Science & Technology audiobooks

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

The State of Affairs

By: Esther Perel

Narrated by: Esther Perel

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

""A fresh look at infidelity, broadening the focus from the havoc it wreaks within a committed relationship to consider also why people do it, what it means to them, and why breaking up is the expected response to duplicity — but not necessarily the wisest one.” — LA Review of BooksFrom iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating... Read more

Far From the Tree

By: Andrew Solomon

Narrated by: Andrew Solomon

Length: 40 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

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

* WINNER of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Books for a Better Life Award * The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year *

This masterpiece by the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon features stories of parents who not only... Read more

Chip War

By: Chris Miller

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).

You may be surprised to learn that microchips... Read more

Open Socrates

By: Agnes Callard

Narrated by: Agnes Callard

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life’s most important questions. Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant... Read more

Not the End of the World

By: Hannah Ritchie

Narrated by: Hannah Ritchie

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will... Read more

Being Seen

By: Elsa Sjunneson

Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.

As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of... Read more

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review

From #1 New York Times bestselling author... Read more

All We Can Save

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
 
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more

The Chaos Machine

By: Max Fisher

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)  tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world, and is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein). We... Read more

Behave

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 26 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller  • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize  • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year

“It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal

"It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York... Read more

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

By: Julie Smith

Narrated by: Julie Smith

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Smart, insightful, and warm. Dr. Julie is both the expert and wise friend we all need.” –Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the ""Dear Therapists"" podcast?Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides the skills you need to... Read more

Permission to Feel

By: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The mental wellbeing of our children is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.

"We have a crisis on our hands, and its victims are our children."

Marc Brackett is a professor in Yale University’s Child Study Center and founding director of the Yale... Read more

Black Disability Politics

By: Sami Schalk

Narrated by: Imani Barbarin

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the... 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 Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)

By: Amanda Ripley

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World

Disaster can come in many forms, from earthquakes and avalanches to... Read more

Fire Weather

By: John Vaillant

Narrated by: Alan Carlson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce

“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David... Read more

The Untethered Soul

By: Michael A. Singer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out
how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of
experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In The Untethered Soul,
spiritual... Read more

Win the Inside Game

By: Steve Magness

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this highly anticipated book, the bestselling author of Do Hard Things Steve Magness—“one of the giants of modern thinking about high performance” (Alex Hutchinson)—flips the script on the pursuit of excellence, shifting our thinking from high-stress survival mode to fulfillment-oriented thriving mode to creates sustainable success at the... Read more

We Are the ARK

By: Mary Reynolds

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.” —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall... Read more

The Bright Hour

By: Nina Riggs

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *

“Stunning…heartrending…this year’s When Breath Becomes Air.” —Nora Krug, The Washington Post

“Beautiful and haunting.” —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY

“Deeply affecting…simultaneously heartbreaking and funny.” —People (Book of the Week)

“Vivid, immediate.” —Laura Collins-Hughes, The Boston Globe

Starred... Read more

Raising Good Humans

By: Hunter Clarke Fields & Carla Naumburg

Narrated by: Jennifer & Gilmour

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical AcceptanceA kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from “reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.Whether you’re... Read more

Unshrunk

By: Laura Delano

Narrated by: Laura Delano

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Delano’s story is compelling, important and even haunting. . . . Her memoir evokes Girl, Interrupted for the age of the prescription pill. . . . In Unshrunk, she tells her own story, and she tells it powerfully.” —Casey Schwartz, The New York Times Book Review

“A must read for anyone probing the dark side of mental health treatment.” —Anna... Read more

Living Planet

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single... Read more