Nonfiction Audiobooks

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Anonymous wrote:You will LOVEcutting for stone.

It’s fiction, but I agree. It’s is perfect for a curious mind because it’s packed with all kinds of details. Unfortunately the historical parts are fiction, but everything else is real and thoroughly researched!

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Anonymous wrote:Especially interested in epidemiology, biography, and the history of mundane things (what ordinary people wore and ate, prevailing attitudes about religion, stuff like that rather than wars and dynasties and political boundaries shifting), but open to other suggestions!

You will love “50 Things That Made the Modern Economy” and “Stuff Matters” by Mark Miodownik. Both remind me very much of “This Podcast will Kill You.” I also recommend “The Secret Life of Groceries.” It will change how you think about food and make you see stores in a new way!

The Golden Thread and Worn are about history through the lens of fabric and clothes. Much more interesting than most would expect.

A Midwife’s Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is an interesting peek into colonial US life including prevailing attitudes at the time. It is a little academic but I found it readable bc I like that period.

Not specific to your brief but good and available from DC library: Muppets in Moscow, Tracers in the Dark.