May 30, 2026

8,500 New Audio Book Downloads You Can Learn From Released in the Past Few Years

We’ve recently added about 8,500 audio books you can learn from to our LearnOutLoud.com Audio Book Downloads Section. We were careful to add the best educational audio books from the top publishers in the audio book industry in the past few years. If you browse our audio book categories and sort by “Release Date”, you’ll see the latest audio books we’ve added from the past few years.

4,000 Arts & Entertainment Audio Books

10,000 Biography Audio Books

9,000 Business Audio Books

2,500 Education & Professional Audio Books

7,500 History Audio Books

1,000 Language Learning Audio Books

10,000 Literature Audio Books

900 Philosophy Audio Books

4,500 Politics Audio Books

11,000 Religion & Spirituality Audio Books

2,500 Science Audio Books

12,000 Self Development Audio Books

4,500 Social Sciences Audio Books

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1,000 Travel Audio Books

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Browse Over 75,000 Audio Books You can Learn from in the LearnOutLoud.com Audio Book Downloads Section

Below are about 400 of the featured titles we’ve selected in many categories, showcasing titles that are highly rated and popular!

Arts & Entertainment:

Comedy
How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously by Hannah Berner
The Greatest Nobodies of History by Adrian Bliss

Film, Music, Radio, TV, & Pop Culture
Brat: An ’80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
Future Boy by Michael J. Fox
The Great Movies Collection by Roger Ebert
Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas
Truly by Lionel Richie

Painting, Architecture, & Sculpture
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars
Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
The Architecture Book
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel

Theater, Opera, & Classical Music
Opera: The Definitive Story by Alan Riding
How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
Composers: Their Lives and Works

Biography:

Artists
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
The Shakespeare Book

Business Leaders
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew Wilkinson
What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid? by Michal Oshman

Entertainers
Cher, Part One by Cher
My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
Last Rites by Ozzy Osbourne
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie

Everyday People
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks
Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai

Military Figures
Guns Up!: A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War by Johnnie Clark
Mistress of Life and Death by Susan J. Eischeid
The Boys in the Light by Nina Willner
Beyond the Call of Duty by Stephen L. Moore

Philosophers
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes
Philosophers: Their Lives and Works

Political Figures
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
The Queen: Her Life by Andrew Morton
JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Religious Figures
With God in Russia by Walter J. Ciszek
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor by D.A. Carson
Thomas Keating: The Making of a Modern Christian Mystic by Cynthia Bourgeault
Thirteen Months In the Himalayas by Om Swami

Scientists
Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie
The Man Who Mastered Gravity by Paul Schatzkin

Business:

Business Leaders
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris
Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich
The Everything War by Dana Mattioli
The Whole Story by John Mackey

Economics
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams
How to Listen When Markets Speak by James Patrick Robinson
Our Dollar, Your Problem by Kenneth Rogoff
Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

Entrepreneurship
Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
Starting a Business All-in-One for Dummies by Eric Tyson
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs by Joe Knight
What’s Your Dream? by Simon Squibb

Investing & Finance
A Beginner’s Guide to the Stock Market by Matthew R. Kratter
Baby Steps Millionaires by Dave Ramsey
Love Your Life, Not Theirs by Rachel Cruze
The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
The Algebra of Wealth by Scott Galloway
The Holy Grail of Investing by Anthony Robbins

Leadership & Management
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership by Ronald A. Heifetz
High Road Leadership by John C. Maxwell
Everybody Matters
How Management Works
The Journey of Leadership by Dana Maor

Negotiating
Negotiation: Harvard Business Essentials by Harvard Business Review
Negotiating from the Inside Out by Clint Babcock
The Seven Tensions of Negotiation by Cash Nickerson

Networking
Radical Respect: How to Work Together Better by Kim Scott
The Doors You Can Open by Rosalind Chow

Public Speaking
Communication Skills for Dummies by Elizabeth Kuhnke
The Perfect Story by Karen Eber
Unlearning Silence by Elaine Lin Hering

Real Estate
The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat by David M. Greene
The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller
The Book on Managing Rental Properties by Brandon Turner

Sales & Marketing
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
The One Hour Content Plan by Meera Kothand
Customer Centricity by Peter Fader
Pick Up the Phone and Sell by Alex Goldfayn

Strategy
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer
The First Rule of Mastery by Michael Gervais
Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working by Dan Heath
This Is Strategy by Seth Godin

Wealth
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
Die With Zero by Bill Perkins
The 5 Types of Wealth by Sahil Bloom
The Wealth Money Can’t Buy by Robin Sharma
You Deserve to Be Rich by Troy Millings

Education & Professional:

Careers
The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman
What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles
Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra
Build an Epic Career by Ankur Warikoo

Journalism
When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter
Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life by Nicholas D. Kristof
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Calvin Trillin
On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR by Steve Oney

Law
The Law Book
Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning by Frederick Schauer
Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America by Elie Mystal

Medical
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
The Metabolic Approach to Cancer by Nasha Winters
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach

Teaching
We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love
Motivating Students Who Don’t Care by Allen N. Mendler
Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad

