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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
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
When Breath Becomes Air
By: Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?
“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more
Neuroqueer Heresies
By: Nick Walker
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.
Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.
This book is essential... Read more
I've Been Thinking...
By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Graham Winton
Length: 14 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness and how did it come about? What distinguishes human minds from the minds of animals? Dennett’s answers have profoundly shaped our age of... Read more
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God, Human, Animal, Machine
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues... Read more
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Solidarity
By: Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor
Narrated by: Veronica Giguere
Length: 14 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From renowned organizers and activists Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, comes the first in-depth examination of Solidarity—not just as a rallying cry, but as potent political movement with potential to effect lasting change.
“A window into what is possible when we reject the politics of division, trade... Read more
The Second Sex
By: Simone De Beauvoir
Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Judith Thurman
Length: 39 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME
Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English... 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 lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family,... Read more
The Courage to Be Disliked
By: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm & January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
An international bestseller and TikTok sensation with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.
Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal... Read more
Courage Is Calling
By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!
Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series... Read more
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the... Read more
Entitled
By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl
“Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker. Her work is indispensable.”—Rebecca Traister
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC
In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher... Read more
Healing Resistance
By: Kazu Haga
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.
Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been... Read more
A History of Western Philosophy
By: Bertrand Russell
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 38 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.
Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant... Read more
Cosmos and Psyche
By: Richard Tarnas
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 25 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung, Richard Tarnas explores the planetary... 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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Meditations
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill, Aden Hakimi, Sarah Naughton, ...
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life.
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the immense wealth and absolute power that had corrupted many of his predecessors. He... Read more
Finite and Infinite Games
By: James Carse
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
“There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be... Read more
The Leaving Season
By: Kelly McMasters
Narrated by: Kelly McMasters
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Kelly McMasters found herself in her mid-thirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was... Read more
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The MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius
By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation, they... Read more
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The Practicing Stoic
By: Ward Farnsworth
Narrated by: John Lescault
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for... Read more
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Parfit
By: David Edmonds
Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes paints an entertaining and illuminating portrait of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything... Read more
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
By: Daniel C. Dennett
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
What is human consciousness and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep interactions of... Read more
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