Law bestsellers

Lawless

How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

By: Leah Litman
Narrated by: Leah Litman
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.

With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman... Read more

Dopesick

Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Dopesick should be required reading for ages 14 and up. Detailed, devastating, and infuriating, Dopesick tells how big Pharma, and Purdue specifically, is responsible for the addiction and deaths of thousands of Americans. If you think addication can't happen to you or those you love, this book will give you story after story of people who felt... Read more

The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale
Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Recent years have seen an explosion of protest against police brutality and repression. Among activists, journalists, and politicians, the conversation about how to respond and improve policing has focused on accountability, diversity, training, and community relations. Unfortunately, these reforms will not produce results, either alone or in... Read more

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

The Declaration of Independence

By: Peter Roop
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 57 minutes

Many kids have heard of the Declaration of Independence, but few know the story behind the people and events that helped forge it. They may know about Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, but do they know the roles that Patrick Henry and Thomas Gage played in setting fire to a revolution? This is the story of how the men and women of thirteen... Read more

Believing

Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

By: Anita Hill
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

“As we approach the 30th anniversary of Anita Hill’s landmark testimony, the veteran lawyer and professor goes beyond her personal story towards a legal and social history of sexual harassment in the US, ultimately charting a course, even in times of doubt, toward hope and determination to end gender-based violence for all races, classes,... Read more

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

By: Joel F. Harrington
Narrated by: Jame Gillies
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington's The Faithful Executioner takes us deep inside the alien world and thinking of Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, during forty-five years as a professional executioner, personally put to death 394 individuals and... Read more

He Said, She Said

Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in Family Court

By: Charlotte Proudman
Narrated by: Charlotte Proudman
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

If you and your family needed help, could you trust the law to be on your side?

Award-winning barrister Charlotte Proudman has dedicated her working life to representing women who find themselves in need of help from the family law courts. Time and again, she has watched as these women are let down by the system that is supposed to protect them.... Read more

The Religion of Whiteness

How Racism Distorts Christian Faith

By: Michael O. Emerson & Glenn E. Bracey II
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites—for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the... Read more

The Containment

Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

By: Michelle Adams
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

The epic story of Detroit's struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North.

In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across the North, and to the civil rights movement’s struggle for a truly equal... Read more

Is a River Alive?

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Robert Macfarlane
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title.

At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as... Read more

The Pardon

The Politics of Presidential Mercy

By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“A splendid narrative about political power and mercy.” —David Grann, #1 best-selling author of The Wager

The power of the presidential pardon has our national attention now more than ever before. In The Pardon, New York Times bestselling author and CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin provides a timely and compelling narrative of the most... Read more

Nothing But The Truth

Dark Humour and Shocking Truths Learned from a Life in the Law

By: The Secret Barrister
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

From the Number One bestselling author, a memoir full of hilarious, personal and surprising stories from their working life in the law.

* The Sunday Times Bestseller *
* A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*

‘The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times
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Just how do you... Read more

The Killer's Shadow

The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cases of the FBI’s Original Mindhunter: Book #1

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Holt McCallany
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist... Read more

Who Owns England?

How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane ‘Absolutely brilliant…You cannot read this book and defend the establishment’ Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics Who owns England? Behind this simple... Read more

Devil in the Grove

Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

By: Gilbert King
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to... Read more

The Whiteness of Wealth

How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--and How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND FORTUNE • “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.”—Ibram X.... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones
Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

“A look at prisons that is as thorough as it is poetic. Beautiful, necessary, a must-read for anyone looking towards abolition Read more

A History of America in Ten Strikes

By: Erik Loomis
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018Named one of the “5 Books About Famous Strikes That Demonstrated the Historical Importance of Civil Disobedience” by Bustle“Loomis refuses to romanticize this period or the labor movement it produced. . . . What Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement, despite its many... Read more

Becoming Abolitionists

Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

By: Derecka Purnell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

“Derecka Purnell, human rights lawyer and community organizer, knows exactly how challenging the concept of abolition can be. Her powerful activist memoir and abolitionist text charts her own lived experiences tracing her personal evolution toward abolition, alongside historical context and hard numbers on poverty, crime, militarization, and... Read more

38 Londres Street

On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

By: Philippe Sands
Narrated by: Philippe Sands
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

In 38 Londres Street, Philippe Sands blends personal memoir, historical detective work and gripping courtroom drama to probe a secret double story of mass murder, one that reveals a shocking thread that links the horrors of the 1940s with those of our own times.

