Audible Library · Mid-2024–Present · 436 volumes
A library built for intellectual range.
This catalog documents 436 titles from my Audible library, covering mid-2024 to the present. It is one slice of a much larger reading history: I have averaged 100–200 books per year since 2001, including many titles that are not represented in this archive.
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436 volumes
CompletedScience & MathematicsWelcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists....
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Ray Kurzweil
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have...
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorThe Ellipsis Manual: Analysis and Engineering of Human Behavior
Chase Hughes
The Ellipsis Manual is the kind of book that used to be locked away deep in a vault underground, far away from the prying eyes of those who could misuse its power....
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityGreat Mythologies of the World
The Great Courses, Grant L. Voth, Julius H. Bailey, Kathryn McClymond, Robert André LaFleur
The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies....
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorDSM-5-TR Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision - A Concise Reference Audio Study Guide: Perfect for Commuting, Exercising, and Doing Chores!
Samuel Davidson, Rebecca Davidson
This DSM-5-TR reference audio study guide by the Davidson's, is an indispensable resource for mental health professionals who are integrating the study of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision into their busy schedules.
CompletedScience & MathematicsMind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything
James R. Doty MD
A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams “Powerful and profound . . . James Doty explains how intention is manifested in the brain and offers six steps each of us can use to create the life we want.”—Arianna Huffington...
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityMythology: Mega Collection: Classic Stories from the Greek, Celtic, Norse, Japanese, Hindu, Chinese, Mesopotamian and Egyptian Mythology
Scott Lewis
Do you know how many wives Zeus had? Or how the famous Trojan War was caused by one beautiful lady? Or how Thor got his hammer? Give your imagination a real treat. This Mega Mythology Collection of eight audiobooks is for you....
CompletedHistory & CivilizationThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Here in a single volume is the entire, unabridged recording of Gibbon's masterpiece....
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyMemories, Dreams, Reflections
C. G. Jung
'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung) In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But...
CompletedScience & MathematicsThe Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson, Walter Isaacson - introduction
A 2022 Audie Award Finalist A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington Post The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched...
CompletedHistory & CivilizationFive Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford
Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November comes a revealing Secret Service memoir that offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of presidential protection and life inside the White House of five US Presidents—Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyPlay Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
Michael Dell, James Kaplan
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader In 1984, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the...
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorInto the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets ofthe Heart
James R. Doty MD
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart “It’s Doty’s ability to describe his journey so lyrically, and then his willingness to share his methods, that make this book a gem...
CompletedSports & PerformanceGrateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
Gary Sinise, Marcus Brotherton
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the moving, entertaining, never-before-told story of how one man found his calling: to see that those who defend this country and its freedoms are never forgotten. As a kid in suburban Chicago, Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock 'n' roll than...
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityShaolin Spirit: The Way to Self-Mastery
Shi Heng Yi
Bring clarity, strength, and purpose to your modern life through the ancient wisdom of Shaolin. This program is read by the author. What do you imagine when you think of Shaolin? Ferociously strong warriors flying through the air? Shaolin is more than just a martial art—it is a way of life...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
Tae Kim
Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyUnderstanding Artificial Intelligence: Of Minds and Machines
Patrick Grim, The Great Courses
In Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Of Minds and Machines, philosopher Patrick Grim traces the story of AI from ancient legends to the neural networks behind today’s breakthroughs. You see how modern systems became so powerful so quickly.
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyBecoming a Data Head: How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning
Alex J. Gutman, Jordan Goldmeier
Turn yourself into a Data Head. You'll become a more valuable employee and make your organization more successful. Thomas H. Davenport, Research Fellow, Author of Competing on Analytics, Big Data @ Work, and The AI Advantage You've heard the hype around data?now get the facts. In Becoming a Data...
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityBeyond Good and Evil (AmazonClassics Edition)
Friedrich Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern - translator
A caustic criticism of nearly every philosophic predecessor and a challenge of traditionally held views on right and wrong....
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityMeditations (AmazonClassics Edition)
Marcus Aurelius, Meric Casaubon - translator
Marcus Aurelius, one of the great rulers of the Roman Empire, sets forth a series of self-reflective essays intended as a guide for his own self-improvement. Written during the turning points of his life and divided into 12 books, Meditations ponders life’s greatest questions....
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorInventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Alec Nevala-Lee
From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...
