Self-Improvement audiobooks

Looking at Mindfulness

By: Christopher André

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop doing, stop moving, stop twisting and turning.

These are the first steps toward inner calm and increased mental clarity, says psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André, who in this book guides us through the art of mindfulness, beginning with art itself. Looking at Mindfulness collects classic and esoteric paintings,... Read more

The Secrets of Power Negotiating for Your Dream Car

By: Roger Dawson

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Americans probably do more negotiating on car lots than anywhere else. However, most of us are at a disadvantage, since while we may buy an automobile every two or three years at most, the dealer gets to negotiate the price of automobiles day in and day out. They have a hundred—a thousand times—the experience that the typical car buyer does in... Read more

The Tao of Happiness

By: Derek Lin

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have not encountered Chuang Tzu before, prepare yourself for a treat. He was the sage who stood apart from all others in Chinese history. He was a unique presence, a great mind like no one before or since. Chuang Tzu quickly distinguished himself and became well known for his deep understanding and sense of humor. His mastery was such... Read more

The Cook Up

By: D. Watkins

Narrated by: D. Watkins

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, but told by the man who lived it, The Cook Up is a riveting look inside the Baltimore drug trade portrayed in The Wire and an incredible story of redemption.

The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs,... Read more

Find 'Em & Keep 'Em

By: Michael Santonato

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Find ‘Em & Keep ‘Em is not about dating.

You’ve got enough books and blogs for that. Instead, it is about getting to know yourself, what you want, and what you have to offer within a relationship. By mastering who you are, and what is at play in the dynamics of attraction and magnetism, you will be able to understand why you haven’t had those... Read more

It Works

By: Roy Herbert Jarrett

Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT YOU CAN HAVE IT . . .

With this statement the author known by the initials RHJ put a dramatic challenge to readers in 1926. His claim was so sensational, so audacious, so begging of argument that one immediately wants to dismiss it. But for one thing: IT WORKS. RHJ's little pamphlet, It Works, has sold more than 1.5... Read more

The New Winner's Edge

By: Denis Waitley

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless masterpiece has been expanded by the author offering time-tested principles for achieving authentic, lasting success, combined with current research in high performance behavior and supported by anecdotal evidence from the lives of "winners" in many different areas of society. It's for you if you have never really succeeded, if you... Read more

Media Moms & Digital Dads

By: Yalda T. Uhls

Narrated by: Cyndee Maxwell

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? Are you curious about what research says about how media and technology are impacting childhood? Supported by academic research focused on technology, Media Moms & Digital Dads breaks down complex... Read more

The Introvert Entrepreneur

By: Beth L. Buelow

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Think you have to be loud and brash to be successful in business? Think again. The strengths and traits of the typical introvert lend themselves well to entrepreneurship, as well as “intrapreneurship” and a range of business roles. In The Introvert Entrepreneur, professional coach Beth Buelow shows listeners how to harness their natural gifts... Read more

The Giving Way to Happiness

By: Jenny Santi

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

We often focus on how our gifts can help those in need. But the act of giving actually improves our own lives as well. In The Giving Way to Happiness, Jenny Santi overturns conventional thinking about what it takes to be happy by revealing how giving to others—whether in the form of money, expertise, time, or love—has helped people from all... Read more

You Were Born Rich

By: Bob Proctor

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Zig Ziglar may be the master motivator, Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup For the Soul, the master storyteller; Anthony Robbins may be the guru of personal development, but Bob Proctor is the master thinker. When it comes to systematizing life, no oneelse can touch him. He is simply the best. Bob Proctor collects thoughts like Imelda Marcos... Read more

Your Self-Sabotage Survival Guide

By: Karen Berg

Narrated by: Karen Saltus

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you feel like everyone around you is getting ahead while you're stuck in the same old rut?

And do you blame everyone and everything for your situation--except yourself?

Many of us walk around engaging in negative behaviors and mindsets, and don't even realize we're doing it. Every day, people work harder and harder to get--nowhere.

It's time to... Read more

Weekend Millionaire Mindset

By: Roger Dawson & Mike Summey

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Learn the secrets to wealth from "The Weekend Millionaire"

In their runaway bestseller The Weekend Millionaire's Secrets to Investing in Real Estate, Mike Summey and Roger Dawson gave readers a blueprint for making a killing in real estate in their spare time. Now Summey and Dawson take listeners inside the minds and hearts of super successful... Read more

Practical Steps to Think and Grow Rich - The Secret Revealed

By: Napoleon Hill

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Success seems to come easy for some people. They live in luxurious homes, send their children to the best schools, drive fancy cars, travel around the world, and still have resources available to help their loved ones and contribute to the communities in which they live. They are no brighter or better educated than you. They do not work any... Read more

A Numerate Life

By: John Allen Paulos

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the... Read more

Thin From Within

By: Joseph J. Luciani

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tired of endless dieting? Not getting results that last? It’s time to change your relationship to food and change the way you look—for life!

Thin from Within explores the emotional triggers and ingrained behaviors driving overindulgence. It offers you powerful cognitive tools that will retrain your brain, along with simple self-coaching... Read more

The Last Safe Investment

By: Michael Ellsberg & Bryan Franklin

Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The case for investing in your own career before anything else

Michael Ellsberg and Bryan Franklin think you’ve been fed a lie: that if you save for decades and invest in 401(k)s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily over decades, allowing twenty to thirty years of secure, peaceful retirement.

This might have been true at some... Read more

The Courage to Create

By: Rollo May

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Extraordinary, wise, and hopeful... nearly poetic meditations."—Boston Globe
What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around? In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find... Read more

The Stone Reader

By: Peter Catapano & Simon Critchley

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin & Sean Pratt

Length: 26 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stone Reader provides an unparalleled overview of contemporary philosophy.

Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly... Read more

Finding Flow

By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Sean Pratt

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Part psychological study, part self-help book, Finding Flow is a prescriptive guide that helps us reclaim ownership of our lives. Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce... Read more

Obfuscation

By: Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum

Narrated by: Dana Hickox

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance -- the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and... Read more

Deviate

By: Beau Lotto

Narrated by: Beau Lotto

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate.

Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much less how. By revealing the startling truths about the... Read more

JumpStart Your Priorities

By: John C. Maxwell

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this 90-day growth guide, #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell helps you prioritize your life to make each day count toward fulfilling your goals.

Based on his Businessweek bestseller Today Matters, John Maxwell offers his roadmap for success by helping you seize the present. The way you prioritize and spend your time each day... Read more

Elbow Room

By: Daniel C. Dennett

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth... Read more