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The Most-Rated Thought-Provoking Listens Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 69 unabridged Thought-Provoking Listens audiobooks in our catalog carry store ratings. These are the 25 with the most ratings.

The Thought-Provoking Listens shelf sits under Learn Something New on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Rich Dad Poor Dad: 20th Anniversary Edition: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!Robert T. Kiyosaki8.4 hrs
2Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't KnowMalcolm Gladwell9 hrs
3Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly10.8 hrs
4Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates3.6 hrs
5White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo6.4 hrs
6Homo Deus: A Brief History of TomorrowYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
7How to Be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi10.5 hrs
8How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of LeadersDale Carnegie8.3 hrs
9Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley StartupJohn Carreyrou11.6 hrs
10Homo Deus: The million-copy bestseller from the author of NexusYuval Noah Harari14.9 hrs
11The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,Michelle Alexander16.9 hrs
12Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul Gawande9 hrs
13First Man In: Leading from the FrontAnt Middleton7 hrs
14Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the WorldTim Marshall8.9 hrs
15Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement ForgotMikki Kendall7 hrs
16The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha Mukherjee19.4 hrs
17Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others DieDan Heath8.5 hrs
18Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You ThinkAnna Rosling Ronnlund8.9 hrs
19Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American WestDee Brown14.4 hrs
20Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized WorldDavid Epstein10.8 hrs
21The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More CreativeFlorence Williams8.9 hrs
22Life on EarthDavid Attenborough12.5 hrs
23Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in CrisisJared Diamond18.8 hrs
24The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North AmericaThomas King10 hrs
25Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us AllMichael Shellenberger12.3 hrs

Ordered by the number of store ratings, most first; the counts are used only for ordering and never shown. A rating count measures popularity, never quality. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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