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The Age of Magical Overthinking
By:
Amanda Montell
Narrated by:
Amanda Montell
Length:
6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged:
No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant”... Read more about The Age of Magical Overthinking
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The Dawn of Everything
By:
David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by:
Mark Williams
Length:
24 hours 19 minutes
Abridged:
No
"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more about The Dawn of Everything
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Talking to Strangers
By:
Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by:
Malcolm Gladwell
Length:
8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free PresMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more about Talking to Strangers
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Mutual Aid
By:
Dean Spade
Narrated by:
Stephen R. Thorne
Length:
4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged:
No
Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or... Read more about Mutual Aid
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On Tyranny
By:
Timothy Snyder
Narrated by:
Timothy Snyder
Length:
1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more about On Tyranny
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Girl on Girl
By:
Sophie Gilbert
Narrated by:
Sophie Gilbert
Length:
8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged:
No
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded... Read more about Girl on Girl
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Doppelganger
By:
Naomi Klein
Narrated by:
Naomi Klein
Length:
14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged:
No
This program is read by the author."An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times “If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more about Doppelganger
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Between the World and Me
By:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length:
3 hours 35 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENTHailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal... Read more about Between the World and Me
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Super Nintendo
By:
Keza MacDonald
Narrated by:
Keza MacDonald
Length:
8 hours 20 minutes
Abridged:
No
An exuberant, behind-the-scenes look at the designers and the company that brought us Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, and so much more“Keza MacDonald pulls back the curtain on the Nintendo dream factory.” —Walt Williams, author of Significant ZeroWhat magical mushroom could have turned an unassuming playing card company into one of the dominant... Read more about Super Nintendo
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Emergent Strategy
By:
adrienne maree brown
Narrated by:
adrienne maree brown
Length:
8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged:
No
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a... Read more about Emergent Strategy
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Hood Feminism
By:
Mikki Kendall
Narrated by:
Mikki Kendall
Length:
6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged:
No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in... Read more about Hood Feminism
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Poverty, by America
By:
Matthew Desmond
Narrated by:
Dion Graham
Length:
5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged:
No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The... Read more about Poverty, by America
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Not My Type
By:
E. Jean Carroll
Narrated by:
E. Jean Carroll
Length:
12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged:
No
AN INSTANT INDIE, USA TODAY, AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“The world knows that Carroll prevailed in her gazillion-dollar lawsuits against Trump for defamation and sexual abuse. But hearing her describe that courtroom battle in her own smoky, mirth-filled drawl is an experience too delicious for the printed page. Which is why you shouldn’t read... Read more about Not My Type
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South to America
By:
Imani Perry
Narrated by:
Imani Perry
Length:
16 hours 32 minutes
Abridged:
No
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more about South to America
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Unmasking Autism
By:
Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by:
Devon Price, PhD
Length:
9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged:
No
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP,... Read more about Unmasking Autism
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Burnout
By:
Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Narrated by:
Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Length:
7 hours 1 minute
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This book is a gift! I’ve been practicing their strategies, and it’s a total game changer.”—Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead “A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves, Burnout is essential reading [and] . . . excels in its... Read more about Burnout
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The Devil in the White City
By:
Erik Larson
Narrated by:
Scott Brick
Length:
15 hours
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that... Read more about The Devil in the White City
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Adult Braces
By:
Lindy West
Narrated by:
Lindy West
Length:
TBA
Abridged:
No
In her most ambitious memoir yet, bestselling author Lindy West takes listeners on a funny and unfiltered cross-country road trip through the most chaotic period of her life. Exclusive self-recorded voice memos captured on the road give this audiobook a raw, real-time immediacy as she rediscovers herself and reinvents her marriage in the... Read more about Adult Braces
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By:
Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by:
Jason Reynolds
Length:
4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more about Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
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You Didn't Hear This From Me
By:
Kelsey McKinney
Narrated by:
Kelsey McKinney
Length:
7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged:
No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO • NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE “Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” —Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling authorFrom the... Read more about You Didn't Hear This From Me
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Hunt, Gather, Parent
By:
Michaeleen Doucleff
Narrated by:
Michaeleen Doucleff
Length:
11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged:
No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? “Hunt, Gather, Parent is full of smart ideas that I immediately wanted to force on my own kids.” —Pamela Druckerman, The New York Times Book Review When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother,... Read more about Hunt, Gather, Parent
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White Fragility
By:
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Narrated by:
Amy Landon
Length:
6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged:
No
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white... Read more about White Fragility
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So You Want to Talk about Race
By:
Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by:
Bahni Turpin
Length:
7 hours 41 minutes
Abridged:
No
In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a revelatory examination of race in AmericaA current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk about Race,... Read more about So You Want to Talk about Race
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
By:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Narrated by:
Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length:
9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged:
No
New York Times BestsellerThis American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’... Read more about An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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