Social Science audiobooks

Text Me When You Get Home

By: Kayleen Schaefer

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It's high time that we start seeing it that way."--NPR, 2018's Great Reads

A personal and sociological... Read more

The Food Explorer

By: Daniel Stone

Narrated by: Daniel Stone

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate.

“Fascinating.”—The New York Times Book Review • “Fast-paced adventure writing.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Richly descriptive.”—Kirkus •... Read more

The Trials of Nina McCall

By: Scott W. Stern

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality—and how they fought back—told through the lens of one of its survivors

“A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically congealed in state control over women’s bodies and... Read more

The Beauty Suit

By: Lauren Shields

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A young feminist finds herself questioning why “hotness” has become necessary for female empowerment—and looks for alternatives.

Looking good feels good. But in a society where looking good is posited as being strong, while negotiating for better pay is statistically proven to damage our careers, is it fair to say that wicked eyeliner, weekly... Read more

Butterfly

By: Yusra Mardini

Narrated by: Lameece Issaq

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Butterfly is an inspiring audiobook about how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning—and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer.

When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with other refugees, there was no hesitation: she dove into the water. Surfacing, she... Read more

Gigged

By: Sarah Kessler

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work." —Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE

The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig... Read more

Madame Claude

By: William Stadiem

Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame Claude, by renowned social historian William Stadiem, is a magnificent audiobook about the brilliant, complicated, and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.

In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles... Read more

AIQ

By: Nick Polson & James Scott

Narrated by: Nick Polson & Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"There comes a time in the life of a subject when someone steps up and writes the book about it. AIQ explores the fascinating history of the ideas that drive this technology of the future and demystifies the core concepts behind it; the result is a positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with... Read more

Grace Will Lead Us Home

By: Jennifer Berry Hawes

Narrated by: Jennifer Berry Hawes & Karen Chilton

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction**

"This audiobook achieves an exceptional performance of an important work on a difficult subject--mass murder and its aftermath." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER GREAT NEW WRITERS PICK * OPRAH MAGAZINE SUMMER 2019... Read more

A Politically Incorrect Feminist

By: Phyllis Chesler

Narrated by: Phyllis Chesler

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism.

Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and... Read more

The Witch

By: Ronald Hutton

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history.The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces... Read more

Blues People

By: LeRoi Jones

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“The path the slave took to ‘citizenship’ is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen’s music—through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel, development, jazz…[If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this... Read more

The Square and the Tower

By: Niall Ferguson

Narrated by: Elliot Hill

Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller.

A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.

“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York Times

"Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have... Read more

F You Very Much

By: Danny Wallace

Narrated by: Danny Wallace

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Deliciously hilarious. If you care about people and enjoy a good laugh, I politely encourage you to read this book. Immediately."
--Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals

From the brilliant comedic mind behind the hit movie Yes Man, a hilarious and pitch-perfect look at the rudeness that's all around us -- where it comes from, how it affects... Read more

I've Got This Round

By: Mamrie Hart

Narrated by: Mamrie Hart

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilarious, candid, and full of shenanigans, YouTube sensation Mamrie Hart—the New York Times bestselling author of You Deserve a Drink—is back with more adventures.
 
When Mamrie simultaneously enters her 30s and finds herself single for the first time since college, the world is suddenly full of possibilities. Emboldened by the cool confidence... Read more

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

By: Aaron Mahnke

Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling, lavishly illustrated who’s who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcast—now a streaming television series—including “Black Stockings,” “Half-Hanged,” and “The Castle,” as well as rare material.

Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood:... Read more

Formerly Known As Food

By: Kristin Lawless

Narrated by: Jennywren Walker

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unless you make it yourself, you have no idea what you are eating and Kristin Lawless explains why. You better read this book before you put another bite of food in your or your kids mouths!” — Laurie David, Academy Award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth and Fed Up

From the voice of a new generation of food activists, a passionate and... Read more

Brown White Black

By: Nishta J. Mehra

Narrated by: Nishta J. Mehra

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance.

Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing on her family's daily... Read more

Chosen Country

By: James Pogue

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In Chosen Country, listeners are given an extraordinary inside look at America’s militia movement that shows a country at the crossroads of class, culture, and insurrection.

In a remote corner of Oregon, James Pogue found himself at the heart of a rebellion. Granted unmatched access by Ammon Bundy to the armed occupation of the Malheur National... Read more

Moan

By: Emma Koenig

Narrated by: Emma Koenig, Rachel Bloom, Chloe Cannon, Melani...

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that.

Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a... Read more

From Broken Glass

By: Steve Ross

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld, Ray Flynn & Michael Ross

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the survivor of ten Nazi concentration camps who went on to create the New England Holocaust Memorial, a "devastating...inspirational" memoir (The Today Show) about finding strength in the face of despair.

On August 14, 2017, two days after a white-supremacist activist rammed his car into a group of anti-Fascist protestors, killing one and... Read more

Infidelity

By: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Narrated by: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

What the latest science tells us about the brain's reward systems, love, and sex -- and how to prevent an affair from destroying your life

How can I prevent an affair from destroying my life? Whether I am the cheater or the betrayed partner, how can I survive, even thrive, in the wake of an affair? Infidelity provides key insights to find your... Read more

No Ashes in the Fire

By: Darnell L Moore

Narrated by: Darnell L Moore

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.

When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It... Read more

The Girl

By: Michelle Morgan

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

With an in-depth look at the two most empowering years in the life of Marilyn Monroe, The Girl details how The Seven Year Itch created an icon and sent the star on an adventure of self-discovery and transformation from a controlled wife and contract player into a businesswoman and unlikely feminist whose power is still felt today.

When Marilyn... Read more