Nonfiction

Professor, scholar, and author Imani Perry highlights the submerged connections every American has to the largest region of the United States: the South.

In his Audible Original podcast, music producer Maejor consults with the experts to decode our deep connection to rhythm and the healing benefits of sound.

The Middle Ages, the period from the fall of the Roman Empire to the emergence of the Renaissance, is a fascinating era in world history. Learn more about the medieval period with these insightful audiobooks and can’t-miss podcasts.

Whether you are thinking about doing Dry January, reducing your intake, or cutting out alcohol completely, what you listen to could have a major impact on your success.

War is hell... but war audiobooks don't have to be! Our history editor curates a list of snappy, engaging listens about conflicts that were anything but.

Here are just a few of our favorite theater audiobooks to tide you over until curtain call.

Once viewed as a mind-blowing escape for hippies, psychedelics are gaining traction as legitimately useful and therapeutic. Here are some audiobooks to teach you everything you need to know about these often misunderstood drugs.

There’s no doubt that human nature is fascinating, and human behavior is often baffling. These sociology audiobooks help to explain our complexities and the forces—culture, politics, gender identity, and many more—that shape them.

Here are some of the most thoughtful and insightful audiobooks around written by or about the experience of living outside of the gender binary.

On the latest episode of Audicted, we explore the many facets of nonfiction. Featuring an excerpt from an interview with author Dr. Jessica Clemons.

Whether you’ve been thinking about a move (or visit!) to Brazil, or are interested in learning a new romance language, we’ve got you covered with this list of the best audiobooks for learning Portuguese.

We live in a new golden age of titles by authors—often professors, often women, often intersectional—who draw upon both personal history and primary sources explicitly to address the question: “What next?” I am personally grateful for the energy and clarity of many of these works, and I set about gathering the best, most inspiring examples. But, reader, to trim and shape this list was one of the hardest curatorial tasks of my career, so I narrowed it down to books published (in audio!) since the beginning of 2020!