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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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The Wars of the Roses
By: Dan Jones
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history-the actual historical backdrop for Game of Thrones The fifteenth century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands five times as two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty fought... 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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Origin
By: Jennifer Raff
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau, Jennifer Raff & Yvonne Russo
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas.
ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete... Read more
How Democracies Die
By: Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today
Democracies can die with a coup d'état - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around... Read more
Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more
Fight Like Hell
By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more
Slow Noodles
By: Chantha Nguon
Narrated by: Clara Kim
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale... Read more
The Fourth Turning Is Here
By: Neil Howe
Narrated by: Neil Howe
Length: 20 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like once it has.
Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William... Read more
The Dictionary People
By: Sarah Ogilvie
Narrated by: Joan Walker & Sarah Ogilvie
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST • The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.
“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED.... Read more
Master Slave Husband Wife
By: Ilyon Woo
Narrated by: Janina Edwards & Leon Nixon
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2023
New York Times Bestseller
Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, Oprah Daily, and People
The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen... Read more
An Ugly Truth
By: Sheera Frenkel & Cecilia Kang
Narrated by: Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang & Holter Graham
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
“The ultimate takedown.” – New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive account of Facebook’s fall from grace. Once one of Silicon Valley’s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under... Read more
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
By: Damien Lewis
Narrated by: NIgel Carrington
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill tasked with stopping the unstoppable German war machine. Criminals, rogues, and survivalists, the brutal tactics and grit of these... Read more
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Tyranny of the Minority
By: Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die
“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny.”—The Washington Post
ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF... Read more
The Last Book On The Left
By: Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks & Henry Zebrowski
Narrated by: Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks & Henry Zebrowski
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left
Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, as hosts Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, and Marcus Parks cover... Read more
The Road to Eleusis
By: Albert Hofmann
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the... Read more
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: David Morrissey
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR • The Sunday Times • The New Statesman • The Times • The Spectator • The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A New York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection
“Prepare not to see much broad daylight, literal or metaphorical, for days... Read more
Goliath
By: Matt Stoller
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 20 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.
Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one... Read more
Poisoner in Chief
By: Stephen Kinzer
Narrated by: James Linkin
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s.
The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer—the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind... Read more
The Information
By: James Gleick
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our... Read more
Kubrick
By: Nathan Abrams & Robert P. Kolker
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 24 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.
The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years.
Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap.... Read more
The Way We Never Were
By: Stephanie Coontz
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 17 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American familyLeave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were,... Read more
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The Day the World Came to Town
By: Jim DeFede
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded... Read more
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The Immortal Irishman
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America.The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s,... Read more
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