Philosophy bestsellers

A World Appears

A Journey into Consciousness

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, TIME, and Oprah Daily

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity

When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one... Read more about A World Appears

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind

By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

“Harari's brilliant cross-discipline synthesis of humanity's last 100,000 year story arc is sweeping and brilliant. I would almost use a phrase usually reserved for beach read thrillers-it's a page-turner. Rarely does a book stir up conversation in academic circles while still being so accessible to a general audience. That a history book has... Read more

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

By: Oliver Burkeman
Narrated by: Oliver Burkeman
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

“This little philosophical gem is my top non-fiction recommendation for this holiday season. What a gift, to give up on getting everything done, and focus on the things that really matter. The audiobook is a joy to listen to; the words seemed to mean even more as I listened, inspired. Read more

The Score

How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

By: C. Thi Nguyen
Narrated by: C. Thi Nguyen
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“Mind-expanding . . . The Score is so exuberant and readable that the depth and seriousness of its insights almost sneak up on you.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

“Brilliant and wildly original . . . The Score is socially attentive, historically literate and imbued with sensual glee.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

“I give this... Read more about The Score

How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur
Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Marc Evan Jackson, Jameela Jamil & Todd May
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

“A funny book about ethics and morality? Yep! I love it. Read more

How to Know a Person

The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks
Narrated by: David Brooks
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

“Brooks went from zero to hero in my mind. His deep research and obvious self-reflection glows in this book. I not only have new terminology to grapple with people who don't listen, but also used his story telling inquiry for richer conversations with my family. Read more

The Courage to Be Disliked

How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness

By: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Narrated by: Noah Galvin, Graeme Malcolm & January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

The New York Times bestselling TikTok sensation with more than 13 million copies sold worldwide, The Courage to Be Disliked is a transformative and practical guide to personal happiness and self-fulfillment.

Now you can unlock your full potential and free yourself from the shackles of past traumas and societal expectations to find true personal... Read more about The Courage to Be Disliked

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi
Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Lucy Kalanithi
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“With a message both mournful and life-affirming, When Breath Becomes Air chronicles a young doctor's journey from literature student to promising neurosurgeon and finally to a patient in his own hospital after being diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Always profound, never sentimental, this important book refuses to take refuge in platitudes,... Read more

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

With poetry and clarity, Thich Nhat Hanh imparts comforting wisdom about the nature of suffering and its role in creating compassion, love, and joy – all qualities of enlightenment. 

“Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace, and peace on earth.”—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In The Heart of the Buddha’s... Read more about The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching

How Fascism Works

The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason Stanley
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen

“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer

A Yale philosopher identifies the... Read more about How Fascism Works

The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

“This transformative book compels you to rethink how you approach life's challenges. It teaches you not just to endure adversity, but to actively leverage it as fuel for character development and mental fortitude Read more

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon

By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most... Read more about Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon

The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By: Eric Hoffer
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

“In our age of fierce partisanship and ideological extremes, this short book is a necessary (and easy to read) corrective. Written in the aftermath of the Third Reich, at the beginning of the Red Scare, and while the Soviet Union was still on its own murder spree, it takes a hard look at the phenomenon of the true believer. What makes us... Read more

A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

“A refreshing perspective from a leading economist on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of wealth and income, political conflict, and equality. Pure Piketty! Read more

The Book of Eels

Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

By: Patrik Svensson
Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition.Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been... Read more about The Book of Eels

Karma

A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny

By: Sadhguru
Narrated by: Sadhguru & Leslie Howard
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER 
“Full of valuable insights to guide you.”—WILL SMITH
“Thoughtful and life-affirming . . . a must-read.”—TONY ROBBINS
“This book will put you back in charge of your own life.”—TOM BRADY

A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of “karma” that... Read more about Karma

A World Appears

A Journey Into Consciousness

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyond

A World Appears is the story of the quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: consciousness. How does it feel to be you with your own personal feelings, thoughts and experiences? Every one of us is... Read more about A World Appears

Careless People

The acclaimed, scandalous bestseller that rocked the world

By: Sarah Wynn-Williams
Narrated by: Sarah Wynn-Williams
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

