nonfiction books that would be decent as audiobooks?
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Anonymous
| DS loves audiobooks, and he really enjoyed Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neal DeGrasse Tyson. I'm trying to find other awesome non-fiction books and then I'll look for audiobooks. He has dyslexia, so the audio book route is what works for him. Really any type of nonfiction would be great, but nothing too gory. |
Anonymous
| This is not geared toward teens and tweens but i started listening to Great Courses audiobooks and my my kids have gotten into them too. My favorites are by Gregory Aldrete. He turns ancient history into riveting stories and it’s so fun. My library has most of them. |
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I recently listened to the following audiobooks, all of which I would recommend:
Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb (he's a professor at Harvard, and I would highly recommend, I think your son would love it) A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (about the human genome) I'm listening to 1492 (about the americas before large scale european colonizations, it's very listenable) |
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Not sure if this is your child's interest, but the Eric Rippert memoir on audio was really fun/interesting.
Oh, also, the Andre Agassi memoir. |
Anonymous
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Poisoners handbook
DH and I also really like serial killer ones. I'll be gone in the dark was really good |
Anonymous
| My teens liked Kitchen Confidential. |
Anonymous
| Between the World and Me is fantastic as an audiobook! |
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Anonymous
| I haven't read it yet, but I got interested in reading Michael Collins' Carrying the Fire from reading his obituary this week (RIP Mr. Collins). Collins is the third Apollo 11 astronaut who circled the moon while Armstrong and Aldrin landed. They quoted part of it in the obit and he was quite poetic. And the subject matter seems very interesting. |
Anonymous
| I would think Unbroken would be great. 9th grade son is reading it now. |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
And not really non-fiction, but we loved Neil Gaimon's Norse Mythology |
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Becoming- Michelle Obama
A Promised Land - Barack Obama Shoe Dog |
Anonymous
| Bryson’s books that he reads are interesting. Make sure you get tapes where he is reading. Someone mentioned a Short History all ready. But, A Walk in the Woods is also good. |
Anonymous
| Ian Mortimer’s TIme Travelers Guide to Medieval England or the one on Elizabethan England might be good, whether someone is interested in history or if you hope to get them interested. |
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| Moneyball |