841, Solomon Northup was captured and forced into slavery for a period of twelve years. Northup's account is detailed in its account of life on a cotton and sugar plantation and the daily routine of... Read more

Unequal Childhoods

By: Annette Lareau

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure"... Read more

A Different Mirror

By: Ronald Takaki

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States—Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans,... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W. E. B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

W. E. B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical. Here, Du Bois records the cruelties of racism, celebrates the strength and pride of black America, and explores the... Read more

A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend

By: Felicity Huffman & Patricia Wolff

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Most dating books are written for women—what a mistake that is. Women know how to date. . .it's men who need the help! At last: a blithe, bold, and bawdy guide to building a better boyfriend.



At some point, every guy—player, geek, mama's boy, "regular Joe"—meets a woman who makes him want to be a boyfriend. A good boyfriend. Problem is, unless... Read more

Far and Away

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair).

Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political,... Read more

The Unsettlers

By: Mark Sundeen

Narrated by: Mark Sundeen

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” —Los Angeles Times

The radical search for the simple life in today’s America.

On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two... Read more