Social Science audiobooks

Shame Nation

By: Sue Scheff

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In today’s digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away.A rogue tweet can bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage.Shame Nation is the first book to both explore the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming and offer practical guidance and... Read more

Freeing David McCallum

By: Ken Klonsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of... Read more

Dream Hoarders

By: Richard V. Reeves

Narrated by: Richard V. Reeves

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultrarich are concentrating income and prosperity, while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the... Read more

House of Heroin

By: Haroon Ullah

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A disturbing inside look at the Muslim Mafia, the organized crime syndicate that controls global opiate production and trafficking—a story of corruption, terrorism, greed, and human suffering—from a veteran U.S. State Department official and former senior adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry.Today, a powerful crime organization thrives, one... Read more

A Little Piece of Light

By: Donna Hylton

Narrated by: Donna Hylton

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement.

Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life was a nightmare of abuse that left her feeling... Read more

Detained and Deported

By: Margaret Regan

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
 
On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her and drove her away. Within hours, she was deported... Read more

Dreamers

By: Eileen Truax

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate, first-of-its-kind account of young undocumented immigrants fighting to live legally within the United States is a “must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate” (Booklist)
 
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up... Read more

Unbound

By: Arlene Stein

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate portrait of a new generation of transmasculine individuals as they undergo gender transitions

Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon’s office, having traveled to Florida from across the United States in order to masculinize their chests.... Read more

Real American

By: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A fearless debut audiobook memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.

Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes... Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

Lead from the Outside

By: Stacey Abrams

Narrated by: Stacey Abrams

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

*This program was previously published as Lead from the Outside . This updated edition includes a new preface written and read by Stacey Abrams.*

"Abrams's own grit, coupled with her descriptions of much stumbling and self-doubt, will make [Lead from the Outside] touch you in a way few books by politicians can." — The New York Times

National... Read more

Nobody Knows My Name

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer’s ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin’s controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman.... Read more

Jewish Comedy

By: Jeremy Dauber

Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a major work of scholarship both erudite and very funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from Biblical times to the age of Twitter.Organizing his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy—including the satirical, the witty, and the vulgar—Dauber explores the ways Jewish... Read more

Crux

By: Jean Guerrero

Narrated by: Jean Guerrero

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death

PEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books... Read more

Call Me American

By: Abdi Nor Iftin

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Abdi Nor Iftin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies.

Sporting American... Read more

I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing

By: A. D. Jameson

Narrated by: A. D. Jameson & Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.

Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the... Read more

Elements of Taste

By: Benjamin Errett

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love

Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton. Gilmore Girls. We all have our most and least favorite things. But why?

In this smart, funny, and well-researched audiobook, Benjamin Errett brings together the latest findings from the worlds of... Read more

The Best of Enemies

By: Osha Gray Davidson

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight.During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Atwater and Ellis met... Read more

Havana Dreams

By: Wendy Gimbel

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the fascinating true story of four generations of Cuban women whose personal lives are woven with the story of their nation. At its center is Naty, a socialite born in 1925, who becomes intoxicated with Castro and his revolution. Here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while Castro was in jail. Naty raises... Read more

Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

By: Elizabeth Rosner

Narrated by: Elizabeth Rosner

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As firsthand survivors of many of the twentieth century's most monumental events—the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, the Killing Fields—begin to pass away, Survivor Café addresses urgent questions: How do we carry those stories forward? How do we collectively ensure that the horrors of the past are not forgotten?

Elizabeth Rosner organizes her book... Read more

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By: Joel F. Harrington

Narrated by: Jame Gillies

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and... Read more

Uncensored

By: Zachary R. Wood

Narrated by: Zachary R. Wood

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary R. Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions—in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen.

As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary Wood knows from experience about intellectual... Read more

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy

By: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption of world economics.

Yanis Varoufakis has appeared before heads of... Read more

The Psychology of Eating and Drinking Fourth Edition

By: Alexandra W. Logue

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging audiobook explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this audio approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective-explaining the facts to promote understanding of... Read more