Audiobooks

Audiobooks

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff  – Very well could be the most important book written since the invention of social media.

• The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean – Tells the story of how the Allies were attempting to stop the Germans from getting a nuclear bomb.

• Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie and Rita Lurie  – Tells of how the mother’s holocaust experience affected later generations. The book is told through the eyes of Rita, the mother and a holocaust survivor, and her daughter, Leslie, who grew up in the United States.

• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope  -Tells of one of the biggest financial heists in history

• Black Ops: The Rise of Special Forces in the CIA, the SAS, and Mossad by Tony Geraghty – Goes through the history of those clandestine services, from a bird’s eye view

• Donovan’s Devils: OSS Commandos Behind Enemy Lines―Europe, World War II by Albert Lulushi – Tells of the Office of Strategic Services actives from their inception to the end of the war

• Eye of the Storm: 25 Years in Action with the SAS by Peter Ratcliffe – A memoir of the author’s time in England’s elite special forces

• The Final Solution by Michael Chabon – A short detective novel set in England, 1944

• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles – Count Alexander Rostov has been deemed a “non-person” by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol hotel, across from the Kremlin.

• Grant by Ron Chernow – An award winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18^th President of the United States

• How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling –  A memoir, translated from Swedish, which the author talks about his family, experiences as a Swedish doctor in Mozambique, and data drive contributions to the world.

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab – A fantasy book about a woman who made a bargain with a god.

• The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton by Andrew Porwancher – Follows through the life of the America’s Founding Father, debunking myths about his origin

• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson – A futuristic novel about a UN department advocating for future generations, in a world being destroyed by climate change.

• Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach – Explores some of the issues not many of us think about when imagining a space mission

• Paula by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden) – A memoir written for the author’s dying daughter

• The Pharmacist of Auschwitz: The Untold Story Patricia Posner – Tells of the life of Victor Capesius, who almost escaped for his crimes.

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke  -A novel taking place in a strange place, by a narrator whose whole world consists of a vast house he’s in.

• Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt – a non-fiction book taking a behind the scenes look at the U.S.’ COVID-19 response under the Trump administration.

• Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield – Asks some important questions about new technologies which we take for granted.

• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard – A history book ofa time when pirates created a truly democratic country in the Bahamas

• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman – Collects the first three volumes of the series :Preludes & Nocturnes, The Doll’s House, and Dream Country.

• The Sandman: Act II by Neil Gaiman  – This audiobook collects volumes 4 (Season of Mists) and 5 (A Game of You), as well as most of volume 6 (Fables & Reflections) of The Sandman graphic novels.

• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by William H. McRaven – A biography of the retired Admiral and Navy SEAL

• Send Judah First: The Erased Life of an Enslaved Soul by Brian C. Johnson – Follows the life of an enslaved girl, kidnapped from Africa and sold in Virginia in the pre-American Civil War era.

• Syria’s Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope by Mike Thomson – Tells of how people found hope and resilience in times of war

• Tightwads on the Loose: A Seven Year Pacific Odyssey by Wendy Hinman – A memoir of the author, after she went on a boat trip around the world with her husband.

• To Be Honest by Michael Leviton – A memoir focusing on the author’s upbringing in a family which believes that “honesty is the best policy”, but takes it to an extreme

• Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less by Sam Carpenter & Josh Fonger – In which the author explains his system for running several successful businesses.