Science & Technology audiobooks

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

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

Hospicing Modernity

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

Narrated by: Dougald Hine & Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book about facing the multiple crises of modernity--and hospicing modernity--with maturity, humility, and integrity.

This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa... Read more

A Brief History of Earth

By: Andrew H. Knoll

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist.“A sublime chronicle of our planet."" –Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked... Read more

What an Owl Knows

By: Jennifer Ackerman

Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly

From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination

With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

Conscious

By: Annaka Harris

Narrated by: Annaka Harris

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Finalist As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of... Read more

Atlas of AI

By: Kate Crawford

Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom



What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate... Read more

BoyMom

By: Ruth Whippman

Narrated by: Ruth Whippman

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.

“Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner,... Read more

This Is What It Sounds Like

By: Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

Narrated by: Susan Rogers

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A legendary record producer–turned–brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.

This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it’s also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles, rose to become... Read more

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .

By: David Graeber

Narrated by: Jacques Servin & Savitri D

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.

"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently," wrote David Graeber. A renowned anthropologist, activist, and author of such classic... 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

The Falcon Thief

By: Joshua Hammer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... 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

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

Blood in the Machine

By: Brian Merchant

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year

The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural... Read more

Inspired

By: Matt Richtel

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter ""unpacks the myths and mysteries of the creative process"" (Salon).How does creativity work? Where does inspiration come from? What are the secrets of our most revered creators? How can we maximize our creative potential?Creativity defines the human experience. It sparks achievement... Read more

Briefly Perfectly Human

By: Alua Arthur

Narrated by: Alua Arthur

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | Named a New York Times' Staff Favorite Book of 2024 and a Boston Globe Best Book of 2024 A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.""A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the... 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

Rising Strong

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!

Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a... Read more

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

Right Story, Wrong Story

By: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us... Read more

Rooted

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.

In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected.... Read more

Multiamory

By: Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren & Emily Sotelo M...

Narrated by: Emily Sotelo Matlack

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When Multiamory authors Dedeker Winston, Emily Sotelo Matlack, and Jase Lindgren started producing their advice show about polyamory and other non-traditional relationships, they received dozens of questions from listeners about all sorts of relationship quandaries and communication stalemates. They quickly found out that existing relationship... Read more