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View audiobook of Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
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Everything Is Tuberculosis

By:

John Green

Narrated by:

John Green

Length:

5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 New York Times bestseller • #1 Washington Post bestseller • #1 Indie Bestseller • USA Today BestsellerJohn Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific... Read more about Everything Is Tuberculosis

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View audiobook of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
View audiobook of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow

Enshittification

By:

Cory Doctorow

Narrated by:

Cory Doctorow

Length:

10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged:

No

Enshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet. We are all living through the Enshittocene—the Great Enshittening—a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are... Read more about Enshittification

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View audiobook of The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
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The Anthropocene Reviewed

By:

John Green

Narrated by:

John Green

Length:

10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged:

No

“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:ThinkingThe instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down, is... Read more about The Anthropocene Reviewed

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View audiobook of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
View audiobook of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Careless People

By:

Sarah Wynn-Williams

Narrated by:

Sarah Wynn-Williams

Length:

13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping... Read more about Careless People

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View audiobook of Black AF History by Michael Harriot
Black AF History
Michael Harriot
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Black AF History

By:

Michael Harriot

Narrated by:

Michael Harriot

Length:

15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged:

No

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on... Read more about Black AF History

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View audiobook of Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Nobody's Girl
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
View audiobook of Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Nobody's Girl

By:

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Narrated by:

Thérèse Plummer & Gabra Zackman

Length:

13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The unforgettable memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who dared to take on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell“Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions sided with the perpetrator over his victims. . . . But it is also... Read more about Nobody's Girl

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View audiobook of Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
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Kindred

By:

Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by:

Kim Staunton

Length:

10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged:

No

The first science fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of Black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably... Read more about Kindred

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View audiobook of All About Love by bell hooks
All About Love
bell hooks
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All About Love

By:

bell hooks

Narrated by:

January LaVoy

Length:

6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged:

No

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring,... Read more about All About Love

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View audiobook of The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
View audiobook of The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Serviceberry

By:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Length:

1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged:

No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests... Read more about The Serviceberry

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View audiobook of The 1619 Project by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
The 1619 Project
Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein
View audiobook of The 1619 Project by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein

The 1619 Project

By:

Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman & Jake Silverstein

Narrated by:

Nikole Hannah-Jones & Full Cast

Length:

18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Marie Claire In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony... Read more about The 1619 Project

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View audiobook of Solito by Javier Zamora
Solito
Javier Zamora
View audiobook of Solito by Javier Zamora

Solito

By:

Javier Zamora

Narrated by:

Javier Zamora

Length:

17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged:

No

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyA young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the... Read more about Solito

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View audiobook of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
View audiobook of How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

By:

Ibram X. Kendi

Narrated by:

Ibram X. Kendi

Length:

10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society and in ourselves—now updated, with a new preface.“The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western... Read more about How to Be an Antiracist

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View audiobook of How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith
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How the Word Is Passed

By:

Clint Smith

Narrated by:

Clint Smith

Length:

10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged:

No

This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that... Read more about How the Word Is Passed

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View audiobook of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Message

By:

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Narrated by:

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Length:

5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.“Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about... Read more about The Message

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View audiobook of Come As You Are: Revised and Updated by Emily Nagoski
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated
Emily Nagoski
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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

By:

Emily Nagoski

Narrated by:

Emily Nagoski

Length:

11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged:

No

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less... Read more about Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

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View audiobook of The Will to Change by bell hooks
The Will to Change
bell hooks
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The Will to Change

By:

bell hooks

Narrated by:

Janina Edwards

Length:

6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged:

No

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men. Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which... Read more about The Will to Change

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View audiobook of Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read
Little Bosses Everywhere
Bridget Read
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Little Bosses Everywhere

By:

Bridget Read

Narrated by:

Nikki Massoud

Length:

11 hours 1 minute

Abridged:

No

A “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of history and reportage that unveils the stranger-than-fiction world of multilevel marketing: a massive money-making scam and radical political conspiracy that has remade American society.“Reads like a thriller . . . masterfully illuminates the tricks and sleights of hand that in multilevel marketing are... Read more about Little Bosses Everywhere

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View audiobook of The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy
The Secret History of the Rape Kit
Pagan Kennedy
View audiobook of The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy

The Secret History of the Rape Kit

By:

Pagan Kennedy

Narrated by:

Claire Danes

Length:

5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged:

No

Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity."Astonishing . . . Marty Goddard takes her rightful place as a visionary thanks to... Read more about The Secret History of the Rape Kit

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View audiobook of Cultish by Amanda Montell
Cultish
Amanda Montell
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Cultish

By:

Amanda Montell

Narrated by:

Ann Marie Gideon

Length:

8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged:

No

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers“At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too... Read more about Cultish

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View audiobook of Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
Isabel Wilkerson
View audiobook of Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

By:

Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by:

Robin Miles

Length:

15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged:

No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the... Read more about Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

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View audiobook of Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
Raw Dog
Jamie Loftus
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Raw Dog

By:

Jamie Loftus

Narrated by:

Jamie Loftus

Length:

9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged:

No

One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023"Loftus is a charming narrator...goofy, engaging, and always game to do a silly voice." The New York Times"There’s something terribly irresistible about her narration, which is often incredibly funny." BookPage Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut,... Read more about Raw Dog

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View audiobook of Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
Rest Is Resistance
Tricia Hersey
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Rest Is Resistance

By:

Tricia Hersey

Narrated by:

Tricia Hersey

Length:

5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged:

No

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... Read more about Rest Is Resistance

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View audiobook of Love in a F*cked-Up World by Dean Spade
Love in a F*cked-Up World
Dean Spade
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Love in a F*cked-Up World

By:

Dean Spade

Narrated by:

Dean Spade

Length:

7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged:

No

In this inspiring self-help handbook, a trans activist dares us to be the change we want to see—both out in the world, and amongst our closest connections. Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Many activist projects and... Read more about Love in a F*cked-Up World

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View audiobook of All in Her Head by Elizabeth Comen
All in Her Head
Elizabeth Comen
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All in Her Head

By:

Elizabeth Comen

Narrated by:

Anna Caputo

Length:

13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged:

No

Finalist for the 2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardUSA Today BestsellerAll in Her Head accomplishes a remarkable feat of storytelling. By combining essential medical histories about women’s bodies with all the narrative propulsion of a medical thriller, Comen has written a must-read, compelling, and important... Read more about All in Her Head

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