YA Nonfiction bestsellers

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

“The history of Black Americans from two people who get it. But this isn't just a history book: it's a recount of why America is the way that it is today, why we have people who think they way they do, and why we have a racist in the White House. Jason Reynolds melodic voice comes through in audio and on the pages. You are guaranteed to learn... Read more

All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“Both a primer for teens eager to be allies, as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren’t Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent and black joy. Johnson’s writing weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by black queer boys. If... Read more

Off The Map

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

By: Meriwether Lewis
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 57 minutes

Lewis and Clark's famous 1804 expedition was told with great detail by the explorers themselves in an eight-volume account. Now young historians have the opportunity to learn the thrills, challenges, and adventures in a version accessible for them. Two years' worth of entries are condensed into a flowing account that maintains the historical... Read more

The 57 Bus

A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by... Read more

UFO of GOD

The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe

By: Chris Bledsoe
Narrated by: Daniel Roueche
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

The case began 18 years ago and the government was the only one that listened. Why is that? “The Invisible College took notice…and so should you.” —Jim Semivan, CIAAre the biblical stories of angels in the Old Testament being witnessed today? Are UFOs messengers from God?Chris Bledsoe, a deeply religious family man and successful business owner... Read more

Branded by the Pink Triangle

By: Ken Setterington
Narrated by: Bill Marchant
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution.... Read more

Bless the Blood

A Cancer Memoir

By: Walela Nehanda
Narrated by: Walela Nehanda
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into... Read more

Impossible Escape

A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

By: Steve Sheinkin
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

From three-time National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honor author Steve Sheinkin, a true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust―one in hiding in Hungary, and the other in Auschwitz, plotting escape.

It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in... Read more

Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)

An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling... Read more

The Other F Word

A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

By: Angie Manfredi
Narrated by: Marisa Blake, Shiromi Arserio, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Natalie Naudus & Robin Eller
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and more in a relatable and gift-worthy guide about body image and fat acceptance. This dazzling collection of poetry, essays,... Read more

True Gretch -- Young Adult Edition

Lessons for Anyone Who Wants to Make a Difference

By: Gretchen Whitmer
Narrated by: Gretchen Whitmer, Sherry Shrewsbury, Sydney Shrewsbury, Liz Whitmer Gereghty & Cecily Strong
Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

The young adult edition of the unconventionally honest, deeply personal, and sharply funny account from Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer is packed with remarkable insights for young people wishing to make a difference in the world.

When Gretchen Whitmer was growing up, her beloved grandmother Nino taught her that you... Read more

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

Young Readers Edition

By: Dr. Anton Treuer
Narrated by: Dr. Anton Treuer
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young listeners alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?," "What's it like for... Read more

Beyond the Gender Binary

Pocket Change Collective

By: Alok Vaid-Menon
Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Winner of the 2021 In The Margins Award
 
"When reading this book, all I feel is kindness."-- Sam Smith, Grammy and Oscar award-winning singer and songwriter
 
"Thank God we have Alok. And I'm learning a thing or two myself."--Billy Porter, Emmy award-winning actor, singer, and Broadway theater performer

"Beyond the Gender Binary will give readers... Read more

Black Indians

A Hidden Heritage

By: William Loren Katz
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America.



The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship among our country's original inhabitants. Though they seldom appear in textbooks and movies,... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces... Read more

The Lady and the Octopus

How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

By: Danna Staaf
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

"Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when... Read more

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults)

A True Story of the Fight for Justice

By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature!

In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a... Read more

We Are Not Broken

By: George M Johnson
Narrated by: George M Johnson
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

George M. Johnson, activist and bestselling author ofAll Boys Aren't Blue, returns with a striking memoir that celebrates Black boyhood and brotherhood in all its glory.

This is the vibrant story of George, Garrett, Rall, and Rasul -- four children raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early... Read more

George Washington

True Patriot

Heroes of History

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Written for ages 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!

Behind George were enemies; in front, a raging ice-packed river. Poling across had seemed his best chance, but now large blocks of ice slammed into his makeshift raft, twisting it off course. Just as George dug his pole in and pushed with all his might, a block of ice hit the raft -- the raft... Read more

Apple

(Skin to the Core)

By: Eric Gansworth
Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way?The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside.Eric Gansworth is... Read more

Gender Queer

A Memoir

By: Maia Kobabe
Narrated by: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, Phoebe Kobabe, Jeremy Carlisle Parker & Full Cast
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more

Look What You Made Me Do

The ultimate guide for Taylor Swift fans!

