Self-Improvement audiobooks

Negotiation Genius

By: Deepak Malhotra & Max Bazerman

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.

Whether you’ve “seen it all” or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of... Read more

How to Have a Good Day

By: Caroline Webb

Narrated by: Caroline Webb

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.
 
Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the... Read more

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy

By: Sam Maggs

Narrated by: Holly Conrad & Jessica Almasy

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s... Read more

The Light Between Us

By: Laura Lynne Jackson

Narrated by: Laura Lynne Jackson

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift—and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now.

Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an... Read more

The Progress Paradox

By: Gregg Easterbrook

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Progress Paradox, Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century--and yet today, most men and women feel less happy than in previous generations. Why this is so and what we should do about it... Read more

7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life

By: Michelle Singletary

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The best financial planner Michelle Singletary ever knew was Big Mama, her grandmother. Big Mama raised Michelle and her four brothers and sisters on a salary that never reached more than $13,000 a year. Yet at her death, Big Mama owned her own home, had paid off a car loan, and had a beautiful collection of Sunday-go-to-meeting church hats and... Read more

The Sexy Years

By: Suzanne Somers

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina as they age, too (and they have to live with women going through menopause). After years of... Read more

Why Courage Matters

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this inspiring meditation on courage, Senator John McCain shares his most cherished stories of ordinary individuals who have risked everything to defend the people and principles they hold most dear.

“We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear but the capacity for action... Read more

Positive Energy

By: Judith Orloff, M.D.

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you forever rushing around, fending off chronic exhaustion? Are you desperately overcommitted, afraid to say no? Do you have fang marks from being bled dry by energy vampires? Does the onslaught of violence in the news leave you drained? If so, you're the victim of a hidden energy crisis. To resolve it you need more than traditional... Read more

Winning Every Time

By: Lis Wiehl

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you’re hoping to obtain a raise from your boss, convince an insurance claim representative to reimburse your medical treatment, or persuade your spouse into spending less time watching TV and more time with you, Winning Every Time will be your guide for truly practical and helpful advice about how to make that case effectively—and win it... Read more

Shackleton's Way

By: Margot Morrell & Stephanie Capparell

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1914 to 1916, Ernest Shackleton and his men survived the wreck of their ship Endurance, crushed in the Antarctic ice, stranded twelve hundred miles from civilization with no means of communication and no hope for rescue. When the ice began to break up, Shackleton set out to save them all on his heroic eight-hundred-mile-trip across the... Read more

The Book of Secrets

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Daniel Passer

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Deepak Chopra states that within each of us is a book of mysteries waiting to be opened - and when it is, the secrets of the universe will be revealed to us. The secret of love is to be found nowhere but within us, along with the secrets of healing, compassion and faith, and the most elusive secret of all: who we truly are.... Read more

Confidence

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.

Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again?

There’s a fundamental principle at work—the... Read more

The Sweet Potato Queens' Field Guide to Men

By: Jill Conner Browne

Narrated by: Jill Conner Browne

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sweet Potato Queens like men. They like them so much that they have devoted an absolutely inordinate amount of time to the pursuit of men, marriage, and great sex. And then, when that doesn t work out, they've devoted an inordinate amount of time to divorce, gittin another one and having great sex with him instead. THE SWEET POTATO... Read more

Shark Trouble

By: Peter Benchley

Narrated by: Peter Benchley

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on more than three decades of experience writing about sharks and other marine animals, the bestselling author of Jaws combines high adventure with practical information in a book that is at once a thriller and a valuable guide to being safe in, on, under, and around the sea.

“Shark attacks on human beings generate a tremendous... Read more

Poe's Heart and the Mountain Climber

By: Richard Restak, M.D.

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you bombarded by a constant media feed of global terrorism, war, and rising unemployment rates—and by a mind-numbing array of ads that urge you to “ask your doctor” about the newest anti-anxiety medications? If it sometimes feels as if this country is having a collective anxiety attack, then you won’t be surprised to learn that more than 19... Read more

Delivered From Distraction

By: Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. & John J. Ratey, M.D.

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now a second revolution is under way in the approach to ADD, and the news is great. Drug therapies, our understanding of the role of diet and... Read more

A Brother's Journey

By: Richard B. Pelzer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Pelzer's bestselling memoir, A Child Called It, introduced the world to the Pelzer family and the shocking abuse that took place in their home. Dave was fortunately rescued from the Pelzer household by the time he was twelve, but at this point, his brother Richard became the target of their mother's alcohol-fueled rage. Subject to... Read more

Start Late, Finish Rich

By: David Bach

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Are you wondering if it is too late for you to be rich? David Bach has a plan to help you live and finish rich—no matter where you start
 
As a number-one bestseller in its hardcover edition, Start Late, Finish Rich has helped hundreds of thousands of people of all ages take control  of their financial future. Now... Read more

Peace Is the Way

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Deepak Chopra’s passionate new book, Peace Is the Way, was inspired by a saying from Mahatma Gandhi: “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” In a world where every path to peace has proved futile, the one strategy that hasn’t been tried is the way of peace itself. “We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty,” Chopra tells us, “but the... Read more

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D., David Simon, M.D. & Vicky ...

Narrated by: Shishir Kurup

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A much-needed antidote to our modern, assembly-line approach to childbirth, this new book is designed as a guide for all who wish to participate in the wondrous process of bringing new life into the world. Its ideas derive from two sources: the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, with its emphasis on body, mind, and spirit, and the latest Western... Read more

I Need Your Love - Is That True?

By: Byron Katie

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need Your Love—Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything... Read more

The Likeability Factor

By: Tim Sanders

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family?

Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams?

Do you want to become a more popular person?

This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.

After all, life is a series of popularity... Read more

The Pampered Chef

By: Doris Christopher

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pampered Chef is Doris Christopher’s extraordinary account of how she turned an innovative concept and $3,000 investment into a business with annual sales approaching the billion-dollar mark. It is packed with real-life lessons and inspiring insights for small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.

In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former... Read more