Favorites of 2024

Forest of Noise

Poems

By: Mosab Abu Toha
Narrated by: Mosab Abu Toha
Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

““What can you see when your eyes are closed?” A Gazan mother tells her children just that with the hope of quelling their fears, despite being surrounded by bombs and their eradicating light. Reader, open your heart if your eyes are unwilling. Everyone’s humanity is at stake if the suffering in Palestine doesn’t wake you up to witness the truth.... Read more

The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

“Ta Nehisi-Coates’ beautiful writing illustrates the politics behind the craft of writing in the most moving, deeply profound way. He points to ways in which reading and writing are tools of both oppression and resistance that I had never even thought of before. You will think about this book for the rest of your life. Read more

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

By: Wright Thompson
Narrated by: Wright Thompson
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

“One of the best books I read in 2024. Wright Thompson is a true poet and masterfully weaves his personal connection with Mississippi with the tragic legacy of Emmitt Till. Highly recommended. Plus, Wright Thompson is the PERFECT reader for the audiobook. Read more

Total Garbage

How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

By: Edward Humes
Narrated by: Edward Humes
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we... Read more

The Exvangelicals

Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

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

Cue the Sun!

The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

“Are you low-key fascinated by reality tv? This is the book for you! It follows unscripted television from its game-show-type origins all the way up to today. It's a big part of our culture so I think it's great someone is studying it with such detail. Read more

Disillusioned

Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold
Narrated by: Benjamin Herold & Bethany Smith
Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools

Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North... Read more

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Jonathan Haidt
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

“This is a brilliant analysis of how unsupervised access to smartphones and social media has led to unintended negative consequences for young people, and what we can do to safeguard our kids. Read more

The Age of Magical Overthinking

Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

“I really enjoyed this collection of ponderings on current events and current thought processes. Amanda Montell has her finger on the pulse of society today! I listened to the author read this on Libro.fm! It felt like having a great conversation with a friend. Read more

Get the Picture

A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

“With a lot of humor, a hint of skepticism, and an utterly sincere enthusiasm to learn everything she can, Bianca Bosker does a deep-dive into the world of contemporary fine art. Working galleries, studios, fairs, and museums, in conversation with artists, collectors, neuroscientists, and a performance artist/ass-influencer, Bosker explores every... Read more

Unshrinking

How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Kate Manne
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled

“An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our... Read more

The Power of Hormones

The new science of how hormones shape every aspect of our lives

By: Max Nieuwdorp
Narrated by: Joe Eyre
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

*A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2024*

'Every page of this book is fascinating, glorious, and profound. This is one of the great frontiers of science for our age'
Daniel M. Davis, author of The Beautiful Cure and The Secret Body 
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From a world-leading hormones specialist, the definitive... Read more

Lisa Marie Presley. Desde aquí a lo desconocido: Memorias

By: Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
Narrated by: Fabiola Stevenson & Susana Ballesteros
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Hija de uno de los mayores mitos de Estados Unidos y criada en el territorio salvaje de Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley cuenta por primera vez su historia en estas memorias sinceras, conmovedoras y totalmente únicas, fielmente completadas por su hija, Riley Keough. En 2022, Lisa Marie Presley le pidió a su hija que la ayudase a terminar las... Read more

The Third Gilmore Girl

A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop
Narrated by: Kelly Bishop
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

“Heading into the fall always has me wanting to head back to Stars Hollow. This book was just right for that with the bonus of sharing so much more of Kelly Bishop’s amazing career and life. If you enjoyed seeing the other side of show business in Making It So by Patrick Stewart, put this on your list to try next. You won’t be disappointed! Read more

Dinner for Vampires

By: Bethany Joy Lenz
Narrated by: Bethany Joy Lenz
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Includes exclusive audio cameos from One Tree Hill cast members Tyler Hilton, Paul Johansson, James Lafferty, and Chad Michael Murray!

An “incredible” (Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy), “riveting” (People) New York Times bestselling memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free.

In the early... Read more

Sociopath

A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne
Narrated by: Patric Gagne
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“Sociopath is compelling, reflective, funny, informative, complicated, and beautiful. While both a coming-of-age story and an informative memoir on sociopathy, this book, at it is core, is a love story. A self-love story, a familial love story, and a romantic love story. The author does an amazing job of narrating - making you feel like you are... Read more

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“Honestly one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. Ina has lived a full and captivating life. Her life off screen is one full of love and adventure. It makes me want to support her even more. I could read 4 more books with stories from her life Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Delightful book about the adventures food can lead to. Read more

James

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

“A powerful, compelling novel that steps gracefully into its place as a classic. James is not a companion, or a retelling, of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it's its own breath of fresh air, its own story, and its own message. Everett understands each of his characters, especially his main character, in the most intimate and sure of ways. Read more

Table for Two

Fictions

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“I like very few short story collections. I can literally count them on one hand. This maybe completes the hand, as the fifth. And honestly I think it's because Towles is SUCH a talented writer. I bookmarked numerous places in my audiobook that I want to transfer to my print copy because I loved how he wrote something and want to be able to look... Read more