With Earth Day coming up on April 22, it’s a great time to celebrate the beauty of our vast planet and to educate ourselves on ways to save it. Whether you’re looking to join the fight against climate change, learn more about Earth’s creatures, or travel the planet from your living room, we have an audiobook for you.
Enjoy these listens for Earth Day 2020 (and every other day of the year).
If you want to learn more about the ongoing environmental crisis, without the jargon and complicated statistics, We Are the Weather is a great start. It is accessible, immediate, and with a single clear solution that individual readers can put into practice straight away.
With his distinctive wit, insight, and humanity, Foer frames this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.
Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But what impact do our actions have on the animals of our Earth?
Greta Thunberg sparked a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
This book brings you Greta in her own words. Collecting her speeches that have made history across Europe, from the UN to mass street protests, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.
Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. Plastic pollution is the environmental scourge of our age, but how can YOU make a difference?
This accessible guide, written by the campaigner at the forefront of the anti-plastic movement, will help you make the small changes that make a big difference. Plastic is not going away without a fight. This is a call to arms – to join forces across the world and to end our dependence on plastic.
At the age of 24, Alastair Humphreys set off to try to cycle round the world. By the time he arrived back home, four years later, he had ridden 46,000 miles across five continents on a budget of just £7,000.
From frozen Siberia tundra to the jungles of central Africa, Alastair recounts his extraordinary adventures in two parts – Moods of Future Joys and Thunder & Sunshine.
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
The Uninhabitable Earth highlights the possible terrors of our future in an impassioned call for action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s.
What could be a better way to celebrate our Earth than an intimate history of the evolution of the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.
Nick Pyenson‘s research takes us from the Smithsonian’s unparalleled fossil collections to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert in Chile. Full of rich storytelling and scientific discovery, Spying on Whales spans the ancient past to an uncertain future–all to better understand the most enigmatic creatures on Earth.
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned—from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren—an enigmatic artist and single mother—who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town—and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
The mayor of New York has a daughter who’s missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who’s in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another.
The detective leaps into the case and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation—and also to the mayor’s missing daughter, Natalie, a twenty-one-year-old computer prodigy. The murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the center of a dangerous triangle anchored by NYPD, FBI, and a transnational criminal organization.
Michael Bennett has always been an honorable man, but sometimes—when the lives of innocents are at stake—honor has to take a back seat. Survival comes first.
Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely.
Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When they invite Shay into their circle, everything seems to get better.
The wife of a prominent local judge is shot and killed on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s turf. But as Joe investigates, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossibly long distance. Joe has seen a lot in his time as warden, but he’s never seen a killing like this. How could the shooting have been arranged? And who else is in the cross hairs?
At the same time—just as he’s adjusting to the arrival of a new baby, his first child—Joe’s best friend Nate Romanowski is attempting to decipher a startling grizzly attack in the area.
Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to figure out how to keep their loved ones safe.
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.
2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?
Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.
An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she’s kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique humor and down-to-earth humanity, Open Book is as inspiring as it is entertaining.
This was supposed to be a very different book. Five years ago, Jessica Simpson was approached to write a motivational guide to living your best life. She walked away from the offer, and nobody understood why. The truth is that she didn’t want to lie.
Jessica couldn’t be authentic with her readers if she wasn’t fully honest with herself first.
Now America’s Sweetheart, preacher’s daughter, pop phenomenon, reality tv pioneer, and the billion-dollar fashion mogul invites readers on a remarkable journey, examining a life that blessed her with the compassion to help others, but also burdened her with an almost crippling need to please. Open Book is Jessica Simpson using her voice, heart, soul, and humor to share things she’s never shared before.
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn’t it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.
Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get.
No matter your goals, Atomic Habitsoffers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.
Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; …and much more.
Atomic Habitswill reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits–whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end.
In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments.
The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.
