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Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes — 107 episodes
What's Our Problem, by Tim Urban
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, by Bono
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
Access Ideas podcast episode #1: What Drives Our Obsession with HBO’s Succession?
Coming soon: Access Ideas podcast begins January 18, 2022
Top 2021 Reviews: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Top 2021 Reviews: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Top 2021 Reviews: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
Top 2021 Reviews: Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
Top 2021 Reviews: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton
Top 2021 Reviews: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan
Top 2021 Reviews: You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Repeat listen: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
Classic literature as audiobook: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, read by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Repeat listen: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, written by Katherine May and read by Rebecca Lee
Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, written and read by Professor David Nutt
Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth, read by Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland, read by Tom Parks
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Critique and Compare: How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera vs. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green, read by David Pittu
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
A conversation with Elena Iacono: What insights can we bring to our post-pandemic lives?
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb, read by Brittany Pressley
A conversation with Lucas Cantor, host of the Book Society podcast
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing written and read by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Lexie McDougal
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Tsedal Neeley, read by Marisha Tapera
A conversation with Rachel Décoste, author of a Year of Return: a Black Woman’s African Homecoming
A conversation with Paul Gewuerz, founder of Made to Order Audio: give the gift of a custom audiobook and commemorate your story
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, read by Dylan Moore
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, written by Jonathan Haidt, read by Ryan Vincent Anderson
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times written by Katherine May and read by Rebecca Lee
A conversation with author Tom James: Does parenting make people better, less selfish members of society?
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, read by Will Damron
Make Listening Your Superpower in 2021: Special extended episode
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, written and read by Sir David Attenborough
A Promised Land, written and read by Barack Obama
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, read by T. Ryder Smith
How to Be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening, written and read by Julian Treasure
The Wolf Hall Trilogy (Thomas Cromwell Series) by Hilary Mantel, read by Simon Vance and Joseph Kloska
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, written and read by Oliver Burkeman
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine, read by James Patrick Cronin
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know by Nina Schick
Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined, written and read by Stephen Fry
Eat a Peach, written by David Chang & Gabe Ulla, read by David Chang
Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) written and read by Daniel Nayeri
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins
How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide written by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, read by Peter Boghossian
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles
What Does it Take to Record & Produce an Audiobook? A Conversation with Narrator Michael Bafuma
Favourite Fiction Highlights: Tana French, genre-busting master of psychological suspense
The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, written and read by David Whyte
Bonus Episode: Ask Me Anything (AMA) #1
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings and read by Simon Vance
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang, read by Emily Woo Zeller
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Dr. Willie Parker, with Lisa Miller and read by Caz Harleaux
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney, read by Paul Hodgson
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq, read by the author
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole, read by the author
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, read by the author
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, read by Holter Graham
What makes an audiobook reader stand out? Extended review and highlights
Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined, by Stephen Fry
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Michelle Alexander
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, written by Chris Voss and narrated by Michael Kramer
A conversation with author Codi Shewan: What if your legacy isn't what you leave behind, but something you create?
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright, read by Gabra Zackman
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry, narrated by Scott Brick
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence by Dr. Amy Blackstone
Bonus episode: Why I love audiobooks, and tips for getting started
Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, narrated by Derek Perkins
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Written and read by Alan Alda.
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, written and read by Malcolm Gladwell
Feb 16 Pilot episode recorded on iPhone: Review of Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, written and read by Ronan Farrow
Audiobook Reviews in Five Minutes