Philosophy bestsellers

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“This little philosophical gem is my top non-fiction recommendation for this holiday season. What a gift, to give up on getting everything done, and focus on the things that really matter. The audiobook is a joy to listen to; the words seemed to mean even more as I listened, inspired. Read more

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

“I don't own many books. I read books and give them away. However, I will NOT be giving away my copy of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. It's a keeper! Sapiens was an intense read for me. I found myself taking breaks every dozen pages or so. Not because I was bored - just the opposite. I needed time to let the author's perspective on the... Read more

How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur
Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Marc Evan Jackson, Jameela Jamil & Todd May
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

“Accessible, funny, and fascinating, much like the author's famed television show, The Good Place. This is a great primer on moral philosophy, targeted at the layperson. A quick read that will have you chuckling at times and grappling with the great questions of right and wrong at others. Highly recommended, even more so as an audio book since... Read more

How to Know a Person

The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks
Narrated by: David Brooks
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

“Brooks went from zero to hero in my mind. His deep research and obvious self-reflection glows in this book. I not only have new terminology to grapple with people who don't listen, but also used his story telling inquiry for richer conversations with my family. Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

“With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor's journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes,... Read more

Into the Uncut Grass

By: Trevor Noah
Narrated by: Trevor Noah
Length: 38 minutes

“An enchanting tale of learning to listen to each other; those we agree with and those we may not. It’s about learning to work together toward compromise and a more harmonious life for all. And the audiobook is narrated by the author, which in my mind is a bonus; so calm and soothing. Like listening to a bedtime story. Read more

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon

By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most... Read more

On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny

“A rigorous and visionary argument . . . Buy or borrow this book, read it, take it to heart.”—The... Read more

The Courage to Be Disliked

How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness

By: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm & January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

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

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig
Narrated by: John Koenig
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

“The best dictionary you'll ever had read to you. In fact, there's probably a word for that. Read more

Hospicing Modernity

Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Narrated by: Dougald Hine & Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa... Read more

Old Path White Clouds

Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha. Drawn directly from twenty-four Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of eighty years, partly through the eyes of Svasti, the buffalo boy,... Read more

Entitled

How Male Privilege Hurts Women

By: Kate Manne
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

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

The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir
Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Judith Thurman
Length: 39 hours 9 minutes

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

The Queer Art of Failure

By: Jack Halberstam
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
Length: 10 hours 1 minute

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Halberstam... Read more

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & True Dedication
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

“When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment you can have real communication with the Earth… We have to wake up together. And if we wake up together, then we have a chance. Our way of living our life and planning our future has led us into this... Read more

Discipline Is Destiny

The Power of Self-Control

The Stoic Virtues Series

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized... Read more

The Five Invitations

Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

By: Frank Ostaseski
Narrated by: Frank Ostaseski
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in... Read more

The Book of Eels

Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

By: Patrik Svensson
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition.Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has... Read more

Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist... Read more

The Rigor of Angels

Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

By: William Egginton
Narrated by: David Glass
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way uncovered a revelatory truth about our place in the world

“[A] mind-expanding book. . . .... Read more

The Book

On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

By: Alan Watts
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

A revelatory primer on what it means to be human and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence, by “perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West" (Los Angeles Times).

At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are... Read more

The Courage to Be Happy

Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day

By: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm, Noah Galvin & January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

In this follow-up to the international bestseller and TikTok sensation The Courage to Be Disliked, discover how to reconnect with your true self, experience true happiness, and live the life you want.

What if one simple choice could unlock your destiny?

Already a major international bestseller, this eye-opening and accessible follow-up to the... Read more

That Bird Has My Wings

The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

By: Jarvis Jay Masters
Narrated by: Korey Jackson
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

The New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Pick 2022 That Bird Has My Wings is a moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inmates, guards, and a growing public.""When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside... Read more

The Obstacle Is the Way

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do.

Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), an NBC... Read more

All Things Are Full of Gods

The Mysteries of Mind and Life

By: David Bentley Hart
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes

In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have gathered to discuss the nature of existence, the mystery of mind, and whether there is a transcendent God from whom all things come. Turning to Eros, Psyche asks, "Do you see this flower, my love?"



So begins David Bentley Hart's exploration of the mystery of... Read more

Galileo's Daughter

A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

By: Dava Sobel
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition,... Read more

Justice for Animals

Our Collective Responsibility

By: Martha C. Nussbaum
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.

Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat... Read more

All Things Are Too Small

Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld
Narrated by: Ruth Crawford
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more

Change Your Mind

Deprogram Your Subconscious Mind, Rewire the Brain, and Balance Your Energy

By: RJ Spina
Narrated by: RJ Spina
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Expanding on techniques featured in Supercharged Self-Healing , RJ Spina shares new high-frequency metaphysics made simple and practical. This audiobook helps you finally be free of the stress, doubts, and low energy that block your joy and quality of life.Change Your Mind uses revolutionary teachings to help rewire your subconscious mind and... Read more

Manifest

7 Steps to Living Your Best Life

By: Roxie Nafousi
Narrated by: Roxie Nafousi
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

THE INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Change your life with the first truly practical guide to manifesting, the hugely popular self-development practice that will transform your life for good . . .

