Self-Improvement audiobooks
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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
She Proclaims
By: Jennifer Palmieri
Narrated by: Jennifer Palmieri
Length: 3 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering and optimistic feminist guide from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Dear Madam President.
In an era marked by a frustrating sense of stagnation for women, Jennifer Palmieri has found a way to move beyond the bounds of
patriarchy. Building on the lessons shared in Dear Madam... Read more
Filthy Beasts
By: Kirkland Hamill
Narrated by: Kirkland Hamill
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this “vivid tragicomedy” (People), a riveting riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family’s deep flaws and his own hidden secrets.
“Wake up, you filthy beasts!” Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings... Read more
The Beauty in Breaking
By: Michele Harper
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A New York Times Notable Book
“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An incredibly moving memoir about what it means to be a doctor.” —Ellen Pompeo
As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition, and more
An... Read more
I Tried to Change So You Don't Have To
By: Loni Love
Narrated by: Loni Love
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring, hilarious memoir about learning to resist the pressures of conformity, love yourself for who you are, embrace your flaws, and unlock your true potential.
Winner of the African American Literary Award for Memoir!
Now cohost of Fox's The Real and SiriusXM's Café Mocha, Loni Love hasn't taken the typical path to becoming America's... Read more
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
By: Jason B. Rosenthal
Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more
View audiobookAt the Center of All Beauty
By: Fenton Johnson
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A profound meditation on accepting and celebrating one's solitude.
Solitude is the inspirational core for many writers, artists, and thinkers. Alone with our thoughts, we can make discoveries that matter not only to us but to others. To be solitary is not only to draw sustenance from being alone, but to know that our ultimate responsibility is... Read more
Scratched
By: Elizabeth Tallent
Narrated by: Caroline Turner Cole
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”—Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend and Winner of the National Book Award for FictionIn a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form,... Read more
View audiobookStrung Out
By: Erin Khar
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.”
— New York Times Book Review
“This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read, STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like.”
—Stephanie Land, New York... Read more
You're Not Listening
By: Kate Murphy
Narrated by: Kate Murphy
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrating her own work, Murphy is certainly worthy of the listener's attention. She offers a sincere, passionate voice that is capable of delivering some hard truths about the current state of things while also showing the way toward a truly connected society." — AudioFile Magazine
**This program is read by the author**
When was the last time you... Read more
The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
Narrated by: Simon Sinek
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world.
How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games... Read more
Toil & Trouble
By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Anne Bobby, Augusten Burroughs, Gabra Zackman &...
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
"...on top of everything else, the audiobook features a multi-textural and atmospheric full-cast performance...This is a wild, spookily engaging take on a memoir from an iconic writer." -- Paste
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky.
"Here’s a... Read more
Boss Up!
By: Lindsay Teague Moreno
Narrated by: Lindsay Teague Moreno & Jon Acuff
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The audiobook includes an exclusive, expanded chapter 8 with more insight into Linsday’s Unsales Tactic. Boss Up! will help you put your business on the map and the ideas you’ve previously only dreamed about into the marketplace. Learn to overcome your fears and guilt to find a fulfillment that changes you and your family for the better—... Read more
View audiobookNext Level Basic
By: Stassi Schroeder
Narrated by: Stassi Schroeder
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and “refreshing to read” (The Cut) guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules.
Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch... Read more
I Miss You When I Blink
By: Mary Laura Philpott
Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of Esquire’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
One of NPR’s Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Year’s Most Anticipated Books: BuzzFeed, Bustle, HelloGiggles, Literary Hub, She Reads
“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean... Read more
What If This Were Enough?
By: Heather Havrilesky
Narrated by: Heather Havrilesky
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
*A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask Polly," an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with... Read more
The Recovering
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction... Read more
The Year of Less
By: Cait Flanders
Narrated by: Cait Flanders
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy—only keeping... Read more
View audiobookThe Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness
By: Paula Poundstone
Narrated by: Paula Poundstone
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Is there a secret to happiness? Beloved comedian Paula Poundstone conducts a series of "thoroughly scientific" experiments to find out, offering herself up as a guinea pig and recording her data for the benefit of all humankind. Armed with her unique brand of self-deprecating wit and the scientific method, in each chapter Paula tries out a... Read more
View audiobookTextbook 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