Audiobooks I have Listened To
As I mentioned elsewhere on this site, around 2019, I began an autodidactic self-study. I have read and studied closely many books and listened to many audiobooks. The audiobooks I have listened to are listed on this page. To see the books I have studied, you may refer to this link.
When I listen to audiobooks, I do not usually pause or stop to take notes. Because of this, my comprehension is far lower on audiobooks compared to reading textually. Some audiobooks I can generally understand after a listen-through, but many others, which are more complex, I still cannot comprehend even after listening to them.
So whilst I have listened to all the items listed below, I fully admit that many of the complex ones I did not understand on listen through, for these, I will flag for deeper reading later.
I am sharing this so that people can understand what thought may have informed my own thinking, to inspire others to investigate the pieces listed here and to begin a dialogue. Please recommend pieces to check out or provide your interpretation or feedback on the items listed here.
Mesopotamians (traditional attribution c. 2100 BCE)
Epic of Gilgamesh – Composed c. 2100 BCE
Sakala (traditional compiler, c. 1500 BCE)
Vedas, Rigveda – Composed c. 1500 BCE
Vedic Sages (anonymous, traditional attribution c. 1000 BCE)
The Upanishads – Composed c. 1000 BCE
Homer (c. 750 BCE)
Iliad – Composed c. 750 BCE
Odyssey – Composed c. 700 BCE
Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BCE)
Fragments – Composed c. 500 BCE
Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BCE)
Oresteia Trilogy – Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, (+ Proteus) – First performed 458 BCE
Prometheus Bound – First performed c. 430 BCE
Sophocles (c. 497–406 BCE)
Antigone – First performed c. 450 BCE
Oedipus Rex – First performed c. 429 BCE
Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
Metaphysics – Composed c. 330 BCE
Epicurus (341–270 BCE)
Letter to Menoeceus – Composed c. 300 BCE
Plutarch (c. 46–after 119 CE)
Parallel Lives (Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans) – Composed c. 100 CE
Augustine of Hippo (354–430 CE)
Confessions – Written c. 400 CE
Qur’an’s Multiple Authors (compiled c. 610–632 CE)
Qur’an – c. 610–632 CE
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) – Completed c. 1320
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
Don Quixote – Part I: 1605; Part II: 1615
René Descartes (1596–1650)
Meditations on First Philosophy – Published 1641 – France
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
Leviathan – Published 1651
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
Discourse on Metaphysics – Published 1686
John Locke (1632–1704)
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding – Published 1689
George Berkeley (1685–1753)
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge – Published 1710
Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731)
Robinson Crusoe – Published 1719
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
Gulliver’s Travels – Published 1726
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
Autobiography (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin) – Written 1771 (published posthumously 1791)
David Hume (1711–1776)
A Treatise of Human Nature – Published 1740
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – Published 1748
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
On the Social Contract – Published 1762
Adam Smith (1723–1790)
The Theory of Moral Sentiments – Published 1759
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals – Published 1785
Critique of Practical Reason – Published 1788
Critique of the Power of Judgment – Published 1790
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Published 1774
Faust (Part I) – Published 1808
Faust (Part II) – Completed 1832
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Don Giovanni – Opera premiered 1787 – Austria
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
The Phenomenology of Spirit – Published 1807
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842)
The Charterhouse of Parma – Published 1839
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824)
Don Juan – Published in parts beginning 1819 (unfinished)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
The World as Will and Idea (Volume 1) – Published 1819
Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus – Published 1818
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)
Eugene Onegin – Serialized 1825–1832; Published 1833
Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
Les Misérables – Published 1862
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Essays: First and Second Series – Published 1841 and 1844
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Published 1852
Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Great Expectations – Serialized 1860–1861
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Walden; or, Life in the Woods – Published 1854
Karl Marx (1818–1883)
The Communist Manifesto – Co-authored with Friedrich Engels – Published 1848
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Published 1851
John Ruskin (1819–1900)
Unto This Last – First published in 1860
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)
Notes from the Underground – Published 1864
Crime and Punishment – Published 1866
The Idiot – Published 1869
The Brothers Karamazov – Published 1880
Jules Verne (1828–1905)
Around the World in Eighty Days – Published 1872
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
Anna Karenina – Serialized 1873–1877
War and Peace – Published 1869
The Kingdom of God Is Within You – Published 1894
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Published 1865
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835–1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Published 1884 in the UK (1885 US)
William James (1842–1910)
The Principles of Psychology (Volume 1) – Published 1890
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Published 1886
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Published 1890
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams – Published 1899
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Published 1900
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
Heart of Darkness – Published 1902
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
The Sherlock Holmes Stories – First published 1887–1927
Henri Bergson (1859–1941)
Time and Free Will – Published 1889
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938)
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology – Published 1913
Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916)
I Am a Cat – Serialized 1905–1906
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963)
The Souls of Black Folk – Published 1903
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)
The Story of My Experiments with Truth – Serialized 1925–1929
Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann’s Way – Published 1913 (English 1922)
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
The Razor’s Edge – Published 1944
Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
The Magic Mountain – Published 1924
Carl Jung (1875–1961)
The Red Book (Liber Novus) – Written 1915–1930s, Published posthumously in 2009
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
Siddhartha – Published 1922
Narcissus and Goldmund – Published 1930
James Joyce (1882–1941)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Published 1916
