Politics & Economy audiobooks

The Only Plane in the Sky

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and Air Traffic Control.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“This... Read more

Secrets of the Sprakkar

By: Eliza Reid

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from... Read more

Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw

Narrated by: Martin Shaw

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with the world There is an old legend that says we each have a wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our vitality with them. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on... Read more

The Constitutional Bind

By: Aziz Rana

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 30 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook version of this book.

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst... Read more

The 48 Laws of Power

By: Robert Greene

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 23 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control—from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.



In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost... Read more

Stories are Weapons

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Alexandra Cohler

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War–era... Read more

Unbroken

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.

“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal

Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los... Read more

Washington Bullets

By: Vijay Prashad

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easily have been a song of despair—a lament of lost causes; it is, after all, a roll call... Read more

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By: Nathan Thrall

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing,... Read more

The Quiet Damage

By: Jesselyn Cook

Narrated by: Jesselyn Cook

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The “gripping” (The Atlantic) story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.

“Excellent . . . This is the intimate side of the cold civil war America has been stuck in for nearly a decade.”—Michelle Goldberg, The New... Read more

The Hidden Globe

By: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS SUNDAY MORNING

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

“Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable…What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn’t the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New... Read more

Why Civil Resistance Works

By: Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan

Narrated by: Traci Odom

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation,... Read more

Fight

By: Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!""Brutal"" —Huffington Post""Scathing"" —New York Post“So many revelations.” —Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe""Bombshell."" —Jesse Watters, host of FOX’s Jesse Watters PrimetimeThe authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shattered provide a revelatory, inside look at the Biden, Harris, and... Read more

The Education of an Idealist

By: Samantha Power

Narrated by: Samantha Power

Length: 21 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERONE OF AUDIBLE’S BEST AUDIOBOOKS OF 2019A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2019 • ONE OF TIME’S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019 • AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2019“Her highly personal and... Read more

Loud

By: Drew Afualo

Narrated by: Drew Afualo

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by podcast star Drew Afualo.

Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. Loud is part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir. It makes it clear that behind her... Read more

How Fascism Works

By: Jason Stanley

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer

A Yale philosopher identifies the... Read more

Unsettled

By: Steven E. Koonin

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future.

“Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating.”
“Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.”
“Rapid ‘climate... Read more

Blood in the Machine

By: Brian Merchant

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year

The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural... Read more

How to Hide an Empire

By: Daniel Immerwahr

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and... Read more

The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Roger Davis, who earned first-class honors in media and anthropology, puts his training to good use to lead listeners through 17th- and 18th-century Malagasy history." - Library Journal

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.

Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance... Read more

Just Mercy

By: Bryan Stevenson

Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

The Power Broker: Volume 2 of 3

By: Robert A. Caro

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping of twentieth-century New York.  One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century.

Robert Caro's... Read more

How to Prepare for Climate Change

By: David Pogue

Narrated by: David Pogue

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue.

You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day... Read more