Every Book Deserves to be Heard

Bob Carrigan

CEO, Audible

Bob Carrigan is the CEO of Audible, the world’s leading audiobook platform. In this episode, Bob describes Audible’s extraordinary growth and the company’s ambitious vision to make every book available as an audiobook in every language. He discusses the pandemic’s effect on listening habits, the landmark multicast production of the Harry Potter series, Audible’s new “Story House” pop-up in New York, the role of AI in expanding global catalogs, and the company’s deep roots in the economic renaissance of Newark, New Jersey.

INTERVIEWED ON: April 8th, 2026

Books discussed:

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Martian.

Surrender by Bono

Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.

Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career—now with a new afterword

The Man on the Run: Words + Music by Paul McCartney

In this Audible Original, hear Paul tell the story of his most transformative decade in his own words. From his retreat to a dilapidated farmhouse in rural Scotland with his wife Linda and their young family, to forming Wings and touring universities in a van, to recording Band on the Run in Nigeria—this is the intimate, unfiltered story of how Paul McCartney reinvented himself.