NYT - Audio Nonfiction

1) The house of my mother: a daughter's quest for freedom

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Franke, Shari

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#1 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"Shari Franke's childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface--Ruby's wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style...

2) The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness

Author

Haidt, Jonathan

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#2 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health-and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social...

3) Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Author

Gladwell, Malcolm

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#3 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Most Anticipated in:
AARP | Associated Press | Time Magazine | Oprah Daily | Chicago Tribune | Literary Hub |
Publishers Weekly | Publishers Lunch
Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling...

4) Greenlights

Author

McConaughey, Matthew

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#4 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--

5) Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old: thoughts on aging as a woman

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Shields, Brooke

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#5 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"From Brooke Shields, the icon who has inspired generations of women, comes a thoughtful, intimate, and candid exploration of the humility and power of aging"--

6) Be ready when the luck happens: a memoir

Author

Garten, Ina

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#6 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina's gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades...

7) Cher: the memoir, part one

Author

Cher

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#7 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail,in a two-part memoir."--Provided by publisher.

8) The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author

Van der Kolk, Bessel A

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#8 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

9) Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

Author

Vance, J. D

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#9 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

10) Outlive: the science & art of longevity

Author

Attia, Peter

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#11 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"Wouldn't you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease,...

11) Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI

Author

Harari, Yuval N

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#12 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI-a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the...

12) Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Author

Willink, Jocko

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#13 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission:

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13) Elon Musk

Author

Isaacson, Walter

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#14 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--

14) From here to the great unknown: a memoir

Author

Presley, Lisa Marie

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#15 on the Audio Nonfiction list for 2025-02-16.

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Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.