Religion bestsellers

Courageous and Bold Bible Heroes

50 True Stories of Daring Men and Women of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: Christopher St. John
Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Hannah kept a promise. Daniel remained faithful to God in difficult times. Peter repented. And Joseph of Arimathea was kind and generous. What do these and the other Bible heroes featured in this book have in common? They weren’t perfect, but they were courageous and bold, each in their own way. Each short, accessible chapter profiles a... Read more

Courageous World Changers

50 True Stories of Daring Women of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: Sybil Johnson
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these women: -Corrie ten Boom—activist, author, and Holocaust survivor -Laurie Hernandez—gymnast who won both gold and silver medals in her sport -Florence Nightingale—health-care reformer -Madeline L’Engle—author of children’s literature -Mother Teresa—missionary and winner of the Nobel... Read more

Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these men: -C.S. Lewis—professor and author of the influential Chronicles of Narnia series -Zhang Boli—Chinese dissident, journalist, and Christian pastor -Richard Allen—former slave and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -Tim Tebow—athlete, Heisman trophy winner, and... Read more

A Well-Trained Wife

My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings
Narrated by: Tia Levings
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“The most chilling horror stories are the true ones. Tia Levings recounts her harrowing life story as a young woman sucked into a fundamentalist church sect that mandates that women's sole roles are to become wives and mothers; to be 100% submissive to their husbands, to silence their own voices, to isolate from the world, and to endure... Read more

A Brave Big Sister

A Bible Story About Miriam

Called and Courageous Girls

By: Rachel Spier Weaver & Anna Haggard
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes
Length: 17 minutes

Growing up as a slave girl, Miriam learned how to be brave—and smart. When her baby brother, Moses, was in grave danger, Miriam and her mom saved his life. As Miriam matured, she became a gifted musician and discovered other God-given talents. And when God called Miriam—along with her siblings—to guide the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, she... Read more

A Fearless Leader

A Bible Story About Deborah

Called and Courageous Girls: Book #3

By: Rachel Spier Weaver & Anna Haggard
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 15 minutes

Deborah is an imaginative and perceptive young girl who makes good decisions in the heat of the moment. When she sees her village is about to be invaded by King Jabin and his general, Sisera, she bravely warns the people of danger, and everyone flees. But that doesn't stop Jabin and Sisera's vicious attacks. As Deborah grows up, she becomes a... Read more

An Unexpected Hero

A Bible Story About Rahab

Called and Courageous Girls: Book #4

By: Rachel Spier Weaver & Anna Haggard
Narrated by: Marnye Young
Length: 15 minutes

Rahab is an adventurous girl who enjoys playing with her siblings in the city of Jericho. Growing up, she makes a lot of bad choices, then desperately wants to change her life. When two Israelite spies come to Rahab's door, she bravely offers them a place to hide. Then God gives her a great idea to help them escape, and the spies agree to... Read more

An Extraordinary Teacher

A Bible Story About Priscilla

Called and Courageous Girls: Book #2

By: Rachel Spier Weaver & Anna Haggard
Narrated by: Nikki Lu Lowe
Length: 16 minutes

As a little girl, Priscilla loved to read, developing the gifts God will one day help her use to become a distinguished teacher in the early church. In adulthood, Priscilla and her husband, Aquila, accept the apostle Paul's invitation to join him on his daring missionary journeys. God's plans for her life are about to unfold: Priscilla pioneers... Read more

Dinner for Vampires

By: Bethany Joy Lenz
Narrated by: Bethany Joy Lenz
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Includes exclusive audio cameos from One Tree Hill cast members Tyler Hilton, Paul Johansson, James Lafferty, and Chad Michael Murray!