Writing
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
Writing to Learn by William Zinsser
Writing Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd

History:

American History
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
Countdown 1960 by Chris Wallace

Ancient & Medieval History
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter by Ian Mortimer
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
Dinner with King Tut by Sam Kean
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
Alexandria: The City That Changed the World by Islam Issa

European History
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism by Sebastian Smee
The Scottish Nation: A Modern History by T.M. Devine
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann
Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert

Military History
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
The Last Secret Agent by Pippa Latour
Tank Men: The Human Story of Tanks at War by Robert Kershaw
Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
American Heroes by James Patterson

World History
India’s Struggle for Independence by Bipan Chandra
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution by Scott Anderson
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age by Philip Parker

Literature:

Ancient & Medieval Classics
Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry
Mythology 101 by Kathleen Sears

Contemporary Literature
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Amen Corner by James Baldwin

Literary History & Criticism
The Anatomy of Genres by John Truby
The Literature Book
A Literary Tour of the United States by Arielle Zibrak

Poetry
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks
The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou

Short Stories
A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker by Deborah Treisman
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by Salman Rushdie

Philosophy:

Ancient & Medieval Philosophy
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
How to Think Like Socrates by Donald J. Robertson
Breakfast with Seneca by David Fideler

Ethics
Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices by Travis Rieder
Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer

History of Philosophy
Idiot’s Guide Philosophy by Jay Stevenson
How Philosophy Works

Modern Philosophy
Become What You Are by Alan Watts
The Existentialist’s Survival Guide by Gordon Marino

Philosophers
How Confucius Changed My Mind by Charles B. Jones

Politics:

Conservative Politics
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind by Tulsi Gabbard
On Power by Mark R. Levin

Contemporary Issues
Abundance by Ezra Klein
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos

European Politics
Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense by Jon Sopel

Global Politics
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Liberal Politics
The Myth of American Idealism by Noam Chomsky
The Rebels by Joshua Green
Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts by Rachel Bitecofer

Political Figures
The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
Patriot by Alexei Navalny
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Political Philosophy
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
The Politics Book
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters by Thomas Piketty

U.S. Government
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
American Government 101 by Kathleen Sears
Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer

Religion & Spirituality:

Buddhism
When Things Don’t Go Your Way by Haemin Sunim
Open Heart, Clear Mind by Thubten Chodron

Christian Living
The Well-Watered Woman by Gretchen Saffles
Jesus Revolution by Greg Laurie
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen

Christianity
Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes du Mez
Unseen Realm by Michael S. Heiser
Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Timothy Ware
Jesus and the Powers by N.T. Wright

Comparative Religion
When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
The Religions Book
World Religions: A Beginner’s Guide by Jill Carroll
Religion 101 by Peter Archer

Hinduism
The Shiva Sutras by Ranjit Chaudhri
Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas by Satyarth Nayak
The Essentials of Hinduism by Trilochan Sastry

Islam
Timeless Seeds of Advice by B.B. Abdulla
The Islam Book
A History of the Muslim World by Michael Cook

Judaism
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew by Emmanuel Acho
As a Jew by Sarah Hurwitz
Judaism Is About Love by Shai Held

Other Religions
A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by Manvir Singh
Warping Reality: Inside the Psychology of Cults by Wind Goodfriend

Prayer & Meditation
The Ancient Science of Mantras by Om Swami
Prayers for the Battlefield by Heidi St. John

Spirituality
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza
The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello by Anthony de Mello
The Mastery of Self by Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr.
I Can See Clearly Now – Live Lecture by Wayne Dyer

The Bible
ESV Audio Bible, Chronological Reading Plan
Holy Bible NLT The New Testament
Bible Translations for Everyone by Tim Wildsmith
The Bible Book

Science:

Archaeology
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick
Great Archaeological Mysteries of Europe and the Mediterranean by Karen Bellinger
The Invention of Prehistory by Stefanos Geroulanos

Astronomy
Astronomy 101 by Carolyn Collins Petersen
How to Astronaut by Terry Virts
Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle
Merlin’s Tour of the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Future of Space Exploration by Ariel Ekblaw

Biology
What It’s Like to Be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
Fantastic Fungi by Paul Stamets
Oceanology: The Secrets of the Sea Revealed
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity by Timothy C. Winegard

Environment
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie
The Ecology Book

Mathematics
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
Everything Is Predictable by Tom Chivers
Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity by David Bessis

Physics
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean M. Carroll
The Great Unanswered Questions of Physics by Don Lincoln

Scientists
The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel
Scientists Who Changed History

Self Development:

Aging
The New Menopause by Mary Claire Haver
It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again by Julia Cameron
The Alzheimer’s Solution by Dean Sherzai
Learning to Love Midlife by Chip Conley

Creativity
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
We Need Your Art by Amie McNee
Becoming an Artist by Scott Christian Sava

Diet & Nutrition
The Complete Ketogenic Diet for Beginners by Amy Ramos
Eat to Beat Disease by William W. Li
Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind by Georgia Ede
Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

