Arabs
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 25 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost three thousand years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances.... Read more
View audiobookThe Exvangelicals
By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... Read more
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
By: Matthew Perry
Narrated by: Matthew Perry
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"Going into his "why," Perry's audiobook is a fascinating listen."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author.
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY TIME, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, GOODREADS, USA TODAY, AND MORE!
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory... Read more
Good Inside
By: Becky Kennedy
Narrated by: Becky Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Instant Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller“This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving—which is to say, all of us. Good Inside is not only a wise and practical guide to raising resilient, emotionally healthy kids, it’s also a supportive... Read more
View audiobookThe House of Hidden Meanings
By: RuPaul
Narrated by: RuPaul
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Read by Ru Paul
***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame... Read more
Another Appalachia
By: Neema Avashia
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves... Read more
View audiobookThe Maximum Security Book Club
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
View audiobookRaw Dog
By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023
"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." —The New York Times
"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." —BookPage
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more
No Bad Parts
By: Richard C. Schwartz PhD & Alanis Morissette - f...
Narrated by: Charlie Mechling
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind - and healing the many parts that make you who you are.Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard... Read more
View audiobookWhat My Bones Know
By: Stephanie Foo
Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
“Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should... Read more
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
By: Maria Bamford
Narrated by: Maria Bamford
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and “laugh-out-loud funny” (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems—from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends... Read more
View audiobookBriefly Perfectly Human
By: Alua Arthur
Narrated by: Alua Arthur
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd... Read more
View audiobookFuzz
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Mary Roach
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Audible's Best of 2021
One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2021
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller
#1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller
A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionJoin "America’s... Read more
Age of Revolutions
By: Fareed Zakaria
Narrated by: Fareed Zakaria
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The internationally bestselling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the chaotic, polarized, and unstable age in which we live.
Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, geopolitical dangers, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk—the early decades of the 21st century may... Read more
A Fever in the Heartland
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Timothy Egan
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly resonant today." -- David Grann, author of THE WAGER and... Read more
View audiobookThe Road to Unfreedom
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read more
View audiobookReal Self-Care
By: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Narrated by: Pooja Lakshmin, MD
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian
NPR's "Books We Love for 2023"
Forbes' "Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time"
"Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle
"This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a... Read more
Surrender
By: Bono
Narrated by: Bono
Length: 20 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive... Read more
Burning Questions
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood & Full Cast
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions... Read more
View audiobookBFF
By: Christie Tate
Narrated by: Christie Tate
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *
From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying memoir about Christie Tate’s lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the... Read more
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
By: Jonathan Blitzer
Narrated by: André Santana & Jonathan Blitzer
Length: 18 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Bestseller
“What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis, the discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
“Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the U.S. and Central American immigration... Read more
You Get What You Pay For
By: Morgan Parker
Narrated by: Morgan Parker
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
In her “witty and searing” first essay collection, award-winning poet Morgan Parker examines “the cultural legacy of Black womanhood and the meaning of finding ‘well-being’ in a world that wasn’t built for you” (Vogue).
“Riveting and deeply personal . . . filled with poignant insights.”—Cosmopolitan
Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and... Read more
Dare to Lead
By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené... Read more
Having and Being Had
By: Eula Biss
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
“A sensational new book [that] tries to figure out whether it’s possible to live an ethical life in a capitalist society. . . . The results are enthralling.” —Associated Press
A timely and arresting new look at affluence by the New York... Read more