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Like many others, the very first podcast I ever listened to was Serial. It was so addicting and kept me enthralled during my long commute to my job at the time. It’s been a while since something caught my attention like that, until I listened to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder follows Pip, a high school senior who chooses to investigate the infamous case of a murdered girl in her hometown. Pip is convinced that the prime suspect didn’t actually commit this crime, so she starts digging into the details and someone in town isn’t too happy about it.
The story is told through Pip’s project log, which gives us an insight to her inner thoughts and information that she gathers from her investigations. I also loved the fact that this audiobook featured a full cast, so that the interviews Pip did in-person or over the phone seemed that much more real.
While I did notice some similarities in this story to Serial and some investigations did mirror the ones that were featured in the Serial podcast, this story definitely took a different route than I expected and it had me guessing the whole way through. I got so heavily invested in these characters, I even shed a tear while listening on my drive home one night.
Even though I’m a fully grown adult, I’m shamelessly a fan of teen dramas. There, I said it. Riverdale, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Degrassi…you name it, I’ve watched it. Plus, I love all things horror, thriller, and true crime. If that sounds like you too, then you’re not going to want to miss A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Publisher Summary:
For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn’t add up, and a girl who’s determined to find the real killer–but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Everyone in Fairview knows the story.
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.
But she can’t shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?
Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn’t want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.
This is the story of an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you’ll never expect.
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You’ve already streamed all of the movies and TV shows and have cleaned the counters twice. Now what?
If you’re looking for new ways to keep yourselves and the kids entertained, we’ve got the perfect audiobook recommendations for you!
Whether you’re looking to build better mindfulness habits, learn something new, or escape into faraway worlds, audiobooks are a great way to keep busy right in the comfort of your own home.
Check out our featured recommendations below, or browse our full lists of the best listens for adults and kids.
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15 years ago, the now-beloved employees of Dunder Mifflin were introduced to the world. In celebration of the show’s anniversary and in true Audiobooks.com fashion, we’ve imagined what each character’s audiobook counterpart would be.
Here are 9 fantastic audiobooks to dive into to channel your favorite character from The Office.
It’s no secret that Michael Scott wants to be loved more than anything else, but he’s not really sure how to go about it. How to Win Friends and Influence People is not the audiobook that Michael is, but the audiobook Michael Scott should strive to be. Dale Carnegie’s classic principles are all about how to create meaningful relationships, which is something Michael certainly yearns for but doesn’t yet know how to achieve. Hopefully, with a little help from Dale Carnegie, Michael will finally achieve his age-old adage of “I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
Besides both being freakishly tall, Jim Halpert and Peter Crouch know how to make work fun. Just like Jim, Crouch finds much joy in the humorous aspects of his job, and his autobiography How to Be a Footballer divulges funny anecdotes from his 20+ year career. Both Jim and Crouch don’t take themselves too seriously but are very adept at what they do, with Jim being promoted to co-manager and eventually starting his own business and Peter enjoying stints with Liverpool and the Spurs. No matter if your work life is wrapped up in the craziness of your boorish boss or the wacky extravagance of your teammates, both men have figured out that having a healthy sense of humor is imperative to making their jobs that much more enjoyable.
Three things I feel when I think of Pam Beesly: affection, pride, and a little frustration. Incidentally, these are the same feelings I felt with Mhairi McFarlane’s Don’t You Forget About Me, which gets into all sorts of hilarity and heartache when spunky Georgina Horspool ends up working for her high school flame, Lucas McCarthy. The two then proceed to dance around their feelings for each other for 10 hours and 18 minutes. Sound familiar? Aside from eliciting lots of weepy emotions from me, I saw a lot of Pam in Georgina. Much like the artistically-inclined Pam, Georgina harbors a love for writing, and it’s through her craft that she asserts herself and learns to love her faults. So, for anyone daring to brave the emotional rollercoaster that is Don’t You Forget About Me, beware: there’s a couple you can’t help but fall for and, most importantly, a charming young woman you’ll never stop rooting for.
