Human Behavior Audiobooks Under 6 Hours
Shorter Crime:
By: James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum / Narrated By: James Dommek Jr.
Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
Tho’ a bit scattered and kinda sorta doesn’t wind everything up, ‘twas easy to listen to it all at one sitting… and be spooked!
An Audible Original
By: Isaac Gomez / Narrated By: Kate del Castillo
Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
Raw and visceral, a one-woman show to be remembered
Shorter Mental Health:
By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson / Narrated By: William Dufris
Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
Uhm… well… sometimes I just canNOT help the way m’ brain works… good for youngsters in tough tough tough situations, tho’
A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!
Shorter Philosophy:
Nature and Spirit
By: Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson / Narrated By: Russ Barnett
Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
All seems so timely; I’m kinda distressed but am also a weeee bit hopeful…?
Cats and the Meaning of Life
By: John Gray / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
Warning: More Philosophy than Feline. Oh and oooone more thing, just a bit of a heads up….?
Big Lessons from a Little Donkey on Faith, Friendship, and Finding Your Path
By: Rachel Anne Ridge / Narrated By: Xe Sands
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
The life of a little donkey, and lots and lots of Scripture
Life Lessons from a Streetwise Cat
By: James Bowen / Narrated By: Kristopher Milnes
Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
The best person to teach you wisdom will always be a cat!
By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey / Narrated By: Renee Raudman
Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
The beauty of life in The Microcosm
By: George Orwell / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Soooo harrowing it made my heart and soul hurt…!
By: Benjamin Hoff / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
He may not be the smartest, but Pooh is Pooh. And that’s pretty darned great!
By: Hiro Arikawa / Translated By: Philip Gabriel / Narrated By: George Blagden
Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
Best book I’ve listened to in a long time; it’s just THAT good!
Shorter Politics:
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…
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…?
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…
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 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…
Shorter Social Science:
How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Written and Narrated By: Michael Pollan
Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
Full of the enthusiasm and inspired ideas that fuel a single cup o’ joe’s rush
How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart
By: Jarvis Jay Masters / Narrated By: Dion Graham
Length: 4 hrs
In a Bad Place? There’s ALWAYS Jarvis Jay Masters
A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances
By: Bruce Deel, Sara Grace / Foreword By: Simon Sinek / Narrated By: Bruce Deel
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
My first Listen of 2023, and pass the tissues please…!
By: Kurt Vonnegut / Narrated By: Eric Michael Summerer
Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
“We Are Here On Earth To Fart Around”—Kurt Vonnegut (YouTube 2004)!!!
Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Written and Narrated By: Caitlin Doughty
Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
Secular, yes. Irreverent, yes. Honoring our dead loved ones and bringing grief into the light? Oh my, yesss!
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.
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…?
A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
By: Rodney Stotts, Kate Pipkin - contributor / Narrated By: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
Listen to the Universe; Lean into the Dream…!
(Abridged)
By: Chris Gardner / Narrated By: Andre Blake
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
Soooo torn about this one! Would you respect me less were I to be as indecisive as to neither Yay nor Boo it?!
Written and Narrated By: Kevin Tuerff
Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Actionable steps to be taken if you’re feeling grateful around 9-11 anniversaries
A Memoir
Written and Narrated By: Bakari Sellers
Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
A look at Black working class rural America? I think not. A look at Bakari being an ambitious bit of a buffoon? Oh totally…
Written and Narrated By: Kerry Egan
Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
A StoryHolder tells tales of love
A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
By: Noé Álvarez / Narrated By: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
Some lovely writing, some good imagery, but an awful lot of negativity in there also makes this painful at times…
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…
Written and Narrated By: Jon Ronson
Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
Not Jon Ronson’s best, but still: Jon Ronson!!!