All sale audiobooks

Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Kim Staunton

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The first science fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of Black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably... Read more

Christmas and Other Horrors

By: Ellen Datlow

Narrated by: Carrie Coello & Andrew J. Andersen

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugo Award–winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, and many more.



The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of... Read more

Moby Dyke

By: Krista Burton

Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.

Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987,... Read more

Fair Play: Reese's Book Club

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

The Rocket Years

By: Elizabeth Segran & Benjamin Schneer

Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The Defining Decade for the #Adulting generation—a book that blends storytelling and data to unpack the choices you make in your twenties, why they matter, and how to turn those critical years into a launchpad for the life you want.We tend to think of our twenties as a playground for life: A time for low-consequence experimentation and delaying... Read more

Biography of Resistance

By: Muhammad H. Zaman

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.

In September 2016, a woman in Nevada became the first known case in the U.S. of a person who died of an... Read more

Sand Talk

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read more

Huddle

By: Brooke Baldwin

Narrated by: Brooke Baldwin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Wall Street Journal BestsellerCNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of “huddling,” when women lean on one another—in politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendships—to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Whether they are... Read more

The Invention of Miracles

By: Katie Booth

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize

“Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this “provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s... Read more

The Sacred Band

By: James Romm

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.

The story of the Sacred Band, an elite... Read more

First Steps

By: Jeremy DeSilva

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to be upstanding citizens, honor those who stand tall and... Read more

Resistance

By: Jennifer Rubin

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insider’s look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more. 
In a... Read more

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

By: Gregg Hecimovich

Narrated by: Ron Butler & Janina Edwards

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.In 1857, a woman escaped... Read more

How You Get Famous

By: Nicole Pasulka

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A “funny, poignant, dishy, and even enlightening” adventure through a tight-knit world of drag performers making art, mayhem, and dreaming of making it big, this book is “the story of America now” (Alexander Chee, The New York Times).

In How You Get Famous, journalist Nicole Pasulka raucously documents the rebirth of the New York drag scene,... Read more

The Good Ally

By: Nova Reid

Narrated by: Nova Reid

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is temporary and pales in comparison to what black and brown people often have to experience on a daily basis. Are you ready?  Let’s get started,... Read more

12 Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years... Read more

The Black Guy Dies First

By: Robin R. Means Coleman & Mark H. Harris

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire.

The Black Guy Dies First explores the Black journey in modern horror cinema, from the fodder epitomized by Spider Baby to the... Read more

Wasted

By: Linda Wolfe

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug... Read more

Just Like Us

By: Helen Thorpe

Narrated by: Paula Christensen

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Just Like Us tells the story of four high school students whose parents entered this country illegally from Mexico. All four of the girls have grown up in the United States, and all four want to live the American dream, but only two have documents. As the girls attempt to make it into college, they discover that only the legal pair see a clear... Read more

The Vibes You Feel

By: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Narrated by: Kierra Sheard-Kelly

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Read by the author.This inspiring book for teens and young women explores what it means to listen to God’s voice, better understand the “vibes” and intuition the Spirit uses as guidance, and live a life that proclaims your heavenly truth. Filled with personal lessons from author and Grammy-nominated artist Kierra “Kiki” Sheard-Kelly and... Read more

Pandora's Box

By: Peter Biskind

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both—based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews... Read more

The Night Parade

By: Jami Nakamura Lin

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • The Millions • Library Journal • Debutiful • and many more! In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the... Read more

More, Please

By: Emma Specter

Narrated by: Erin deWard

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 • FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE!""Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart."" —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning... Read more

On a Move

By: Mike Africa Jr.

Narrated by: Mike Africa Jr.

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians—by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family.""As necessary and powerful as it is... Read more