Nonfiction Audio Books

Joe Richman
My So-Called Lungs: Laura's Diary

21-year-old Laura Rothenberg has always tried to live a normal life, with lungs that often betray her, and the sober awareness that she may not live to see her 30th birthday....

Joe Richman and Emily Botein
New York Works: Audio Portraits of a Vanishing City

Ninety-four-year old Selma Koch runs one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shops. Walter Backerman still delivers seltzer along the same route worked by his father and grandfather...

Joe Richman and Wendy Dorr
Prison Diaries

An unprecedented, first-person look at life inside penitentiary walls through the intense radio series, Prison Diaries. Five inmates, four correctional officers and a judge were given tape recorders...

Warren St. John
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey Into the Heart of Fan Mania (Unabridged)

Warren St. John decided to find out why people care so much about the outcomes of games they're not playing in by joining a group where the particulars of the fan psyche would show themselves in sharp relief: the caravan of hundreds of RVs that follow the Alabama Crimson Tide across the South....

Robert Cornuke
Relic Quest: The Story of One Man's Pursuit of the Lost Ark of the Covenant (Unabridged)

Does the near-mythical Ark of the Covenant still exist today? Countless people have thought so....

John McPhee
Rising From the Plains: Annals of the Former World, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Rising From the Plains creates a fascinating picture of the interdependence of geology, commerce, and culture....

TekTrek
San Gervasio: First Contact

Walk among ancient ruins and learn the story of the Maya's first encounter with Europeans....

Daniel Gilbert
Stumbling on Happiness (Unabridged)

A smart and funny book by a prominent Harvard psychologist, which uses groundbreaking research and (often hilarious) anecdotes....

Juan in Denver, CO
Teenage Diaries: Juan in Denver, CO, Back to Mexico

There was a moment where, and I'll tell him, well, grandfather, this is time for me to go, you know, have to go back, and I search in my pockets and I find...

Juan in El Cenizo, TX
Teenage Diaries: Juan in El Cenizo, TX, Looking at the Rio Grande

It's pretty amazing. Like, looking down there at the other end of the water, you know. And imagine me, you know, I'm Mexican, and I'm just looking at my country right now...