Social Science audiobooks

Another Day in the Death of America

By: Gary Younge

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From... Read more

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

By: Paul Freedman

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurantsCombining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself.Whether... Read more

Mudbound

By: Hillary Jordan

Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, Tom S...

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The International Bestseller

Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards.

In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm—a place... Read more

Trip Wire

By: Charlotte Carter

Narrated by: Lizzie Cooper Davis

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

On author Charlotte Carter's debut Cook County mystery, the New York Times said she "blends street savvy with wry urbanity and delivers a truly modern big-city crime tale." This suspenseful novel goes back to Chicago after the social and political upheavals of the Summer of Love, when three unassuming sleuths began working on a startling new case. Read more

Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

By: Peniel E. Joseph

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality-the Black Power movement. This is the story of the men and women who sacrificed so much to begin a more vocal and radical push for social change in the 1960s and 1970s. "... a dramatic story,... Read more

The End of Advertising

By: Andrew Essex

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.

The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction, after having taken for granted a... Read more

Upstream

By: Langdon Cook

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon.

For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild, thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV. For others, it’s the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep... Read more

Why I Am Not A Feminist

By: Jessa Crispin

Narrated by: Jessa Crispin

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism… and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the... Read more

We Should All Be Feminists

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics—from the award-winning author of Americanah

"A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." —Medium

In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi... Read more

All Day

By: Liza Jessie Peterson

Narrated by: Liza Jessie Peterson

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing.

Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high... Read more

The Revenge of Analog

By: David Sax

Narrated by: David Sax

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016

A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated, from film photography to brick-and-mortar retail, are now springing... Read more

Death Need Not Be Fatal

By: Malachy McCourt & Brian McDonald

Narrated by: Malachy McCourt

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he runs out of time, Irish bon vivant Malachy McCourt shares his views on death - sometimes hilarious and often poignant - and on what will or won't happen after his last breath is drawn.

During the course of his life, Malachy McCourt practically invented the single's bar; was a pioneer in talk radio, a soap opera star, a best-selling... Read more

Good Booty

By: Ann Powers

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race.In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became... Read more

Unwanted Advances

By: Laura Kipnis

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn’t empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender... Read more

People of the World

By: Catherine Herbert Howell & K. David Harrison

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world.Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of... Read more

Muslim Girl

By: Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Narrated by: Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times Editors’ Choice, the brilliant founder of MuslimGirl.com shares her harrowing and candid account of what it’s like to be a young Muslim woman in the wake of 9/11, during the never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual racism.

At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as... Read more

The Lion in the Living Room

By: Abigail Tucker

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller about how cats conquered the world and our hearts in this “deep and illuminating perspective on our favorite household companion” (Huffington Post).

House cats rule bedrooms and back alleys, deserted Antarctic islands, even cyberspace. And unlike dogs, cats offer humans no practical benefit. The truth is they are sadly... Read more

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell

By: W. Kamau Bell

Narrated by: W. Kamau Bell

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell’s gimmick is intersectional... Read more

Manology

By: Tyrese Gibson & Rev Run

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestseller, Tyrese Gibson, multiplatinum R&B singer and movie star, and Rev Run of Run-DMC and star of Run’s House, present a bold, honest, and uncensored look into the male mind.Tyrese and Rev are the unlikeliest of best friends—Rev is married with six kids, and Tyrese is a single dad still hesitant to settle down.... Read more

Laurel Canyon

By: Michael Walker

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurel Canyon was the neighborhood perched above the clubs and record companies of Sunset Strip where Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot, Carole King, Don Henley, and Peter Tork, just to name a few, lived and collaborated to make an indelible mark on our music and our culture. Starting with The Byrds in 1965, these musicians... Read more

Ten Hours until Dawn

By: Michael J. Tougias

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard’s plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and... Read more

West of Kabul, East of New York

By: Tamim Ansary

Narrated by: Tamim Ansary

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The day after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Tamim Ansary sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends discussing the attack from his perspective as an Afghan American. The message reached millions.Born to an Afghan father and American mother, Ansary grew up in the intimate world of Afghan family life. When he emigrated to San Francisco, he... Read more

Power, Inc.

By: David Rothkopf

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The world’s largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the gross domestic product of all but twenty-five of the world’s countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost one hundred nations. The world’s largest asset manager, a New York company called BlackRock, controls assets greater than the national reserves of any... Read more

The DIM Hypothesis

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments... Read more