Self-Improvement audiobooks

Come Together

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD

Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.

“Emily Nagoski is a national treasure—helping us all understand how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives.”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

In Come... Read more

We Should All Be Millionaires

By: Rachel Rodgers

Narrated by: Rachel Rodgers

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy?We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be.Only 10 percent of the world’s millionaires are women, making it difficult... Read more

Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by: Theo Solomon

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair.“This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNNViktor E. Frankl was a medical doctor at a psychiatric hospital in... Read more

Soil

By: Camille T Dungy

Narrated by: Camille T Dungy

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden... Read more

Feel-Good Productivity

By: Ali Abdaal

Narrated by: Ali Abdaal

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Abdaal's enthusiastic narration resonates, inspiring listeners to become amateur productivity scientists. Informative, motivational, and entertaining, this audiobook delivers an enlightening perspective on productivity."—AudioFile

This program is read by the author.

The secret to productivity isn’t discipline. It’s joy.

We think that... Read more

The Art of Gathering

By: Priya Parker

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED
 
From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.

In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the... Read more

No Bad Parts

By: Richard C. Schwartz PhD & Alanis Morissette - f...

Narrated by: Charlie Mechling

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind - and healing the many parts that make you who you are.Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard... Read more

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 25th Anniversary

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: John C. Maxwell & Henry O. Arnold

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, hear the bestselling leadership book of all time, read in its entirety by John Maxwell himself!HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary... Read more

Fair Play

By: Eve Rodsky

Narrated by: Eve Rodsky

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon

Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way...

It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent... Read more

Life After Doom

By: Brian D. McLaren

Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"His earnest, conversational tone sounds as though he's speaking directly to each individual listener" —AudioFile on Do I Stay Christian?, an Earphones Award winner

"As rich and thoughtful as all of Brian McLaren's work, but with a particular urgency!" —Bill McKibben

"Riveting. Challenging. Brave. Devastating.... Read more

Hagitude

By: Sharon Blackie

Narrated by: Sharon Blackie

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring listeners to radically reimagine the last decades of their lives as the most dynamic of all

Western folklore and mythology are rife with brilliantly creative, fulfilled, feisty, and furious role models for aging women, despite our... Read more

Same as Ever

By: Morgan Housel

Narrated by: Chris Hill

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusion of Morgan Housel’s fascinating, useful, and highly-entertaining book.”

— Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times bestselling author


From the author of the international blockbuster,... Read more

Daring Greatly

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller. 1 million copies sold!

From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have... Read more

Fully Alive

By: Pema Chödrön

Narrated by: Pema Chödrön

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in difficult times. Life sometimes seems like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us. Why, in the face of that, shouldn’t we cling for safety to the certainty of the shore—to our comfortably familiar patterns and habits? Because, Pema Chödrön teaches, that kind of fear-based clinging leads only to even greater... Read more

The Untethered Soul

By: Michael A. Singer

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these can define. In The Untethered Soul, spiritual... Read more

Immunity to Change

By: Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or death, the ability to change remains maddeningly elusive.

Given that the status quo is so... Read more

Opening Heaven's Door

By: Patricia Pearson

Narrated by: Patricia Pearson

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, groundbreaking author of A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine comes a touching, exhilarating, challenging exploration of the inexplicable gleamings of another world many of us experience, in life, in grief, and near death.

Sparked by extraordinary experiences that occurred in her family when her father and her... Read more

Do Nothing

By: Celeste Headlee

Narrated by: Celeste Headlee

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“A welcome antidote to our toxic hustle culture of burnout.”—Arianna Huffington
“This book is so important and could truly save lives.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
“A clarion call to work smarter [and] accomplish more by doing less.”—Adam Grant
 
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable?
 
Despite our constant search for new ways... Read more

Real Self-Care

By: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Narrated by: Pooja Lakshmin, MD

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller featured by Good Morning America, NPR's Code Switch, The New York Times, and The Guardian

NPR's "Books We Love for 2023"

Forbes' "Greatest Self-Help Books of All Time"

"Realistic and trustworthy" -- InStyle

"This isn’t just another self-help book. It gives us a clear-eyed look at the way social systems drain our energy, and a... Read more

Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach, PhD

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

My Grandmother's Hands

By: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body... Read more

The Power of Now

By: Eckhart Tolle

Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 16 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate in personal growth and spirituality: the... Read more

Unwinding Anxiety

By: Judson Brewer

Narrated by: Judson Brewer

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are... Read more

You're Not Listening

By: Kate Murphy

Narrated by: Kate Murphy

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine

**This program is read by the author**

When was the last time you... Read more