Business audiobooks

The End of the World is Just the Beginning

By: Peter Zeihan

Narrated by: Peter Zeihan

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in... Read more

No More Tears

By: Gardiner Harris

Narrated by: Gardiner Harris

Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist

“A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life

One... Read more

Bad Blood

By: John Carreyrou

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The gripping story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos—one of the biggest corporate frauds in history—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley, rigorously reported by the prize-winning journalist. With a new Afterword.

“Chilling ... Reads like a thriller ... Carreyrou tells [the Theranos story]... Read more

Play Nice

By: Jason Schreier

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry, a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall.

For video game fans, the name Blizzard Entertainment was once synonymous with perfection. The renowned company behind classics like Diablo and... Read more

The PLAN

By: Kendra Adachi

Narrated by: Kendra Adachi

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way brings her signature Kind Big Sister Energy to a practical time management book for people weary of productivity but eager to live a good life.

If productivity systems tend to let you down, reading The PLAN will be such a relief.

Most time-management books leave you feeling inadequate,... Read more

Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

Narrated by: Angela Duckworth

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People).

The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela... Read more

Ultra-Processed People

By: Chris van Tulleken

Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more

The Lazy Genius Way

By: Kendra Adachi

Narrated by: Kendra Adachi & Emily P. Freeman

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Being a Lazy Genius isn't about doing more or doing less. It’s about doing what matters to you.
 
“I could not be more excited about this book.”—Jenna Fischer, actor and cohost of the Office Ladies podcast
 
The chorus of “shoulds” is loud. You should enjoy the moment, dream big, have it all, get up before the sun,... Read more

Empire of Normality

By: Robert Chapman

Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

'Groundbreaking . . . [provides] a deep history of the invention of the "normal" mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly' Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes



Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a... 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

Character Limit

By: Kate Conger & Ryan Mac

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews

“Riveting . . . Character Limit offers a telling lesson in the cost of getting everything you want.” —The Washington Post

“You couldn’t hope for a better ringside seat on the unfolding drama . . . [Character Limit] is a triumph.” —The Guardian
 
“Masterful in how it paints a picture and puts you in the... Read more

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

By: Katherine Morgan Schafler

Narrated by: Katherine Morgan Schafler

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected for USA Today's Best Books of 2023

Selected as Editor's Pick in Amazon's Best Books of 2023

From psychotherapist Katherine Morgan Schafler, an invitation to every “recovering perfectionist” to challenge the way they look at perfectionism, and the way they look at themselves.

We’ve been looking at perfectionism all wrong. As... Read more

High Conflict

By: Amanda Ripley

Narrated by: Amanda Ripley

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s because we aren’t seeing how the conflict itself has taken over.

That’s what “high conflict” does. It’s the invisible hand of our time. And it’s different from the useful friction of healthy conflict. That’s good conflict, and it’s a necessary force... Read more

Die With Zero

By: Bill Perkins

Narrated by: Bill Perkins

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

A Common-Sense Guide to Living Rich….Instead of Dying Rich

Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
 
The only thing you wasted along the way was…your life.
 
Die with Zero presents a startling... Read more

Bullshit Jobs

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this... Read more

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

By: Patrick Lencioni

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

After her first two weeks observing the problems at DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, its new CEO, had more than a few moments when she wondered is she should have taken the job. But Kathryn knew there was little chance she would have turned it down. After all, retirement had made her antsy, and nothing excited her more than a challenge. What she... Read more

Superbloom

By: Nicholas Carr

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Shallows, a bracing exploration of how social media has warped our sense of self and society. From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society... Read more

Source Code

By: Bill Gates

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Bill Gates

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age

“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in... 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

People Buy You

By: Jeb Blount

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Far too many of todays books on sales and selling deal with the mechanics of selling and pay little or no attention to the emotional-side of selling; however, when all things are equal (and in todays competitive world they almost always are) people buy you--the salesperson. Designed to connect sellers to buyers, People Buy You makes it... Read more

Vulture Capitalism

By: Grace Blakeley

Narrated by: Grace Blakeley

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.

It’s easy to look at the... Read more

The Shock Doctrine - Abridged

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she... Read more

Consumed

By: Aja Barber

Narrated by: Aja Barber

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. 
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more

Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) Third Edition

By: Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson

Narrated by: Carol Tavris

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. This updated edition concludes with an extended discussion of how we can live with dissonance, learn from it, and perhaps, eventually, forgive ourselves.

Why is it so hard to say “I made a mistake”—and really... Read more