Religion audiobooks

The Path of Paganism

By: John Beckett

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Paganism is a way of seeing the world and your place in it. It means challenging the assumptions of mainstream society and strengthening your relationships with the gods, the universe, your community, and your self. The Path of Paganism provides practical advice and support for honoring your values and living an authentic Pagan life in... Read more

The Buddhist on Death Row

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.

Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... Read more

Mercy House

By: Alena Dillon

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey, Catherine Ho, Scarlette Hayes, Ebo...

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A life-altering debut featuring fierce, funny, and irreverent women who battle the most powerful institution in the world. This is the book we’ve all been waiting for.”—Amy SchumerShe would stop at nothing to protect the women under her care.Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a... Read more

Why Religion?

By: Elaine Pagels

Narrated by: Lynde Houck

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these questions.These questions took on a new... Read more

The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

Narrated by: Ruth Wariner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narration by Wariner compliments the candid nature of her story...A captivating and emotional story delivered in a straightforward way without an ounce of self-pity." — Library Journal

A riveting, deeply-affecting audiobook memoir of one girl's coming-of-age experiences in a polygamist cult.

Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father’s... Read more

Black Girls Breathing

By: Jasmine Marie

Narrated by: Jasmine Marie

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Harness the power of breathwork with this compassionate, healing guide for Black women.
 
As a Black woman, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had—and continue to have—on her community. Those experiences, along with her own journey through chronic stress, are why she created black girls... Read more

Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

Narrated by: J. Dana Trent

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more

Really Very Crunchy

By: Emily Morrow

Narrated by: Emily Morrow

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author and her husband, Jason Morrow.Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star Really Very Crunchy. Are you tired of being bombarded by toxins at every turn? Do you want a more natural, "crunchy" approach to the world (with or without the beige aesthetic)? Well, grab your... Read more

Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!

By: Kate Bowler

Narrated by: Kate Bowler

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good—from the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved)

Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has... Read more

Becoming Free Indeed

By: Jinger Vuolo

Narrated by: Jinger Vuolo

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller Read by the author.Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, recounts how she began to question the unhealthy ideology of her youth and learned to embrace true freedom in Christ.When Jinger Duggar Vuolo was growing up, she was convinced that obeying the... Read more

Cults

By: Max Cutler

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walke...

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.

Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our... Read more

Manhattan Cult Story

By: Spencer Schneider

Narrated by: Austin Rising

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

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 Redhead of Auschwitz

By: Nechama Birnbaum

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz.Upon arrival, Rosie’s head is shaved... Read more

The Eternal Tao Te Ching

By: Benjamin Hoff

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, comes The Eternal Tao Te Ching, a new translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching.



The Eternal Tao Te Ching is the first translation to employ the meanings of the pre-writing brush characters in use 2,400 years... Read more

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep

By: Andre Henry

Narrated by: Andre Henry

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Slonim Woods 9

By: Daniel Barban Levin

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by its young victims: a group of college roommates
 
“Intense . . . [a tale] of hard-won survival, and creating a life after the unimaginable.”—Salon

The inspiration for the Hulu docuseries Stolen Youth, directed by Zach Heinzerling and co-produced by... Read more

Into the Forest

By: Rebecca Frankel

Narrated by: Natalie Pela

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus chapter of the author's preliminary research interviews with the sisters featured in the book.

"An uplifting tale, suffused with a karmic righteousness that is, at times, exhilarating." —Wall Street Journal

Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a... Read more

Don't Call it a Cult

By: Sarah Berman

Narrated by: Ewa Wolniczek

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen in Season Two of the HBO docuseries THE VOW

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult.

Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing.... Read more

What Comes After

By: JoAnne Tompkins

Narrated by: Mark Deakins, Kristen DiMercurio & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Runner Up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Finalist for the Washington State Book Award

Edgar Prize Finalist for Best Debut Novel by an American Author

Shortlisted for the Prix Libre Nous, Best Foreign Book in French Translation

New York Times, Group Text Pick for April 2021

New York Times Editor's Choice Pick

Named a top beach read of summer by... Read more

Shaking the Gates of Hell

By: John Archibald

Narrated by: Cameron Scoggins

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On growing up in the American South of the 1960s—an all-American white boy—son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News.

"My dad was a Methodist preacher and his... Read more

Make Me Rain

By: Nikki Giovanni

Narrated by: Nikki Giovanni

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary listening experience! Hear Nikki Giovanni read from her newest collection of poems!One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.For more than fifty years, Nikki Giovanni’s... Read more

The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Ethan Hawke

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature

“In [On the Road] Kerouac’s heroes were sensation seekers; now they are seekers after truth . . . the novel often attains a beautiful dignity.”—Chicago Tribune

First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The... Read more

The Sacrament

By: Olaf Olafsson

Narrated by: Jane Copland

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter’s day, a young student at the... Read more

Finding Chika

By: Mitch Albom

Narrated by: Mitch Albom

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Performed by Mitch Albom with Chika’s voice featured throughout. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake... Read more