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History

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Some books everyone knows about and far fewer have actually read — and the audiobook of A…

Psychology

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Twenty-three hours of Machiavellian strategy is either a masterclass or an endurance test…

Fiction

The Martian

by Andy Weir

Before Project Hail Mary became the audiobook everyone recommends, this was the recording…

Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

A novel that sold over twenty million copies invites suspicion — surely nothing is that g…

Memoir

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

Twenty-five hours with one of the most brilliant, abrasive, and contradictory figures in …

Science

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

A travel writer decides to explain all of science — the universe, the atom, the cell, the…

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 …

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…