Family & Relationships audiobooks

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By: Christie Tate

Narrated by: Christie Tate

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—and finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had... Read more

Relinquished

By: Gretchen Sisson

Narrated by: Angel Pean, Emily Norman, Katie Koster, Kimberl...

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST, NONFICTION, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS, 2024

FINALIST, 2024 GODDARD RIVERSIDE STEPHAN RUSSO BOOK PRIZE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

"Essential reading." —NPR “Books We Love”

“Dares to imagine a different world where Americans treat adoption like the justice issue it is.” ―Washington Post

“Impressively reported…[Sisson] uses her deep well... Read more

The Turnaway Study

By: Diana Greene Foster

Narrated by: Samantha Desz & Full Cast

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria Steinem

The “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and... Read more

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

Narrated by: Molly Roden Winter

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother as she explores sex and relationships outside her marriage

"This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat"—The Washington Post

"Breathtakingly candid"—Alexandra Alter, The New York Times

Molly Roden Winter... Read more

Life Is in the Transitions

By: Bruce Feiler

Narrated by: Bruce Feiler

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! 

A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill

Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the... Read more

A Better Share

By: Morgan Cutlip

Narrated by: Dr. Morgan Cutlip

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Transform your marriage and enjoy your spouse again when you share the mental load and end the cycle of stress and resentment.Relationship expert Dr. Morgan Cutlip helps couples view the mental load--the endless and mostly invisible work of managing a household and family--as a shared enemy to conquer versus a problem they... Read more

Dirtbag Queen

By: Andy Corren

Narrated by: Andy Corren

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "utterly unhinged, hilarious" memoir, a son pays tribute to his larger than life 'zaftig good time gal' mother and his unusual childhood (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author).

“Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she... Read more

I Feel Bad About My Neck

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Nora Ephron

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read more

Platonic

By: Marisa G. Franco, PhD

Narrated by: Marisa G. Franco, PhD

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times bestseller

Is understanding the science of attachment the key to building lasting friendships and finding “your people” in an ever-more-fragmented world?

How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos, especially in a society that often prizes romantic love at the expense of other... Read more

Hollywood Park

By: Mikel Jollett

Narrated by: Mikel Jollett

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park

Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his... Read more

It's Not You

By: Ramani Durvasula PhD

Narrated by: Ramani Durvasula PhD & Maria Shriver

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From clinical psychologist and expert in narcissistic relationships Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a guide to protecting and healing yourself from the daily harms of narcissism

AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER

It’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in... Read more

Big Friendship

By: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Narrated by: Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.

Now two friends, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, tell the story of their... Read more

Complex PTSD

By: Pete Walker

Narrated by: Paul Brion

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes—in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous.



If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be... Read more

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

By: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure

In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens... Read more

The Transgender Child: Revised & Updated Edition

By: Stephanie A. Brill & Rachel Pepper

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since its initial publication in 2008, The Transgender Child has been lauded as the most trusted source of information for families wanting to understand and affirm their transgender, gender-expansive, or nonbinary child. Utilized around the world and translated into multiple languages, The Transgender Child has won accolades from medical... Read more

Us

By: Terrence Real

Narrated by: Terrence Real & Bruce Springsteen

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and bestselling author of The New Rules of Marriage
 
“This book is a road map for all of us who seek true intimacy.”—GWYNETH PALTROW, founder and CEO of goop

Not much is harder than figuring out how to love... Read more

Bringing Up Bébé

By: Pamela Druckerman

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children.

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special.

Yet, the French... Read more

Dear Girls

By: Ali Wong

Narrated by: Ali Wong & Justin Hakuta

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Heartfelt and hilarious essays from the Emmy and Golden Globe Award–winning actress, star of the Netflix original series Beef, and two-time member of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year list
 
“A collection of letters to her baby girls that are barn-burning reflections on being a working mom, marriage, sex,... Read more

Fat Talk

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

Narrated by: Virginia Sole-Smith

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

In this illuminating narrative on the daily onslaught of body shame that kids face from peers, school, diet culture, and parents themselves, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith offers a compelling, reported look at how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

By the time they reach... Read more

Matrescence

By: Lucy Jones

Narrated by: Lucy Jones

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR


'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer
'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this stuff!'' Joanna Pocock, Spectator

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body

During pregnancy, childbirth, and... Read more

Fight Right

By: Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD & John Gottman, PhD

Narrated by: Roy Worley & Kiiri Sandy

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LEARN THE 5 SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL COUPLES

Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and... Read more

The Office BFFs

By: Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey

Narrated by: Jenna Fischer & Angela Kinsey

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey with exclusive bonus material contributed by Rainn Wilson, Creed Bratton, Oscar Nunez, Brian Baumgartner, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, Ellie Kemper, Kate Flannery and Jennifer Garner.An intimate, behind-the-scenes celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey’s friendship, and an... Read more

Discovering the Inner Mother

By: Bethany Webster

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sure to become a classic on female empowerment, a groundbreaking exploration of the personal, cultural, and global implications of intergenerational trauma created by patriarchy, how it is passed down from mothers to daughters, and how we can break this destructive cycle.
Why do women keep themselves small and quiet? Why do they hold back... Read more

Now It All Makes Sense - How An ADHD Diagnosis Changed My Life

By: Alex Partridge

Narrated by: Alex Partridge

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'The most well-written and validating book on ADHD that I have ever read' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Wow! What an incredible insight into the life of ADHD!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Insightful and compassionate. This will help a lot of people' Matt Haig

'One of the most complete and moving accounts I've ever read... On... Read more