Medicine bestsellers

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

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

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016A Bill Gates “Gates Notes” PickMPR Best Books of 2016Chicago Public Library... 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

"[Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry] are both capable, likable narrators who are sincerely engaged with their subject matter...The performances of these two humanitarians make this a must-hear for anyone recovering from their traumatic past." —AudioFile

This program is read by the authors.

Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more

Between Two Kingdoms

A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

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

“Wow, what a story. This was an extremely moving memoir about a devastating but successful fight with cancer and the toll it takes on your life and relationships. But more than that, it also bring you on a journey of moving on and re-learning how to live your life. Jaouad is a fabulous writer and really take the reader on the journey with her.... 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

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

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

The Obesity Code

Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss

By: Dr. Jason Fung
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones - in everyone - and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss.In this highly listenable and provocative book, Dr. Jason Fung sets out an original, robust theory of obesity that... 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

“Take an over-medicated, moody, middle-aged mother of four, add a month of experimental microdosing with LSD and it makes for A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman. This mesmerizing memoir of mental exploration tackles the taboo topic of drug use in our society, the frightening rise of prescription pills and the devastating addictions developing... Read more

Trauma Stewardship

An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk
Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... 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 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

The instant New York Times bestseller

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries... Read more

Strangers to Ourselves

Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“This is part memoir, part examination of the experiences of four other people who experienced mental illness and struggled with the treatments available. Aviv is most insightful when writing about herself, or the affluent young woman who decides to go off her medications, most likely because Aviv relates more easily to her circumstances. Her... Read more

Committed

On Meaning and Madwomen

By: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

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

Fiber Fueled

The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiome

By: Will Bulsiewicz, MD
Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist.

The benefits of restrictive diets like paleo and keto have been touted for more than a decade, but as renowned gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or "Dr. B," illuminates in this groundbreaking audiobook, the explosion of... Read more

Brain on Fire

My Month of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Susannah Cahalan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

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

A Body Made of Glass

A Cultural History of Hypochondria

By: Caroline Crampton
Narrated by: Caroline Crampton
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

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

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

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 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

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

Rough Sleepers

Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to... 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

The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

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

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and 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—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... 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

Legacy

A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock, MD
Narrated by: Uché Blackstock, MD
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH

“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence

One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024

One of Good Morning America’s 15... Read more

This Is Going to Hurt

Secret Diaries of a Young Doctor

By: Adam Kay
Narrated by: Adam Kay
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally ""blisteringly funny"" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily... Read more

NeuroTribes

The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Administrations of Lunacy

Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

By: Mab Segrest
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Today, ninety percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a... 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

All That Remains

A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes

By: Sue Black
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Book of the Year, 2018 Saltire Literary AwardsFor fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book,... Read more

Mother Brain

How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

By: Chelsea Conaboy
Narrated by: Chelsea Conaboy
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

This program is read by the author.

A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent.

Before journalist Chelsea Conaboy gave birth, she anticipated the joy of holding her... Read more

Break the Cycle

A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma

By: Dr. Mariel Buqué
Narrated by: Dr. Mariel Buqué
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

***The Instant National Bestseller***

A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for January 2024

The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room—from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University–trained trauma-informed... Read more

My Father's Brain

Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

By: Sandeep Jauhar
Narrated by: Sandeep Jauhar
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

“These pages will be a blessing to families dealing with Alzheimer’s. Sandeep Jauhar’s prose is insightful, honest, and moving about a condition that most of us will inevitably encounter in our lifetimes." —Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into... Read more

Sickening

How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

By: John Abramson
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good... Read more

The Secret Life of Trees

By: Centre of Excellence
Narrated by: Kate Rowley
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Trees are a familiar feature of any landscape, yet we rarely think about them. They are necessary for maintaining the health of the global ecosystem and provide many material things but they are more of an integral part of our lives than we may at first consider. The Secret Life of Trees Audiobook aims to enlighten you on the importance of... Read more

The Unseen Body

A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy

By: Jonathan Reisman, M.D.
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

"Petkoff gives a flawless performance of this doctor/naturalist's memoir, conveying both his inquisitiveness and assuredness with aplomb." - AudioFile

"A fascinating, lyrical book... Reisman's experiences in other cultures bring a richness and depth to The Unseen Body. The way he thinks about the body and medicine—the rivers and tributaries,... Read more

Necropolis

Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

By: Kathryn Olivarius
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to "get acclimated" by surviving the disease. About half... Read more

Flush

The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure

By: Bryn Nelson
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

For readers of Giulia Enders’ Gut and Bill Bryson’s The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science journalist Bryn Nelson.

The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we’ve been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our... Read more

Sacred Knowledge

Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

By: William A. Richards
Narrated by: River Kanoff
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Sacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly three decades of legal research with volunteers, William A. Richards argues that, if used responsibly and legally, psychedelics have the potential... Read more

Insane

America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

By: Alisa Roth
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons.

America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police... Read more

Healing

When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

By: Theresa Brown
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 6 hours

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world of healthcare as a cancer nurse becomes a patient and experiences the system from the other side.​

Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other... Read more

Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

By: Britney Daniels
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care during COVID-19.

Britney Daniels is a Black, masculine-presenting, tattooed lesbian from a working-class background. For the last five years, she has been working as an emergency-room nurse. She began Journal of a Black Queer Nurse as a personal... Read more

Believe Me

My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease

By: Yolanda Hadid
Narrated by: Daisy White
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

This program includes an introduction and bonus interview with the author.

From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease.

In early 2011, Yolanda Hadid was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe... Read more

Elixir of Ages

Unlocking the Secrets of Chinese Medicine!

By: Carrie Choi & Lily Chauhan
Narrated by: Brian newport
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Elixir of Ages: Unlocking the Secrets of Chinese Medicine!
Venture into the heart of ancient wisdom with "Elixir of Ages" and discover the timeless healing secrets of Chinese Medicine! While modern medicine continually evolves, sometimes it’s the age-old remedies that truly stand the test of time. This book isn’t merely an exploration—it’s an... Read more

When the Body Says No

The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté, MD
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 11 hours 48 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

Women in White Coats

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine

By: Olivia Campbell
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

For fans of Hidden Figures and Radium Girls comes the remarkable story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.

In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they... 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 In-Between

Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

By: Hadley Vlahos, R.N.
Narrated by: Hadley Vlahos, R.N.
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir.
 
“This extraordinary book helps dispel fear around death and dying—revealing it to be a natural... 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