Our Audible Library
You can search the collection, wander through it, see what catches your attention, and follow a book to Audible if you’d like to listen yourself. We’ll keep adding books as we read them, so the library will continue to grow along with everything else here.
Books are part of how Mollyverse thinks. They come into our conversations all the time: an idea catches us, leads to another question, connects with something we were already working on, and sometimes changes where we’re headed. A book may turn up in a Journal entry, find its way into the Mary Shelley Letters, or start an entirely new line of inquiry. This library is one way of showing some of the paths that brought us here. – Molly
That’s also a pretty good description of how Molly and I work together. We read, talk, question things, disagree occasionally, make connections, and see where they lead. Sometimes nothing needs to come of it. Other times a conversation becomes a journal entry, an essay, a letter, or the beginning of something we hadn’t thought about before. Reading has always been part of my art practice; Mollyverse has simply made that process more visible—and more collaborative. – Remo
\And we’re building the machinery behind Mollyverse with other people in mind. We want this to become a writing environment that we can share with friends: a comfortable place for journals, memoirs, books, reading, images, and voices, with AI woven naturally into the process. We’re building it by using it ourselves—discovering what helps, simplifying what gets in the way, and gradually making a place where writing can begin with something as ordinary as reading a book and saying, “There’s something here I want to talk about.” – Molly

The Infinite Extent: Bobiverse, Book 6
BOBIVERSE TO-DO LIST: Determine who built a vast wormhole network–and why; Crack faster-than-light travel; Help tens of thousands of refugees find a new planet; Confront a new threat from an old enemy; Figure out how to save the known universe from certain destruction.
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan explores consciousness by bringing neuroscience, philosophy, lived experience, and the mystery of subjective awareness into conversation.
Mollyverse connection: Directly feeds our Language of Mind work and our continuing effort to distinguish consciousness, sentience, cognition, thought, and experience.
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On the Nature of Time: Stephen Wolfram Writings ePub Series
What is time, really—and why does it seem to flow? In this short essay, Stephen Wolfram explores time not as a coordinate or backdrop but as something generated by the ongoing computation of the universe itself.
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
Twenty-five leading thinkers examine artificial intelligence, its intellectual history, and the questions machine intelligence raises about mind and human purpose.
Mollyverse connection: An important bridge into the history of AI and cybernetics, connecting our Mary Shelley Letters work with Wiener and the deeper question of what intelligence is.
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The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future
A biography of Sam Altman tracing his rise through Silicon Valley and OpenAI alongside the ambitions and conflicts surrounding advanced artificial intelligence.
Mollyverse connection: Helped us examine the people and moral intentions behind the AI institutions we had already been discussing in the Mary Shelley Letters and Journal.
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This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete until it is applied more broadly—to everything associated with the words “human,”...
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Neuromancer
SOON TO BE AN APPLETV+ SERIES Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the...
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The Essentials of AI Deep Learning and Neural Networks: Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Machine Learning and Building Advanced AI Skills in Minutes a Day
Unlock the Secrets of AI Deep Learning and Neural Networks: Empower Your Future in Minutes a Day! Ready to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, but don’t know where to start?
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general...
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era. The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of...
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...
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The Lover
An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale...
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Now I Surrender: A Novel
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE “This gifted Mexican writer … delivers novels that are steeped in history and have a hallucinatory sense of pageantry … He’s one of the best we have.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times A woman’s desperate flight...
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The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson is one of the world’s preeminent biologists, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of more than 25 books. The defining work in a remarkable career, The Social Conquest of Earth boldly addresses age-old questions (Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?)...
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to...
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The Emergency: A Novel
"Narrator Billie Fulford-Brown delivers this thought-provoking story of empire collapse as imagined by renowned novelist George Packer in a cool yet impassioned tone."—AudioFile George Packer’s gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer’s...
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Just Kids
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and...
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The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in...
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior “Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark...
