Books for Relaxation

The Best of Me

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

“As if there is anything greater than a new David Sedaris, it's listening to David Sedaris read the new David Sedaris. This self-edited collection of essays from his prolific 25-year career is exactly what we need to boost the morale of 2020 and remind ourselves what a crazy world we've always lived in when viewed through Sedaris's keen... Read more

The Midnight Library

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“I found this book to be a profound and heartwarming exploration of life's alternate paths. The concept of experimenting with different life choices in our final hour is both imaginative and thought-provoking. The author skillfully handles sensitive subjects, making it clear that readers should be in the right mental space to fully appreciate... Read more

The Husbands

A Novel

By: Chandler Baker
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Chandler Baker, queen of the feminist thriller, has delivered once again! The Husbands is a poignant exploration of what it would take for women to have it all." —Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister

Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is... Read more

Little Panic

Dispatches from an Anxious Life

By: Amanda Stern
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah Hepola's Blackout, and Daniel Smith's Monkey Mind comes a gorgeously immersive, immediately relatable, and brilliantly funny memoir about living life on the razor's edge of panic.

The world never made any sense to Amanda Stern--how could she trust... Read more

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

“Take an over-medicated, moody, middle-aged mother of four, add a month of experimental microdosing with LSD and it makes for A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman. This mesmerizing memoir of mental exploration tackles the taboo topic of drug use in our society, the frightening rise of prescription pills and the devastating addictions developing... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

By: Delia Owens
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“This first novel by nature writer Delia Owens has something for everyone. Fans of poetry, natural history, murder mysteries, southern food, and romance will be caught up in the deeply moving prose and memorable characters. Plus, the narrator adds in the North Carolina accents, too! Read more

Deep Listening

A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart

By: Jillian Pransky
Narrated by: Jillian Pransky
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

World-renowned restorative yoga teacher Jillian Pransky came to the practice of yoga to heal herself. But before that, she avoided her feelings by burying them under a relentless “work hard, play hard” schedule. It wasn’t until a devastating personal loss took her through the dark halls of anxiety and into her own health crisis that she was... Read more

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World

By: Haemin Sunim
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

“Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?”The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. In this bestselling mindfulness guide—it has sold more than three million copies in Korea, where it was a #1 bestseller for forty-one weeks and received multiple Best Book of the Year awards—Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a... Read more

The Bear

By: Andrew Krivak
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 4 hours

In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony... Read more

Mirrors in the Earth

Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World

By: Asia Suler
Narrated by: Asia Suler
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

A nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.

In a series of 12... Read more

Nothing Much Happens

Cozy and Calming Stories to Soothe Your Mind and Help You Sleep

By: Kathryn Nicolai
Narrated by: Kathryn Nicolai
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Based on the popular podcast, soothing stories to carry you off to deep, restful sleep

Busy minds need a place to rest. Whether you find yourself struggling to sleep, awake in the middle of the night, or even just anxious as you move through the day, in Nothing Much Happens, Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed:... Read more

Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Sean Barrett & Oliver Le Sueur
Length: 19 hours 6 minutes

“One of Murakami's best, Kafka on the Shore is a stunning tour of adolescence with a strange background of Oedipus complex. I was hooked from the start. Read more

Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Deluxe Edition

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

A New York Times bestselling poetry collection, featuring both Dog Songs and A Thousand Mornings

Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in... Read more

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Wayfarers: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes

“Becky Chambers has been a favorite author of mine since the first time I picked this book up in 2019. I’ve since read everything she’s written and while I’m hanging by a thread awaiting her next book, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is still my favorite. You can’t beat the characters, the humor, the representation… If you’re a fan of space... Read more

Goodbye, Things

The New Japanese Minimalism

By: Fumio Sasaki
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

The bestselling phenomenon from Japan, with irresistible appeal to fans of Marie Kondo, that argues there is happiness in a minimalist lifeFumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo―he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to... Read more