Non-fiction Audiobooks

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential representative of Romantic philosophy. Many consider him the last great polymath. After he died in 1859, the scientific community began to fragment into different disciplines, each...

This popular science book was written at the end of the 17th century. It is a series of conversations between an intrepid philosopher and a countess as they walk in a garden and gaze at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric (centered on the sun) model of the solar system and ponders...

The Analects of Confucius or Analects (Simplified Chinese: Analects; Traditional Chinese: Analects; Pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally "classified/ordered sayings"), also known as the Analects, is considered a record of words and deeds by the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Home Confucius...

The book, written in 1903, sixty years after the term "hypnosis" was coined, examines contemporary understandings of the technology's nature, uses, and dangers. Hypnotism has been used for centuries, but in the mid, to late 19th century, it became a prevalent method of exploring the human...

Quaker Colonies describes the immigration of Quakers to the colonies in the 16th and 17th centuries and their participation in the development of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. The author examines the various interactions between racial and ethnic groups—religious, cultural, and political:...

In this remarkably detailed and comprehensive fifth part, Mary Johnston takes us from discovery and settlement to the development of the first colonies, specifically Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia....

A collection of 2019 Christmas-themed articles, including traditional stories, Christmas customs, and Christmas cakes. We hope you will enjoy it....

The community would like to send you a special Christmas 2006 gift. This is a set of traditional Christmas carols recorded by our wonderful volunteers. enjoy! (Summary by Linda)...

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a long epic poem by Lord Byron, divided into four parts. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe." The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and bustle,...

We are celebrating all the beautiful dialects and accents in the LibriVox community! The goal is to record as many volunteers' "phonologically relevant" texts as possible and bring this dialect/accent "database" to the world through public recordings. (Summary by Délibáb)...