The Checklist Manifesto
By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
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
Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
Narrated by: Vicki Robin
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Brand new for 2018: A fully revised edition of one of the most influential books ever written on personal finance with more than a million copies sold
“The best book on money. Period.” –Grant Sabatier, founder of “Millennial Money,” on CNBC Make It
"This is a wonderful book. It can really change your life." -Oprah
For more than twenty-five... Read more
The Undoing Project
By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the... Read more
Work Won't Love You Back
By: Sarah Jaffe
Narrated by: Sarah Jaffe
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.
You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor... Read more
Every Tool's a Hammer
By: Adam Savage
Narrated by: Adam Savage
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In this New York Times bestselling “imperative how-to for creativity” (Nick Offerman), Adam Savage—star of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters—shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.
Every Tool’s a Hammer is a chronicle of my life as a maker. It’s an exploration... Read more
The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
Narrated by: Simon Sinek
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world.
How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games... Read more
Indistractable
By: Nir Eyal & Julie Li
Narrated by: Nir Eyal
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
"Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results." (James Clear, author of Atomic Habits)You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home,... Read more
View audiobookVulture Capitalism
By: Grace Blakeley
Narrated by: Grace Blakeley
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the... Read more
Steve Jobs
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 25 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year
Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and... Read more
Crossing the Chasm
By: Geoffrey A. Moore
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for brining cutting-edge products to progressively larger markets. This revised and updated edition provides new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing, with special emphasis on the Internet. It’s... Read more
View audiobookThe Fun Habit
By: Mike Rucker
Narrated by: Mike Rucker
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the latest scientific evidence for the potent and revitalizing value of fun and how to make having fun a habitual and authentic part of your daily life with “this well-researched and impressive guide” (BookPage).
Doesn’t it seem that the more we seek happiness, the more elusive it becomes?
There is an easy fix: fun is an action you can... Read more
Money
By: Jacob Goldstein
Narrated by: Jacob Goldstein
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped... Read more
Buy Back Your Time
By: Dan Martell
Narrated by: Dan Martell
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time
How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and... Read more
Unbound
By: Kasia Urbaniak
Narrated by: Kasia Urbaniak
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The ultimate guide to owning your power--and mastering how to use it.
How can so many women feel "good and mad" yet still reluctant to speak up in a meeting or difficult conversation? Why do women often feel like they're too much--and, at the same time, not enough? What causes us, at the most critical moments in our lives, to freeze?
Kasia... Read more
The Culture Map
By: Erin Meyer
Narrated by: Lisa Larsen
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life.
Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in... Read more
How to Change
By: Katy Milkman
Narrated by: Katy Milkman & Angela Duckworth
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Wall Street Journal bestseller
“A welcome revelation.” --The Financial Times
Award-winning Wharton Professor and Choiceology podcast host Katy Milkman has devoted her career to the study of behavior change. In this ground-breaking book, Milkman reveals a proven path that can take you from where you are to where you want to be, with a foreword from... Read more
Fulfillment
By: Alec MacGillis
Narrated by: Danny Gavigan
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
An award-winning journalist investigates Amazon’s impact on the wealth and poverty of towns and cities across the United States.
In 1937, the famed writer and activist Upton Sinclair published a novel bearing the subtitle A Story of Ford-America. He blasted the callousness of a company worth “a billion dollars” that underpaid its workers while... Read more
Queer Career
By: Margot Canaday
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow provides a masterful history of the LGBT workforce in America
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an... Read more
Rich AF
By: Vivian Tu
Narrated by: Vivian Tu
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
From TikTok star and Your (favorite) Rich BFF Vivian Tu, the definitive book on personal finance for a new generation
When Vivian Tu started working on Wall Street fresh from undergrad, all she knew was that she was making more money than she had ever seen in her life. But it wasn’t until she found a mentor of her own on the trading floor that... Read more
How the World Works
By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
According to the New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight... Read more
View audiobookCribsheet
By: Emily Oster
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.
“Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times
“The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a... Read more
The Coaching Habit
By: Michael Bungay Stanier
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The phenomenal bestseller with almost 1 million copies sold!"In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part—how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice.” —Dr. Brené Brown, author of... Read more
View audiobookFlash Boys
By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction
From the #1 bestselling author of The Blind Side and Moneyball
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US stock market... Read more
Mediocre
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color,... Read more