Social Science audiobooks

Katrina

By: Gary Rivlin

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’ efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great... Read more

The Nordic Theory of Everything

By: Anu Partanen

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children.Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary,... Read more

Hi, Anxiety

By: Kat Kinsman

Narrated by: Kat Kinsman

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman.Feeling anxious? Can’t sleep because your brain won’t stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you’ll... Read more

The Late Bloomer

By: Ken Baker

Narrated by: Ken Baker

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone.

On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for... Read more

A Good Month for Murder

By: Del Quentin Wilber

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives—does its almost impossible job

Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C.

After gaining... Read more

What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?

By: Marianne Schnall

Narrated by: Erin Bennett & Tom Taylorson

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Featuring conversations with more than twenty leading politicians, writers, artists, and activists, this book is expert interviewer Marianne Schnall’s examination of why America has not yet elected a female president—and how this might change.Prompted by a question from her eight-year-old daughter during the 2008 election of Barack Obama—“Why... Read more

The Cheating Culture

By: David Callahan

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative audiobook author David Callahan examines the cheating epidemic-at work, in school, on the ballfield and everywhere else-that is the new American plague. Now more than ever, people are bending rules and breaking laws to get what they want. From the Enron scandal to the dot-com collapses to the plagiarism that has rocked the... Read more

Blood at the Root

By: Patrick Phillips

Narrated by: Patrick Phillips

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.... Read more

You Can't Touch My Hair

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams & John Hodgman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • "A must-read…Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." –Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City

A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope... Read more

Adnan's Story

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and... Read more

Hogs Wild

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Ian Frazier

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"A master of both distilled insight and utter nonsense" (The Believer), Ian Frazier is one of the most gifted chroniclers of contemporary America. Hogs Wild assembles a decade's worth of his finest essays and reportage, and demonstrates the irrepressible passions and artful digressions that distinguish his enduring body of work.

Part muckraker,... Read more

The First Signs

By: Genevieve von Petzinger

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey’s Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world—the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language.Imagine yourself as a caveman or cavewoman. The place: Europe. The... Read more

Magic and Loss

By: Virginia Heffernan

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginia Heffernan “melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is—and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet’s past, present, and future” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living writers of English prose.

This book makes a bold claim: The... Read more

Homo Deus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein... Read more

Mind = Blown

By: Matthew Santoro

Narrated by: Matthew Santoro

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

YouTube sensation Matthew Santoro amazes with eye-opening facts that are sure to blow your mind.

Matthew Santoro's originality and humor has attracted millions of fans, making him a beloved YouTube star. His weekly videos on amazing and little-known facts are eagerly anticipated by his many subscribers and followers around the world. In his... Read more

The Naughty Nineties

By: David Friend

Narrated by: David Friend

Length: 26 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens.

The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our... Read more

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil

By: Lezley McSpadden

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.“I wasn’t there when Mike Mike was shot. I didn’t see him fall or take his last breath, but as his mother, I do know one thing... Read more

Invisible Influence

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Invisible Influence, the New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle influences that affect the decisions we make—from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat.

“Jonah Berger has done it again: written a fascinating book that brims with ideas and tools for how to think about the world.” —Charles Duhigg,... Read more

Self-Tracking

By: Dawn Nafus & Gina Neff

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This audiobook examines... Read more

TWA 800

By: Jack Cashill

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

What really happened to TWA 800? On the twentieth anniversary of the crash, author Jack Cashill reveals shocking new evidence. TWA Flight 800 crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from JFK Airport on July 17, 1996, killing all 230 passengers on board. Although initial reports suggested a terrorist attack, FBI and NTSB investigators... Read more

This Is Where You Belong

By: Melody Warnick

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live.The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was her sixth move, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that... Read more

My Father Before Me

By: Chris Forhan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).

The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a... Read more

The New Odyssey

By: Patrick Kingsley

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.

On the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe―at least for the time being―in Egypt, where they had only... Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

By: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they... Read more