Self-Improvement audiobooks

Bevelations

By: Bevy Smith

Narrated by: Bevy Smith

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the host of the fabulous and popular show Bevelations on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel, Bevy Smith’s irreverent and inspiring memoir about learning to live a big, authentic, and unapologetic life—and how you can, too.

Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising... Read more

The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

By: Austin Kleon

Narrated by: Austin Kleon

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An audio compilation ofSteal Like an Artist, Show Your Workand Keep Going.  Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself—for life.  Includes full text from:Steal Like an Artist: The New York... Read more

If I Knew Then

By: Jann Arden

Narrated by: Jann Arden

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her... Read more

Keep Moving

By: Maggie Smith

Narrated by: Maggie Smith

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.” —The Boston Globe
... Read more

A Good Apology

By: Molly Howes

Narrated by: Molly Howes & Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Through its four essential steps, A GOOD APOLOGY gives groundbreaking advice on how best to make an effective apology toward rebuilding any relationship, for readers of The Body Keeps the Score.

We've all done something wrong or made a mistake or insulted someone -- even if by accident. We've all been hurt and wanted the other person to help us... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

By: Sue Stuart-Smith

Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener presents “a truly uplifting book on the power of gardening—and how it can change people’s lives” (Stylist, UK).

The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the “real” life that lies outside. When we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life... Read more

How to Be Fine

By: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Narrated by: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and... Read more

24/6

By: Tiffany Shlain

Narrated by: Tiffany Shlain

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Marshall McLuhan Outstanding Book Award
Entrepreneur’s 12 Productivity and Time-Management Books to Read

“I’m won over to a day with people, not screens….I tried Shlain’s idea. I highly recommend it.” —The New York Times
“Tiffany Shlain is a modern-day prophet, brilliant and incredibly funny in equal measure...24/6 is timeless and... Read more

The Art of Happy Moving

By: Ali Wenzke

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive, upbeat guide to help you survive the moving process from start to finish, filled with fresh strategies and checklists for timing and supplies, choosing which items to toss and which to keep, determining the best place to live, saying farewell and looking forward to hello.Moving is a major life change—time consuming, expensive,... Read more

Radical Kindness

By: Angela Santomero

Narrated by: Angela Santomero & Michael David Axtell

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved creator of Blues Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and protégé of Fred Rogers explores the importance of kindness and how it can change your life in this essential guide and tie-in to the PBS special, “The Power of Radical Kindness.”Angela C. Santomero, the creator, executive producer, and head writer of many of today’s most... Read more

Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?

Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024

Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to... Read more

Almost Everything

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of... Read more

How to Invent Everything

By: Ryan North

Narrated by: Ryan North

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2018

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do if a time machine hurled you... 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 Dusk, Night, Dawn, 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 Universe Has Your Back

By: Gabrielle Bernstein

Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller! In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the audio guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness,... 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 ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.

Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all... Read more

Defy

By: Dr. Sunita Sah

Narrated by: Dr. Sunita Sah

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is it so hard to speak up, even when we know something’s wrong?

This is the definitive book on defiance, a clear-eyed dissection of the forces that silence us, featuring groundbreaking research and legendary stories alongside everyday examples and strategies for how to unleash the power of a “True No.”

Many of us comply much more than we... Read more

The Don

By: RJ Roger

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses is the fascinating culmination of author RJ Roger’s extensive research into the Italian-American Cosa Nostra. Analyzing more than 100 years of underworld history, Roger has distilled the behavior of the bosses of the five New York Mafia families—the most powerful in the United States—into 36 rules. Unwritten until... Read more

Still Life at Eighty

By: Abigail Thomas

Narrated by: Abigail Thomas

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit.

“The Emily Dickinson of memoirists” (Stephen King) Abigail Thomas shares her thoughts on aging in this irresistibly wry memoir-in-vignettes—offering richly insightful... Read more

How to Build a Fashion Icon

By: Law Roach

Narrated by: Law Roach

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A GROUNDBREAKING GUIDE TO BECOMING YOUR ULTIMATE, CONFIDENT SELF, BY AWARD-WINNING CELEBRITY STYLIST AND THE WORLD'S ONLY IMAGE ARCHITECT, LAW ROACHLaw Roach is the mastermind behind looks that have broken the Internet time and again—from Zendaya at the Met Gala to Anya Taylor-Joy at the Golden Globes; from Lewis Hamilton’s iconic streetwear to... Read more

You Can't Have It All

By: Stassi Schroeder

Narrated by: Stassi Schroeder

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The two-time New York Times bestselling author, OG Vanderpump Rules star, and host of the successful chart-topping podcast Stassi is back and better than ever with a candid guide to rethinking the girlboss life, taking the pressure off, and lessons she’s learned since becoming a mom of two.

Before she wrote Off... Read more

All That Happiness Is

By: Adam Gopnik

Narrated by: Adam Gopnik

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, a concise, elegant volume presenting a radical alternative to our culture of relentless striving.



Our society is obsessed with achievement. Young people are pushed toward the next test or the "best" grammar school, high school, or college they can get into. Adults push themselves toward the... Read more

Just Add Water

By: Katie Ledecky

Narrated by: Katie Ledecky

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and the most decorated US female Olympian in history: Katie Ledecky.

Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a four-time Olympian, a nine-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion, eight-time NCAA... Read more

Unlearning Silence

By: Elaine Lin Hering

Narrated by: Elaine Lin Hering

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Unlearning Silence is the book I wish I had when I started my career….This book is going to change the workplace for the better."—Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist & best-selling author of Real Self-Care

“A necessary read…Unlearning Silence offers an opportunity and tools to change things within and around us – for... Read more