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The Body Keeps the Score
By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller
âEssential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.â âAlexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New... Read more
I Contain Multitudes
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
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 âGates Notesâ PickMPR Best Books of 2016Chicago Public Library... Read more
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What Happened to You?
By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"[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." âAudioFile
This program is read by the authors.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more
Between Two Kingdoms
By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young womanâs journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into ânormalâ lifeâfrom the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more
The Year I Met My Brain
By: Matilda Boseley
Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
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
By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠OPRAHâS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY ⢠The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
"Reads like a medical... Read more
The New Menopause
By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
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 stageâby 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
By: Dr. Jason Fung
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
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
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How to Change Your Mind
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
âPollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.â âNew York Times
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable BookÂ
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his... Read more
Trauma Stewardship
By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk
Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
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
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The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
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.âHeartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... 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
The Myth of Normal
By: Gabor MatĂŠ, MD & Daniel MatĂŠ
Narrated by: Daniel MatĂŠ
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
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 MatÊ eloquently dissects how in Western countries... 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 madâand doing both at once.
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When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her motherâfeeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable painâshe made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
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After nearly three... Read more
Fiber Fueled
By: Will Bulsiewicz, MD
Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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
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 CHLOĂ GRACE MORETZ
A âcaptivatingâ (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 womanâs struggle to recapture her identity.
When... 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 Cramptonâs life was upended at the age of seventeen, when she was diagnosed with Hodgkinâs 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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Being Mortal
By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
#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
By: Antonia Hylton
Narrated by: Antonia Hylton
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nationâs last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in Americaâs mental healthcare system.Â
On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the... Read more
The Menopause Manifesto
By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
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 diseaseâit's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more
Bad Blood
By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranosâone of the biggest corporate frauds in historyâa tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.
âChilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more
Rough Sleepers
By: Tracy Kidder
Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Bostonâs homeless communityâby the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
âI couldnât put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to... Read more
The Body
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." âThe Washington Post
Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a... Read more
The Emperor of All Maladies
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is âan extraordinary achievementâ (The New Yorker)âa magnificent, profoundly humane âbiographyâ of cancerâfrom its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer... Read more
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