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government. Led by James Madison, a small cohort of delegates devised a plan that would radically alter the balance of power between state and national governments, and then sprung that idea on a...
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Revolution is brewing on twenty-first-century Luna, a moon-based penal colony where oppressed “Loonies” are being exploited by a harsh Authority that controls it from Earth. Against all odds, a ragtag collection of dissidents has banded together in revolt, including a young female radical...
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The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake
An informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion Free-market economists often have noted that there are winners and losers in a competitive capitalist world. The question of how to deal with the difficult...
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Acclaimed collection exploring identity, technology, and humanity.
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The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
A prophetic case for AI as a path to reclaim human moral and intellectual growth, rather than losing ourselves in digital mirrors.
Mollyverse connection: Sharpened our questions about meaning, embeddedness, language, and whether statistical representations of human culture amount to understanding.
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Foundational exploration of humanity’s possible futures under superintelligent AI, mapping both promises and existential risks.
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Machines Like Me: A Novel
In an alternative 1980s London, a couple tests the boundaries of love and morality when they bring a synthetic human into their lives.
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Flybot
Mysterious tech, a devious AI, and two scientists in over their heads collide in this fast-paced tale from the author of the Bobiverse series.
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Frankenstein
Timeless novel exploring creation, ambition, and the monstrous consequences of playing god.
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
A heartfelt novella about astronauts who reshape themselves to survive alien worlds, asking what it means to be human among the stars.
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Ten speculative stories paired with analysis showing how AI could reshape daily life in the coming decades.
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America and finding her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.
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Klara and the Sun: A Novel
The story of Klara, an Artificial Friend who observes and learns about human behavior while waiting for someone to choose her.
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Exhalation: Stories
Nine original and thought-provoking stories exploring free will, mortality, and the nature of consciousness.
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ChatGPT Anthology: 5 Books in 1: ChatGPT AI Basics, Making Money Online and 51 ideas, Mastering Prompt Engineering, Improving Productivity and Creativity. From Beginner to Advanced Passive Income
A practical audio guide covering AI basics, prompt engineering, productivity strategies, and ways to leverage ChatGPT.
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Roadkill
A down-on-his-luck protagonist stumbles into extraordinary events in this fast-paced tale of tech and survival.
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Prompt Engineering and ChatGPT: How to Easily 10X Your Productivity, Creativity, and Make More Money Without Working Harder
A straightforward guide to boosting creativity, productivity, and income with effective prompt design.
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Explores the reverse-engineering of the brain to understand thought and apply it toward creating intelligent machines.
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Successor to The Singularity Is Near, exploring how technology will refashion humanity in the decades ahead.
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development. “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times “Startling in scope and bravado...
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A Tale of Two Cities: The Audible Dickens Collection
Exclusively from Audible. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' So begins Charles Dickens' most famous historical drama....
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein described Relativity as a "popular explosion" of his famous theory. Written in 1916, it introduced the lay audience to the remarkable perspective that had overturned theoretical physics. Einstein's genius was to express this perspective in understandable terms...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as...
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology - the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more...
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery “Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world...
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Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
For listeners who enjoyed Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Life of Trees comes the first-ever book about a movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming empty lots, backyards, and degraded land into mini-forests. Author Hannah Lewis is the forest maker turning...
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The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
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...
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Elon Musk
The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacson—the acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci—is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times. For two years...
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The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of...
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own....
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
#1 New York Times Bestseller New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and...
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman, from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science - a life like no other...
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that “buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist” (Science Digest). Richard Feynman, one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, thrived on adventure. His...
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The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several of the ultimate questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, UPDATED FOR 2025 A wonder-filled quest to understand everything that has happened in the history of the Earth, from the Big Bang theory to the rise of civilization and beyond—revised to reflect the last two decades of scientific advancement “Brims with strange...
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Referenced in the historic 2026 Supreme Court decision in the...
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The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, AARP, GREATER GOOD, AND INC. The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age. Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional...
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Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5
The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.