By: Kat McKenna
Narrated by: Jade Ewen
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

“As a T. Swift fan for many years, I absolutely love this sociological dive into the phenomenon of fandom. I appreciate the balance of whimsy and fun with the star's history and lore in addition to a more serious look at what it means to be a fan and the layers of good and bad that come with it from a societal perspective. Read more

LA VIDA EN PALABRAS

By: FERNANDO SORRIBES MONRABAL
Narrated by: FERNANDO SORRIBES MONRABAL
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Tras siete novelas publicadas, el escritor Fernando Sorribes Monrabal saca a la luz una selección de sus poesías. En su primer libro, “Cámaras Selladas”, incluyó una pequeña muestra de esta asignatura pendiente para él, que resuelve en parte con esta obra. Es este un viaje a través de sentimientos y reflexiones donde el lector podrá verse... Read more

Unequal

A Story of America

By: Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau
Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Renowned, bestselling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America.
 
The true story of racial inequality—and resistance to it—is the prologue to our present. You can see it in where we live, where we go to school, where we... Read more

Count Zinzendorf

Firstfruit

Christian Heroes: Then & Now

By: Janet Benge & Geoff Benge
Narrated by: Tim Gregory
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Written for readers age 10 and up -- enjoyed by adults!

Six-year-old Ludwig was sitting at the table, reading his Bible and praying, when Swedish soldiers stormed through the castle door. Ludwig looked up at the soldiers and then returned to his prayer and reading. The soldiers stopped and stared-then left. They said they could not ransack a... Read more

Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. This course covers European and Latin American Spanish. Take a... Read more

Period Power

A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement

By: Nadya Okamoto
Narrated by: Nadya Okamoto
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

PERIOD founder and Harvard College student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silence those who bleed—and how to engage in youth activism.

Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They’re taboo. They’re embarrassing. They’re gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed... Read more

French Conversation with Paul Noble

Learn to speak everyday French step-by-step

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Improve your everyday French speaking and listening skills by following typical, fun conversations and practising what you hear in the dialogues. We recommend you finish the Complete and Next Steps courses before starting French... Read more

Las Damitas Histeria

¿Tú eres una histeriquilla o él es un eneje?

By: Bárbara Malacara & Verónica Monti
Narrated by: Bárbara Malacara, Verónica Monti & Olga Patlán
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

¿Qué es un eneje? ¿Cómo podemos reconocerlos? ¿Soy una histeriquilla o es normal reaccionar así cuando alguien se porta de tal manera? La vida está llena de sube y bajas emocionales, de personas que llegan para nutrirte con experiencias muy buenas y otras de verdad pésimas, pero que dejan su aprendizaje, y más vale estar alerta e identificar al... Read more

Queering Shantideva’s the Way of the Bodhisattva

A Buddhist Classic in Contemporary Queer Vernacular

Queer Dharma Library

By: David Franklin Sparks & Shantideva
Narrated by: Aaron Sills
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Class Has Been In Session For Over 1300 Years!When Shantideva first served these verses at Nalanda University in 8th Century India, he didn't just teach - he levitated, gagged and entire institution, and left behind a masterclass in spiritual awakening that has been slaying ever since.The Way of the Bodhisattva isn't just ancient tea - it's the... Read more

From Drama to Dharma

A Queer Buddhist Awakening

Queering the Path to Enlightenment

By: David Franklin Sparks
Narrated by: Juanelle Louise Holl
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Ready to serve enlightenment realness? From Drama to Dharma is the spiritual guide you never knew you needed – where ancient Buddhist wisdom meets modern queer culture in a fabulous explosion of insight, humor, and transformation. Forget dry, stuffy spiritual texts. This groundbreaking book interprets traditional Buddhist teachings through a... Read more

Accountable

The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater
Narrated by: Ariel Blake
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

"The audiobook brings to light the power of social dynamics, questions the role of personal responsibility, and examines the fallout that occurred long after the event, affecting all involved for years."- AudioFile

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The 57 Bus comes Accountable, a propulsive and thought-provoking new young adult... Read more

Flamboyants

The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known

By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

“An impassioned whirlwind introduction to the bold, bright, and often queer, voices of the Harlem Renaissance. If only history lessons at school had been this fascinating! Read more

20 Short Stories in Spanish For Upper Intermediate Learners

The Path to Fluency Through Immersive Reading

The Journey to Fluency

By: Acquire A Lot
Narrated by: Kike Posada
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Embark on a linguistic journey beyond the basics with our book designed for intermediate to advanced Spanish learners.-This is more than just a collection of tales; it's a comprehensive tool aimed at enhancing your Spanish comprehension and fluency through engaging narratives.This book presents 20 captivating short stories, each meticulously... Read more

Halfway There

A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery

By: Christine Mari
Narrated by: Sara Matsui Colby, Chieko Hidaka, Alice Wen & Siho Ellsmore
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen's year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity.

