Social Science audiobooks

Brazillionaires

By: Alex Cuadros

Narrated by: Alex Cuadros

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Michael Lewis comes an engrossing tale of a country’s spectacular rise and fall, intertwined with the story of Brazil’s wealthiest citizen, Eike Batista—a universal story of hubris and tragedy that uncovers the deeper meaning of this era of billionaires.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES

When Bloomberg... Read more

Game of Shadows

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more

90s Bitch

By: Allison Yarrow

Narrated by: Allison Yarrow

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. ""Yarrow’s biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced — or “bitchified” — women at... Read more

Together

By: Vivek H. Murthy

Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more

The Book of Pride

By: Mason Funk

Narrated by: Mason Funk, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Kevin ...

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or... Read more

The Coddling of the American Mind

By: Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen?

First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and... Read more

Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)

By: Cristina Rivera Garza

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem).
 
“Part memoir, part true-crime story, Garza’s chronicle is both... Read more

Making Sense

By: Sam Harris

Narrated by: Sam Harris, David Chalmers, David Deutsch, Anil...

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense. “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” —Sam Harris Sam Harris—neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author—has been exploring some of the most... Read more

Maid

By: Stephanie Land

Narrated by: Stephanie Land

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE."
  "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work."

-PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading... Read more

Get the Picture

By: Bianca Bosker

Narrated by: Bianca Bosker

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I’ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post

“A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME

“Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever transform the way you see. . . . I... Read more

Quit Like a Woman

By: Holly Whitaker

Narrated by: Holly Whitaker

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER •“An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed

“You don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life.”—Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30... Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?

“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more

Fight Like Hell

By: Kim Kelly

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.

Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more

It Came from the Closet

By: Joe Vallese & various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Graham Halstead, Aven Shore,...

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist... Read more

Homo Deus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein... Read more

What the Fact?

By: Seema Yasmin

Narrated by: Seema Yasmin

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies.

What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

By: Dr. Jen Gunter

Narrated by: Jen Gunter

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond.



Menopause is not a disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more

Talent is Overrated

By: Geoff Colvin

Narrated by: Geoff Colvin

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal

Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been updated and revised with new research and takeaways to help... Read more

This American Ex-Wife

By: Lyz Lenz

Narrated by: Lyz Lenz

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz

“This American Ex-Wife is a bomb, a bouquet (but not a wedding bouquet), a memoir, a manifesto, and a... Read more

The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement.

Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of the year

“It is a strange... Read more

Selling the Dream

By: Jane Marie

Narrated by: Jane Marie

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they, and countless other... Read more

Begin Again

By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time

James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
 
One of the Best Books of the Year:... Read more

Evicted

By: Matthew Desmond

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius”... Read more