Sports & Recreation bestsellers

There's Always This Year

On Basketball and Ascension

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

“You need not be a basketball aficionado to have your heart profoundly captured by this incredible work of nonfiction. Part cultural commentary and part memoir, Abdurraqib's writing is poetic and distinct, making you feel like you are watching a cherished friend perform spoken word. Structured like the four quarters of a basketball game,... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... Read more

Inner Excellence

Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

By: Jim Murphy
Narrated by: Jim Murphy
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Want more joy and confidence when you perform?Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best.My... Read more

Kid Athletes

True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends

Kid Legends: Book #2

By: David Stabler
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive.” And football... Read more

Kid Olympians: Summer

True Tales of Childhood from Champions and Game Changers

Kid Legends: Book #9

By: Robin Stevenson
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Athletes throughout history have dreamed of competing in the Olympics—and some were kids themselves when those dreams and plans began! In Kid Olympians: Summer, discover the childhood stories of legends such as -Usain Bolt, who used to skip practices to go to the arcade and play video games. -Serena Williams, who sometimes hit her tennis ball... 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

“I don’t know how I could ever look at trees the same way again after reading this book. Wohlleben writes with such warmth, sincerity, and enthusiasm, and it makes what would usually be a slow read for me a wonder, transportive. I feel like I live in a different world after finishing this - one with more wonder, mystery, and magic. I was hoping... Read more

Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

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

“What a great book to help you learn how to breathe better to literally help your health. I especially liked listening and practicing the different techniques to help me learn. Read more

The New Menopause

Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Narrated by: Mary Claire Haver, MD
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it is not! This is the empowering... 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

Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner & Michelle Burford
Narrated by: Andia Winslow & Brittney Griner
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“Brittney Griner writes with honesty and bravery. The story of how a simple mistake turned into a nine-month-long fight for freedom is only a small piece of her larger story. Brittney talks in-depth about the people who kept her going while imprisoned, and what it was like to return to the country that fought so hard for her release. Her story... 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

“This is one of my favorite non-fiction reads of all time, containing everything that I love to find in a book: suspense, unbreakable friendships, insurmountable obstacles, and unlimited perseverance! As told to the readers at the beginning of the book, this story is not one of Brown’s own experience but one that he heard and shared with the... Read more

The Color of Everything

A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

By: Cory Richards
Narrated by: Cory Richards
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the early trauma that drove him to seek such heights.

“An extraordinary memoir of mental illness that reads like a thriller.”—Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Becoming Nicole

“In order to escape madness, I will live madly. I... 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

A Thousand Feasts

Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts

By: Nigel Slater
Narrated by: Nigel Slater
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy. 'Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game

By: Tim Brown
Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“Erik Kratz is a special man. His wife Sarah, is even more remarkable, because she helped Erik follow his dream, even when the dream kept evading him. The Tao of the Backup Catcher by Erik and NYT bestselling author Tim Brown, is the story of that dream. Erik played professional baseball for 19 years with 15 teams. He was always good enough to... Read more

The Botany of Desire

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for... 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

The New York Game

Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker
Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
Length: 19 hours 58 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • Sports Illustrated #1 Book of 2024 • A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.

"You’re going to beg for extra innings. Without missing a scandal or a sensation, with an eye on how... Read more

Open

An Autobiography

By: Andre Agassi
Narrated by: Erik Davies
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.

Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a... Read more

Better Faster Farther

How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

By: Maggie Mertens
Narrated by: Maggie Mertens & Lauren Fleshman
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

“From foot-binding to corsets, patriarchal societies have found ways to immobilize women, but now, marathoners and Olympians are proving that women can run like the wind!” —GLORIA STEINEM

"A look behind the curtain that all women who love running and sport should read.” —KARA GOUCHER, Olympic runner and New York Times-bestselling author of The... Read more

Winterdance

The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod—the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness—in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness,... Read more

You Are More Than What You Eat

Science, Nutrition, and a Perfectly Imperfect Approach to Eating

By: Dr Emma Beckett
Narrated by: Dr Emma Beckett
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Our relationship with food is broken, but Dr Emma Beckett is here to help us repair it. This is not a diet audiobook, but it is an audiobook about your diet, your life and how food fits into it all. Dr Emma Beckett has spent more than 15 years studying food and how it interacts with our bodies. In this fun, informative audiobook, she takes her... Read more

Outofshapeworthlessloser

A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

By: Gracie Gold
Narrated by: Gracie Gold
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “piercing account” (The Wall Street Journal) of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costs—especially if you’re an Olympic figure skater.

“A riveting memoir, which details her experience with an eating disorder, depression and her... Read more

Moneyball

The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur... Read more

The Talent Code

Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

By: Daniel Coyle
Narrated by: John Farrell
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by... Read more

The Nature of Oaks

The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Discover the complex and fascinating inner world of the mighty oak tree with this engaging nature book!

