Levitin is the author of "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession", (Dutton/Penguin 2006; Plume/Penguin 2007) which spent more than 12 months on the "New York Times" and the "Globe" and "Mail" bestseller lists. In that book, he shares observations related to all sorts of music listeners, telling for instance that, today, teenagers listen to more music in one month than their peers living during the 1700s during their entire existence. The book was nominated for two awards ("The Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Outstanding Science & Technology Writing and the Quill Award for the Best Debut Author of 2006), named one of the top books of the year by Canada's "The Globe and Mail" and by "The Independent" and "The Guardian", and has been translated into 16 languages.