Social Science audiobooks

Her Best-Kept Secret

By: Gabrielle Glaser

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

What's the first thing many women do when they go home? Make a dash for the white wine in the refrigerator.In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers this hidden-in-plain-sight drinking epidemic—but doesn't cause you to recoil in alarm. She is the first to document that American women are drinking more often than ever and in... Read more

Forty Chances

By: Howard G. Buffett

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do?Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son in 2006, when he announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. So, Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth—nearly a billion individuals who lack... Read more

Down the Up Escalator

By: Barbara Garson

Narrated by: Jeanine Kane

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies.The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal┬¡lenges at almost all Americans save the superaffluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up... Read more

Jump Ship to Freedom

By: James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier

Narrated by: Sean Crisden

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel’s father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers’ notes to buy his family’s freedom.But now Daniel’s father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel... Read more

Reporting America at War

By: Michelle Ferrari & James Tobin

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time, the nation's most respected reporters share their stories as the eyes and ears of the nation to create a fascinating oral history. Some of the most influential journalists of our time, including Christiane Amanpour, Walter Cronkite, Morley Safer, Peter Arnett and Andy Rooney convey the facts, the brutality and the drama... Read more

Notes of a Native Son

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained... Read more

Context

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From... Read more

The Defender

By: Ethan Michaeli

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 22 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded the Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed a “Modern Moses,” becoming one... Read more

Stay Interesting

By: Jonathan Goldsmith

Narrated by: Jonathan Goldsmith

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

What makes a life truly interesting? Is it the people you meet? The risks you take? The adventures you remember?

Jonathan Goldsmith has many answers to that question. For years he was a struggling actor in New York and Los Angeles, with experiences that included competing for roles with Dustin Hoffman, getting shot by John Wayne, drinking with... Read more

The Rules Do Not Apply

By: Ariel Levy

Narrated by: Ariel Levy

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •  “This Year’s Must-Read Memoir” (W magazine) about the choices a young woman makes in her search for adventure, meaning, and love

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Vogue• Time• Esquire• Entertainment Weekly• The Guardian• Harper’s Bazaar• Library Journal• NPR 

All her life, Ariel Levy was told that she was too... Read more

I Can't Breathe

By: Matt Taibbi

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten... Read more

The Potlikker Papers

By: John T. Edge

Narrated by: John T. Edge

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of American culinary culture and how issues of race have shaped Southern cuisine over the last six decades

THE POTLIKKER PAPERS tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the... Read more

Off the Cliff

By: Becky Aikman

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively and revealing behind-the-scenes look at the making of one of history's most controversial and influential movies, drawing on exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.

“You’ve always been crazy,” says Louise to Thelma, shortly after she locks a police officer in the trunk of his car. “This is just the first chance you’ve had to express... Read more

Behaving Badly

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more

Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

By: Brandon Harris

Narrated by: Brandon Massey

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with ""the serious, life-threatening process"" of gentrification.Making... Read more

Queen of Bebop

By: Elaine M. Hayes

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and a pioneer of women’s and civil rights.Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake, yet the breadth and depth of... Read more

Muck City

By: Bryan Mealer

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.

The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving,... Read more

The Stars in Our Eyes

By: Julie Klam

Narrated by: Julie Klam

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Look out for Julie's new book, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters.

From bestselling author Julie Klam comes a lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important.

“When I was young I was convinced celebrities could save me,” Julie Klam admits in The... Read more

The Great Quake

By: Henry Fountain

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place.

At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964,... Read more

Ghetto

By: Mitchell Duneier

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck.In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the... Read more

Ruined

By: Ruth Everhart

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“It happened on a Sunday night, even though I’d been a good girl and gone to church that morning.”One brisk November evening during her senior year at a small midwestern Christian college, two armed intruders broke into the house Ruth Everhart shared with her roommates, held all five girls hostage, and took turns raping them at gunpoint. Reeling... Read more

Free Women, Free Men

By: Camille Paglia

Narrated by: Camille Paglia

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men. 

Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of... Read more

Freakonomics 3

By: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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The Trump Survival Guide

By: Gene Stone

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

National BestsellerDon’t despair. Don’t retreat. Fight back.A call-to-action for Democrats, moderate Republicans, and other anti-Trump dissenters, detailing the history of social and political policies, how Obama treated them, how Trump has the power to undermine them, and what people can do to fight back.The stunning election of Donald J. Trump... Read more