If I had to recommend just one audiobook this year, which one would it be? In What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, Tim Urban tackles the perplexing question of why, despite technological advancements, society seems to lack wisdom. He introduces the concept of the 'Ladder of Thinking,' where high-rung thinking embraces truth and open-mindedness, contrasting with low-rung thinking's rigidity. The book challenges readers to examine their own thought processes and societal norms, offering insights into political extremism, social justice, and the power of individual and collective thinking in shaping our world.
101.Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab
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100.The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
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bonusAccess Ideas podcast episode #1: What Drives Our Obsession with HBO’s Succession?
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99. trailerComing soon: Access Ideas podcast begins January 18, 2022
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98.Top 2021 Reviews: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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97.Top 2021 Reviews: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
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96.Top 2021 Reviews: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
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95.Top 2021 Reviews: Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
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94.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
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94.Top 2021 Reviews: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan
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93.Top 2021 Reviews: You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
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92.There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Hill
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91.The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
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90.Repeat listen: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
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89.Classic literature as audiobook: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, read by Maggie Gyllenhaal
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88.Repeat listen: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, written by Katherine May and read by Rebecca Lee
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87.Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, written and read by Professor David Nutt
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86.Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth, read by Karl Deisseroth, Natalie Naudus, Karen Chilton
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85.Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization by Edward Slingerland, read by Tom Parks
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84.Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
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83.Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Dr. Anna Lembke
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82.The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
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81.Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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80.This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
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79.Critique and Compare: How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera vs. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk
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78.Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green, read by David Pittu
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77.Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
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76.The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
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75.A conversation with Elena Iacono: What insights can we bring to our post-pandemic lives?
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74.Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab
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73.Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb, read by Brittany Pressley
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72.A conversation with Lucas Cantor, host of the Book Society podcast
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71.Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
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70.The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal
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69.What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing written and read by Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry
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68.The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
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67.The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef
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66.High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley
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65.Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind by Judson Brewer
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64.Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Lexie McDougal
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63.Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
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62.Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Tsedal Neeley, read by Marisha Tapera
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61.A conversation with Rachel Décoste, author of a Year of Return: a Black Woman’s African Homecoming
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60.A conversation with Paul Gewuerz, founder of Made to Order Audio: give the gift of a custom audiobook and commemorate your story
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59.How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton
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57.The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
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56.The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, read by Dylan Moore
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55.Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
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54.The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, written by Jonathan Haidt, read by Ryan Vincent Anderson
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53.The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan
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52.Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times written by Katherine May and read by Rebecca Lee
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51.A conversation with author Tom James: Does parenting make people better, less selfish members of society?
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50.You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
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49.Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein, read by Will Damron
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48.Make Listening Your Superpower in 2021: Special extended episode
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47.A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future, written and read by Sir David Attenborough
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46.A Promised Land, written and read by Barack Obama
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45.Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano, read by T. Ryder Smith
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44.How to Be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening, written and read by Julian Treasure
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43.The Wolf Hall Trilogy (Thomas Cromwell Series) by Hilary Mantel, read by Simon Vance and Joseph Kloska
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53.The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking, written and read by Oliver Burkeman
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41.A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine, read by James Patrick Cronin
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40.Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know by Nina Schick
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39.Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined, written and read by Stephen Fry
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38.Eat a Peach, written by David Chang & Gabe Ulla, read by David Chang
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37.Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) written and read by Daniel Nayeri
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36.21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins
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35.How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide written by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, read by Peter Boghossian
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34.Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom
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33.Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, read by Robin Miles
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32.What Does it Take to Record & Produce an Audiobook? A Conversation with Narrator Michael Bafuma
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31.Favourite Fiction Highlights: Tana French, genre-busting master of psychological suspense
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30.The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, written and read by David Whyte
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29.Bonus Episode: Ask Me Anything (AMA) #1
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28.Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings and read by Simon Vance
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27.Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang, read by Emily Woo Zeller
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26.Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
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25.Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice by Dr. Willie Parker, with Lisa Miller and read by Caz Harleaux
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24.Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
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23.They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up by Eternity Martis
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22.Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney, read by Paul Hodgson
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21.Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq, read by the author
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20.The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole, read by the author
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19.How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, read by the author
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18.White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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17.Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, read by Holter Graham
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16.What makes an audiobook reader stand out? Extended review and highlights
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15.Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined, by Stephen Fry
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14.The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Michelle Alexander
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13.Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
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11.Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, written by Chris Voss and narrated by Michael Kramer
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11.A conversation with author Codi Shewan: What if your legacy isn't what you leave behind, but something you create?
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10.Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright, read by Gabra Zackman
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9.Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari
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8.Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm, Mark Olshaker
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7.How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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6.The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry, narrated by Scott Brick
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5.The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
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4.Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence by Dr. Amy Blackstone
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4. bonusBonus episode: Why I love audiobooks, and tips for getting started
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3.Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, narrated by Derek Perkins
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2.If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? Written and read by Alan Alda.
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1.Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, written and read by Malcolm Gladwell
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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