Business audiobooks have a way of making dense ideas click in a way that reading on paper sometimes doesn’t. There’s something about hearing a narrator walk you through, say, the collapse of Enron or the building of a startup from zero that makes the stakes feel real and immediate.

If you like thinking about how money, power, and people actually work together, this is a rich place to dig. Phil Knight’s “Shoe Dog,” narrated by the author himself, is a perfect entry point.