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024*
*NAMED ONE OF PEOPLE’S BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS OF 2024*

A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade... Read more

Educated

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“Educated by Tara Westover is a wrenching account of a young woman who must choose between education on one hand and her family which is ruled by a religious misogynist apocalyptic zealot who lives off the grid and who might also be bi-polar, on the other. I thought the most fascinating part of Westover’s story would be her journey from backwoods... Read more

'Twas the Season of Advent and Christmas Audio Collection

2 Books in 1

'Twas Series

By: Glenys Nellist
Narrated by: Glenys Nellist
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

The message of God’s love for the world shines through in this two-book collection especially for the Advent and Christmas seasons. Listening to Twas the Season of Advent and Christmas Audio Collection is the perfect way to share the loving messages of Advent and Christmas with the entire family.Twas the Season of Advent and Christmas Audio... Read more

Christmas Is... (Audio)

By: Gail Gibbons
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 8 minutes

Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is... peace, love, and joy. Read more

100 Extraordinary Stories for Courageous Girls

Unforgettable Tales of Women of Faith

By: Jean Fischer
Narrated by: Jaimee Draper
Length: 4 hours

Just for the girls in your life, ages 8 and up, this collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Featuring the true stories of... Read more

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more

Cherished Belonging

The Healing Power of Love in Divided Times

By: Gregory Boyle
Narrated by: Gregory Boyle
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

At a time when society is more fractured than ever before, beloved Jesuit priest Gregory Boyle invites us to see the world through a new lens of connection and build the loving community that we long to live in—a perfect message for readers of Anne Lamott, Mary Oliver, and Richard Rohr.

Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed... Read more

Wild Faith

How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

By: Talia Lavin
Narrated by: Talia Lavin
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy.

All across America, a storm is gathering: from book bans in school libraries to anti-trans laws in state legislatures; firebombings of abortion clinics and... Read more

Holidays on Ice

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris, Ann Magnuson & Amy Sedaris
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the... Read more

Almost Everything

Notes on Hope

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

“How does she do it? How does Anne Lamott capture the tension of mystery and truth in a way that makes you want to follow her anywhere and believe everything? If you opened this book to any random page you’d find something you’d feel compelled to read aloud to the stranger at the next table. Her familiar writing style spreads a blanket in the... Read more

The Dead of Winter

Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

By: Sarah Clegg
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis & Sarah Clegg
Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Discover the monsters, witches, and other ghoulish creatures that make up lesser known Christmas folklore in this gleefully creepy guide–perfect for horror fans who love the wintry holidays.

When you think about Christmas, you likely picture mangers, glowing fireplaces, sweet carolers, and snow-blanketed hills. But behind all this bright magic,... Read more

Priest: A Love Story

The Priest Collection

By: Sierra Simone
Narrated by: Jacob Morgan & Elena Wolfe
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.I've always been good at following rules.Until she came. Then I learned new rules.My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church,... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“So often it seems that people approach events like these wondering how someone could possibly do something so terrible. Jon Krakauer bypasses the 'how' and goes immediately for the 'why.' With a keen eye for discrepancies and Scott Brick's intense narration for the audiobook, Krakauer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to detailing what led... Read more

The Exvangelicals

Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... Read more

Uncultured

A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Narrated by: Daniella Mestyanek Young
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

"It’s a dark story that forced me to think more expansively about what constitutes a cult." —The New York Times' Ernesto Londoño

"Although this is Mestyanek Young’s first time narrating, listeners will appreciate hearing this deeply personal story told by the author herself. Share with fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Deborah Feldman’s... Read more

Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

By: Sam Harris
Narrated by: Sam Harris
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who... Read more

The Places That Scare You

A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Shambhala

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches,... Read more

Falling Upward

A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

In the revised and updated edition of Falling Upward, Richard Rohr seeks to help listeners come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can't understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.



Most of us tend to think... Read more

The False White Gospel

Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy

By: Jim Wallis
Narrated by: Jim Wallis & Leon Nixon
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"Everyone who claims to be 'Christian' or else claims to be upset by 'Christianity' needs to read this book, especially politicians using people's supposed faith for their own ends." —Margaret E. Atwood

"Jim Wallis calls the nation to grow up and he calls us all to fight the love battle to save the soul of... Read more

The Little Book of Hygge

Danish Secrets to Happy Living

By: Meik Wiking
Narrated by: Meik Wiking
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Embrace Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) and become happier with this definitive guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness, and well-being.Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is Hygge. Loosely translated, Hygge—pronounced Hoo-ga—is a sense of... Read more

Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach, PhD
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

