Philosophy audiobooks

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

By: Marcus Aurelius

Narrated by: Joe Wosik

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Meditations are former US President Bill Clinton's favorite book. This audio consists of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor AD 161-180, setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. Read more

An End to Upside Down Liberty

By: Mark Gober

Narrated by: Mark Gober

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How should society be organized? Most of us would point to the necessity of a traditionally structured government comprising trustworthy elected representatives who watch over the masses almost like responsible parents. However, throughout history we’ve seen such governments abuse their power to enact incalculable damage. In the most extreme... Read more

The Two Hands of God

By: Alan Watts

Narrated by: Jeremy Stockwell

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The forgotten book on world mythology by Alan Watts is now an audiobook for the first time.

Alan Watts is today remembered as a trailblazing interpreter of Eastern philosophy, but The Two Hands of God reveals a different side of his multifaceted genius.

In this ambitious work, Watts takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the mythology... Read more

The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda

By: Sumita Oyama

Narrated by: David George

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet, skillfully interwoven with his original works.

Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his ""free-verse"" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his... Read more

Dealing with Shyness Coaching sessions & meditations step by step guide to move out of comfort zone

By: ThinkAndBloom

Narrated by: Chantalia

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Shyness sabotages your life. It holds you back from opportunities, social set-ups, speaking up your opinions, and feeling fulfilled satisfied. You are far from alone in this situation. We all have fears in our life. It is curable. 
Being confident and speaking up is not a dream in your life. Somehow inside your soul, you have a part that is... Read more

Life Is Hard

By: Kieran Setiya

Narrated by: Kieran Setiya

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST

“Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway.” —The New York Times Book Review

There... Read more

Walden, or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at twenty-seven, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods—on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson—and began his two-year experiment in frugality on the shore of Walden Pond. He wasn’t seeking isolation so much as simplicity, to “live deep... Read more

John Stuart Mill

By: Gregory Claeys

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System of Logic (1843) and the Principles of Political Economy (1848). Today Mill is chiefly identified with On Liberty (1859), perhaps the definitive text of... Read more

Why Argument Matters

By: Lee Siegel

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics



From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter—argument's drainpipe—the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential... Read more

Illuminations

By: Walter Benjamin

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art... Read more

The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas

By: author

Narrated by: Simon Le Bon, Derren Brown & narrator

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Simon Le Bon, Derren Brown, Charlie Brooker, Richard Dawkins, Ben Goldacre, Mitch Benn and more!In this download there are 38 atheist celebrities, comedians, scientists and writers give their funny and serious tips for enjoying the Christmas season. When the Atheist Bus Campaign was first launched, over £150,000, was... Read more

The House is Full of Yogis

By: Will Hodgkinson

Narrated by: Thomas Judd

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership, aspiration and advancement. The first children of their working class parents to go to... Read more

Charm

By: Stephen Bayley

Narrated by: Stephen Bayley

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life’s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley. Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley’s last ever school report “Charm alone will not get him through”. Bayley took... Read more

Trigger Warning

By: Mick Hume

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can’t-Say-That. The cold-blooded murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists in January 2015... Read more

The Puzzle of Christianity

By: Peter Vardy

Narrated by: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An excellent overview of Christianity, suitable for students (and teachers!) embarking on the new GCSE and ‘A’-Level Religious Studies specifications. Written in the same clear and engaging style as the bestselling Puzzle of Ethics and Puzzle of God, this book covers key content common to all the new specifications –... Read more

60 MINUTES TO MASTER BUDDHISM

By: Michael Chaskalson

Narrated by: Edward Killingback

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A Buddhist life is lived with peace, joy and contentment: each day can be a step along the path to true enlightenment. To live by these values every day takes patience, skill and knowledge, but it is hugely rewarding. This book can show you how to begin to do so – in just 20 minutes. Principles of Buddhism covers the history... Read more

The Imaginary Museum

By: Ben Eastham

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. In this... Read more

The Dog, the Wolf and God

By: Folco Terzani

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

After the best-seller The End is My Beginning, co-authored with his father Tixiano Terzani, the long-awaited Folco Terzani’s comeback with a spiritual fable of nature, men and God. This spiritual fable intends to make us reflect on our own life, the things we put our security in, the values we live by, the dreams we have set... Read more

Give

By: Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow

Narrated by: David Monteath

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow travels the world encountering startling acts of charity and the power of generosity. Few people in the world are better placed to understand the role of charity and generosity than... Read more

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along

By: Iain Dale

Narrated by: Iain Dale

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Why Can’t We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today. In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we’ve all become so disrespectful and intolerant. Using experiences from his career in politics and the media, he says... Read more

Why We Act

By: Catherine A. Sanderson

Narrated by: Catherine A. Sanderson

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the face of wrongdoing, why do good people so often do nothing? Pioneering psychologist Catherine A. Sanderson explains why moral courage is so rare – and how we can all learn to be brave. We are bombarded every day by reports of bad behaviour: from sexual harassment to political corruption, from... Read more

I Hate Men

By: Pauline Harmange

Narrated by: Emily Lucienne

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The feminist book they tried to ban in France ‘A delightful book’ Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.) But what if mistrusting men,... Read more

Colonialism

By: Nigel Biggar

Narrated by: Matt Bates

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however,... Read more

How to Be Confident

By: James Smith

Narrated by: James Smith

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT – the third instalment in James’ no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life. Now, more than ever, we are so often lost within a cycle of negativity – from comparing ourselves to... Read more