Self-Improvement Audiobooks

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

By: Mark Manson
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Over 2 million copies sold

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k... Read More »

The Book of Joy

By: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams & Various
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.

The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The... Read More »

Braving the Wilderness

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection

HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

“True belonging doesn’t require us... Read More »

Rising Strong

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with... Read More »

This Naked Mind

By: Annie Grace
Narrated by: Annie Grace
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

This Naked Mind has ignited a movement across the country, helping thousands of people forever change their relationship with alcohol.

Many people question whether drinking has become too big a part of their lives, and worry that it may even be affecting their health. But, they resist change because they fear losing the pleasure and... Read More »

You Are a Badass

By: Jen Sincero
Narrated by: Jen Sincero
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up twenty-seven bite-sized chapters full of... Read More »

10% Happier

By: Dan Harris
Narrated by: Dan Harris
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong... Read More »

Quiet

By: Susan Cain
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions... Read More »

The Power of Habit

By: Charles Duhigg
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times

In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits... Read More »

How To Win Friends And Influence People

By: Dale Carnegie
Narrated by: Andrew Macmillan & Andrew Macmillian
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!

Simon & Schuster Audio is proud to present one of the best-selling books of all time, Dale Carnegie's perennial classic How to Win Friends and Influence People -- presented here in... Read More »

The Power of Now

By: Author
Narrated by: Eckhart Tolle & Eckhart Tolle
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

Open yourself to the transforming experience of The Power of Now, the acclaimed bestseller by revolutionary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, now in an audio program read by the author. To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart... Read More »

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated

By: Timothy Ferriss
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

Forget the old deferred life plan that has you working hard through the best of years of your life only to retire at the end. There is no need to wait, and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and... Read More »

The Energy Bus

By: Jon Gordon
Narrated by: Jon Gordon
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

“It’s Monday morning and George walks out the front door to his car and a flat tire. But this is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big new product launch coming up in 2 weeks for the NRG-2000 he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to... Read More »

Present Over Perfect

By: Shauna Niequist & Brene Brown
Narrated by: Shauna Niequist
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No

OVER 500,000 COPIES SOLD!

In these pages, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist invites you to consider the landscape of your own life, and what it might look like to leave behind the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess and the ordinariness of life.

As she puts... Read More »

Attached

By: Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking audio book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Attachment theory forms the basis for many bestselling... Read More »

Soulful Simplicity

By: Courtney Carver
Narrated by: Courtney Carver
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

Courtney Carver shows us the power of simplicity to improve our health, build more meaningful relationships, and relieve stress in our professional and personal lives.We are often on a quest for more, giving in to pressure every day to work more, own more, and do more. For Courtney Carver, this constant striving had to come to a stop when she... Read More »

The Recovering

By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An astounding triumph . . . Profound . . . Achingly wise . . . A recovery memoir like no other." --Entertainment Weekly (A)
"Riveting . . . Beautifully told." --Boston Globe
"An honest and important book . . . Vivid writing and required reading." --Stephen King
"Perceptive and generous-hearted . . .... Read More »

Dopesick

By: Beth Macy
Narrated by: Beth Macy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it
In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us... Read More »

Hallelujah Anyway

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it.

"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give... Read More »

The Path

By: Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh
Narrated by: Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

For the first time an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how these ancient ideas can guide you on the path to a good life today.

The lessons taught by ancient Chinese philosophers surprisingly still apply, and they challenge our fundamental assumptions about how to lead a... Read More »

Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Narrated by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal & John Green
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human.

Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear... Read More »

Silence

By: Erling Kagge & Becky L. Crook
Narrated by: Atli Gunnarsson
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

What is silence?

Where can it be found?

Why is it now more important than ever?

In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and... Read More »

The Science of Sleep

By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No

The Science of Sleep, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to sleep well—in his signature engaging style. Adapted from Medina's Brain Rules for Aging Well:10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp, in this chapter you'll learn how the sleep cycle is born of a constant tension... Read More »

Mindset

By: Carol Dweck
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

Mindset is one of those rare audio books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way. A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental... Read More »