Bestsellers
The most popular titles available at Audible.com, generating buzz from critics, publishers, and your fellow audio enthusiasts.All Categories
Top 100-
-
Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- By: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, Bomani Jones - foreword
- Narrated by: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime - but we need to get started now....
-
-
very left leaning
- By Bert Sloan on 09-06-22
-
81. Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- Narrated by: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $25.00 or 1 credit
Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Amity and Prosperity
- One Family and the Fracturing of America
- By: Eliza Griswold
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism....
-
-
touching and poignant
- By Mother of Chickens on 06-28-18
-
82. Amity and Prosperity
- One Family and the Fracturing of America
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-12-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $20.24 or 1 credit
Sale price: $20.24 or 1 credit
-
-
-
You Ought to Do a Story About Me
- Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
- By: Ted Jackson
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the transformative friendship binding a fallen-from-grace NFL player and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who meet on the streets of New Orleans, offering a rare glimpse into the precarious world of homelessness....
-
-
Good Book Hard Listen
- By Mr. E Man on 01-10-24
-
83. You Ought to Do a Story About Me
- Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-25-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $24.29 or 1 credit
Sale price: $24.29 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
- On Care for Our Common Home
- By: Naomi Oreskes - introduction, Pope Francis
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Linda Korn
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The pope cites the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change and does not hesitate to detail how it is the result of a historic level of unequal distribution of wealth....
-
-
A must read
- By John J. Mudd on 09-03-15
-
84. Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
- On Care for Our Common Home
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Linda Korn
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-04-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $13.50 or 1 credit
Sale price: $13.50 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Not a Crime to Be Poor
- The Criminalization of Poverty in America
- By: Peter Edelman
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today....
-
-
Very Important Story
- By David Larson on 11-13-17
-
85. Not a Crime to Be Poor
- The Criminalization of Poverty in America
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-31-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $20.00 or 1 credit
Sale price: $20.00 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- By: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....
-
-
Behavioral Science Applied
- By Alex McCurdy on 06-13-17
-
86. The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 07-15-15
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $25.70 or 1 credit
Sale price: $25.70 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- By: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....
-
-
Amazing. Horrifying. But true.
- By Daniel W. Fox, Jr. on 03-23-22
-
87. Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-15-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $25.19 or 1 credit
Sale price: $25.19 or 1 credit
-
-
-
"They Just Need to Get a Job"
- 15 Myths on Homelessness
- By: Mary Brosnahan
- Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For fans of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors.
-
88. "They Just Need to Get a Job"
- 15 Myths on Homelessness
- Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-12-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $21.84 or 1 credit
Sale price: $21.84 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The People of the Abyss
- By: Jack London
- Narrated by: John Stanbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the...
-
-
As Fresh Today as a Century Ago
- By Rick on 12-10-17
-
89. The People of the Abyss
- Narrated by: John Stanbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 07-24-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $11.59 or 1 credit
Sale price: $11.59 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- By: David K. Shipler
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nobody who works hard should be poor in America, writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shipler....
-
-
Textbook Perfect Discussion of the Problem
- By Cynthia on 07-28-12
-
90. The Working Poor
- Invisible in America
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-19-11
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $26.57 or 1 credit
Sale price: $26.57 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- By: Dorceta E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, Toxic Communities examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards....
-
-
Excellent Exposure of Prejudice When It Comes To Environmental Factors
- By lighten79 on 07-11-24
-
91. Toxic Communities
- Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-19-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $21.49 or 1 credit
Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The New Breadline
- Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course....
-
-
Modern Solutions and perspectives in humanity's greatest fight.
- By isa del on 08-11-24
-
92. The New Breadline
- Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Jean-Martin Bauer
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $15.75 or 1 credit
Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit
-
-
-
London Labour and the London Poor
- By: Henry Mayhew
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....
-
-
THE BEST BOOK ON VICTORIAN LONDON
- By Count B on 06-06-20
-
93. London Labour and the London Poor
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-30-18
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $46.79 or 1 credit
Sale price: $46.79 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While free markets have brought positive change, traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty....
-
-
Narrator is awful
- By Paul on 01-24-08
-
94. Creating a World Without Poverty
- How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-16-08
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $15.56 or 1 credit
Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit
-
-
-
If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- By: Vicki Sokolik
- Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.
-
-
The storytelling
- By margarita on 07-12-24
-
95. If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-13-24
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $21.05 or 1 credit
Sale price: $21.05 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Profit and Punishment
- How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
- By: Tony Messenger
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans....
-
-
Politically motived and bias
- By Amazon Customer on 04-07-22
-
96. Profit and Punishment
- How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-07-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $14.99 or 1 credit
Sale price: $14.99 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Poorly Understood
- What America Gets Wrong About Poverty
- By: Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Poorly Understood not only challenges the myths of poverty and inequality, but it explains why these myths continue to exist, providing an innovative blueprint for how the nation can move forward to effectively alleviate American poverty....
-
-
Had to read it for class
- By Madi on 11-14-23
-
97. Poorly Understood
- What America Gets Wrong About Poverty
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $17.19 or 1 credit
Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit
-
-
-
The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- By: William Easterly
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The White Man's Burden is a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor....
-
-
A Bit Repetitive
- By Amazon Customer on 04-27-19
-
98. The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-04-17
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $18.05 or 1 credit
Sale price: $18.05 or 1 credit
-
-
-
American Made
- What Happens to People When Work Disappears
- By: Farah Stockman
- Narrated by: Farah Stockman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....
-
-
Explains a lot!
- By MoMa on 11-12-21
-
99. American Made
- What Happens to People When Work Disappears
- Narrated by: Farah Stockman
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $20.25 or 1 credit
Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit
-
-
-
Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....
-
-
Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
-
100. Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to Cart failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Please try againUnfollow podcast failed
Please try againRegular price: $19.49 or 1 credit
Sale price: $19.49 or 1 credit
-