Parenting & Relationships Audiobooks

The Whole-Brain Child

By: Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Your fifth-grader sulks on the bench instead of playing on the field. Do children conspire to make their parents’ lives endlessly challenging? No—it’s just their developing brain calling the shots!

In this pioneering, practical audiobook, Daniel J.... Read More »

Untangled

By: Lisa Damour
Narrated by: Lisa Damour
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter’s erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural. Untangled explains what’s going on, prepares parents for... Read More »

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

By: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Narrated by: Susan Bennett
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

The ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe) with a new Foreword—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors.

Internationally acclaimed experts on communication between parents and children, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish “are doing for parenting today what Dr.... Read More »

The 5 Love Languages

By: Gary Chapman
Narrated by: Gary Chapman
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

Simple ideas, lasting love.

Between busy schedules and long days, expressing love can fall by the wayside. We forget to compliment, to give gifts “just because,” to linger in an embrace. The things that say “I love you” seem to either not get said or not get through. This is an audio book about saying it — and hearing it — clearly. No gimmicks.... Read More »

The Meaning of Marriage

By: Timothy Keller
Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

“Incredibly rich with wisdom and insight that will leave the reader, whether single or married, feeling uplifted.” —The Washington Times

Based on the acclaimed sermon series by New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller, this book shows everyone—Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married couples, and those about to be engaged—the... Read More »

How to Raise an Adult

By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

"Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellersThe Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well

"For parents who want to foster hearty self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem,... Read More »

No-Drama Discipline

By: Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Narrated by: Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.

“A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—Parents

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior,... Read More »

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

By: John M. Gottman, PhD & Nan Silver
Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

Straightforward in its approach, yet profound in its effect, the principles outlined in this book teach partners new and startling strategies for making marriage work. Gottman has scientifically analyzed the habits of married couples and established a method of correcting the behavior that puts thousands of marriages on the rocks. He helps... Read More »

Like a Mother

By: Angela Garbes
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega & Angela Garbes
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No

What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.

Like most first-time mothers, Angela... Read More »

Wired for Love

By: Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Narrated by: Michael Hinton
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

"What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people's minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it... Read More »

Love and Respect Unabridged

By: Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Narrated by: Emerson Eggerichs
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

A Marriage Book with a Difference!

A Revolutionary Message

“I’ve been married 35 years and have not heard this taught.”

“This is the key that I have been missing.”
“You connected all the dots for me.”
“As a counselor, I have never been so excited about any material.”
“You’re on to something huge here.”

A Simple Message

A wife... Read More »

Toddlers Are A**holes

By: Bunmi Laditan
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 3 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Toddler a**holery is a normal part of human development—not unlike puberty, except this stage involves throwing food on the floor and taking swings at people who pay your way in life. For parents of toddlers, it's a "you better laugh so you don't cry" period.

Bunmi Laditan's hilarious, satirical guide to toddlerhood offers parents instant (and... Read More »

Coming Clean

By: Kimberly Rae Miller
Narrated by: Kimberly Rae Miller
Length: 5 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

Kimberly Rae Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a beautifully tidy apartment in Brooklyn. You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house hid teetering stacks of aging newspaper, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in... Read More »

A Father First

By: Dwyane Wade
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

Dwyane Wade, the eight-time All-Star for the Miami Heat, has miraculously defied the odds throughout his career and his life. In 2006, in just his third season in the NBA, Dwyane was named the Finals' MVP, after leading the Miami Heat to the Championship title, basketball's ultimate prize. Two years later, after possible career-ending injuries,... Read More »

Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 35 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!

In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust... Read More »

The Fact of a Body

By: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrated by: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You

Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help... Read More »

And Now We Have Everything

By: Meaghan O'Connell
Narrated by: Meaghan O'Connell
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the most anticipated books of 2018 -- Esquire, Elle, Nylon, Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, GoodReads, The Millions, BookRiot, Bustle, The Week.
"Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed

A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before... Read More »

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

*A New York Times Bestseller*

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire.

With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets,... Read More »

Books for Living

By: Will Schwalbe
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity.


Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain... Read More »

You Will Not Have My Hate

By: Antoine Leiris
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes
Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate."

On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on... Read More »

My Brilliant Friend

By: Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship.The story begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these... Read More »

Theft by Finding

By: David Sedaris & Gary Carpenter
Narrated by: Author
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot
An NPR Best Book of 2017 An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017 A Goodreads Choice Awards nominee

David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the... Read More »

Modern Romance

By: Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
Narrated by: Aziz Ansari
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices

At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships,... Read More »

Dad Is Fat

By: Jim Gaffigan
Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids.

Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be "that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about." But all that changed when he... Read More »