CompletedSports & PerformanceThe Way of the Fight
Georges St-Pierre
There’s more to winning battles than fists and feet For world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby
An Instant New York Times Bestseller From one of our leading chroniclers of the intersection of innovation and capitalism, a landmark reckoning—based on unprecedented access—with one of the world’s most brilliant and driven tech visionaries, and his game-changing company Even by the...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Tom Griffiths
From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds Everyone has a basic understanding of...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyA Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the...
CompletedScience & MathematicsToo Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
Tobias Hürter
Tobias Hürter takes us back in time to present the epic gripping history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century....
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
M. Mitchell Waldrop
In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya
An electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made. The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear...
CompletedScience & MathematicsThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age....
CompletedHistory & CivilizationFall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Paul Cooper
"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."-The Times Based on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse...
CompletedScience & MathematicsWhat's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Dan Levitt
For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of...
CompletedSociety & CultureWater Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
Jeff Chang
""Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff Chang is blessed with the vision to see things we do not yet see, thinking and writing with a restless, chasm-crossing, almost...
CompletedScience & MathematicsThe Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life
Arthur Firstenberg
Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity is "safe" for humanity and the planet. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg disrupts this conviction by telling the story of electricity in a way it has never been told before....
CompletedGeneral NonfictionThe Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities. “Ta-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyThe Atomic Human: What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI
Neil D. Lawrence
From a renowned computer scientist, this book seeks the distinctive human quality that will prevail against artificial intelligence. If artificial intelligence takes over decision-making what, then, is unique and irreplaceable about human intelligence? The Atomic Human is a journey of discovery...
CompletedSports & PerformanceThe Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine
Brendan O'Meara
""Sports journalism at its finest, a book so well-researched that everyone who thinks they know Pre is in for a big surprise.” —Christopher McDougall, bestselling author of Born to Run On the 50th anniversary of American Track and Field icon Steve Prefontaine’s tragic death comes an...
CompletedAI, Computing & TechnologyWhy Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Anil Ananthaswamy
A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence Machine learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether...
CompletedHistory & CivilizationThe Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World
Robert Garland, The Great Courses
The past truly comes alive as you take a series of imaginative leaps into the world of history's anonymous citizens....
CompletedStar Wars & FictionStar Wars: Master of Evil
Adam Christopher
NATIONAL BESTSELLER After Revenge of the Sith, a newly forged Darth Vader hunts for the secrets of life and death under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine. In the wake of Emperor Palpatine’s rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a mystery. Darth Vader is a...
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorExtreme Balance: Paradoxical Principles That Make You a Champion
Ben Askren, Joe De Sena, David Sacks PhD
Think Like a Champion In the world of elite sports, victory is often attributed to physical and athletic prowess alone. But what if the key to unlocking your full potential lies not in your physical abilities, but in your mindset? In Extreme Balance, three renowned experts on performance...
CompletedSports & PerformanceWhat the Fire Ignited: How Life's Worst Helped Me Achieve My Best
Shay Eskew
Shay Eskew shares the trials and tribulations he was forced to face while recovering from his burns and reclaiming his life as an athlete. By sharing his story, Shay hopes to help those struggling with life to realize the greatest tragedies are often our greatest blessings....
CompletedSports & PerformanceSpartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life
Jeff O'Connell, Joe De Sena
In Spartan Up! De Sena gives you a life strategy guide that takes you out of your comfort zone and into a combat zone....
CompletedScience & MathematicsThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation shows how a deeper understanding of the world’s philosophical wisdom can enrich and transform our lives. “Wonderfully smart and readable.” —Washington Post In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan...
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorThe Power of Mind over Body
Jo Marchant, The Great Courses
A 12-lecture course that will change the way you think about physical health and the brain....
CompletedScience & MathematicsIntroduction to Cognitive Science
Thad A. Polk, The Great Courses
Professor Thad A. Polk takes you on a fascinating tour of the latest discoveries in the relatively new field of cognitive science. In 24 exciting lectures, Professor Polk shares dozens of the most challenging questions in cognitive science today.
CompletedPhilosophy, Myth & SpiritualityUnderstanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
Professor Daniel Breyer, The Great Courses
In Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, Professor Daniel Breyer takes us on a fascinating philosophical journey into many of the deepest and darkest questions that have engaged humanity for millennia....
CompletedMind & Human BehaviorThe Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
Craig Wright
“An unusually engaging book on the forces that fuel originality across fields.” --Adam Grant Looking at the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale University's popular “Genius Course,” explores what we can...
CompletedEconomics & FinanceThe Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
Mark Skousen
The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....