12 must-read science books like This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

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This Is the Voice

By: John Colapinto

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There’s no shortage of books about public speaking, language, or song, but until now, there hasn't …

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1. The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are

By: Anne Karpf

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Dazzling and groundbreaking, the first book to explore something so fundamental that most of us tak… read more

Similar categories in Anne Karpf's The Human Voice: How This Extraordinary Instrument Reveals Essential Clues About Who We Are book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • music
  • history
  • language
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening by David Hendy

2. Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening

By: David Hendy

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Based on a major BBC Radio 4 series, David Hendy explores the role of sound - and of listening - in… read more

Similar categories in David Hendy's Noise: a Human History of Sound and Listening book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

3. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

By: Meena Kandasamy

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and … read more

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4. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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5. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By: John Perkins

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the N… read more

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6. Saint Maybe

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more

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7. Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.03

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a be… read more

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8. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

Similar categories in Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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9. The Debutante

By: Jon Ronson

3.41

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad … read more

Similar categories in Jon Ronson's The Debutante book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends by Marisa G. Franco

10. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

Similar categories in Marisa G. Franco's Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
Cover of In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) by Seanan McGuire

11. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

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Cover of The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

12. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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13. I Do Everything I'm Told

By: Megan Fernandes

4.17

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Restless, contradictory, and witty, Megan Fernandes’ I Do Everything I’m Told explores disobedience… read more

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14. I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

By: Kristin Chenoweth

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Aristotle. Socrates. Descartes. And now, Chenoweth. (How about some women, am I right?) From tel… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Chenoweth's I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I actually find questions a lot more interesting than answers. Questions are usually honest while answers are frequently BS. A question is a starting point, a door that swings open and invites a host…"

-Kristin Chenoweth, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

"There’s a difference between humiliation and humility. Humiliation lies. Humility speaks truth. Humiliation silences you. Humility empowers you. Humiliation is a byproduct of conflict with someone el…"

-Kristin Chenoweth, I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

Cover of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann

15. The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

By: Hilke Schellmann

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results… read more

Similar categories in Hilke Schellmann's The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin

17. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

By: Patty Lin

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more

Similar categories in Patty Lin's End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more

Similar categories in Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • science
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19. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

Similar categories in Fei-Fei Li's The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Link's The Book of Love book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • audiobook
Cover of Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) by Andrea Gibson

21. Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

By: Andrea Gibson

4.43

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, roman… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry) book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
"There will be music for you one day."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made."

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

"It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be"

-Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies (Button Poetry)

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22. This Is the Voice

By: John Colapinto

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There’s no shortage of books about public speaking, language, or song, but until now, there hasn't … read more

Similar categories in John Colapinto's This Is the Voice book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • music
  • science
  • linguistics
  • history
  • language
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • environment
  • audiobook
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23. Practice

By: Rosalind Brown

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts,… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum

24. The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

By: Arik Kershenbaum

3.96

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE We are unprepared for the greatest discov… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of the most fundamental rules of natural selection, on Earth and across the universe, is that there is always a cost-benefit trade-off. Improving your abilities in one field must reduce your capa…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

"Whenever there is a conflict of interest (or a potential conflict of interest) between two animals making their own decisions to maximize their own fitness, then an evolutionary game is in play. Each…"

-Arik Kershenbaum, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

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25. How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You

By: Katherine D. Kinzler

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the most brilliant young psychologists of her generation” (Paul Bloom), a groundbreaki… read more

Similar categories in Katherine D. Kinzler's How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • science
  • linguistics
  • language
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots by Kate Darling

26. The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots

By: Kate Darling

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of The Second Machine Age or The Soul of an Octopus , a bold, exciting exploration of h… read more

Similar categories in Kate Darling's The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess  Hill

27. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

By: Jess Hill

4.66

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria’s dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone … read more

Similar categories in Jess Hill's See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"I don't bash you with my fists, I bash you with my emotions, to keep you under control."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"I explain patriarchy as a dual system of power: men's power over women, and some men's power over other men. - Michael Kimmel"

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Mangan is adamant: women's violence may cause distress to men in abusive relationships, but men are almost never in danger of being killed."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

"Whether perpetrators abuse strategically or on impulse, however, they usually have one thing in common: a supercharged sense of entitlement."

-Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence

Cover of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs

28. Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

By: Jim Downs

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism… read more

Similar categories in Jim Downs's Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

29. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Atomic Anna

By: Rachel Barenbaum

3.80

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster … read more

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31. The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron

By: Benjamin Ehrlich

4.33

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transform… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Ehrlich's The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron book and John Colapinto's This Is the Voice

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • science

17 Best audiobook books like This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

Transform Your Habits

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Debutante

Jon Ronson

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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19 Best audiobook books like The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now by Hilke Schellmann

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

Dana Mattioli

4.10

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