Social Science audiobooks

The Most Important Year

By: Suzanne Bouffard

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible.


At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early... Read more

Sundown Towns

By: James W. Loewen

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 25 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen has taught race relations for over 20 years. He won the National Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship for his New York Times bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Sundown Towns is... Read more

This Bitter Earth

By: Bernice L. McFadden

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past.

When Sugar Lacey returns to Short Junction to find the aunts who raised her, she hopes they will be able to tell... Read more

Loving

By: Sheryll Cashin

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful look at Loving v. Virginia—the landmark case of interracial love and marriage that changed American history and inspired the 2016 film.

“White supremacy has long foiled love, and love has long foiled white supremacy. Sheryll Cashin offers us this essential historical revelation . . . and urges us to renew our old fight for the human... Read more

I Am Hutterite

By: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Kirkby

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and did not understand them in this powerful story of understanding how our beginnings often define us.“Your mother and father are running away," said... Read more

King Rules

By: Alveda King

Narrated by: Jackie Schlicher

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In King Rules, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shares that message in a deeply personal collection of hard-learned lessons, timeless truths, and foundational principles.Dr. Alveda King’s words are lovingly crafted yet refreshingly blunt at a time when bluntness is needed to counter the forces of moral drift and empty relativism.Beginning... Read more

Miracle on Voodoo Mountain

By: Megan Boudreaux

Narrated by: Hayley Cresswell

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti."Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself—all without a... Read more

Answering Jihad

By: Nabeel Qureshi

Narrated by: Nabeel Qureshi

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus Nabeel Qureshi—a former Muslim—come his deeply personal, challenging, and respectful answers to the many questions surrounding jihad, the rise of ISIS, and Islamic terrorism.San Bernardino was the most lethal terror attack on American soil since 9/11, and it came on the heels... Read more

How to Die Young

By: Angelina Fanous

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

As so many other twenty somethings of her time, and the twenty somethings that came before her, Angelina Fanous would wake up each morning with the same panicked question running through her mind. What is happening? From the outside her life was the embodiment of an ultimate urban fantasy. Successful career at one of the most exciting... Read more

Firehouse

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"In the firehouse the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses and, most importantly, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute." So writes David Halberstam, one of... Read more

The Fearless Benjamin Lay

By: Marcus Rediker

Narrated by: Cornell Womack

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeIn The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved... Read more

The Man Who Designed the Future

By: B. Alexandra Szerlip

Narrated by: B. Alexandra Szerlip

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan’s most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how... Read more

No Name in the Street

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin... Read more

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost

By: Joan Morgan

Narrated by: Joy Bryant & Bahni Turpin

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Joan Morgan offers a provocative and powerful look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world in which feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men, where women who treasure their independence frequently prefer men who pick up the tab, where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black... Read more

A $500 House in Detroit

By: Drew Philp

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class... Read more

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen

By: Elizabeth Ford

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Ford went through medical school unsure of where she belonged. It wasn’t until she did her psychiatry rotation that she found her calling—to care for one of the most vulnerable populations of mentally ill people, the inmates of New York City’s jails, including Rikers Island, who are so sick that they are sent to the Bellevue Hospital... Read more

Burden (Movie Tie-In Edition)

By: Courtney Hargrave

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Andrew Heckler

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story behind the film starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and Garrett Hedlund; written and directed by Andrew Heckler; produced by Academy Award nominee Robbie Brenner (Dallas Buyers Club)

A powerful, timely story about an African American reverend whose faith compelled him to help a KKK member leave a life of hate
 
“Honest,... Read more

Homeward Bound

By: Elaine Tyler May

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the... Read more

Marte y Venus en el dormitorio

By: John Gray

Narrated by: Mauricio Pérez Castillo

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

¡Aprende los principios y métodos para mejorar la comunicación de pareja! ¿Es la extinción del deseo sexual una ley inexorable de la vida en pareja? Si bien la experiencia de muchos matrimonios parece corroborarlo, no hay nada que lo determine. Partiendo de la idea, universalmente aceptada, de que la pasión sexual es la base de la convivencia en... Read more

Superfans

By: George Dohrmann

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.

There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from... Read more

Off the Charts

By: Ann Hulbert

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the widely praised Raising America--a compelling exploration of child genius told through the gripping stories of fifteen exceptionally gifted boys and girls, from a math wonder a century ago to young jazz and classical piano virtuosos today. A thought-provoking book for a time when parents anxiously aspire to raise "super... Read more

Fantasyland

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen

Length: 19 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that... Read more

Janesville

By: Amy Goldstein

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize​ * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of... Read more

The Vanishing American Adult

By: Ben Sasse

Narrated by: Ben Sasse

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Former college president and now U.S. Senator Ben Sasse reads with the clarity and confidence of a voice pro in this friendly warning aimed at America's parents, teachers, and governing officials." — AudioFile Magazine

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — read by the author.

In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented... Read more