The #1 global bestsellerA Book of the Year for Audible, The Times, Financial Times, The New York Times, Time, Cosmopolitan, The Economist, Spectator and more

Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook
Featured in Audible's Best of the Year 2025
Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025
Shortlisted for... Read more about Careless People

The Art of Living

Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Gabra Zackman
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today—reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us... Read more about The Art of Living

Hospicing Modernity

Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Narrated by: Dougald Hine & Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

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,... Read more about Hospicing Modernity

Why Buddhism is True

The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

By: Robert Wright
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

From one of America’s most brilliant writers, a New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer—and the reason we make other people suffer—is that we don’t see the... Read more about Why Buddhism is True

Meditations

A New Translation

By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Roger Davis & Ryan Holiday
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Timeless insights into what it takes to lead a meaningful life—still profoundly relevant nearly two thousand years later.

Now featuring a brand-new foreword from Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obstacle Is the Way!

“Meditations offers a glimpse into [Marcus Aurelius’s] mind, his habits, and his... Read more about Meditations

Attensity!

A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement

By: The Friends of Attention
Narrated by: Peter Schmidt, Alyssa Loh & D. Graham Burnett
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

A rallying cry to fight the commodification of human attention, with the tools we need to reclaim our humanity, by a group of writers, artists, and activists in the vanguard of the movement

“A stirring battle cry on behalf of our shared humanity against the forces that seek to diminish and degrade it. Downright invigorating. Just what the moment... Read more about Attensity!

The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir
Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Judith Thurman
Length: 39 hours 9 minutes

UNABRIDGED AND AVAILABLE ON AUDIO FOR THE FIRST TIME

Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. This unabridged edition of the text reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English... Read more about The Second Sex

Many Lives, Many Masters

The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives

By: Brian L. Weiss
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

From author and psychotherapist Dr. Brian Weiss comes the classic New York Times bestseller on the true case of the past-life therapy that changed the lives of both the prominent psychiatrist and young patient involved—now featuring a new afterword by the author.

As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when... Read more about Many Lives, Many Masters

On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “visionary” (The Guardian) exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny

“[Snyder’s] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for... Read more about On Freedom

Discipline Is Destiny

The Power of Self-Control

The Stoic Virtues Series

By: Ryan Holiday
Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have... Read more about Discipline Is Destiny

Glimmerings

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

By: Miroslav Volf & Christian Wiman
Narrated by: Bob Souer & George Newbern
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf—two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all. Whether you’re seeking something to believe in or no longer feel at home in your traditions, the spiritual... Read more about Glimmerings

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

By: Brianna Wiest
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see... Read more about 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

The Tyranny of Merit

What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel
Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

This program is read by the author.

The world-renowned philosopher and author of the bestselling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of the already fortunate. Stalled social... Read more about The Tyranny of Merit

The Right to Sex

Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan
Narrated by: Andia Winslow
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

“Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.”
—Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women

“Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer—no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its... Read more about The Right to Sex

Antifragile

Things That Gain from Disorder

Incerto: Book #3

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the... Read more about Antifragile

The Bright Ages

A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele & David M. Perry
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

""Traveling easily through a thousand years of history, The Bright Ages reminds us society never collapsed when the Roman Empire fell, nor did the modern world did wake civilization from a thousand year hibernation. Thoroughly enjoyable, thoughtful and accessible; a fresh look on an age full of light, color, and illumination."" —Mike Duncan,... Read more about The Bright Ages

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller, Revised and Updated Edition

By: Sogyal Rinpoche
Narrated by: Lorraine Velez
Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally best-selling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death that the New York Times calls, “The Tibetan equivalent of... Read more about The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Buddha, Socrates and Us

Ethical Living in Uncertain Times

By: Stephen Batchelor
Narrated by: Stephen Batchelor
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time
 
The Buddha’s revolutionary teachings transformed Asia, and his contemporary Socrates laid the foundations of Western philosophy. Although they never met, Socrates and the Buddha each addressed in... Read more about Buddha, Socrates and Us

