Medicine audiobooks

The Body Keeps the Score

By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestseller

“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies

A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New... Read more

Between Two Kingdoms

By: Suleika Jaouad

Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The... Read more

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

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

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

All in Her Head

By: Elizabeth Comen

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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 Emperor of All Maladies

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Hidden Valley Road

By: Robert Kolker

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.

"Reads like a medical... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

By: Dr. Jen Gunter

Narrated by: Jen Gunter

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

The Year I Met My Brain

By: Matilda Boseley

Narrated by: Matilda Boseley

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future.

Twelve months of confusion later, journalist Matilda embarked on an epic voyage to figure out what's really happening in the stormy seas of the ADHD brain and... Read more

Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

Narrated by: Tracy Kidder

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

“I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to... Read more

Being Mortal

By: Atul Gawande

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

I Contain Multitudes

By: Ed Yong

Narrated by: Charlie Anson

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016A Bill Gates “Gates Notes” PickMPR Best Books of 2016Chicago Public Library... Read more

On Call

By: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Narrated by: Anthony Fauci, M.D.

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#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

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD

Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Vagina Obscura

By: Rachel E. Gross

Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body.

The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men.

Today, a new... Read more

Left on Tenth

By: Delia Ephron

Narrated by: Delia Ephron

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she... Read more

The Body

By: Bill Bryson

Narrated by: Bill Bryson

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD

"Glorious. . .You will marvel at the brilliance and vast weirdness of your design." —The Washington Post

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a... Read more

Stiff

By: Mary Roach

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.



For 2,000 years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to... Read more

Trauma Stewardship

By: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

Narrated by: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky offers a deep and empathetic survey of the often-unrecognized toll taken on those working to make the world a better place. We may feel tired, cynical, or numb or like we can never do enough. These, and other symptoms, affect us individually and collectively, sapping the energy and effectiveness... Read more

Medical Apartheid

By: Harriet A. Washington

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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

The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend... Read more

Inflamed

By: Rupa Marya & Raj Patel

Narrated by: Raj Patel & Rupa Marya

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the authors.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid... Read more