"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

Common Rule

Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

By: Justin Whitmel Earley
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Habits form us more than we form them. The modern world is a machine of a thousand invisible habits, forming us into anxious, busy, and depressed people. We yearn for the freedom and peace of the gospel, but remain addicted to our technology, shackled by our screens, and exhausted by our routines. But because our habits are the water we swim in,... Read more

Make Me Rain

Poems & Prose

By: Nikki Giovanni
Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

“I would not call myself a poetry reader, but there is something about Nikki Giovanni’s poetry that speaks to me so deeply. Sentimental and comforting, Make Me Rain covers a wide range of topics, from quilts and rising bread to the social change we so desperately need in our world. Giovanni’s wisdom and understanding once again prove why she is... Read more

Manhattan Cult Story

My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider
Narrated by: Austin Rising
Length: 8 hours

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more

The Last Train to London

A Novel

By: Meg Waite Clayton
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“Based on a real heroine of the Dutch resistance and scrupulously researched, The Last Train to London brings to vivid life the extraordinary bravery of one fiercely dedicated childless woman who is attempting to save the lives of literally thousands of innocent children as Hitler marshals his forces across Europe. By writing the Kindertransport... Read more

Heroes of the Bible

Children's Bible Stories

By: Stephen Johnston
Narrated by: Stephen Johnston
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Emmy award-winning narrator Stephen Johnston joins this full, multicast dramatized collection of Bible stories that takes young listeners through God's redemptive story in bite-sized sections perfectly suited for little ones' attention spans! This captivating journey moves through the Old Testament, including stories of Joseph, Noah, Moses and... Read more

C. S. Lewis Essential Audio Library

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joss Ackland, James Simmons & Douglas Gresham
Length: 38 hours 46 minutes

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters • The Great Divorce • Miracles • The Problem of Pain • A Grief Observed • The Abolition of Man • The Weight of Glory • George MacDonald • Read more

How to Stay Married

By: Harrison Scott Key
Narrated by: Harrison Scott Key & Lauren Key
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, “shot through with sharp humor” (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.

One gorgeous autumn day, Harrison discovers that his wife—the sweet, funny, loving mother of their... 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

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep

Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives

By: Andre Henry
Narrated by: Andre Henry
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism—and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle.

“A moving personal journey that lends practical insight for expanding and strengthening the global antiracist... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

The greatest Christmas story ever written is brought to life by the inimitable Jason Isaacs.
''If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just... Read more

Decluttering at the Speed of Life

Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

By: Dana K. White
Narrated by: Dana K. White
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff—you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress.While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us... Read more

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer
Narrated by: John Mark Comer & Kris Koscheski
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

ECPA BESTSELLER • A compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practicing the Way

“Prophetic, practical, and profoundly life giving . . . provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. I consider this... Read more

Raising Good Humans

A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke Fields & Carla Naumburg
Narrated by: Jennifer & Gilmour
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

"A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical AcceptanceA kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from “reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.Whether you’re... Read more

Lamb

By: Christopher Moore
Narrated by: Fisher Stevens
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah’s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in this divinely hilarious, yet heartfelt work... Read more

The Power of Ritual

Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more

Mere Christianity

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

""C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way."" — Anthony Burgess, New York Times Book ReviewOur moral consciousness and moral judgements are proof to the human race that a moral being exists—God.Mere Christianity explores the core beliefs... Read more

Undivided

The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

By: Hahrie Han
Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation

In 2016, even as Ohio helped deliver victory to presidential candidate Donald Trump, Cincinnati voters also passed a ballot initiative for universal preschool. The margin... Read more

Life After Doom

Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

By: Brian D. McLaren
Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

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

Keeping the Faith

God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation

By: Brenda Wineapple
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

“Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful account of the Scopes trial sheds light not only on the battles of the past but on the struggles of the present.”—Jon Meacham
 
“History at its most delicious.”—The New York Times Book Review (front page review, Editors’ Choice)

The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed... Read more

People Love Dead Jews

Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease the living.Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent... Read more

Ordinary Time

Lessons Learned While Staying Put

By: Annie B. Jones
Length: TBA

In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed. Can life be an adventure, even when it’s just . . . ordinary?Annie... Read more