The Souls of Black Folk

By: W. E.B. DuBois
Narrated by: Rodney Gardiner
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the novel were even previously published... Read more about The Souls of Black Folk

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**

Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and... Read more about Homo Deus

Courting the Wild Twin

By: Martin Shaw
Narrated by: Martin Shaw
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Master mythologist Martin Shaw uses timeless story-wisdom to examine our broken relationship with the world There is an old legend that says we each have a wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our vitality with them. If there was something we were meant to do with our few, brief years on... Read more about Courting the Wild Twin

From What Is to What If

Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

By: Rob Hopkins
Narrated by: Rob Hopkins
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“Big ideas that just might save the world”—The Guardian The founder of the international Transition Towns movement asks why true creative, positive thinking is in decline, asserts that it's more important now than ever, and suggests ways our communities can revive and reclaim it. In these times of deep division and deeper despair, if there is... Read more about From What Is to What If

Justice

What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel
Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens

What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing... Read more about Justice

The Ideological Brain

The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

By: Leor Zmigrod
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph

Why do some people become radicalized?
How do ideologies shape the human brain?
And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?

In The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod reveals the deep connection between political beliefs and the biology of the brain. Drawing on her own pioneering... Read more about The Ideological Brain

Fierce Self-Compassion

How to Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Your Power, and Thrive

By: Kristin Neff
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her... Read more about Fierce Self-Compassion

Discourse on Colonialism

By: Aimé Césaire
Narrated by: J. Keith Jackson
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness - a process in which [he] played a prominent role. (Library Journal) This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin... Read more about Discourse on Colonialism

LSD and the Mind of the Universe

Diamonds from Heaven

By: Christopher M. Bache
Narrated by: Christopher M. Bache
Length: 15 hours 1 minute

A professor of religious studies meticulously documents his insights from 73 high-dose LSD sessions conducted over the course of 20 years

• Chronicles, with unprecedented rigor, the author’s systematic journey into a unified field of consciousness that underlies all physical existence

• Makes a powerful case for the value of psychedelically... Read more about LSD and the Mind of the Universe

The Case for God

By: Karen Armstrong
Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities,... Read more about The Case for God

The Art of Simple Living

100 Daily Practices from a Japanese Zen Monk for a Lifetime of Calm and Joy

By: Shunmyo Masuno
Narrated by: Louis Ozawa Changchien
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

"Does for mental clutter what Marie Kondo has done for household clutter." —Publishers Weekly

Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by the renowned Zen Buddhist author of Don’t Worry and How to Let Things Go.

In clear, practical, easily adopted lessons—one a... Read more about The Art of Simple Living

Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

By: Bryan W. Van Norden
Narrated by: Brian Nishii
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Van Norden’s Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy is evidently of increasing importance in balancing our 21st century view of philosophy in general. It is to Van Norden’s regret, that when ‘philosophy’ is discussed or taught, it is almost always in the context of ‘Western Philosophy’ rather than a global perspective. Yet the contribution... Read more about Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy

The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged Version)

By: Karl Marx & F. Engels
Narrated by: Mark Harrietha
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Welcome to an unprecedented audio journey into Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" - the unabridged edition that remains unswervingly loyal to the original text. Its ground-breaking insights into class struggle, capitalism, and communism have left an indelible mark on the history of political thought.
Crafted for the... Read more about The Communist Manifesto (Unabridged Version)

Being and Time

By: Martin Heidegger
Narrated by: Martyn Swain & Taylor Carman
Length: 23 hours 18 minutes

In his lucid introduction to this recording, Professor Taylor Carman declares unequivocally that Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is ‘one of the great masterpieces of 20th century philosophy.’ And that is despite the fact that it is unquestionably a challenging listen. But by placing it in its historical context - the key work on... Read more about Being and Time

The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

By: Peter Kreeft
Narrated by: Peter Kreeft
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

An enthusiastic admirer of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, professor and philosopher Peter Kreeft details the rational thought and precise literary talent that established Aquinas as the foremost thinker of his time-and as the most important philosopher for the almost two thousand years between Aristotle and Descartes. A landmark of... Read more about The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas