I love audiobooks, because I can listen to them while doing chores around the house and garden — and there are always a lot of chores. Over the past couple of months I’ve mostly been listening to non-fiction. These are books on history and environment that really captured my attention:

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
1493 by Charles C. Mann
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

For biology nerds, I can heartily recommend: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (about fungus), and the mind-blowing The Vital Question by Nick Lane, which looks in detail at his theory of how life got started on this planet — and possibly on others.

The two science fiction novels I’ve listened to are:

Semiosis by Sue Burke — a very smart and engaging story about colonizing and coming to understand the biology of an alien world.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — excellent narration and a very clever and entertaining hard science fiction novel about saving the world from a very unusual invasive species.

If you have any audiobook favorites, let me know!

Posted on: Friday, March 11th, 2022 at 9:57 am
Categories: Recommended Reading.