By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Paul Baymer
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
Social Commentary? Check. A Bit O’ Sweetness…? Uhm, well, yeah… Go Death, Go!
Death with Interruptions
A Demon-Haunted Land
Reasons to Stay Alive
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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)!!!
Fifteen Dogs
The Five Invitations
From Here to Eternity
For Small Creatures Such as We
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
By: Sue Halpern / Narrated By: Karen White
Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
Oh gosh! Loved this!
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
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…
All the Young Men
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
Uhm, not what I expected, but oddly grand.
On Tyranny
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!!!
Snowden's Box
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 Very Expensive Poison
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
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
Overwhelming… Familiar…
Fritz Pollard
Pioneer in Racial Advancement
By: John M. Carroll / Narrated By: JD Jackson
Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
The man’s story is sooo good, sooo inspiring…!
Bird Brother
Grace Will Lead Us Home
The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness
By: Jennifer Berry Hawes / Introduction: Jennifer Berry Hawes / Narrated By: Karen Chilton
Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
ExTENsive and even-handed reporting on a tragedy made this a MUST Listen
The Buddhist on Death Row
How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place
By: David Sheff / Narrated By: Michael Boatman
Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
Listened to it twice cuz once, quite simply, was NOT enough.