Science & Technology audiobooks

Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

Palo Alto

By: Malcolm Harris

Narrated by: Patrick Harrison

Length: 28 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its... Read more

Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Susan Cain

Narrated by: Susan Cain

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the... Read more

Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection

Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries... Read more

Probably the Best Book on Statistics Ever Written

By: Haim Shapira

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Taking an amusing and digestible look at the usually dry world of probability and statistics, this is the ultimate guide to how you can incorporate them into everyday life, from one of the world’s most sought-after experts in game theory. This book reveals how statistics and probability are fundamental to our everyday lives—from advertisements... Read more

12 Rules for Life

By: Jordan B. Peterson

Narrated by: Jordan B. Peterson

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

What are the most valuable things that everyone should know?

Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to... Read more

ADHD 2.0

By: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D.

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your... Read more

How To Win Friends And Influence People

By: Dale Carnegie

Narrated by: Andrew Macmillan & Andrew Macmillian

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Updated for today’s readers, Dale Carnegie’s timeless bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic that has improved and transformed the professional and personal and lives of millions.

One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Dale Carnegie’s groundbreaking book has sold tens of millions of copies, been translated... Read more

Together

By: Vivek H. Murthy

Narrated by: Vivek H. Murthy

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The book we need NOW to avoid a social recession, Murthy’s prescient message is about the importance of human connection, the hidden impact of loneliness on our health, and the social power of community.Humans are social creatures: In this simple and obvious fact lies both the problem and the solution to the current crisis of loneliness. In his... Read more

Midnight in Chernobyl

By: Adam Higginbotham

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

A New York Times Best Book of the Year
A Time Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019

Journalist Adam Higginbotham’s definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power... Read more

The Mushroom at the End of the World

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions,... Read more

Homo Deus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein... Read more

The Collected Schizophrenias

By: Esmé Weijun Wang

Narrated by: Esmé Weijun Wang

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting AwardAn intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying... Read more

My Body Is Distant

By: Paige Maylott

Narrated by: Paige Maylott

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life — both virtual and IRL — as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances... Read more

Awe

By: Dacher Keltner

Narrated by: Dacher Keltner

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Bestseller!

"Read this book to connect with your highest self.” —Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet

“We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find it.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

“Awe is awesome in both... Read more

Saving Time

By: Jenny Odell

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire

“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more

It Didn't Start With You

By: Mark Wolynn

Narrated by: Mark Wolynn

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field
 
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

Unwinding Anxiety

By: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD

Narrated by: Judson Brewer, MD, PhD

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are... Read more

American Prometheus

By: Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 26 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale... Read more

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Rebecca Skloot

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Bahni Turpin

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO® STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE • ONE OF THE “MOST INFLUENTIAL” (CNN), “DEFINING” (LITHUB), AND “BEST” (THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) BOOKS OF... Read more

The Feather Thief

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As heard on NPR's This American Life

“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more

It's Not You

By: Ramani Durvasula PhD

Narrated by: Ramani Durvasula PhD

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From clinical psychologist and expert in narcissistic relationships Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a guide to protecting and healing yourself from the daily harms of narcissism

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER

It’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in... Read more

In My Time of Dying

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Sebastian Junger

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to... Read more