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He 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 Bestseller List and the Globe and Mail Bestseller list.

It 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 Globe and Mail and by The Independent and The Guardian, and has been translated into 16 languages.

Two documentary films were based on that book, " The Music Instinct " ( 2009, PBS ), which Levitin co-hosted with Bobby McFerrin, and " The Musical Brain " ( 2009, CTV / National Geographic Television ) which he co-hosted with Sting.