Christine has always felt she is just half: Half American, half Japanese. As a biracial Japanese American who was born in Tokyo but raised in the US, she knows all too well what it’s like to be a part... Read more

Homebody

By: Theo Parish
Narrated by: Roly Botha, Anabel Baldwin & George Naylor
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

In their debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir about the journey one nonbinary person takes to find a home within themself. Combining traditional comics with organic journal-like interludes, Theo takes us through their experiences with the hundred arbitrary and unspoken gender binary rules of high school,... Read more

Nearer My Freedom

The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

By: Monica Edinger & Lesley Younge
Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou & Clifford Samuel
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge... Read more

How to Be You

Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

By: Jeffrey Marsh
Narrated by: Jeffrey Marsh
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Too short. Too weird. Too quiet. Not true. Let Internet superstar Jeffrey Marsh help you end those negative thoughts and discover how wonderful you are.
 
An interactive experience, How to Be You invites you to make the audiobook your own through activities such as answering questions about how you do the things you do, and discovering patterns... Read more

The Gender Binary is a Big Lie

Infinite Identities Around the World (Queer History Project)

By: Lee Wind
Narrated by: Diontae Black
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

What if you discovered that the whole concept of a gender binary is an illusion?




While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a construct created by those who benefit from that belief. The reality is that gender is naturally diverse, falling inside... Read more

True or False

A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News

By: Cindy L. Otis
Narrated by: Erin Dion
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

"Fake news" is a term you’ve probably heard a lot in the last few years, but it’s not a new phenomenon. From the ancient Egyptians to the French Revolution to Jack the Ripper and the founding fathers, fake news has been around as long as human civilization. But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on the idea of finding the truth. In... Read more

Farewell to Manzanar

By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 5 hours

The powerful true story of life in a Japanese American internment camp.During World War II the community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were... Read more

How the Boogeyman Became a Poet

By: Tony Keith Jr.
Narrated by: Tony Keith Jr.
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

“This book must have been written specifically to be turned into an audiobook. Keith narrates the book himself, and his emphasis on the poetry is really something. Added sounds really make the book. I urge everyone to listen to this book over reading it on the page. Read more

Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been... Read more

The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2023 The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year As seen on Countryfile ‘If anyone was born to save Britain’s rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole’... Read more

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)

The Natural World of Animal Sexuality

By: Eliot Schrefer
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin, Dustin Ballard, Hope Newhouse & Neo Cihi
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

This groundbreaking YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer is a well-researched and teen-friendly exploration of the gamut of queer behaviors observed in animals.A quiet revolution has been underway in recent years, with study after study revealing substantial same-sex... Read more

Cheaper By the Dozen

By: Frank B. Gilbreth
Narrated by: Dana Ivey & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Count 'em–a dozen carrot topped, freckle-faced kids. Dad, a jovial optimist, successful inventor and efficiency expert is fond of doing his work at home. Mom, a psychologist, is busy putting everything she knows into practice.

Listen along and discover the strange things that happen when Dad's experiments run awry…how Frank Jr. gets left behind... Read more

How Not to Fit In

An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

By: Jess Joy & Charlotte Mia
Narrated by: Emily Essery
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte Mia Written by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women... Read more

Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed

15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora

By: Saraciea J. Fennell
Narrated by: Avi Roque, Elizabeth Acevedo, Frankie Corzo, Ibi Zoboi, Janel Martinez, Jasminne Mendez, Julian Randall, Khalil Haywood, Lilliam Rivera, Natasha Diaz, Saraciea J. Fennell & Zakiya N. Jamal
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

This program is read by a full cast.

Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope

In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming... Read more

Black Birds in the Sky

The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

By: Brandy Colbert
Narrated by: Brandy Colbert & Kristyl Dawn Tift
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa,... Read more

Symphony for the City of the Dead

Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: M. T. Anderson
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

A 2016 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistNational Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony.In September 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to... Read more