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Breath
By: James Nestor
Narrated by: James Nestor
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love
No matter what you... Read more
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
By: Alice Wong
Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina & Alice Wong
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of... Read more
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The Myth of Normal
By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
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 Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries... Read more
How to Do Nothing
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is... Read more
Entangled Life
By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
“Grand and dizzying in... Read more
The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven...
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more
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Thunderstruck
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Bob Balaban
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”
In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of... Read more
Ace
By: Angela Chen
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.
What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and... Read more
Silent Spring
By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT—a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide—on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the... Read more
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Elon Musk
By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
Length: 20 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestseller
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh,... 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
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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." —AudioFile
This program is read by the authors.
Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the... Read more
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
By: Julia Zarankin
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didn’t expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting... Read more
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The Six
By: Loren Grush
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle.
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test... Read more
Care Work
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for... Read more
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Written in Bone
By: Sue Black
Narrated by: Sue Black
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober,... Read more
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Nature's Best Hope
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of individuals to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to... Read more
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The Song of the Cell
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade
"Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times
From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time.
Why do we remember the past and... Read more
Move the Body, Heal the Mind
By: Jennifer Heisz
Narrated by: Jennifer Heisz
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A noted neuroscientist reveals groundbreaking research on how fitness and exercise can combat mental health conditions such as anxiety, dementia, ADHD, and depression, and offers a plan for improving focus, creativity, and sleep.Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense... Read more
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Fuzz
By: Mary Roach
Narrated by: Mary Roach
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Audible's Best of 2021
One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2021
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller
#1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller
A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionJoin "America’s... Read more
Dopamine Nation
By: Dr. Anna Lembke
Narrated by: Dr. Anna Lembke
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,
as heard on Fresh Air
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is... Read more
How to Change Your Mind
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book
A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his... Read more