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Audiobooks from the University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is committed to helping readers engage with their books in a range of formats. We regularly license audiobook editions of our titles that are available from a wide range of retailers, and we also produce audiobooks ourselves, which can be purchased from our site. A list of books that have audio editions is below, along with links at which you can purchase them.

 
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The Menace of Prosperity

New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981

Daniel Wortel-London

Wired Wisdom

How to Age Better Online

Eszter Hargittai and John Palfrey

Penelope’s Bones

A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It

Emily Hauser

Natural Attachments

The Domestication of American Environmentalism, 1920–1970

Pollyanna Rhee

Making Politics Work

Practical Lessons on Politics for Would-Be Education Reformers

Paul T. Hill and Ashley E. Jochim

Firebrands

The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition

Gioia Diliberto

Sample and download the audiobook from RBMedia.

Blue

A History of Postpartum Depression in America

Rachel Louise Moran

Sample and download the audiobook from RBMedia.

False Front

The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age

Kenneth Lowande

Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery

The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity

Lee Alan Dugatkin

The Well-Connected Animal

Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Shock Values

Prices and Inflation in American Democracy

Carola Binder

Structuring Inequality

How Schooling, Housing, and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education

Tracy L. Steffes

How Life Works

A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Philip Ball

Sins of the Shovel

Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

Rachel Morgan

The Lies of the Land

Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t

Steven Conn

The Two-Parent Privilege

How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

Melissa S. Kearney

Race, Rights, and Rifles

The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

Alexandra Filindra

Who’s a Good Dog?

And How to Be a Better Human

Jessica Pierce

The Next Supercontinent

Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea

Ross Mitchell

How to Think like a Philosopher

Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking

Julian Baggini

The Apple II Age

How the Computer Became Personal

Laine Nooney

The Return of Resentment

The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion

Robert A. Schneider

Cancel Wars

How Universities Can Foster Free Speech, Promote Inclusion, and Renew Democracy

Sigal R. Ben-Porath

Oil Beach

How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond

Christina Dunbar-Hester

Dr. Nurse

Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing

Dominique A. Tobbell

When the News Broke

Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

Heather Hendershot

Fit Nation

The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

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Invested

How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds

Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, and James Taylor

Touchy Subject

The History and Philosophy of Sex Education

Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen

Astrotopia

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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The Capital Order

How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei

City of Newsmen

Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington

Kathryn J. McGarr

Hilma af Klint

A Biography

Julia Voss

The Portraitist

Frans Hals and His World

Steven Nadler

The Book of Minds

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Philip Ball

The Nation That Never Was

Reconstructing America’s Story

Kermit Roosevelt III

Victories Never Last

Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague

Robert Zaretsky

Power in the Wild

The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

Lee Alan Dugatkin

The Quest for Sexual Health

How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life

Steven Epstein

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

Elijah Anderson

Pushing Cool

Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette

Keith Wailoo

The Money Illusion

Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

Scott Sumner

Big Med

Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns

Spare the Rod

Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools

Campbell F. Scribner and Bryan R. Warnick

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Christopher M. Elias

The Modern Myths

Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination

Philip Ball

Restricted Data

The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Alex Wellerstein

Sheer Misery

Soldiers in Battle in WWII

Mary Louise Roberts

Animals’ Best Friends

Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

Barbara J. King

A Planet of Viruses

Third Edition

Carl Zimmer

How Schools Really Matter

Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Douglas B. Downey

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden

Civic Gifts

Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

Elisabeth S. Clemens

Crusade for Justice

The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition

Ida B. Wells

The Toddler in Chief

What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency

Daniel W. Drezner

Ahab’s Rolling Sea

A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

Richard J. King

Waters of the World

The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

Sarah Dry

I’d Fight the World

A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music

Peter La Chapelle

Move On Up

Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power

Aaron Cohen

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The Adjunct Underclass

How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission

Herb Childress

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead

The Failure of Health Care in Urban America

Laurie Kaye Abraham

The City

Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess

Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition

A Guide to Narrative Craft

Janet Burroway, with Elizabeth Stuckey-French, and Ned Stuckey-French

Homeschooling

The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice

James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters

Conspiracies of Conspiracies

How Delusions Have Overrun America

Thomas Milan Konda

A Decent Life

Morality for the Rest of Us

Todd May

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side

Eve L. Ewing

The Politics of Petulance

America in an Age of Immaturity

Alan Wolfe

Suicidal

Why We Kill Ourselves

Jesse Bering

Sample and download the audiobook from RBMedia.

Canine Confidential

Why Dogs Do What They Do

Marc Bekoff

Last Resort

The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A. Posner

Uncivil Agreement

How Politics Became Our Identity

Lilliana Mason

The Business of Being a Writer

Jane Friedman

Sample and download the audiobook from Audible.

What Editors Do

The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing

Edited by Peter Ginna

Perfect Wave

More Essays on Art and Democracy

Dave Hickey

Henry David Thoreau

A Life

Laura Dassow Walls

The Myth of Disenchantment

Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences

Jason Ananda Josephson Storm

Our Latest Longest War

Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan

Edited by Aaron B. O'Connell

Write No Matter What

Advice for Academics

Joli Jensen

Human Targets

Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Victor M. Rios

Moral Politics

How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition

George Lakoff

Paying the Price

College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab

The Hidden Wealth of Nations

The Scourge of Tax Havens

Gabriel Zucman

The Subversive Copy Editor, Second Edition

Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

Carol Fisher Saller

The Politics of Resentment

Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Katherine J. Cramer

How Dogs Work

Raymond Coppinger and Mark Feinstein

Heat Wave

A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Eric Klinenberg

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House of Debt

How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Infested

How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Brooke Borel

Sample and download the audiobook from Audible.

Philosophy Between the Lines

The Lost History of Esoteric Writing

Arthur M. Melzer

The Accidental Species

Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Henry Gee

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition

Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Mary Pattillo

Exit Zero

Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago

Christine J. Walley

What Soldiers Do

Sex and the American GI in World War II France

Mary Louise Roberts

A Naked Singularity

A Novel

Sergio De La Pava

Vegetables

A Biography

Evelyne Bloch-Dano

Sample and download the audiobook from Audible.

Genentech

The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

Sample and download the audiobook from RBMedia.

Challenging Operations

Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery

Katherine C. Kellogg

The Constitution of Liberty

The Definitive Edition

F. A. Hayek

Black on the Block

The Politics of Race and Class in the City

Mary Pattillo

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Famous Slogans and Catchphrases in American History

Jan R. Van Meter

Wild Justice

The Moral Lives of Animals

Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce

Autophobia

Love and Hate in the Automotive Age

Brian Ladd

Sample and download the audiobook from Audible.

Children’s Literature

A Reader’s History, from Aesop to Harry Potter

Seth Lerer

Custerology

The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer

Michael A. Elliott

The Legal Analyst

A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

Ward Farnsworth

The Bourgeois Virtues

Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

The Lavender Scare

The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government

David K. Johnson

A Child’s Work

The Importance of Fantasy Play

Vivian Gussin Paley

Art of War

Niccolò Machiavelli

Sample and download the audiobook from Audible.

Black Nationalism

The Search for an Identity

E. U. Essien-Udom

Forbidden Journeys

Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Edited by Nina Auerbach and U. C. Knoepflmacher

The Fatal Conceit

The Errors of Socialism

F. A. Hayek

The Pursuit of Power

Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000

William H. McNeill

Islam and Modernity

Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition

Fazlur Rahman

Islam

Fazlur Rahman

The Sumerians

Their History, Culture, and Character

Samuel Noah Kramer

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