Science & Technology audiobooks
Braiding Sweetgrass
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
View audiobookThe Anxious Generation
By: Jonathan Haidt
Narrated by: Sean Pratt & Jonathan Haidt
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big techâand a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
âErudite, engaging, combative, crusading.â âNew York Times Book Review (Editorsâ Choice)
âWords... Read more
The Age of Magical Overthinking
By: Amanda Montell
Narrated by: Amanda Montell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.
Utilizing the linguistic insights of her âwitty and brilliantâ... Read more
Sociopath
By: Patric Gagne
Narrated by: Patric Gagne
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir of the authorâs struggle to understand her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
âA cross between a podcast by relationship therapist Esther Perel and a salacious tell-all.â âSan Francisco Chronicle
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable... Read more
The Body Keeps the Score
By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller
âEssential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.â âAlexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New... Read more
How to Keep House While Drowning
By: KC Davis
Narrated by: KC Davis & Dr. Raquel Martin
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR Best Book of 2022
USA TODAY Bestseller
This revolutionary approach to cleaning and organizing helps free you from feeling ashamed or overwhelmed by a messy home.
If youâre struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. For therapist KC Davis, the birth... Read more
Sapiens
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerA Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanityâs creation and evolutionâa #1 international bestsellerâthat explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it... Read more
View audiobookThe Dawn of Everything
By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more
Hidden Valley Road
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠OPRAHâS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY ⢠The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
"Reads like a medical... Read more
Doppelganger
By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."âThe New York Times
âIf ever a book was necessary, itâs this one.â âBill McKibben
âThoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more
Outlive
By: Peter Attia, MD
Narrated by: Peter Attia, MD
Length: 17 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert
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âOne of the most important books youâll ever... Read more
Four Thousand Weeks
By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
This program is read by the author.
"Burkeman and his irresistible British accent shifted my paradigm a couple centimeters . . . 'The day will never arrive when you have everything under control,' he calmly whispered in my ear, and I think I believed him." - Vulture
"The philosophical tone of his delivery is... Read more
How Far the Light Reaches
By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
AÂ fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... Read more
View audiobookThe Hidden Life of Trees
By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Sunday Times Bestseller âA paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglementâ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more
View audiobookBetween Two Kingdoms
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young womanâs journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into ânormalâ lifeâfrom the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more
How to Know a Person
By: David Brooks
Narrated by: David Brooks
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our livesâfrom the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain
âMore than a guide to better conversations, itâs a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of... Read more
Divergent Mind
By: Jenara Nerenberg
Narrated by: Tegan Ashton Cohan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent womenâthose with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorderâexploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.As a successful Harvard and Berkeley-educated writer, entrepreneur, and devoted... Read more
View audiobookThe Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.Â
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more
What Happened to You?
By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." âAudioFile
This program is read by the authors.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more
How to Be Perfect
By: Michael Schur
Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted...
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Read by the author, this one-of-a-kind audio production features guest appearances by members of the cast of The Good Place.
Most people think... Read more
Unmasking Autism
By: Devon Price, PhD
Narrated by: Devon Price, PhD
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening societyâs narrow understanding of neurodiversity
âA remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.ââBarry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP,author of... Read more
On Call
By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents
âAn eventful autobiography [and] a classic American storyâŚGripping.ââThe Washington Post
âOne of the most consequential and most... Read more
An Immense World
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â A âthrillingâ (The New York Times), âdazzlingâ (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prizeâwinning science journalist Ed Yong
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âOne of this yearâs finest works of narrative... Read more
Challenger
By: Adam Higginbotham
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠âStunningâŚA heart-pounding thrillerâŚChallenger is a remarkable book.â âThe Atlantic ⢠âSuperbâŚCompelling and exhaustively researched.â âThe Washington Post ⢠âDevastatingâŚA universal story that transcends time.â âThe New York Times ⢠âGripping history.â âPublishers Weekly (starred review)
From the New York Times... Read more