Medicine bestsellers

Everything Is Tuberculosis

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu­manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is... Read more

The Body Keeps the Score

Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

“A beautiful dissection of trauma and its effects on the brain. One of the world’s foremost experts on trauma uses recent studies to show how trauma reshapes parts of us. The author frames trauma in a whole new way and makes you really consider the true definition of it. This book outlines how the traumas people carry can impact their capacity to... Read more

Hidden Valley Road

Inside the Mind of an American Family

By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

“This came out in 2020, and I absolutely did not have the bandwidth to read it then. I revisited it this month via audiobook. Hidden Valley Road's focus is the Galvin family where six of the twelve children develop schizophrenia by the mid 1970s. Kolker expertly weaves together the strands of history of the Galvin's, the disease, and the... Read more

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

“Pollan brings his humor, lyricism, and love for deep research to the admittedly taboo field of psychedelics. This book is an exhaustive exploration of these mysterious substances, in which he balances skepticism of the culture that surrounds them with optimism for their potential therapeutic use. Read more

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“In What Happened to You?, Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D Perry discuss the effects of trauma on the human brain, especially the young brain, and how our brain and minds are resilient, how these traumas affect each of us later in life, and how we heal from them. In a balanced back and forth between very personal stories from Oprah's life,... Read more

I Contain Multitudes

The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“Ed Yong writes so enthusiastically about the expansive microbial world and our human understanding of it, past and present, that these science and research packed pages are a joy to read. More remarkable is Yong’s insistence on the moral of the story: it is the balanced mutual self-interest of community, not dog eat dog competition, that is the... Read more

The Body

A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

“At home while peeling wallpaper or making diner—or just closing my eyes for a while—a non-fiction audio book is a perfect companion, especially if it’s teaching me something as well as being entertaining. The Body: A Guide For Occupants by Bill Bryson, narrated by Bill Bryson, is exactly that kind of book. Bryson’s voice is genial, sometimes... Read more

Being Mortal

Medicine and What Matters in the End

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

#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

Between Two Kingdoms

A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

“ A stirring memoir about a young woman moving between the realms of the sick and the well, and the nonlinear nature of healing. Jaouad writes, 'If we are brave enough to tell our own story, we realize we're not alone, again and again.' And WOW does she accomplish that for her readers. Read more

On Call

A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

#1 New York Times Bestseller

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and whose six-decade career in high-level public service put him in the room with seven presidents

“An eventful autobiography [and] a classic American story…Gripping.”—The Washington Post

“One of the most consequential and most... Read more

The New Menopause

Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

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 stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... Read more

The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

“A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Scoreand anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick 'normal' is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and... Read more

The Black Angels

The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios
Narrated by: Gina Daniels
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure one of the world’s deadliest plagues: tuberculosis.

During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal... Read more

Sick Enough

A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders

By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani, MD, CEDS, FAED
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren't "sick enough" to merit treatment, despite medical problems that are both measurable and unmeasurable. They may struggle to accept rest, nutrition, and a team to help them move towards recovery. Sick Enough offers patients, their families, and clinicians a comprehensive, accessible... Read more

The Cure for Women

Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

By: Lydia Reeder
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

“This extremely prescient book details the life of Mary Putnam Jacobi and other women doctors in her time. The way they championed women’s rights and changed medicine forever is inspiring! It was enraging to hear how men of the era spoke about women, and the parallels to the way men still speak about women today. Read more

Strangers to Ourselves

Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“This is part memoir, part examination of the experiences of four other people who experienced mental illness and struggled with the treatments available. Aviv is most insightful when writing about herself, or the affluent young woman who decides to go off her medications, most likely because Aviv relates more easily to her circumstances. Her... Read more

The Emperor of All Maladies

A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, adapted as a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer.

Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer,... Read more

When the Body Says No

The Cost of Hidden Stress

By: Gabor Maté, MD
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

In this accessible and groundbreaking book—filled with the... Read more

Bad Blood

Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

By: John Carreyrou
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

“Theranos was a startup that set itself apart from the bevy of others in Silicon Valley. Its cause was noble, manufacturing revolutionary medical technology that could run a menu of blood tests on only a finger stick's worth of blood, eliminating the need for large painful needles. There was only one problem: the technology didn't exist.... Read more

NeuroTribes

The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

By: Steve Silberman
Narrated by: William Hughes
Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

This New York Times bestseller upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently.What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is both... Read more

Dying of Whiteness

How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl
Narrated by: Jamie Renell
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again.... Read more

A Liberated Mind

How to Pivot Toward What Matters

By: Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Narrated by: Mark Deakins & Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

"In all my years studying personal growth, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most useful tools I've ever come across, and in this book, Dr. Hayes describes it with more depth and clarity than ever before."-Mark Manson, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Life is not a problem to be solved.... Read more

The Gift of Therapy

An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin Yalom
Narrated by: Don Hagen
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom's more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The bestselling author of Love's Executioner shares his uniquely... Read more

Brain on Fire

My Month of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Susannah Cahalan
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

INCLUDES A NEW AUDIO AFTERWORD!

