Self-Improvement audiobooks

Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?

By: Gina Pera

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The science has been clear since 1994, when Adult ADHD was declared a medical diagnosis. Still, the public harbors misconceptions. That means millions suffer needlessly. Moreover, that includes millions of couples who can't understand why their marriages or intimate relationships are so hard—sometimes despite many attempts at couple... Read more

Whole Again

By: Jackson MacKenzie

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Erin Spencer

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From a leading voice on recovering from toxic relationships, a deeply insightful guide to getting back to your "old self" again--in order to truly heal and move on.

Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of readers in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and... Read more

Rework

By: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. 

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need... Read more

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

By: Lundy Bancroft & JAC Patrissi

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this supportive and straightforward guide, Lundy Bancroft, the author of Why Does He Do That?, and communication specialist JAC Patrissi offer a way for women to practically take stock of their relationships and move forward, with or without their partners. Women involved in chronically frustrating or unfulfilling relationships will learn... Read more

How to Be Old

By: Lyn Slater

Narrated by: Lyn Slater

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age.

When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon,... Read more

Hot and Bothered

By: Jancee Dunn

Narrated by: Jancee Dunn

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informative, entertaining and desperately needed book.” —Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass

When Jancee Dunn hit her mid-forties, she was bombarded by seemingly random symptoms: rampant insomnia, spring-loaded nerves, weirdly dry mouth, and Rio... Read more

Willpower

By: Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Narrated by: John Tierney & Denis O'Hare

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it.

"Deep and provocative analysis of people's battle with temptation and masterful insights into understanding willpower: why we have it, why we don't,... Read more

Standing at the Edge

By: Joan Halifax

Narrated by: Joan Halifax

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive... Read more

Finding Meaning

By: David Kessler

Narrated by: David Kessler

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking and “poignant” (Los Angeles Times) book, David Kessler—praised for his work by Maria Shriver, Marianne Williamson, and Mother Teresa—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning.

In 1969, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first identified the stages of dying in her transformative book On Death and Dying.... Read more

Building

By: Mark Ellison

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces.

For forty years, Mark Ellison has worked in the most beautiful homes you’ve never seen, specializing in rarefied, lavish, and challenging... Read more

Returning Home to Our Bodies

By: Abigail Rose Clarke

Narrated by: Abigail Rose Clarke

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer

A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.

Pushing back against a... Read more

Freedom from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

By: Jonathan Grayson

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly six million Americans suffer from the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which can manifest itself in many ways: paralyzing fear of contamination; unmanageable “checking” rituals; excessive concern with order, symmetry, and counting; and others.
 
Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder provides Dr. Jonathan Grayson’s... Read more

Radical Tarot

By: Charlie Claire Burgess

Narrated by: Charlie Claire Burgess

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Radical Tarot meets the tarot in a space of evolution, deconstruction, and creation, using the historical and common meanings of the cards as a launchpad for digging into limiting beliefs and societal conditioning and unlocking the personal truths beneath. The Fool's Journey is re-envisioned as a journey to non-binary thinking, the gender... Read more

The Wisdom of Anxiety

By: Sheryl Paul

Narrated by: Leslie Howard

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Work anxiety. Relationship anxiety. Social anxiety. World anxiety. Money anxiety. Health anxiety.



How does reading those words make you feel?



All too often, when we experience the things that give us anxiety, our first instinct is to try to run away or numb out from feeling them. But what if the unpleasant feelings you want to turn away from are... Read more

Sorry Not Sorry

By: Naya Rivera

Narrated by: Naya Rivera

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Navigating through youth and young adulthood isn't easy, and in Sorry Not Sorry, Naya Rivera shows us that we're not alone in the highs, lows, and in-betweens. Whether it's with love and dating, career and ambition, friends, or gossip, Naya inspires us to follow our own destiny and step over—or plod through—all the crap along the way. After her... Read more

The Fred Factor

By: Mark Sanborn

Narrated by: Mark Sanborn

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Seize the chance to be extraordinary.

Who has made the biggest difference in your life? Whose words and actions have uplifted and motivated you to excel? Chances are it was someone like Fred the Postman -- so outstanding in his service that Mark Sanborn realized this mail carrier could be an example for any person wanting to be... Read more

Magic Words

By: Jonah Berger

Narrated by: Keith Nobbs

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships, to boosting creativity and motivating teams.Almost everything we do involves words. Words are how we persuade, communicate, and connect.... Read more

The Dance of Intimacy - Abridged

By: Harriet Lerner

Narrated by: Harriet Lerner

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Dance of Intimacy takes a careful look at relationships where intimacy is most challenged by too much emotional distance, too much intensity, or simply too much pain. In clear, direct and dramatic terms, Dr. Lerner illustrates how we can move differently in these relationships -- be they with a distant or unfaithful spouse, a depressed... Read more

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

By: Nina Renata Aron

Narrated by: Nina Renata Aron

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love

“Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles Times

NAMED... Read more

How to Have Impossible Conversations

By: Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

Narrated by: Peter Boghossian

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From politics and religion to workplace negotiations, ace the high-stakes conversations in your life with this indispensable guide from a persuasion expert.

In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone who has a different opinion. Whether you're online, in a classroom, an office, a town... Read more

The Art of Solitude

By: Stephen Batchelor

Narrated by: Stephen Batchelor

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned 60, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth.This beautiful literary collage... 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

I’m Sorry for My Loss

By: Rebecca Little & Colleen Long

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-listen investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.



More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medical reasons. For most, the experience often casts a shadow of isolation, shame, and blame. In the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe... Read more

Hey, Jesus, It’s Me

By: Ellen Skrmetti

Narrated by: Ellen Skrmetti

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Instagram star and comedian Ellen Skrmetti shares stories behind her wildly popular “Hey Jesus, It’s Me” sketches of a middle-aged, southern-woman's opinions on mamas, menopause, and menus--and on giving the Lord a bit of advice about those unspoken prayer requests.

As a young girl, Ellen Skrmetti loved performing. She starred in plays, sang in... Read more