The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men whose personal... Read more

The Book They Throw At You

And Other Legal Truths

By: Reb Masel
Length: TBA

TikTok’s favorite lawyer and host of The Rebuttal Podcast Reb Masel offers an irreverent, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining survey of the law and the unexpected lessons we can learn from it.

In 2021, newly barred attorney Reb Masel started posting on TikTok about the intricacies and absurdities of the legal profession. People of all ages,... Read more

We Were Once a Family

A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2023

"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar gives an impassioned performance that enhances the touching, terrifying tale of social injustice and systemic failure. Her delivery is compelling and clear, evoking a captivating listening experience from this true-crime tragedy."- Library Journal

The shocking, deeply... Read more

Delay Deny Defend

Why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it

By: Jay M. Feinman
Narrated by: Pat Grimes
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“If you’ve ever had to fight tooth and nail with an insurance company over a claim, this book will make your blood boil. Jay M. Feinman exposes the dark side of the insurance industry, showing how companies prioritize profits over people by delaying payouts, denying valid claims, and aggressively defending against policyholders. ✔ Eye-opening... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move... Read more

Murder the Truth

Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

By: David Enrich
Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

""Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich, the New York Times Business... Read more

Lady Killers

Deadly Women Throughout History

By: Tori Telfer
Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie... Read more

Lady Justice

Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick
Narrated by: Dahlia Lithwick
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Winner of the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest

An instant New York Times Bestseller!

“Stirring . . . Lithwick’s approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring.” —New York Times Book Review

“In Dahlia Lithwick’s urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story... Read more

The Case Against the Supreme Court

By: Erwin Chemerinsky
Narrated by: Philip Hernandez
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure
 
In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them.... Read more

Defending Free Speech

Selected Commentary by the Ayn Rand Institute

By: Steve Simpson, Onkar Ghate, Leonard Peikoff & Elan Journo
Narrated by: Chris Abell
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Freedom of speech is indispensable to a free and civilized society, yet this precious right is increasingly under attack today. Islamic totalitarians repeatedly threaten and kill those deemed blasphemers while our political leaders stand idly by—and many intellectuals blame the victims. College students seek “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”... Read more

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

“What does a small-town dentist, an unqualified medical examiner and the Mississippi criminal justice system have in common? They’re a part of a good ole boy network obsessed with mass incarceration and the death penalty, rampant racism and corrupt court judges consumed with closing cases at any cost. Not to mention the wrongly convicted men... Read more

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

By: Joyce Vance
Length: TBA

The first book from Joyce White Vance: equal parts civics class, history lesson, and call to save the Republic, Giving Up Is Unforgivable is a political manifesto for our present moment.

“We’re in this together.”

For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, Civil Discourse, with these four words. In that... Read more

Exposure

Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont

By: Robert Bilott
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the... Read more

The Three Lives of James Madison

Genius, Partisan, President

By: Noah Feldman
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, as a partisan political strategist, and as a president

Over the course of his life, James Madison changed the United States three times: First, he designed the Constitution, led the struggle for its... Read more

The Most Powerful Court in the World

A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

By: Stuart Banner
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 25 hours 30 minutes

Will abortion be legal? Should people of the same sex be allowed to marry? May colleges prefer black applicants over white ones? These are among the most bitterly contested issues in the United States today. We answer these questions, and many more, by presenting them to nine lawyers—the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. No... Read more

Unlawful Killings

Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey

By: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC
Narrated by: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, Rachel Bavidge & Roy McMillan
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are strangled or suffocated or beaten to death. Rarely they are poisoned, pushed off high buildings, drowned or set alight. Then there are the many who are killed by dangerous drivers, or corporate gross... Read more

Property and Casualty Insurance

Transform Your Property & Casualty Insurance Study with Engaging Audio Lessons!