Ulysses – Published 1922
Franz Kafka (1883–1924)
Amerika – Written c. 1911–1914, Published posthumously 1927
Will Durant (1885–1981)
The Lessons of History – Co-authored with Ariel Durant – Published 1968
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
Mind and Matter – Published 1958 (based on 1956 lectures)
What Is Life? - Published 1944
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Published 1921
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)
Being and Time – Published 1927
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952)
Autobiography of a Yogi – Published 1946
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
The Perennial Philosophy – Published 1945 – United Kingdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The Great Gatsby – Published 1925
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Lolita – Published 1955
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
Labyrinths – English edition published 1962 (original stories from 1940s–50s)
Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001)
How to Read a Book – Original edition 1940; revised with Charles Van Doren in 1972
Carl Rogers (1902–1987)
On Becoming a Person – Published 1961
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Published 1949
Ayn Rand (1905–1982)
Atlas Shrugged – Published 1957
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980)
Nausea – Published 1938
Being and Nothingness – Published 1943
T. H. White (1906–1964)
The Once and Future King – Published 1958 (based on 1938–1941 novels)
Albert Camus (1913–1960)
The Myth of Sisyphus – Published 1942
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008)
The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged) – Published 1973
Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Published 1985
Huston Smith (1919–2016)
The World’s Religions (originally The Religions of Man) – Published 1958
Peter L. Bernstein (1919–2009)
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Published 1996
Julian Jaynes (1920–1997)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Published 1976
Walter Kaufmann (1921–1980)
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist – Published 1950 – United States
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
Slaughterhouse-Five – Published 1969
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge – Published 1968
Malcolm X (1925–1965)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – As told to Alex Haley – Published 1965
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004)
On Death and Dying – Published 1969
Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction – Published 1976 – France
Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Published 1974
Jane Roberts (1929–1984)
Seth Speaks – Published 1972 – United States
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. – Compiled posthumously, Published 1986
Irvin D. Yalom (1931– )
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy – First published 1970
When Nietzsche Wept – Published 1992
The Schopenhauer Cure – Published 2005
Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) (1931–2019)
Journey of Awakening – Published 1978
Oliver Sacks (1933–2015)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Published 1985
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2021)
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Published 2011
Jack Welch (1935–2020)
Winning – Published 2005
Pema Chödrön (1936– )
When Things Fall Apart – Published 1997
E. Fuller Torrey (1937– )
Surviving Schizophrenia – Published 2013
Klaus Schwab (1938– )
The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Published 2016
Patrick Carnes (1939– )
Out of the Shadows – Published 1983
Don’t Call It Love – Published 1991
Richard Dawkins (1941– )
The Selfish Gene – Published 1976
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
A Brief History of Time – Published 1988
Bessel van der Kolk (1943– )
The Body Keeps the Score – Published 2014
Gabor Maté (1944– )
When the Body Says No – Published 2021
Douglas Hofstadter (1945– )
I Am a Strange Loop – Published 2007
Geoffrey A. Moore (1946– )
Crossing the Chasm – Published 1991
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946– )
An Unquiet Mind – Published 1995
Carol Dweck (1946– )
Mindset – Published 2006
Sogyal Rinpoche (1947–2019)
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying – Published 1992
Temple Grandin (1947– )
Thinking in Pictures – Published 1995
Ellen Bass (1947– ) & Laura Davis (1956– )
The Courage to Heal – Published 1988
Ray Kurzweil (1948– )
The Singularity Is Near – Published 2005
Pete Walker
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving – Published 2013
Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey
Driven to Distraction – Published 2013
Slavoj Žižek (1949– )
The Sublime Object of Ideology – Published 1989
Ray Dalio (1949– )
Principles – Published 2017
Steven Levy (1951– )
In the Plex – Published 2011
Douglas Adams (1952–2001)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Published 1979
Tony Attwood (1952– )
The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome – Published 2006
Walter Isaacson (1952– )
Leonardo da Vinci – Published 2017
Steve Jobs – Published 2011
Steven Pinker (1954– )
Enlightenment Now – Published 2018
David Perlmutter (1954– )
Brain Maker – Published 2015
Eric Schmidt (1955– )
How Google Works – Co-authored with Jonathan Rosenberg – Published 2014
Donald D. Hoffman (1955– )
The Case Against Reality – Published 2019
Lawrence Cahoone (1957– )
The Modern Intellectual Tradition (The Great Courses) – Published 2010 – United States
Steve Silberman (1957– )
NeuroTribes – Published 2015
Robert Greene (1959– )
The 48 Laws of Power – Published 1998
Neal Stephenson (1959– )
Snow Crash – Published 1992
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960– )
Antifragile – Published 2012 – United States
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book (4th Edition) – Published 2001 – United States
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions – Published 1953 (reprinted many times) – United States
Sex Addicts Anonymous
Sex Addicts Anonymous: 3rd Edition – Published 2019
Jordan B. Peterson (1962– )
Maps of Meaning – Published 1999
Andrew Solomon (1963– )
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression – Published 2001
Malcolm Gladwell (1963– )
Outliers: The Story of Success – Published 2008
Andrew Roberts (1963– )
Napoleon: A Life – Published 2014
Paul Bloom (1963– )
Against Empathy – Published 2016
Sean Carroll (1966– )
Something Deeply Hidden – Published 2019
Sam Harris (1967– )
The Moral Landscape – Published 2010
Max Tegmark (1967– )
Life 3.0 – Published 2017
Neil Strauss (1969– )
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists – Published 2005
Matthew Walker (1973– )
Why We Sleep – Published 2017
David Goggins (1975– )
Can’t Hurt Me – Published 2018
Yuval Noah Harari (1976– )
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Published 2011
Greg McKeown (1977– )
Essentialism – Published 2011
Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Attached – Published 2010
Adam Grant (1981– )
Give and Take – Published 2013
Sally Winston & Martin Seif
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts – Published 2020
Mark Manson (1984– )
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Published 2016
Eric Jorgenson (1987– )
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Published 2021
Devin Price
Unmasking Autism – Published 2022
