Medicine bestsellers

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

“An excellent journey through the history of TB, interwoven with the story of a young man, Henry, whose lived experience adds so much to the overall content of the book. John Green as narrator does an excellent job, and the writing style of the book is easy to follow and well paced. I think this book is easily accessible to all people, whether... Read more

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

“A beautiful dissection of trauma and its effects on the brain. One of the world’s foremost experts on trauma uses recent studies to show how trauma reshapes parts of us. The author frames trauma in a whole new way and makes you really consider the true definition of it. This book outlines how the traumas people carry can impact their capacity to... Read more

The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

“A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Scoreand anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick 'normal' is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and... Read more

The New Menopause

Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more

Between Two Kingdoms

A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

“ A stirring memoir about a young woman moving between the realms of the sick and the well, and the nonlinear nature of healing. Jaouad writes, 'If we are brave enough to tell our own story, we realize we're not alone, again and again.' And WOW does she accomplish that for her readers. Read more

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

“Pollan didn’t create the local food movement, but his books brought our attention to it, catapulting the conversation to farmers markets and dinner tables everywhere. In How To Change Your Mind, Pollan has turned his eye to psychedelic drugs. What The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules did for food, this book is set to do in the fields of end of... Read more

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“A must read. Even better as an audio book - but grab a physical copy to jot notes in! Read more

Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

“Theranos was a startup that set itself apart from the bevy of others in Silicon Valley. Its cause was noble, manufacturing revolutionary medical technology that could run a menu of blood tests on only a finger stick's worth of blood, eliminating the need for large painful needles. There was only one problem: the technology didn't exist.... Read more

The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer.

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer,... Read more

Hidden Valley Road

Inside the Mind of an American Family

By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

“This came out in 2020, and I absolutely did not have the bandwidth to read it then. I revisited it this month via audiobook. Hidden Valley Road's focus is the Galvin family where six of the twelve children develop schizophrenia by the mid 1970s. Kolker expertly weaves together the strands of history of the Galvin's, the disease, and the... Read more

Air-Borne

The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

By: Carl Zimmer
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down

Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so... Read more

On Call

A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

#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

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most... Read more

Crypt

Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

By: Alice Roberts
Narrated by: Alice Roberts
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER
CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2024

'Compulsive . . . A wonderful display of how modern archaeology can bring hidden histories to life' Daily Telegraph 

'Gripping . . . I found it hard to put down' Evening Standard

'Another really good book from archaeologist Alice Roberts . . . Helps... Read more

How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend

A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life

By: Rachel Barr
Length: TBA

'Fun, but still deeply, rigorously researched.' - Professor Neil Shyminsky

'A true masterpiece. Rachel Barr has done a phenomenal job breaking down the complexities of the human mind.' - Jeffrey Meltzer, LMHC

'Insightful and relatable psychoeducation that demystifies the brain . . . it’s a resource I’ll proudly keep on my shelf as a therapist.' -... Read more

The Body

A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“At home while peeling wallpaper or making diner—or just closing my eyes for a while—a non-fiction audio book is a perfect companion, especially if it’s teaching me something as well as being entertaining. The Body: A Guide For Occupants by Bill Bryson, narrated by Bill Bryson, is exactly that kind of book. Bryson’s voice is genial, sometimes... Read more

Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable... Read more

All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

USA Today BestsellerA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health.For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored,... Read more

Unshrunk

A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

By: Laura Delano
Narrated by: Laura Delano
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.” —Anna Lembke, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Dopamine Nation

“A really moving and heart-rending story. Unshrunk will help and empower so many people.” —Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus

The powerful memoir of one woman’s experience... Read more

I Contain Multitudes

The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“Ed Yong writes so enthusiastically about the expansive microbial world and our human understanding of it, past and present, that these science and research packed pages are a joy to read. More remarkable is Yong’s insistence on the moral of the story: it is the balanced mutual self-interest of community, not dog eat dog competition, that is the... Read more

The Gene

An Intimate History

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

“Siddhartha Mukherjee (The Emperor of All Maladies) is a scientist driven to understand the unknown, and an author who strives to share his discoveries with the common person. Here, however, he is also pulled by his personal and family history, and intertwines those stories of recurrent mental illness with the history of the study of genetics and... Read more

Smile

The Story of a Face

By: Sarah Ruhl
Narrated by: Sarah Ruhl
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

“The story of Sarah Ruhl’s smile—how it broke and how it healed again—encompasses so many other stories, so many other journeys: through early motherhood, through postpartum depression, through maintaining an artistic self when you are torn in many directions. She asks why it’s so important—for women in particular—that we always keep a smile on... Read more

Trauma and Recovery

The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Alison Mathews & Xe Sands
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)

Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is... Read more

In Shock

My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

By: Dr. Rana Awdish
Narrated by: Dr. Rana Awdish & Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Now a Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe New York Times Book Review: "Awdish's book is the one I wished we were given as assigned reading our first year of medical school, alongside our white coats and stethoscopes...dramatic, engaging and instructive."A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of... Read more

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous... Read more

Stop Walking on Eggshells

Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder, third edition

By: Paul T. Mason, MS & Randi Kreger
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are "walking on eggshells" to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is "yes," someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD)—a mood disorder that causes negative self-image, emotional... Read more

The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more

The Good Death

A Guide for Supporting Your Loved One through the End of Life

By: Suzanne B. O’Brien
Narrated by: Suzanne B. O’Brien
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Practical wisdom and holistic planning to ease life's most difficult transition, from an acclaimed hospice nurse, death doula, and end-of-life educator

Many of us have to show up for someone we love at the end of life. Knowing how to do that changes everything. With over twenty years of experience as a hospice nurse, palliative care... Read more

Sick Enough

A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren't "sick enough" to merit treatment, despite medical problems that are both measurable and unmeasurable. They may struggle to accept rest, nutrition, and a team to help them move towards recovery. Sick Enough offers patients, their families, and clinicians a comprehensive, accessible... Read more

The Mindbody Prescription

Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

By: John E. Sarno
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Learn how to relieve chronic pain for good with this life-changing New York Times bestselling book.

Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Musculoskeletal pain disorders have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with most doctors failing to recognize their underlying cause, leaving patients desperate–and still in agonizing... Read more

The Leopard in my House

One man’s adventures in cancerland

By: Mark Steel
Narrated by: Mark Steel
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

‘I feel like there’s a leopard in my house, locked in a room. I’ve contacted the leopard authorities and they assure me they are used to dealing with leopards like this, and they have a plan for removing the leopard. It will take a while, though, and once in a while I can hear it growl.And that’s all very reassuring.... Read more

Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage

Weaving ancient wisdom with modern knowledge

By: Rachel Reed
Narrated by: Rachel Reed
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

It’s time for a childbirth revolution.Childbirth has always been, and always will be, a significant rite of passage that transforms a woman into a mother. However, the modern approach to maternity care fails women, families and care providers with outdated practices that centre the needs of institutions rather than individuals.In this book,... Read more

10% Human

How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

By: Alanna Collen
Narrated by: Cat Gould
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are... Read more

Shattered

A Memoir

By: Hanif Kureishi
Narrated by: Art Malik
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

From acclaimed author and playwright Hanif Kureishi comes an urgent and stunning memoir about rebuilding a new life in the wake of devastating physical loss.In late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a... Read more

The Genesis Machine

Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

By: Amy Webb & Andrew Hessel
Narrated by: Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson & Amanda Dolan
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new––and possibly better––biological code. 

Synthetic biology promises to reveal how life is created... Read more

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism

My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

By: Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

In 1994, Peter Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine community and their inescapable narrative around childhood... Read more

Parts Work

An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life

Parts Work

By: Tom Holmes, PhD & Lauri Holmes, MSW
Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

This audiobook, Parts Work, describes our inner psychological world in ways that are moving, thought-provoking, sometimes humorous and often poignant. The audiobook shows how we can disentangle ourselves from the problematic habitual patterns in which we get stuck, and offers ways of positively using our particular talents and style for a fuller... Read more

IFS Healing Using Internal Family Systems Therapy for Inner Harmony and Freedom

By: Rich Adalfo
Narrated by: Dave Filstead
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

IFS HEALING: Using Internal Family Systems Therapy for Inner Harmony and FreedomTransform your relationship with yourself through Internal Family Systems therapy - a groundbreaking approach that brings understanding and harmony to your inner world.This compassionate guide shows you how to:- Understand the distinct parts that make up your inner... Read more

The Psilocybin Handbook for Women

How Magic Mushrooms, Psychedelic Therapy, and Microdosing Can Benefit Your Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health

By: Jennifer Chesak
Narrated by: Rachel Perry
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

If you're looking for mushroom mansplaining, you've come to the wrong book. The Psilocybin Handbook for Women is a resource for everyone, although it features information specific to those assigned female at birth—because psychedelics may have different effects and applications across the sexes.



This informative guidebook is packed full with... Read more

Psychology of the Unconscious

By: Carl Jung
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Originally published in German as Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, this is the book that set Carl Jung on his independent path as a psychoanalytic theorist and explorer of the mysterious world of the unconscious mind of the individual and the mythological mind of humanity. He bases his work on an exploration of Miss Frank Miller's Quelques... Read more

Care Without Pathology

How Trans-Health Activists Are Changing Medicine

By: Christoph Hanssmann
Narrated by: Christoph Hanssmann
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to offering gender-affirming care. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology moves across the Americas to show how trans- health activists have taken on... Read more

When the Body Says No

The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté, MD
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism

By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond.



Menopause is not a disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more

Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

By: Delia Ephron
Narrated by: Delia Ephron
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

“Left on Tenth is prime Delia — honest, raw, generous — be it her husband’s death, a call with Verizon, or the long and painful journey through leukemia. She’s endured so much, but shares with remarkable humor and an overflowing heart. Read more

Madness

Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America’s mental healthcare system. 

On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauqua Prize!

Named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Oprah Daily, BookPage, Book Riot, the New York Public Library, and more!

In The Song of the Cell, the extraordinary author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning... Read more

The Year I Met My Brain

A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley
Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future.

Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and... Read more

Madame Restell

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

By: Jennifer Wright
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 14 hours 1 minute

“First, Mara Wilson's narration is A++. Second, WOW. Restell was a fascinating anti-hero and the snapshot of the medical industry and the politics of reproductive rights at the time was well-researched and vivid. Loved it and hated the timeliness. Read more

Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more

The Beauty in Breaking

A Memoir

By: Michele Harper
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“This memoir is a fascinating examination of a life dedicated to helping others, and an illuminating, up-close view of what happens in emergency rooms. Moments of profound human connection exist alongside confrontations with dangerous and erratic patients, overzealous police demands, a lack of resources, and bureaucratic barriers. And the... Read more

Inflamed

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Narrated by: Raj Patel & Rupa Marya
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

This program is read by the authors.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid... Read more