Nonfiction Audiobook Recommendations

About this episode

The hosts share their favorite nonfiction audiobooks and discuss their reading habits.

Have you discovered a nonfiction audiobook that completely drew you in? In this episode, we’re sharing some of our favorite nonfiction audiobooks as part of the 2026 Unabridged Reading Challenge. Before diving into our recommendations, we start with our bookish check-in. Then we turn to nonfiction audiobooks we’ve loved. Jen recommends Hannah Ritchie’s Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet ( Bookshop . org | Libro . fm ), an accessible and hopeful look at climate change that balances honest data with practical, actionable solutions. Ashley shares Juno Dawson’s This Book Is Gay ( Bookshop . org | Libro . fm ), a candid, funny, and informative guide to exploring gender and sexuality that tackles complex topics with openness and compassion. We wrap up with a Lit Chat question about how we treat our books, including whether we annotate, use book darts, or keep every page pristine. If you’re looking for a great nonfiction audiobook to add to your TBR (or your reading challenge list), we hope you’ll join us for the conversation! Visit the Unabridged website for our full show notes and links to the books mentioned in the episode…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ashley Dickson-Ellison, Jen Moyers

Topics covered

• nonfiction audiobooks
• reading challenge
• climate change
• gender and sexuality
• book care

Keywords

• nonfiction
• audiobooks
• reading challenge
• climate change
• gender
• sexuality
• book care

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, This Book Is Gay

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