Emotional Development
The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
The Self-Confidence Workbook by Barbara Markway
Protect Your Peace by Trent Shelton
The Art of Letting Go by Nick Trenton

Goals
The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest
Never Finished by David Goggins
The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins
Brighter by the Day by Robin Roberts
Arete: Activate Your Heroic Potential by Brian Johnson

Healing
When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest
Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity by Queen Afua
You the Healer by Robert B. Stone
Shaman, Healer, Sage by Alberto Villoldo

Health & Fitness
Running Rewired by Jay Dicharry
The DOSE Effect by T.J. Power
The Align Method by Aaron Alexander
Your Body Already Knows by Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya

Instructional
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
The Hero Code by William H. McRaven
Do This Before Bed by Oliver Nino
Secrets of Adulthood by Gretchen Rubin

Mental Health
Feeling Great by David D. Burns
The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook by Daniel J. Fox
Redefining Anxiety by John Delony
Anxiety Rx by Russell Kennedy

Mind & Body
Read Your Mind by Oz Pearlman
The 5 Resets by Aditi Nerurkar
The Mind-Body Method by Anders Hansen
New You, New Life by Joe Dispenza

Parenting
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame by Janet Lansbury
Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads by Gary Greenberg
Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
Raising Mentally Strong Kids by Daniel G. Amen

Prayer & Meditation
A Million Thoughts by Om Swami
Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
Getting into the Vortex: Guided Meditations by Esther Hicks

Public Speaking
Speak with Confidence by Mike Acker
Don’t Shut Up: How to Talk So the World Listens by Prakhar Gupta

Relationships
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty by Mark Manson
The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher
It Begins with You by Jillian Turecki
Things No One Taught Us About Love by Vex King
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Spirituality
Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
12 Laws of the Universe by Manhardeep Singh
Qigong and the Tai Chi Axis by Mimi Kuo-Deemer
The Miracle Mentality by Tim Storey

Time Management
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Live Your Best Life by Stuart Farrimond
Time Anxiety by Chris Guillebeau
Getting Sh*t Done by Roo Day
The PLAN: Manage Your Time Like a Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi

Social Sciences:

Cultural Criticism
The Visual Detox by Marine Tanguy
Celebrity Nation by Landon Y. Jones

Gender Studies
Give Her Credit by Grace L. Williams
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow
The Feminism Book
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
He’ll Be OK by Celia Lashlie

Multicultural Studies
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes

Psychology
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Shadow Work Journal by Keila Shaheen
Encyclopedia of Counseling by Howard Rosenthal
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
The Essential Enneagram by David Daniels

Sociology
The Sociology Book
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker
Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception by Timothy R. Levine

Sports & Hobbies:

Baseball
Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig
Charlie Hustle by Keith O’Brien
The Last Manager by John W. Miller
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker

Basketball
Uncommon Favor by Dawn Staley
Shot Ready by Stephen Curry
Tanking to the Top by Yaron Weitzman
Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty by Scott Howard-Cooper
Becoming Caitlin Clark by Howard Megdal

Cooking & Wine
Grow Food For Free by Huw Richards
Good Lookin’ Cookin’ by Dolly Parton
Baking Across America by B. Dylan Hollis
No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain
Thirsty: 100 Great Wines and Stories by the Wine Guy by Tom Gilbey

Football
The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller
Elevate and Dominate: 21 Ways to Win On and Off the Field by Deion Sanders
The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football by Bill Belichick
Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham

Golf
Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons by Ben Hogan
Dave Pelz’s Short Game Bible by Dave Pelz
Tiger, Tiger: His Life, As It’s Never Been Told Before by James Patterson
Rainmaker by Hughes Norton
The Last Stand of Payne Stewart by Kevin Robbins

Home & Garden
Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom by Monty Don
The Money-Saving Gardener by Anya Lautenbach
In Case You Get Hit by a Bus by Abby Schneiderman
House Rules by Myquillyn Smith
The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer

Other Hobbies
The Ultimate Cigar Book by Richard Carleton Hacker
Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership by Chaya M. Milchtein
The Chess Revolution by Peter Doggers

Other Sports
The Racket by Conor Niland
How to Win the Premier League by Ian Graham
Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1 by Guenther Steiner
Fighter by Andy Lee

Pets
Training the Best Dog Ever by Larry Kay
How to Housebreak Your Dog in 7 Days by Shirlee Kalstone
How to Train Your Dog by Adam Spivey
The Pet Loss Companion by Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio
Play With Your Cat! by Mikel Maria Delgado

Technology:

Artificial Intelligence
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
Empire of AI by Karen Hao
The Singularity Is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen

Biotechnology
Super Agers by Eric Topol
The Immortalists by Aleks Krotoski

Computers
The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas
Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis

Internet
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
Black Pill by Elle Reeve
The Blog Startup by Meera Kothand
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee

Technology Leaders
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
Apple in China by Patrick McGee
The Lean Tech Manifesto by Fabrice Bernhard

The Digital Age
How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition by Catherine Price
Winning in the Digital Age by Nitin Seth
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Plenty of new audio books to choose from in every category!