The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Written and Narrated By: Annie Jacobsen
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
I Am. GUTTED…
The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945
By: Julia Boyd / Narrated By: Christa Lewis
Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
Three words? Stunning. Terrifying. Timely…
A Novel
By: Gaël Faye / Translated By: Sarah Ardizzone / Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Beautiful translation of stunning prose… just didn’t see the point… tho’ Big Sis has many thoughts on that…!
Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book
Written and Narrated By: Joel Stein
Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
Below? Thoughts and a summation. Not stated: Sudden snorts of laughter, coffee spewed everywhere…
The Forgotten War That Changed American History
By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger / Narrated By: Brian Kilmeade
Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
Uh-oh… one eye firmly on History, the other? Oh ouch… total Squid’s Eye, and I can’t help it…
The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History
By: Ben Mezrich / Narrated By: Jeremy Bobb
Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
Ben Mezrich ain’t no Luke Harding -but-
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, John Slattery
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
“Caustic rhetoric”?!? Yesssss!!!
The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)
By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling / Narrated By: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
HiLARious because I wanted it to be; woulda cried otherwise…
Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine
Written and Narrated By: Timothy Snyder
Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
Timothy Snyder is a MUST Listen!!!
Trust in the Age of Surveillance
By: Jessica Bruder, Dale Maharidge / Narrated By: Chloe Cannon, Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
Good enough that I might tackle other Snowden accounts…?
The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West
By: Luke Harding / Narrated By: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
Enlightened the first Listen morphs into, well, stunned for the second… Do give this a Listen
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
Overwhelming… Familiar…
Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Written and Narrated By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
Good enough but by no MEANS is this the experience of most Undocumented individuals…
By: Sarah Vowell / Narrated By: Sarah Vowell, Conan O'Brien, Catherine Keener, Stephen King, Dave Eggers, Jon Stewart
Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
Uneven guest narrators don’t throw off a delight. Morbid meets Road Trip
Written and Narrated By: Dan Rather
Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
Charming and folksy, even when touching on the traumatic and the tragic…
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Written and Narrated By: Joe Biden
Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
First Listen? I thought too much on politics. Second Listen? Thank GOD—a decent human being in politics
A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
Written and Narrated By: Rick Wilson
Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
Was crying from Minute One—dunno whether from laughter or from deepest sorrow
And How To Heal
Written and Narrated By: Ben Sasse
Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
A Second Review after a Second Listen—was hoping I missed calls for Unity… uhm… there are none here, and don’t look to Sasse for actions following brave words…
A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right"
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
It’s like this, see: I LOVE Jon Ronson, so I loved this book… even tho’ I was ready to shoot m’self by the end…
A True Story
By: Richard Preston / Narrated By: Paul Boehmer
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
Disjointed? A bit… but soooo exciting: Listened to it in a single sitting!
Americans Reaching for Hope
By: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn / Narrated By: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
Seriously—Can’t we get past the idea that focusing on human dignity and offering people hope is a leftist issue?!?
Reflections on Patriotism
By: Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner / Narrated By: Dan Rather
Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
After listening to “Them” it was time to check out the other side of the aisle’s take on how to unite this broken country
By: Matt Taibbi / Narrated By: Rob Shapiro
Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
Listened to it; now I’m ready for a bleach dip…
The Montgomery Story
Series: The King Legacy
By: Martin Luther King Jr. / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
Ponderous narration (And I mean PONDEROUS!) doesn’t mar this incredibly fine account
By: John Tirman / Narrated By: Jim Sartor
Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
Since when have human rights and dignity been left or right issues?
Trump in the White House
By Bob Woodward / Narrated By: Robert Petkoff
Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
Just can’t turn away from a train wreck
If you would like to stay updated on reviews and receive emailed newsletters, click on the Become An Accomplice button below and provide us your email and addictions!!