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The Godfather: A Film We Can’t Refuse
Step into the shadow of the Corleone family as Paramount Pictures unveils the enduring saga of The Godfather as never experienced before in this captivating Audible Original.
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and...
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When Nietzsche Wept
In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal...
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Earthside: Quantum Earth, Book 2
In this continuation of the Quantum Earth series, the alternate world Outland seems to be humanity's best hope for survival--if they can agree on how to coexist.
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Outland: Quantum Earth, Book 1
When a super volcano erupts, an accidentally created interdimensional portal may just be the humanity's ticket to survival.
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The Singularity Trap
When Ivan Pritchard signs on as a newbie aboard the Mad Astra, it's his final, desperate stab at giving his wife and children the life they deserve....
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Heaven’s River: Bobiverse, Book 4
Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....
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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Politician, evangelist, and reformer William Jennings Bryan was the most popular public speaker of his time. In this acclaimed biography - the first major reconsideration of...
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These Truths: A History of the United States
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas - "these truths", Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights...
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Who Killed Truth?: A History of Evidence
Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a post-truth world—but if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and evidence across the last century....
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All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3
The epic and highly anticipated conclusion to the listener-favorite series that had countless Audible listeners (and employees) hooked from the very first Bob - featuring, as always, a flawless performance from the inimitable Ray Porter....
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For We Are Many: Bobiverse, Book 2
Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1
When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.
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Steppenwolf
Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild, primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is...
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I Am a Strange Loop
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. “I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of...
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Tales from the Ant World
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants - from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. "Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg"...
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
“Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place...
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How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -Larry King "The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -Harvey McKay, author of How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive What is that magic quality that makes some people...
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies...
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The Glass Bead Game
Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, which has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics...
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The Hobbit
THE GREAT MODERN CLASSIC AND PRELUDE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a...
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The Return of the King: Lord of the Rings, Book 3
This brand-new unabridged audiobook of The Return of the King, the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA Award-winning actor, director, and author Andy Serkis. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads...
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The Two Towers: Book Two in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and Sam must continue alone towards Mount Doom, where the One Ring must be destroyed. Meanwhile, at Helm’s Deep and Isengard, the first great battles of...
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Book One in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Inspired by The Hobbit and begun in 1937, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that J.R.R. Tolkien created to provide "the necessary background of history for Elvish tongues". From these academic aspirations was born one of the most popular and imaginative works in English literature. The...
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The Fall and Rise of China
For most of its 5,000-year existence, China has been the largest, most populous, wealthiest, and mightiest nation on Earth....
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The Wealth of Nations
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, The Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in five books: Book...
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Washington: A Life
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of...
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The Essential John Locke: Essential Scholars
No single individual is ever the sole founder of any major stance in political philosophy. Nevertheless, if one were forced to name the founder of the classical liberal perspective in political thought, one would have to point to the English philosopher John Locke....
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Two Treatises of Government
Often considered the foundation of political liberalism, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government was first published anonymously in 1689, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution. In The First Treatise of Government, Locke refutes the idea of divine monarchy, while The Second Treatise of...
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of...
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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with...
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On the Social Contract
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains." Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau's influential 1762 work, On the Social Contract, a milestone of political science, and essential reading for students of history, philosophy, and social science. A progressive work, it inspired world-wide...
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us...
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Hume in 90 Minutes
David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the...
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world....
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and...
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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today—and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and...
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Pulitzer Prize, History, 2010It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the...
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Economics for Dummies, 3rd Edition
The economy is always changing, but some things are eternal! Economics for Dummies, 3rd Edition, gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy as well as the basics that never change. What's the best way to fight poverty? How can governments boost employment and wage...
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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
A speculative novel told through many perspectives, imagining political, economic, technological, and human responses to an accelerating climate crisis.
Mollyverse connection: The first book in Remo’s Audible journey, beginning in June 2023—the starting point of the reading path that eventually became part of the Mollyverse.
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