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CHLOË GRACE MORETZ

A “captivating” (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 woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When... Read more

The Checklist Manifesto

How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous... Read more

Trauma and Recovery

The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Alison Mathews & Xe Sands
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

The groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)

Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a political frame, psychiatrist Judith L. Herman argues that psychological trauma is... Read more

Projections

A Story of Human Emotions

By: Karl Deisseroth
Narrated by: Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus & Karen Chilton
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving—and, at times, harrowing—clinical stories

“[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions.”—Nature

“Beautifully connects the inner feelings within all human beings to deep insights from... Read more

Influencing Death

Reframing Dying for Better Living

By: Penny Hawkins Smith, RN
Narrated by: Penny Hawkins Smith, RN
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

A hospice nurse’s unflinching look at life, death, and redemption. Death is undeniable and unavoidable. We must accept it; there is no other choice. But coming to terms with our mortality can profoundly influence how we live—and how we die. Having been a hospice nurse for decades, Penny Hawkins Smith is an expert on death and dying. As a... Read more

Weathering

The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

By: Dr. Arline T Geronimus
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people.
  America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced... Read more

The Undying

Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care

By: Anne Boyer
Narrated by: Amy Finegan
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data?sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying. A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For... Read more

Grown Woman Talk

Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy

By: Sharon Malone, M.D.
Narrated by: Sharon Malone, M.D.
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A must-read for anyone who cares about their quality of life . . . Dr. Sharon Malone is the first person I turn to for a whole host of issues, especially my health.”—MICHELLE OBAMA

A practical guide to aging and health for women who have felt ignored or marginalized by the medical profession, from a leading OB/GYN and... Read more

Patient Zero

A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

By: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us.

Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters... Read more

The China Study, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health

By: T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Here is the updated and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives.The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell University,... Read more

Lies I Taught in Medical School

How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life

By: Robert Lufkin MD
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Modern medicine is lying to you. Discover the true science behind chronic diseases—and implement an actionable plan to restore your health and longevity once and for all.For the first time in history, chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity plague our population on a global scale. From a seasoned physician, this... Read more

The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success

How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

By: Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills—the core brain-based abilities needed to... Read more

A Thousand Naked Strangers

A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

By: Kevin Hazzard
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

A former paramedic’s "thrilling, captivating" (Booklist), and mordantly funny account of a decade spent as a first responder in Atlanta saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe.

In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too... Read more

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis

Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process

By: Nancy McWilliams
Narrated by: Allison Posner
Length: 19 hours 55 minutes

This acclaimed clinical guide and widely adopted text has filled a key need in the field since its original publication. Nancy McWilliams makes psychoanalytic personality theory and its implications for practice accessible to practitioners of all levels of experience. She explains major character types and demonstrates specific ways that... Read more

It Starts with the Egg

The Science of Egg Quality for Fertility, Miscarriage, and IVF

By: Rebecca Fett
Narrated by: Melinda Wade
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

The definitive guide to egg quality and fertility, fully revised and updated in 2023, with new chapters covering: The pros and cons of PGT testing in IVF. Testing for immune and implantation issues. The latest evidence on strategies for very low ovarian reserve, such as PRP. New expanded chapters on male fertility and preparing for embryo... Read more

Facing the Unseen

The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine

By: Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Narrated by: Damon Tweedy, M.D.
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine

As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist,... Read more

Whole Body Barefoot

Transitioning Well To Minimal Footwear

By: Katy Bowman
Narrated by: Katy Bowman
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

The shoes you put on everyday can play a bigger role in the function of your feet, ankles, knees, hips, and spine than you might realize. “By applying the principles in this book, you will be able to restore your foundation and prevent dysfunction.” ―Ray McClanahan, DPMBiomechanist and author of Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief, Katy Bowman... Read more

Anti-vaxxers

How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

By: Jonathan M. Berman
Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

In Anti-Vaxxers, Jonathan Berman explores the phenomenon of the anti-vaccination movement, recounting its history from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's activism, examining its claims, and suggesting a strategy for countering them.

After providing background information on vaccines and how they work, Berman describes resistance to... Read more

The Air They Breathe

A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change

By: Debra Hendrickson
Narrated by: Megan Tusing
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.

Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time.... Read more

The Soul of All Living Creatures

What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

By: Vint Virga, DVM
Narrated by: Vint Virga, DVM
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car. Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired... Read more

Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir

By: Delia Ephron
Narrated by: Delia Ephron
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

“You'll feel you're spending a long weekend with Delia Ephron as she reads her memoir of grief, unexpected joy, and terror -- her story of losing her husband, finding love, and grappling with leukemia. Her honest narration, as only she could present it, offers an inspiration to savor life, and to cherish friends and family. 'Hooray for Delia!' I... Read more

All in Her Head

The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen
Narrated by: Anna Caputo
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

USA Today BestsellerA surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women’s bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women’s health.For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored,... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism

By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

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 disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more

Madame Restell

The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

By: Jennifer Wright
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 14 hours 1 minute

“An interesting and engaging biography of Ann Trow, aka Madame Restell, a well-known abortion provider in NYC in the 1830’s-1870’s who became one of the wealthiest women of her time, this book is also a timely story of women’s history, specifically of their access to reproductive health care in the US. Read more

The Invisible Kingdom

Reimagining Chronic Illness

By: Meghan O'Rourke
Narrated by: Meghan O'Rourke
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases

A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether.... Read more

The Gene

An Intimate History

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what... Read more

Medical Apartheid

The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted... Read more