Earth Day: Audiobook Picks

All We Can Save

Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Janet Mock, Bahni Turpin & Alfre Woodard
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“I wasn’t expecting this collection of essays and poetry from women on the frontlines of the climate movement to be so energizing and symphonic…My favorite contributors were a climate scientist who had to convince her husband that climate change was real, a Black church leader hosting community discussions, a student suffering from climate grief,... Read more

The Climate Book

The Facts and the Solutions

By: Greta Thunberg
Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan & Olivia Forrest
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more

The Intersectional Environmentalist

How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas
Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Acclaimed environmental activist Leah Thomas has put together an expert and necessary introduction into the ways climate change has most aggressively impacted marginalized communities while simultaneously pinpointing the ways those same voices have historically been ignored within environmentalism movements. The Intersectional Environmentalist... Read more

On Fire

The Case for the Green New Deal

By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).

An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“The hype over this book is real! Consider this your sign to pick it up and give it a listen if you have been thinking about it. Kimmerer narrates her own book with emotion and heart, and I absolutely enjoyed every minute of it! Braiding Sweetgrass will make you see the world differently, and I truly think everyone can relate to a chapter in this... Read more

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong

“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... Read more

Letters to the Earth

Writing to a Planet in Crisis

By: Emma Thompson & Others
Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Mark Rylance, Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Morfydd Clark, Caroline Lucas MP, Paapa Essiedu, Kate Tempest, Jackie Morris, Danny Sapani, Dr Gail Bradbrook, The Youth Strikers & full cast
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris. ‘All power to this amazing project.’ JOANNE HARRIS‘Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole new way’ MAGID MAGID ... Read more

Net Zero

How We Stop Causing Climate Change

By: Dieter Helm
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done. In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we... Read more

Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single... Read more

Climate Worrier

A Hypocrite’s Guide to Saving the Planet

By: Colm O’Regan
Narrated by: Colm O’Regan
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Bestselling author Colm O’Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now Colm is grappling with the biggest worry of all: the whole ‘planet being on fire’ thing and how exactly we can help. Don’t worry, this isn’t a book telling you how to... Read more

How We Fish

The Love, Life and Joy of the Riverbank

By: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey
Narrated by: Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing. Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport – call it what you want – they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids... Read more

All Through the Night

Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies

By: Dani Robertson
Narrated by: Dani Robertson
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Best New Books on Space 2024 – Forbes ‘Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging’ – Forbes Why darkness is so important – to plants, to animals, and to ourselves – and why we must protect it all costs. Darkness is the first thing we know in... Read more

The Lie of the Land

Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

*A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS* 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'It couldn't be more relevant' JAMES O'BRIEN 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ... Read more

Fancy Nancy: Every Day Is Earth Day

I Can Read Level 1

By: Jane O'Connor
Narrated by: Chloe Hennessee
Length: 6 minutes

Fancy Nancy fans of all ages will love this sweet story about learning to respect both the Earth and your family, in this I Can Read story from New York Times bestselling team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser!Learning to respect the environment is no small task, especially if you want to celebrate Earth Day every day of the week! Luckily,... Read more

Earth Keeper

Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 51 minutes

""Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose."" — EsquireA magnificent testament to the earth, from... Read more

The Fragile Earth

Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change

By: David Remnick & Henry Finder
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, Gabra Zackman & Cat Gould
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the ElectionA collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and moreJust one year after climatologist James... Read more

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

By: John Philip Newell
Narrated by: Angus King
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and inside of us—can help us heal the earth, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect with ourselves.

John Philip Newell shares the long, hidden tradition of Celtic Christianity, explaining how this earth-based spirituality can help us rediscover the... Read more

Masters of the Lost Land

The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier

By: Heriberto Araujo
Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rain forest—and anyone who stands in the wayDeep in the heart of the Amazon, the city of Rondon do Pará, Brazil, lived for decades in the shadow of land... Read more

Wind Riders #1: Rescue on Turtle Beach

Wind Riders: Book #1

By: Jen Marlin
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 52 minutes

Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their first mission? Rescuing baby sea turtles in the beautiful waters of Hawaii.Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned sailboat. They’re given the chance to make a real... Read more

Wind Riders #2: Search for the Scarlet Macaws

Wind Riders: Book #2

By: Jen Marlin
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 54 minutes

Hop aboard Wind Rider, a magical sailboat, with Max and Sofia, two kids trying to save the environment one problem at a time. Their second mission? Protecting majestic scarlet macaw chicks in the most biodiverse place on Earth, the Amazon rain forest.Max and Sofia are ordinary kids whose lives are changed when they discover an abandoned... Read more