This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. If you've spent your life being told to just go to bed earlier - and done it, and it didn't work - this book is the explanation you were never given.

Being a late chronotype is not a habit, a lifestyle choice, or a failure of discipline. It is a biological setting, determined largely by genetics, that shifts the entire sleep-wake architecture toward the night. For roughly a quarter of the population, this setting is misaligned with the world's schedule by two hours or more - and the cost of that misalignment, paid silently across a lifetime in health, career, and wellbeing, is one of the most consistent and least discussed problems in modern life.

Wired for Night explains the science of chronotype - what the clock actually is, why it cannot simply be reset by earlier bedtimes, what it genuinely costs to live out of sync with it, and how far it can realistically be shifted with the right tools. It also tells the truth about what cannot be changed, and builds a practical framework for late people living in an early world - not by fighting the biology, but by finally understanding it well enough to stop losing ground to it.

This is not a book about becoming a morning person. It is a book about what a late person can actually do - which turns out to be considerably more than most of them have ever been offered.