What are the best non fiction audiobooks?Answer

Looking for all sorts of themes, but focused on books praised by the quality of narration as well as content

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

2013 • 739 Readers • 391 pages 4.5

If Then : How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

2020 • 37 Readers • 432 pages 3.6

Why this book?

Important read, if scary.

Hunger

Hunger
ByRoxane Gay

2017 • 290 Readers • 306 pages 4.2

Why this book?

Heart-breaking and so real.

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
ByAubrey Hirsch,Jill Christman,+27 more

2018 • 168 Readers • 368 pages 4.7

Savage Beauty

Savage Beauty
ByNancy Milford

2002 • 26 Readers 4

Why this book?

Exhaustive, loving bio of a great poet and fascinating person.

Smartest Guys in the Room The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

2003 • 95 Readers • 480 pages 4.3

Why this book?

Fascinating and well-written, an object lesson that, given business propensity for cheating and money-grubbing, will never grow old.

Kleptopia

Kleptopia
ByTom Burgis

2021 • 38 Readers • 480 pages 3.6

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

2024 • 23 Readers • 394 pages 3.5

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention

2022 • 3 Readers • 304 pages

Why this book?

It's interesting, yet I got anxious reading it. Had to put it down. That doesn't mean it's not a good book.

Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

2022 • 14 Readers • 279 pages 4.5

Capote

Capote
ByGerald Clarke

1988 • 5 Readers • 635 pages 5

Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

2022 • 17 Readers • 320 pages 4

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

2022 • 346 Readers • 353 pages 4.6

Why this book?

Amazing memoir.

Pathological

Pathological
BySarah Fay

5 Readers • 39h 25m

Why this book?

Ugh, the mental health system and the poor people who have to navigate it. Fay takes on the DSM in all its iterations, for a really good read.

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

2023 • 70 Readers • 577 pages 4

Why this book?

A tragic story, gently and honestly told.