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Mein Kampf (The Ford Translation)
By: Adolf Hitler
Narrated by: Michael Ford
Length: 26 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
For the first time in 65 years, a modern, easy to understand, truly complete and uncensored edition of Mein Kampf has been released which reveals more than any past translation.
Older translations altered passages, omitted passages, mistranslated Hitler's words, made some parts more sensational while concealing the true meaning in other passages.... Read more
The Stonewall Reader
By: New York Public Library
Narrated by: Various
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winner
For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and... Read more
Revolusi
By: David Van Reybrouck
Narrated by: Neil Gardner
Length: 22 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
In August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an eighth of the globe, Indonesia became the first country to rid itself of colonial rule after WWII.
Renowned scholar David Van Reybrouck captures a period of... Read more
Zero Fail
By: Carol Leonnig
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed & Carol Leonnig
Length: 20 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work—the determinative work—in this field. . . . Terrifying.”—Rachel Maddow
The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the... Read more
Money
By: Jacob Goldstein
Narrated by: Jacob Goldstein
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped... Read more
Means and Ends
By: Zoe Baker
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An expansive and accessible account of anarchism as a theory of practice.
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939. Zoe Baker clearly and accessibly explains the ideas that historical anarchists developed in order to change the world. This includes their... Read more
The Daughters Of Yalta
By: Catherine Grace Katz
Narrated by: Christine Rendel
Length: 14 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.
Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin... Read more
Myth America
By: Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer
Narrated by: Allan Aquino, Maleah Woodley, Todd Menesses & S...
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our nation’s past
The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible... Read more
The Basque History of the World
By: Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has drawn enthusiastic praise for his books, which are sharply-focused studies as well as glorious celebrations of their subjects. In The Basque History of the World, he turns his eye toward Europe's oldest surviving culture-a culture as mysterious as it is fascinating. Settled in the western Pyrenees... Read more
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Medgar and Myrlie
By: Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America.”—from Medgar and MyrlieBy MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of... Read more
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But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
By: Laura Flam & Emily Sieu Liebowitz
Narrated by: Laura Flam, Emily Sieu Liebowitz, Robin Eller, ...
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the... Read more
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Queer Career
By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow provides a masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an... Read more
Utopia for Realists
By: Rutger Bregman
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.
"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York Times
After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch... Read more
How the World Works
By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
According to the New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight... Read more
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The Passage of Power
By: Robert A. Caro
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 32 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career — 1958 to 1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that... Read more
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Rebellion
By: Robert Kagan
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party, from a leading historian and intellectual
The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of... Read more
Femina
By: Janina Ramirez
Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters
The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the “Dark” Ages were... Read more
The Happiest Man on Earth
By: Eddie Jaku
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned... Read more
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The Princes in the Tower
By: Philippa Langley
Narrated by: Philippa Langley
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of over 366 million.
Now, Langley reveals the... Read more
Desert Queen
By: Janet Wallach
Narrated by: Jean Gilpin
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books... Read more
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Heroes
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read more
Tokyo Vice
By: Jake Adelstein
Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.
At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the... Read more
The Age of Deer
By: Erika Howsare
Narrated by: Erika Howsare
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Deer have been an important part of the world that humans occupy for millennia. They're one of the only large animals that can thrive in our presence. In the twenty-first century, our relationship is full of contradictions: We hunt and protect them, we cull them from suburbs while making them an icon of wilderness, we see them both as victims... Read more
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Pandora's Jar
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more
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