By: Graham Renfield
Narrated by: Nick Porter
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Are you looking to advance in your career and solidify your knowledge by successfully passing the Property and Casualty Insurance License Exam?
Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all necessary elements to pass the Property and Casualty Insurance... Read more

Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry

By: Lola Davina
Narrated by: Lola Davina & Felicia Gotthelf
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Sex work is "easy money?" Hardly. The adult industry is riddled with pitfalls and dangers. Erotic labor is often emotionally demanding, draining, and complex. It can be hard to know who to turn to for advice on keeping yourself safe and sane. Lola Davina, former stripper, dominatrix, porn actress and escort, provides the life skills you need to... Read more

The Digital Fourth Amendment

Privacy and Policing in Our Online World

By: Orin Kerr
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

When can the government read your email or monitor your web surfing? When can the police search your phone or copy your computer files? In the United States, the answers come from the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and its ban on "unreasonable searches and seizures."



The Digital Fourth Amendment takes the listener inside the legal world of... Read more

Arrest-Proof Yourself

Second Edition

By: Dale C. Carson & Wes Denham
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

What do you say if a cop pulls you over and asks to search your car? What if he gets up in your face and uses a racial slur? What if there's a roach in the ashtray? And what if your hot-headed teenage son is at the wheel? If you listen to this book, you'll know exactly what to do and say.



More people than ever are getting arrested—usually for... Read more

Offshore

Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism

By: Brooke Harrington
Narrated by: Jennifer Walden
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other... Read more

The Shadow Docket

How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

An acclaimed legal scholar exposes the Supreme Court’s increasing use of unsigned, unexplained orders to change the law—all behind closed doors  The Supreme Court has always had the authority to issue emergency rulings in exceptional circumstances. But since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the behind-the-scenes “shadow... Read more

The Volunteer

The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate's Quest to Die with Dignity

By: Gianna Toboni
Narrated by: Gianna Toboni
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A riveting account of one death row inmate’s quest to die—and a fearless look at how America’s system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve.

When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada’s death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn’t cry foul or embark upon a protracted innocence campaign. He sought instead to... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer
Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

“Fear, bewilderment, disbelief, appall, outrage, despair - I experienced all of these emotions and more as I followed Dr. Gilmer on his quest to understand how his predecessor at the Appalachian health clinic came to be a convicted murderer. What Benjamin Gilmer did not expect was to expose the abysmal, and arguably criminal, failings of the... Read more

The Originalism Trap

How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back

By: Madiba K. Dennie
Narrated by: Madiba K. Dennie
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives say the Founders meant it

“The greatest trick conservatives ever pulled was convincing the world that originalism exists. This book is vital for... Read more

Ghettoside

A True Story of Murder in America

By: Jill Leovy
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“For over a decade Leovy has reported on murder in L.A., especially on the killing of black men (and boys) by black men (and boys) in the south side of the city, and in Ghettoside she does justice to a vast and varied range of characters: victims (often chosen nearly at random), killers (often motivated by revenge), witnesses (often terrified and... Read more

The Killer Across the Table

Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Jonathan Groff
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Performed by Jonathan Groff, star of the hit Netflix show Mindhunter, and featuring an exclusive conversation between John E. Douglas and Jonathan Groff at the end of the audiobookIn The Killer Across the Table, John E. Douglas, the legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration... Read more

The AI Mirror

How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

By: Shannon Vallor
Narrated by: Kim Niemi
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome—not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather... Read more

Conversations with RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

By: Jeffrey Rosen
Narrated by: Peter Ganim & Suzanne Toren
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

"The audiobook version includes recorded conversations between the two from the 1990s to the present, delivering a compelling informal profile. As a permanent record of Ginsburg’s voice and fighting spirit, it’s an inspiring listen." — Paste

This program includes recorded conversations between Jeffrey Rosen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this... Read more

Mine!

How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives

By: Michael A. Heller & James Salzman
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

“Mine” is one of the first words babies learn, and by the time we grow up, the idea of ownership seems natural, whether we are buying a cup of coffee or a house. But who controls the space behind your airplane seat: you, reclining, or the squished laptop user behind you? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock off a recipe or a dress... Read more