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The Force of Nonviolence
By: Judith Butler
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst... Read more
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Justice for Animals
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat... Read more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
By: Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
This Penguin Classic is performed by Saul Reichlin, known for their roles in War and Peace and Miss Marple. This definitive recording includes an introduction by R.J. Hollingdale, also read by Saul Reichlin.
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his... Read more
The Feeling of Life Itself
By: Christof Koch
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Psychologists study which cognitive operations underpin a given conscious perception. Neuroscientists track the neural correlates of consciousness in the brain, the organ of the mind. But why the brain and not, say, the liver? How can the brain, three pounds of highly excitable matter, a piece of furniture in the universe, subject to the same... Read more
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The Truth of Yoga
By: Daniel Simpson
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Much of what is said about yoga is misleading. To take two examples, it is neither five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed, nor does it mean union, at least not exclusively. In perhaps the most famous text-The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali-the aim is separation, isolating consciousness from everything else. And the earliest evidence of... Read more
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Is Your Work Worth It?
By: Christopher Wong Michaelson & Jennifer Tosti-Kh...
Narrated by: Andrew Sellon, Jennifer Tosti-Kharas & Christop...
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
What is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work.
According to recent studies, barely a third of American workers feel “engaged” at work, and for many people around the world, happiness is lowest when earning power is highest. After a global pandemic... Read more
Letters from a Stoic (Unabridged)
By: Seneca
Narrated by: Malk Williams
Length: 23 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full. Seneca�s letters read like a diary or a handbook of... Read more
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How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars
By: Rowan Hooper
Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
What would you do with a trillion dollars? The ultimate thought experiment opens our eyes to ten world-changing ideas within our grasp
If we can come up with a trillion dollars to bail out banks, imagine what else we could do. Science journalist Rowan Hooper decided to find out, speaking with experts of all kinds about ten incredibly ambitious... Read more
Fierce Self-Compassion
By: Kristin Neff
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.
Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously... Read more
A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased... Read more
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
By: Marie Kondo
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?
Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate... Read more
The Five Invitations
By: Frank Ostaseski
Narrated by: Frank Ostaseski
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in... Read more
The Book of Eels
By: Patrik Svensson
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition.Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has... Read more
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Humanly Possible
By: Sarah Bakewell
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book
“A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading. . . Bakewell is wide-ranging, witty and compassionate.” –Wall Street Journal
“Sweeping . . . linking philosophical... Read more
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
By: John Koenig
Narrated by: John Koenig
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the... Read more
The Eternal Tao Te Ching
By: Benjamin Hoff
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, comes The Eternal Tao Te Ching, a new translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching.
The Eternal Tao Te Ching is the first translation to employ the meanings of the pre-writing brush characters in use 2,400... Read more
On Freedom
By: Maggie Nelson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.
So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long... Read more
An Onion in My Pocket
By: Deborah Madison
Narrated by: Deborah Madison
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens," The Washington Post)—a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement.
Madison’s “insightful memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) is “a true delight to read as she uncovers her love for all real foods, peeling off layer by layer... Read more
Fathoms
By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about... Read more
Witness
By: Ariel Burger
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protégé and friend of one of the world’s great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher.The world remembers Elie Wiesel—Nobel laureate, activist,... Read more
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
By: Jim Holt
Narrated by: David Stifel
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From Jim Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right... Read more
Silence
By: Erling Kagge
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
What is silence?
Where can it be found?
Why is it now more important than ever?
In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read more
Apology
By: Plato
Narrated by: Liam Johnson
Length: 1 hour 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"Apology" is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato, chronicling the trial of Socrates. In this work, Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth and impiety, ultimately leading to his conviction and execution. Despite his defense, Socrates remains steadfast in his commitment to truth and virtue, refusing to compromise... Read more
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Three Years on the Great Mountain
By: Cristina Moon
Narrated by: Cristina Moon
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
At twenty-five, activist Cristina Moon faced an impossible task: preparing for the possibility of arrest and torture inside military-ruled Myanmar. Her response? Learning Buddhist meditation. So began what would become a decades-long spiritual path—eventually leading her to a Zen temple and martial arts dojo in Hawai'i with a timeless method of... Read more
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