The Netanyahus
An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
By Joshua Cohen
Narrated by: Joshua Cohen, David Duchovny & Ethan Herschenfeld
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
2022 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction and named one of the notable books of 2021 by The New York Times
Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the...
Read more »Covered with Night
A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
By Nicole Eustace
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes
On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and... Read more »
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
An American History
By Ada Ferrer
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 23 hours 13 minutes
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY
“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day—written by one of the world’s leading historians of... Read more »
Chasing Me to My Grave
An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
By Winfred Rembert
Narrated by: Dion Graham & Karen Chilton
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.
He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife....
Read more »Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
By Andrea Elliott
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott
“From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for... Read more »
Home, Land, Security
Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism
By Carla Power
Narrated by: Carla Power
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A “provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization” (Esquire), told through the stories of former militants and the people working to bring them back into society
What are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to this question well before the January 6, 2021, attack in... Read more »
Palmares
By Gayl Jones
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 22 hours 39 minutes
2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction
A NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 Selection
A New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian “50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021” Selection · An Esquire “Best Books of Fall 2021” Selection · A Buzzfeed “Best Books Coming Out This Fall”... Read more »
Monkey Boy
A Novel
By Francisco Goldman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of "going home again." It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again. Soon he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girlfriend... Read more »
The Doctors Blackwell
How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
By Janice P. Nimura
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity ultimately won her the acceptance of the male medical establishment. In 1849, she became the first woman in... Read more »
Until Justice Be Done
America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
By Kate Masur
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 14 hours 15 minutes
A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, north and south, in the decades before the Civil War.
The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states, claiming the authority to maintain the... Read more »
The Family Roe
An American Story
By Joshua Prager
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 18 hours 40 minutes
A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart. Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with... Read more »