It’s clear that aside from fantasy worlds, Dwight’s other all-consuming passion is survival. He’s talked at length about his superior immune system, tactics for self-preservation, and he himself is a compendium of military strategy, weapons expertise, martial arts, and espionage. So, of course, he would find his audiobook counterpart in Bear Grylls’ How to Stay Alive, which is hailed as the ultimate outdoor survival tome. Although whether or not Dwight actually needs tips from Bear remains to be seen, seeing as he was more than capable of taking care of himself during Michael’s Survivor Man stunt (unfortunately the same can’t be said for Michael).
If anyone was ever wildly thrown off by how their life turned out, it’s probably Andy Bernard. The whiplash Andy felt about his whole life is exactly what you’ll be feeling while listening to Trust Exercise by Susan Choi. Don’t assume anything, don’t try to predict anything. It will inevitably turn out much more shocking and complex than you expect it to. The best we can hope for is that through all the turmoil, we will—much like Andy—be able to cobble together some semblance of understanding by the end.
Knitting, mystery, and past secrets—can Sally Goldenbaum’s How to Knit a Murder be more Phyllis Vance? Aside from the shared connection to knitting, Phyllis and How to Knit a Murder’s newcomer, Rose Malone, are both somewhat of an enigma. Although on the surface Phyllis seems wholesome and quiet, she’s been known to show her vindictive side, and her meek demeanor masks a sensual woman who is very much in touch with her sexuality. That, coupled with a mysterious secret that she’s harbored since high school, makes Phyllis—much like How to Knit a Murder—a wholesome mystery with a bit of a bite.
No stuttering here! Thinking Inside the Box and Stanley Hudson are simply a match made in heaven (if heaven was made of tropical beach shirts and bright red convertibles).
I know what you’re thinking—Angela Martin wouldn’t be caught dead with any associations with witchcraft. BUT, if there’s one thing Angela is, she is cunning. Hex Your Ex is the dark version of Angela we all want to see but are too scared to imagine. With her obvious attraction to power and inclination to manipulate people for her own gains, it’s clear Angela doesn’t even need witchcraft to get what she wants. For those who don’t have Angela’s stern influence, however, we’ll have to rely on the edgy spells and rituals in Hex Your Ex to get everything our heart desires.
As a proud member of the Coalition for Reason, it’s only fitting that Oscar Martinez’s audiobook counterpart is Factfulness, an audiobook that is all about teaching listeners how to see the world as it truly is. Much like how Oscar inserts himself into random conversations to add facts or correct grammar, Factfulness inserts itself into our unconscious biases and upends how we think of the world. Think of it like having a tiny Oscar living in your phone or tablet, telling you how to see logic and reason amidst the chaos.
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When I was a kid and March Break rolled around, everyone else in my class was going away somewhere exotic or even just on week-long road trips. Since my mom was always on the hunt for a good deal, she would never book our trips during these busy vacationing times, so the majority of my March Breaks were trying to find something to fill my time while my peers were exploring the world.
Enter books, my saviors and boredom defeaters. Instead of enduring my little brother kicking the back of my seat during a road trip, I got to explore Panem thanks to Katniss, feel the second-hand embarrassment of Georgia Nicolson, and learn about the dangers of drug use from the Crank series. And all of this was happening from the comfort of my living room couch.
People always say that traveling and seeing the world really changes you, and I agree, but there’s something about being able to listen (or read) a new book and have your perspective changed. With every book I read as a kid, there was always a feeling of self-reflection, and I believe that every book, no matter how deep and moving it was, contributed to who I am as a person today.
As I mentioned before, yes, I did tear through the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. The title of the first book is Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, which I’m sure my mom loved. From the outside, this series might’ve just seemed like a silly book for teens, but it kind of was like my own teenage version of Bridget Jones. I related to the characters and they were going through a lot of the same things I was at the time.
So, if you or your kids are entering March Break and are looking for ways to stay entertained during your staycation, just pick up a book and escape for a while. You never know how it may change you.
Did you binge-read on March Break too?
Which books do you remember reading as a kid?
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