Best Audiobooks

Fiction

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

Every few years an audiobook comes along that people recommend specifically in audio — no…

Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

Some memoirs are read; this one is endured, in the best sense. Educated is a harrowing, b…

Memoir

Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

Ask audiobook veterans to name the best author-narrated memoir ever recorded, and this ti…

Self-Help

Atomic Habits

by James Clear

Few audiobooks get recommended as often as this one, so the real question is not whether …

Finance

The Psychology of Money

by Morgan Housel

Most finance audiobooks fail in audio because they drown you in numbers you cannot see. T…

History

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

Fifteen hours is a serious commitment, so let us answer the practical question first: yes…

Productivity

Deep Work

by Cal Newport

A book arguing that distraction is destroying your ability to think — consumed in the mos…

Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

Let us be honest up front: this is the hardest listen on our psychology shelf, and also o…

Science

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The title is a promise: the entire cosmos in under four hours. That makes this the shorte…

Self-Help

Can't Hurt Me

by David Goggins

Most audiobooks read the book to you. This one interrupts itself to talk to you — and tha…

Finance

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

by Eric Jorgenson

This is an unusual book with an unusual origin: it is free, it was assembled rather than …