Social Science audiobooks

The Good Place and Philosophy

By: unknown

Narrated by: Amy McFadden & Joe Hempel

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts, including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur.



● Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical concepts, questions, and fundamental... Read more

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois

Narrated by: Raymond Hearn

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Raymond Hearn, the narrator of this edition, did an incredible rendition similar to what he did for The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

"EITHER AMERICA WILL DESTROY IGNORANCE OR IGNORANCE WILL DESTROY THE UNITED STATES." -W.E.B. Du Bois

This classic groundbreaking work of American literature first published in 1903 is a cornerstone of... Read more

The Dead Don't Need Reminding

By: Julian Randall

Narrated by: Julian Randall

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This “inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere” book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture (Kirkus).

The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randall’s return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his... Read more

Of Woman Born

By: Adrienne Rich

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Nicole Lewis

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.

The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature... Read more

PIHKAL

By: Alexander Shulgin & Ann Shulgin

Narrated by: Fred Sanders & Petrea Burchard

Length: 22 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexander (better known as “Sasha”) and Ann Shulgin’s PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs that are currently being studied and used to heal trauma and deal with death. An acronym for... Read more

Goddesses

By: Joseph Campbell

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Campbell brought mythology to a mass audience. His bestselling books, including The Power of Myth and The Hero with a Thousand Faces, are the rare blockbusters that are also scholarly classics.While Campbell’s work reached wide and deep as he covered the world’s great mythological traditions, he never wrote a book on goddesses in world... Read more

Twilight of the Elites

By: Chris Hayes

Narrated by: Chris Hayes

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another –  from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the... Read more

The Black Period

By: Hafizah Augustus Geter

Narrated by: Hafizah Augustus Geter

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals.

“Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the... Read more

Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back

By: Jessica Luther & Kavitha A. Davidson

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it's fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hit to the head after yet another study has warned of the dangers of CTE, or when a team whose mascot was born in an era of racism and bigotry takes the field, or when a relief pitcher accused of... Read more

Against Civility

By: Alex Zamalin

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon civility and practice civic radicalism

The idea and practice of civility has always been wielded to silence dissent, repress political participation, and justify violence upon people of... Read more

The Body Is Not an Apology

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

Narrated by: Sonya Renee Taylor

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A global movement guided by love

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted... Read more

Rising Tide - Abridged

By: John M. Barry

Narrated by: George Grizzard

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.

An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of... Read more

Brown Faces, White Spaces

By: Latasha Morrison

Narrated by: Latasha Morrison, Dr. Anita Phillips & David Le...

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Be the Bridge calls people of faith to be a part of lasting change and help heal the racial disparity in our country—together.

“A journey that encourages us to love our neighbors in real time as we understand the history that has shaped us.”—Terence Lester, PhD, founder of Love Beyond Walls

We might think... Read more

Una trenza de hierba sagrada (Braiding Sweetgrass)

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Marco Lubián

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Como botánico, Robin Wall Kimmerer ha sido entrenado para hacer preguntas de la naturaleza con las herramientas de la ciencia. Como miembro de la Nación Ciudadana Potawatomi, abraza la idea de que las plantas y los animales son nuestros maestros más antiguos. En Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer reúne estas dos lentes de conocimiento para llevarnos... Read more

The Mole People

By: Jennifer Toth

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives... Read more

Atoms and Ashes

By: Serhii Plokhy

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing... Read more

When God Became White

By: Grace Ji-Sun Kim

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When Western Christians think about God, the default image that comes to mind is usually white and male. How did that happen?

Christianity is rooted in the ancient Near East among people of darker skin. But over time, European Christians cast Jesus in their own image, with art that imagined a fair-skinned Savior in the style of imperial rulers.... Read more

The Women I Think About at Night

By: Mia Kankimäki

Narrated by: Lisa Negron

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "thought-provoking blend of history, biography, women's studies, and travelogue" (Library Journal) Mia Kankimäki recounts her enchanting travels in Japan, Kenya, and Italy while retracing the steps of ten remarkable female pioneers from history.



What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia... Read more

ADHD for Smart Ass Women

By: Tracy Otsuka

Narrated by: Tracy Otsuka

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery.ADHD is one of the most common neurological disor­ders in the United States—yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the gen­der gap in medical research, which does not account... Read more

He

By: Robert A. Johnson

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert A. Johnson's classic work exploring the differences between man and woman, female and male—newly reissued.



What does it really mean to be a man? What are some of the landmarks along the road to mature masculinity? And what of the feminine components of a man's personality?



Women have developed, over the centuries, considerable expertise in... Read more

Fighting Mad

By: Krystale E. Littlejohn & Rickie Solinger

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant... Read more

Lifehouse

By: Adam Greenfield

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

How to reclaim power in a time of perpetual crisis



We are living through a Long Emergency: a near-continuous train of pandemics, heatwaves, droughts, resource wars, and other climate-driven disasters. In Lifehouse, Adam Greenfield asks what might happen if the tactics and networks of care that spring up in response to these times might be brought... Read more

Reinventing Love

By: Mona Chollet

Narrated by: Alix Dunmore

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A new work by the author of “In Defense of Witches” that seeks to redefine heterosexual relationships and give women back their voice.

As feminist principles have taken wider hold in society, and basic ideas about equality for women can seem a given, many women still struggle in one of the most important areas of life: love. Whether it’s finding... Read more

Make Noise

By: Eric Nuzum

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Podcasting is the fastest-growing media platform in the world, with currently 650,000 podcasts out there, in 100 languages, and offering over 20 million episodes. And we’re only at the beginning. More and more podcasts appear every day, and more and more entrepreneurs, businesses, individuals, and distributors, like Spotify, are getting into... Read more