The book that will make you take sleep seriously. Alarming, fascinating, and genuinely life-changing — if you act on it.
Walker, a sleep scientist at UC Berkeley, makes the case that sleep is the single most important thing you can do for your health — and that modern society is catastrophically sleep-deprived. The science is dense but Walker translates it accessibly.
Steve West's voice is warm and measured — ideal for a book you'll often listen to at night. The narration makes complex neuroscience digestible without dumbing it down.
Everyone who sleeps — which is everyone. Particularly useful for people who pride themselves on functioning on little sleep.
Some of Walker's statistics have been contested by other researchers. Go in informed and treat it as a compelling argument, not gospel.
Listen to it. Even accounting for contested claims, this book will change how you think about sleep.