Sports & Recreation bestsellers

There's Always This Year

On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib
Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

“Using basketball as a vehicle for reflection of East Columbus history and personal memoir, There’s Always This Year is a triumph of contemplative, emotionally-rich writing that will have you wiping tears and on the edge of your seat. Read more

Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner & Michelle Burford
Narrated by: Andia Winslow & Brittney Griner
Length: TBA

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.

On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of... Read more

The Boys in the Boat

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

“Determined to beat the odds, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington's rowing team overcome a depressive beginning to defeat the world at Hitler's 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Underdogs from day one, fighting poverty and privilege along the way, this crew shocks all with their unbelievable come-from-behind effort to become... Read more

Soil

The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T Dungy
Narrated by: Camille T Dungy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Part nature writing, part exploration of the African diaspora and Black identity, part memoir, Dungy puts herself in conversation with all the white nature writers who've come before - Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - and exposes how a monoculture in both cultivars and cultural backgrounds threatens us and... Read more

Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor
Narrated by: James Nestor
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
 
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love

No matter what you... Read more

Why We Love Baseball

A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski
Narrated by: Joe Posnanski & Ellen Adair
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller
Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year
National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport... Read more

Range

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.

“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes

“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who... Read more

The Shotgun Conservationist

Why Environmentalists Should Love Hunting

By: Brant MacDuff
Narrated by: Brant MacDuff
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

“As a plant-based eater, I only picked up this book because we were hosting an event with Brant. After moderating and interviewing him, I was compelled by his arguments and passion. Now that I've listened to the book, I find it deeply researched, enormous in scope, very funny, and intensely thought-provoking. Brant narrates the audiobook, and... Read more

Becky Lynch: The Man

Not Your Average Average Girl

By: Rebecca Quin
Narrated by: Rebecca Quin
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This compelling and candid memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame.

Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca Quin constantly invented new ways to make her... Read more

Surviving to Drive

A Year Inside Formula 1: An F1 Book

By: Guenther Steiner
Narrated by: Guenther Steiner
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-octane, no-holds-barred account of a year inside Formula 1 from Haas team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive to Survive, one of the most successful Netflix series of all time

“People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit... Read more

Next Level

Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond

By: Stacy T. Sims, PhD & Selene Yeager
Narrated by: Gina Daniels
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A comprehensive, physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experiencing menopause—from the author of Roar, renowned exercise and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims

For active women, menopause hits hard. Overnight, your body doesn’t feel like the one you know and love anymore—you’re battling new symptoms, might be... Read more

The High Sierra

A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Kim Stanley Robinson
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (—Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).
 
Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a... Read more

It's Hard for Me to Live with Me

A Memoir

By: Rex Chapman & Seth Davis
Narrated by: Rex Chapman
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media influencer about his recovery from addiction.

He is considered by many the greatest basketball player ever produced by the hoops-crazy state of Kentucky. In two years at the University of Kentucky, he scored over 1,000... Read more

Be Water, My Friend

The Teachings of Bruce Lee

By: Shannon Lee
Narrated by: Shannon Lee
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

This program is read by the author

Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophies—demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day.

"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water."

Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for... Read more

Everything to Play For

The QI Book of Sports

By: James Harkin & Anna Ptaszynski
Narrated by: Anna Ptaszynski & James Harkin
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski. From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, via comically large cricket bats,... Read more

The Incomplete Book of Running

By: Peter Sagal
Narrated by: Peter Sagal
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Peter Sagal, the host of NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World, shares “commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you” (Susan Orlean).

On the verge of turning forty, Peter... Read more

ROAR, Revised Edition

Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong Body for Life

By: Stacy T. Sims, PhD
Narrated by: Gina Daniels
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

The groundbreaking book that revolutionized exercise nutrition and performance for female athletes, now freshly updated

Women are not small men. Stop eating and training like one.

In ROAR, exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Stacy T. Sims, PhD, teaches you everything you need to know to adapt your nutrition, hydration, and training... Read more

How to Build a Car

The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Formula 1 Designer

By: Adrian Newey
Narrated by: Richard Trinder
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain’s greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. ... Read more

Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex

How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture

By: Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon & Lawrence Koval
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies.

For readers of Belly of the Beast, Care Work, and The Body is Not an Apology

Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit--and who gets to be fit in our society--is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large... Read more

Mini-Forest Revolution

Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World

By: Hannah Lewis
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

For listeners who enjoyed Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Life of Trees comes the first-ever book about a movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming empty lots, backyards, and degraded land into mini-forests. Author Hannah Lewis is the forest maker turning asphalt into ecosystems to save the planet, and she... Read more

Becoming Odyssa

Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

By: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Narrated by: Jennifer Pharr Davis
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2,175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The... Read more

How Not to Die

By: Michael Greger & Gene Stone
Narrated by: Lennart Wollmershäuser
Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

New York Times Bestseller!
Die meisten aller frühzeitigen Todesfälle lassen sich verhindern – und zwar, so überraschend es klingen mag, durch einfache Änderungen der eigenen Lebens- und Ernährungsweise. Dr. Michael Greger, international renommierter Arzt, Ernährungswissenschaftler und Gründer des Online-Informationsportals Nutritionfacts.org,... Read more

Yogi

A Life Behind the Mask

By: Jon Pessah
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 21 hours 10 minutes

Discover the definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history.

Lawrence "Yogi" Berra was never supposed to become a major league ballplayer.

