Social Science audiobooks

Embrace the Misery

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a... Read more

In Sickness and in Health

By: Ben Mattlin

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriage

Ben Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this... Read more

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

By: Paul Ortiz

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights

Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar... Read more

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

By: Jeanne Theoharis

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of... Read more

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

By: Annelise Orleck

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.

Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food... Read more

Invisible

By: Michele Lent Hirsch

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured in The Advocate, New York Times, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and New York magazine's The Cut

This is a vital exploration of the ways society overlooks—and fails—young women with disabilities and chronic illnesses

Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer. She did.

Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab... Read more

Redemption

By: Joseph Rosenbloom

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.

At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in... Read more

Revive Us Again

By: The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, The Reve...

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Erin Bennett

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin Luther King Jr. in our midst” (Cornel West) and “one of the... Read more

"They Take Our Jobs!"

By: Aviva Chomsky

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations.

Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigration in this incisive book. "They Take Our Jobs!" challenges... Read more

Where Do We Go from Here

By: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for... Read more

Enlightenment Now

By: Steven Pinker

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the... Read more

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution

By: John H. Relethford

Narrated by: Steven Menasche

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution uses common misconceptions to explore basic theory and research in human evolution and strengthen critical thinking skills for lay readers, listeners and students.

Examines intriguing—yet widely misunderstood—topics, from general ideas about evolution and human origins to the evolution of modern humans and recent... Read more

The Unredeemed Captive

By: John Demos

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to “civilize” a “savage” native populace.There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John... Read more

The Girl Who Smiled Beads

By: Clemantine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.”
 
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were... Read more

Wisdom Keeper

By: Ilarion Merculieff

Narrated by: Darren Roebuck

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut) upbringing on a remote island in the Bering Sea, through his immersion in both the Russian Orthodox Church and his tribe’s holistic spiritual beliefs. He recounts his developing consciousness and... Read more

The Military Science of Star Wars

By: George Beahm

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Military Science of Star Wars is an audiobook that will appeal to Star Wars fans everywhere

The first ever in-depth analysis of the tactics and equipment used by the heroes and villains of the Star Wars universe has arrived! Spanning all of the films, this comprehensive audiobook goes into detail about the various guerrilla tactics of the... Read more

Everything You Love Will Burn

By: Vegas Tenold

Narrated by: Vegas Tenold

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their path to political power

Six years ago, Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups-the KKK, the National Socialist Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. At the... Read more

Natural Causes

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is... Read more

The Gutsy Girl Handbook

By: Kate White

Narrated by: Kate White

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author, professional speaker, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Kate White shares the nine core principles gutsy women need to go bigger, bolder, and achieve the full level of success they desire.

Twenty-two years ago Kate White wrote the bestselling career bible Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do, and... Read more

Our 50-State Border Crisis

By: Howard G. Buffett

Narrated by: Matt Kugler

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central... Read more

Asking for a Friend

By: Jessica Weisberg

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful history of Americans' obsession with advice -- from Poor Richard to Dr. Spock to Miss Manners

Americans, for all our talk of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, obsessively seek advice on matters large and small. Perhaps precisely because we believe in bettering ourselves and our circumstances in life, we ask for guidance... Read more

Small Animals

By: Kim Brooks

Narrated by: Kim Brooks

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kim Brooks's moving narration is the perfect vehicle for the drama surrounding her arrest for a momentary lapse in judgement...Brooks's lyrical writing and largely dispassionate narration will draw parents into this larger dynamic and restore their freedom to do what they believe is best as parents." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a... Read more

A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance

By: Emma Gray

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""If not you, then who?  If not now, then when? We need more women to speak up and make their voices heard. Young women have valuable experiences and perspectives.  We need you in this fight.” Senator Elizabeth Warren, from a Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance  So—the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you... Read more

Bachelor Nation

By: Amy Kaufman

Narrated by: Amy Kaufman

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Bestseller*

The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure.

For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Since it premiered in 2002, the show’s popularity and relevance have... Read more