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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY."" — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more
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Finding the Mother Tree
By: Suzanne Simard
Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery
“Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The... Read more
Together
By: Vivek H. Murthy
Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more
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Strangers to Ourselves
By: Rachel Aviv
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2022
A Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of 2022
The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and... Read more
Amphibious Soul
By: Craig Foster
Narrated by: Craig Foster
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Feel the pulse of the ocean with the audiobook version of Amphibious Soul narrated and crafted by Academy Award winner Craig Foster – featuring calming ocean sounds and original music composed using wild-found instruments from the Great African Seaforest. How can we reclaim the soul-deepening wildness that energizes us when so much of the modern... Read more
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The Book of Hope
By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.
Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.
In this urgent... Read more
A Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America–majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more
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How to Do Nothing
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is... Read more
Committed
By: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
After nearly three... Read more
American Prometheus
By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 26 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more
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My Beloved Monster
By: Caleb Carr
Narrated by: James Lurie
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by... Read more
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White Evangelical Racism
By: Anthea Butler
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures?... Read more
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Stop People Pleasing
By: Hailey Magee
Narrated by: Hailey Magee
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A viral life coach offers a practical, empathetic, and inspiring guide to breaking people-pleasing patterns that can harm our careers, relationships, physical, and psychic health.
For most of Hailey Magee’s life, people-pleasing came so naturally to her that she didn’t even have a word for it. When somebody wanted something from her—even a... Read more
Brain on Fire
By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Susannah Cahalan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
INCLUDES A NEW AUDIO AFTERWORD!
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ
A “captivating” (The New York Times Book Review), award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is a powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When... Read more
Hurts So Good
By: Leigh Cowart
Narrated by: Leigh Cowart
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers
Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia,... Read more
Stolen Focus
By: Johann Hari
Narrated by: Johann Hari
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.
“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again
“Read this book to... Read more
Disarming the Narcissist
By: Wendy T. Behary, LCSW
Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Do you know someone who is overly arrogant, shows an extreme lack of empathy, or exhibits an inflated sense of entitlement? Do they exploit others, or engage in deluded thinking? These are all traits of narcissistic personality disorder, and when it comes to dealing with narcissists, it can be difficult to get your point across. So, how do you... Read more
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Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded
By: Barry M. Prizant
Narrated by: Barry M. Prizant
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism
A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading....Breathtakingly simple and profoundly positive” (Chicago Tribune).
Autism therapy... Read more
Losing Eden
By: Lucy Jones
Narrated by: Lucy Jones
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched ... a convincing plea for a wilder, richer world' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
'By the time I'd read the first chapter, I'd resolved to take my son into the woods every afternoon over winter. By the time I'd read the sixth, I was wanting... Read more
Raising Hell, Living Well
By: Jessica Elefante
Narrated by: Jessica Elefante
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore.
“A weirdly practical approach to some ancient questions that have become trickier lately.”—Jaron Lanier,... Read more
A Body Made of Glass
By: Caroline Crampton
Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Part cultural history, part literary criticism, and part memoir, A Body Made of Glass is a definitive biography of hypochondria.Caroline Crampton’s life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a relatively rare blood cancer. After years of invasive treatment, she was finally given the all clear. But... Read more
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Dogland
By: Tommy Tomlinson
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“Extraordinary...Tomlinson’s book is a gem.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune * “Moving...Really broke me.” —Washington Post * “Delightful.” —Town & Country * “This book wants to lick your face. Let it.” —Kirkus Reviews
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Tommy Tomlinson comes an inside account of the Westminster Dog Show that follows one dog on his... Read more
The Complications
By: Emmett Rensin
Narrated by: James Gloucester
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
An unflinching, rare account of living with severe mental illness that is also a bold commentary on how we misunderstand this often debilitating disease.The Complications is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type as well as a biting, revelatory critique of America’s mental health culture.... Read more
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Ace
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more