That's what his immigrant father told him. That's what Branch Rickey told him, too—right to Berra's face,... Read more

The Last of His Kind

Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness

By: Andy McCullough
Narrated by: LJ Ganser
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, examining the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape—based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others.​ More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied... Read more

The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer

By: Forrest Dolgener, Tanjala Kole & David Whitsett
Narrated by: Benjamin Lange
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Athlete. Runner. Marathoner. Are these words you wouldn't exactly use to describe yourself? Do you consider yourself too old or too out of shape to run a marathon? But somewhere deep inside have you always admired the people who could reach down and come up with the mental and physical strength to complete such a daunting and rewarding... Read more

Advanced Bushcraft

An Expert Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival

Bushcraft Survival Skills Series

By: Dave Canterbury
Narrated by: Travis Tonn
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Trek deeper into the wilderness with New York Times bestselling author Dave Canterbury!

In this valuable guide, survivalist Dave Canterbury goes beyond bushcraft basics to teach you how to survive in the backcountry with little or no equipment. Using the foundation you learned in Bushcraft 101, Canterbury shows you how to completely immerse... Read more

Ahead of the Curve

Inside the Baseball Revolution

By: Brian Kenny
Narrated by: Brian Kenny
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Most people who resist logical thought in baseball preach "tradition" and "respecting the game." But many of baseball's traditions go back to the nineteenth century, when the pitcher's job was to provide the batter with a ball he could hit and fielders played without gloves. Instead of fearing change, Brian Kenny wants fans to think critically,... Read more

Stugotz's Personal Record Book

The Real Winners and Losers in Sports

By: Jon "Stugotz" Weiner & Dan Stanczyk
Length: TBA

Sports radio legend Stugotz rewrites the record books, taking rings away from undeserving champions and giving them to the rightful winners.
 
The 2020 MLB season didn’t happen. Bill Belichick is not the greatest NFL coach of all time. Rafael Nadal is not on the Mount Rushmore of men’s tennis.

For years, popular sports radio personality Stugotz has... Read more

The Island Swimmer

The perfect feel-good read for book clubs about facing your past and finding yourself

By: Lorraine Kelly
Narrated by: Lorraine Kelly
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

'A must read. Loved it and a beautiful ending' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review
'Written with compassion and empathy, a cuddle in a book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reader Review
'Wow! It is a very long time since I have enjoyed a book so much. This gripped me from the start' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review

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*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

Escape with this feel-good and big-hearted... Read more

All You Need Is Rhythm & Grit

How to Run Now, for Health, Joy, and a Body That Loves You Back

By: Cory Wharton-Malcolm
Narrated by: Cory Wharton-Malcolm
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Think running isn't for you? Cory Wharton-Malcolm challenges this idea head-on with this joyful love letter to running and a motivational guide for everyone. Advocating running as an inclusive and community-focused activity, Cory shows us how to celebrate the incredible mind-body connection by getting your sneakers on and starting your running... Read more

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight
Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing,... Read more

Running with Sherman

The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Christopher McDougall
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

“You will fall in love with this determined donkey and cheer for Sherman all along the way. Read more

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

By: Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

“The brilliant and engaging writing in this memoir belies the author's young age. Braverman offers a taut and honest recounting of a young woman fiercely chasing down her dream and confronting myriad dangers -- both natural and man-made -- with intelligence and grit. This white-knuckle read left me in awe of Braverman's conviction, and her... Read more

Born to Run

A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more

Built to Move

The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

By: Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
Narrated by: Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Simple and proven physical practices designed to improve the way your body feels—less stiffness! fewer aches and pain!— and boost the overall quality of your life, no matter how you spend your time.  From the innovators behind The Ready State and the movement bible Becoming a Supple Leopard.

“The definitive guide for building an all-around... Read more

The Joy of Movement

How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage

By: Kelly McGonigal
Narrated by: Kelly McGonigal
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement.

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and... Read more

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon

By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most... Read more

Charlie Hustle

The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien
Narrated by: Ellen Adair & Keith O'Brien
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The... Read more

Good for a Girl

A Woman Running in a Man's World

By: Lauren Fleshman
Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

* A New York Times Bestseller
* Winner of the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award
* A Financial Times Best Sports Book of 2023

Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female... Read more

One Life

By: Megan Rapinoe & Emma Brockes
Narrated by: Megan Rapinoe
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller!

“Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world.”—USA Today 
 
Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, reveals for the first time... Read more

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

A Runner’s High

My Life in Motion

By: Dean Karnazes
Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

New York Times bestselling author and ultramarathoning legend Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe melting heat of Death Valley to the lung freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and competed across the globe and once ran 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 consecutive days. In A... Read more

The Longest Race

Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team

By: Kara Goucher
Narrated by: Kara Goucher
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In “one of the most important athlete memoirs of its generation” (Kate Fagan, #1 New York Times bestselling author), Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running.

Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from... Read more

WOLFPACK

How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

By: Abby Wambach
Narrated by: Abby Wambach
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

“Abby is a relatable revolutionary — with WOLFPACK, she inspires the confidence, leadership and sisterhood we all so desperately need right now.” — Amy Schumer

This program is read by the author.

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time... Read more

Nature's Best Hope

A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard

By: Douglas W. Tallamy
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of individuals to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to... Read more

Unbroken

A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

By: Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: Unbroken and Unbroken: Path to Redemption.

“Extraordinarily moving . . . a powerfully drawn survival epic.”—The Wall Street Journal

Hailed as the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine • Winner of the Los... Read more

Alta California

From San Diego to San Francisco, A Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State

By: Nick Neely
Narrated by: Tristan Wright
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden... Read more

Path Lit By Lightning

By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.

Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled... Read more

Choosing to Run

A Memoir

By: Des Linden
Narrated by: Des Linden
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelible champion, Choosing to Run is a truly inspirational memoir from Boston Marathon winner and Olympian Des Linden, sharing her personal story and what motivates her to keep showing up.

When Des woke up on April 16, 2018, the morning of the Boston... Read more