The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars,... Read more

The Formula

How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson & Jonathan Clegg
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

An NPR Best Book of 2024A Sports Illustrated Best Book of 2024NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering... Read more

Bright Line Eating

The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free

By: Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD
Narrated by: Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD, Tanya Eby, Mel Foster, Emily Sutton-Smith & John Robbins
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose all their excess weight and keep it off. Are you ready to join them?In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge... Read more

The Confident Mind

A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance

By: Dr. Nate Zinsser
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Believe and be unshakable.The Director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program shares the secrets of mental toughness and self-belief in this new definitive guide to mastering confidence, the key to performance in any field.“Studying confidence with Dr. Zinsser helped me win two Super Bowls. I recommend The Confident Mind to competitors... Read more

Natural Born Heroes

How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

The best-selling author of Born to Run now travels to the Mediterranean, where he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes are still alive and well on the island of Crete, and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere. 

After running an ultramarathon through the Copper Canyons of... Read more

The Boys of Winter

The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

By: Wayne Coffey
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century. Their “Miracle on Ice” has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. It is a... Read more

How Bad Do You Want It?

Mastering the Pshchology of Mind over Muscle

By: Matt Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Matt Fitzgerald
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have known this for decades and now science is learning why it's true. In his fascinating new book How Bad Do You Want It?, coach Matt Fitzgerald examines more than a dozen pivotal races to discover the surprising ways elite athletes strengthen their mental... Read more

Running Home

A Memoir

By: Katie Arnold
Narrated by: Katie Arnold
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE

I’m running to forget, and to remember.

For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased... Read more

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

By: Sri Swami Satchidananda
Narrated by: M.A. Jayashree & Indunil Peiris
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Swami Satchidananda's popular translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali now in unabridged audiobook form, with additional features and bonus tracks included in this 9-1/2 hour program. Each sutra chanted in Sanskrit by Dr. M. A. Jayashree, renowned for her flawless pronunciation and classical articulation of the Sanskrit, which... Read more

A Life Impossible

Living with ALS: Finding Peace and Wisdom Within a Fragile Existence

By: Steve Gleason & Jeff Duncan
Narrated by: Daniel Cummings
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS

"Gleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism.” —The New York Times • "Steve Gleason has changed the world." –Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner • "An extraordinary book...A Life Impossible will... Read more

Sacred Cow

The Case for (Better) Meat

By: Diana Rodgers & Robb Wolf
Narrated by: Christine Williams
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

We’re told that if we care about our health—or our planet—eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is bad for us and cattle farming is horrible for the environment. But science says otherwise.Beef is framed as the most environmentally destructive and least healthy of meats. We’re often told that the only solution is to reduce or... Read more

Coach

Lessons on the Game of Life

By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Michael Lewis
Length: 57 minutes

“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line... Read more

Fermentation as Metaphor

Follow Up to the Bestselling "The Art of Fermentation"

By: Sandor Ellix Katz
Narrated by: Sandor Ellix Katz
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Bestselling author Sandor Katz--an "unlikely rock star of the American food scene" (New York Times) with over 500,000 books sold--gets personal about the deeper meaning of fermentation. In 2012, Sandor Ellix Katz published The Art of Fermentation, which quickly became the bible for foodies around the world, a runaway bestseller, and a James... Read more

Surviving Modern Yoga

Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us

By: Matthew Remski
Narrated by: Matthew Remski & Theo Wildcroft, PHD
Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Grounded in investigative research and real survivor stories, Surviving Modern Yoga uncovers the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois—and reckons with the culture, structures, and mythos that enabled it.

Yoga culture sells well-meaning westerners the full package: physical health, good vibes, and spiritual... Read more

Yoga Sutras: A Modern Guide to Discovering Teachings, Principles and Practices of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

By: Avaya Alorveda
Narrated by: Krista Shirley
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Want To Reconnect With Your Roots And Grow Wherever Your Feet Take You? Then Keep Reading To Get The Guide To The Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliThe Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is an ancient book, in which a collection of 196 Sanskrit aphorisms outline the theory and practice of yoga. Yoga - as many will testify - makes the union of body, mind, soul, and... Read more

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming

A Memoir

By: J. M. Thompson
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“What makes Thompson’s tell-all different from your garden variety drug survival book, is two fold. First, his catalyst to get help were the gaping holes of childhood beyond his memory’s grasp, interesting to both those who can and can’t relate. Second, Thompson’s ability to describe the sensations of runner’s high and the synchronicity felt with... 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

“This pasty nerd never thought she’d be hanging on to every word about long distance running! That’s how riveting, joyful, meaningful, and fun this book about racing, community, physiology, prehistory, and, greatest runners in the world, the indigenous Tarahumara, is. A modern classic published 15 years ago, the science here may be dated... 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

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

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 Boys of Riverside

A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

By: Thomas Fuller
Narrated by: Thomas Fuller
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the team, by New York Times reporter and San Francisco Bureau Chief, Thomas Fuller.

"The Boys of Riverside is... Read more

Slow AF Run Club

The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run

By: Martinus Evans
Narrated by: Martinus Evans
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

“Listen, I don’t want an Olympian (superhuman god or medal winner) to tell me how to run, I’d rather learn at the heels of marathoner Martinus Evans aka Instagram’s @ 300poundsandrunning. This guide is a gift to all 'beginner, nontraditional, slow, fat' runners - warm, funny, welcoming, accessible, and easy to follow, with practical advice and... 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

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

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