Written by self-development coach and 'Queen of Manifesting' Roxie Nafousi, this book is the essential guide to anyone and everyone wanting to feel more... Read more

The Portable Atheist

Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

By: Christopher Hitchens
Narrated by: Nicholas Ball
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will engage you every step of the way. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, comes this provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with original pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.... Read more

The Doors of Perception

By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Aedemon Maure
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

"A genuine spiritual quest. . . . Extraordinary." — New York TimesAmong the most profound and influential explorations of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs ever written, a complete classic book—The Doors of Perception —in which Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human... Read more

The Solutionary Way

Transform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better

By: Zoe Weil
Narrated by: Zoe Weil
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Forges a path away from polarization toward ethical problem solving and a more humane, equitable, and healthy society Deep polarization in our society often prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. Based on Zoe Weil's decades of work as a humane educator, The Solutionary Way offers an antidote to dysfunctional... Read more

The Book of Hope

A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Global Icons Series

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

“Fascinating interview of naturalist Dr Jane Goodall by biographer Douglas Adams. I listened to the Libro.fm edition which is narrated by both. Interesting to learn how she first got interested in studying animal behavior and how the field has changed. Her research at Gombe National Park has given us an in-depth understanding of chimpanzee... Read more

American Character

A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

By: Colin Woodard
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these key strands... Read more

Bhagavad Gita

Sri Krishna's Illuminations on the Perfection of Yoga

By: Swami B.G. Narasingha
Narrated by: Gaura Gopala Dasa
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

This Audiobook edition of 'Bhagavad Gita - Sri Krsna's Illuminations on the Perfection of Yoga' with commentary by Swami B.G. Narasingha is not just another commentary on this profound text. The message of Bhagavad Gita is eternal and unchanging, but the time that surrounds us is always changing, thus our perception of life, our current... Read more

Conscience of a Conservative

A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

By: Jeff Flake
Narrated by: Milton Jeffers & Jeff Flake
Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times column

In a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump... Read more

The Srimad Bhagavatam Divine Secrets Of The Soul

By: Veda Vyasa
Narrated by: Jagannatha Dasa And The Vraj Mandala
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

"I request you to take advantage of this book and enter into its understanding. Please make an appointment to meet your God now, through the self-liberating process of Yoga." George Harrison

This amazing audiobook relays stories of Sri Krsna's divine pastimes from the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the summit of the ancient Vedas of India. Since time... Read more

Plato's Republic

Books That Changed the World: Book #4

By: Simon Blackburn
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city—and the perfect mind—laid the foundations for Western culture and, for over two thousand years, has been the cornerstone of Western... Read more

The Conspiracy against the Human Race

A Contrivance of Horror

By: Thomas Ligotti
Narrated by: Jon Padgett
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

"There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and... Read more

Dancing In The Breeze

The Discipline of Transcendence Vol.4

The Discipline of Transcendence: Book #4

By: Osho
Narrated by: Osho
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

The Sutra of 42 Chapters is a scripture complied in the first century CE.  Each saying comes from Buddha, but the whole work was a new anthology created especially for introducing Buddhism in a new country. That's why it makes such a good, basic introduction to the world view of Gautam Buddha. It is very simple in its approach, very direct. It... Read more

Believe

Why Everyone Should Be Religious

By: Ross Douthat
Narrated by: Ross Douthat
Length: TBA

Do you ever wish you had more faith, but struggle to make religious belief fit with modern assumptions about the world and human life? With a rare combination of empathy, open-mindedness, and persuasive argument, Ross Douthat offers a blueprint for thinking one's way from doubt to belief.As a columnist for the New York Times who writes often... Read more

Bullsh*t Comparisons

A Field Guide to Thinking Critically in a World of Difference

By: Andrew Brooks
Narrated by: Andrew Brooks
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Bullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts, and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons.



Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most successful university? Is Lisbon the new... Read more

The Praise of Folly/Against War

By: Desiderius Erasmus
Narrated by: Georgina Sutton & Leighton Pugh
Length: 6 hours

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) was known as Prince of the Humanists - though a theologian, a Catholic priest and the leading European scholar of his time. A close friend of Sir Thomas More, Erasmus' writings had a strong influence on the growing movement for change in Christian Europe, both Lutheran and the Counter-Reformation.... Read more

The Reith Lectures

10 of the best

By: Various
Narrated by: Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Atul Gawande, Margaret Macmillan, Michael J. Sandel, Tom Kirkwood, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Daniel Barenboim & Eliza Manningham-Buller
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Ten emblematic lectures by world-leading thinkers, specially selected by the series producer.

Since 1948, the BBC's iconic annual lecture series has provided a platform for brilliant, entertaining individuals to discuss and develop their ideas on radio. The topics range from art and science to history, culture, politics and more, and each Reith... Read more

12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson
Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

What does everyone in the modern world need to know?

Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising and... Read more

The Art of Communicating

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Zen master Thick Nhat Hanh, bestselling author of Peace is Every Step and one of the most respected and celebrated religious leaders in the world, delivers a powerful path to happiness through mastering life's most important skill.How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear?How can we listen with compassion and... Read more

Determined

A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

The instant New York Times bestseller

“Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating... Read more

How Fascism Works

The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

“One of the defining books of the decade.”—Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale... Read more