25 must-read audiobook books like Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith

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Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

By: Erin Geiger Smith

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the …

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Cover of Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery

1. Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

By: Stacy A. Cordery

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

At the dawn of the twentieth century and the age of media celebrity, a new figure in the White Hous… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Elliot Aronson, Carol Tavris

2. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

By: Elliot Aronson , Carol Tavris

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable … read more

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  • nonfiction

3. When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine

By: Monica Wood

4.06

Format: 32 pages,

1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dep… read more

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4. Devil at My Heels

By: Louis Zamperini , David Rensin

3.86

Format: None pages,

The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation,… read more

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5. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

6. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

8. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

9. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho

10. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O'Reilly

11. Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts

By: Bill O'Reilly

3.67

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Jour… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

12. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

By: Sarah Kendzior

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The word “conspire"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"

-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

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13. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

14. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

15. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris

16. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

By: Kamala Harris

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."

-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

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17. The Girls in Navy Blue

By: Alix Rickloff

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to b… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment by Allen C. Guelzo

18. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

19. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami

20. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

By: Laila Lalami

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Cover of Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did) by Taylor Wolfe

21. Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did)

By: Taylor Wolfe

4.52

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The funny and poignant story of one woman’s wonderfully codependent relationship with her dog – and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier by Rory Feek

22. Once Upon a Farm: Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier

By: Rory Feek

4.27

Format: 240 pages, ebook

National Bestseller Sometimes it's not only what we plant but where we're planted. Now raisin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

23. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

24. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva

25. All the Names They Used for God

By: Anjali Sachdeva

4.04

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, diverse debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith

26. Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

By: Erin Geiger Smith

3.77

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • government
  • social issues
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas

27. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Little Book of Living Small by Laura Fenton

28. The Little Book of Living Small

By: Laura Fenton

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive guide to small-space secrets and real-life solutions for living in 1,200 square fee… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

29. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Rachelle Bergstein

30. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

By: Rachelle Bergstein

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

31. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 Top history books like Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith

Transform Your Habits

Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

Stacy A. Cordery

3.89

Transform Your Habits

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

Emmanuel Acho

4.53

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Transform Your Habits

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Shannon Reed

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.19

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