Biography

Frank Ramsey

by Cheryl Misak; read by Liam Gerrard

When he died in 1930 aged twenty-six, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life. Learn More

Frontier Rebels

by Patrick Spero; read by Joe Barrett

Frontier Rebels is the untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. Learn More

Frontline Bodies

by Nicolas Martin-Breteau; translated by Lucy Garnier; foreword by Damion L. Thomas; read by Amir Abdullah

A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. Learn More

Gandhi

by Ramachandra Guha; Derek Perkins

New York Times Notable Books 2018
Kirkus Best of 2018 Nonfiction

The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in world history. Learn More

Gandhi Before India

by Ramachandra Guha; read by Derek Perkins

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Learn More

Gene Smith's Sink

by Sam Stephenson; read by Coleen Marlo

The result of twenty years of research, Gene Smith's Sink is an unprecedented look into the photographer's beguiling legacy and the subjects around him. Learn More

Genealogy of a Murder

by Lisa Belkin; read by Erin Bennett

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer. Learn More

The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman; read by Margaret Strom

IndieBound Bestseller

This elegant scientific investigation and travelogue weaves personal anecdotes with fascinating science. Ackerman delivers an extraordinary story that will both give readers a new appreciation for the exceptional talents of birds and let them discover what birds can reveal about our changing world. Learn More

George Washington

by Kevin J. Hayes; read by David Colacci

This sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America. Learn More

The Ghost

by Jefferson Morley; read by John Pruden

In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. Learn More

A Ghost in the Throat

by Doireann Ní Ghríof; read by Siobhan McSweeney

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize
A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022
An NPRBest Book of 2021

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's. Learn More

The Ghost Tattoo

by Tony Bernard; read by Conrad Coleby

A powerful, profoundly moving Holocaust memoir from a rarely told perspective, this is the story of a family coming to terms with its long-hidden wartime secrets—and a son discovering the Faustian bargain his Jewish father made with the Nazis in order to survive. Learn More

The Girl and the Bombardier

by Susan Tate Ankeny; read by Karen White

A downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished World War II memoir and a box of letters from the French girl who saved him sets a veteran's daughter on a journey, sixty-five years later, to craft their intersecting stories—a true WWII tale of danger, courage, love, and escape. Learn More

The Girl Explorers

by Jayne Zanglein; read by Kirsten Potter

The Girl Explorers is an inspiring examination of forgotten women from history, perfect for fans of bestselling narrative history books like The Radium Girls, The Woman Who Smashed Codes, and Rise of the Rocket Girls. Learn More

The Girl From Human Street

Roger Cohen; read by Simon Vance

An expansive yet intimate memoir of modern Jewish identity, following the diaspora of the author’s own family, that assays the impact of memory, displacement, and a pervasive sense of separateness. Learn More

Girl in Black and White

by Jessie Morgan-Owens; read by Allyson Johnson

The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams—a slave girl who looked "white"—whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. Learn More

Go Further

edited by Paul Myers, S. W. Lauden; read by Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine

From its heyday in the '70s and '80s to its resurgence in the '90s and '00s, Power Pop has meant many things to many people. In Go Further, a new crop of writers go deep on what certain Power Pop bands and songs mean and have meant to them. Learn More

God of Sperm

by Joe Donnelly; read by Jonathan Yen

God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr. Cappy Miles Rothman, the son of notorious gangster Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman, who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine. Learn More

Gods of Wood and Stone

by Mark Di Ionno; read by LJ Ganser

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime—The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth—two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood. Learn More

Goebbels

Peter Longerich; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, and Lesley Sharpe; read by Simon Prebble

From renowned German holocaust historian Peter Longerich comes the definitive, one-volume biography of Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. Learn More

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