Religion bestsellers

Educated

A Memoir

By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“Raised by Mormon fundamentalists, mistrustful of the medical community while having never stepped foot in a classroom setting, Tara Westover's memoir, "Educated" is excruciatingly painful at times. From witnessing devastating destruction deep in the woods of Idaho to enduring an abusive bi-polar brother to becoming ostracized by her survivalist... Read more

Courageous World Changers

50 True Stories of Daring Women of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: Sybil Johnson
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these women: -Corrie ten Boom—activist, author, and Holocaust survivor -Laurie Hernandez—gymnast who won both gold and silver medals in her sport -Florence Nightingale—health-care reformer -Madeline L’Engle—author of children’s literature -Mother Teresa—missionary and winner of the Nobel... Read more

Brave Heroes and Bold Defenders

50 True Stories of Daring Men of God

By: Shirley Raye Redmond
Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Children of all ages will be inspired by the stories of these men: -C.S. Lewis—professor and author of the influential Chronicles of Narnia series -Zhang Boli—Chinese dissident, journalist, and Christian pastor -Richard Allen—former slave and founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church -Tim Tebow—athlete, Heisman trophy winner, and... Read more

C. S. Lewis Essential Audio Library

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt, Joss Ackland, James Simmons & Douglas Gresham
Length: 38 hours 46 minutes

Nine essential works by C. S. Lewis in one deluxe audio edition: • Mere Christianity • The Screwtape Letters • The Great Divorce • Miracles • The Problem of Pain • A Grief Observed • The Abolition of Man • The Weight of Glory • George MacDonald • Read more

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby
Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho & Noa Tishby
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.

For Emmanuel Acho and Noa Tishby no question about Jews is off-limits. They go there. They cover Jews and money. Jews... Read more

The Exvangelicals

Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon
Narrated by: Sarah McCammon
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"An intimate window into the world of American evangelicalism. Fellow exvangelicals will find McCammon’s story both startlingly familiar and immensely clarifying, while those looking in from the outside can find no better introduction to the subculture that has shaped the hopes and fears of millions of... Read more

Somehow

Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Anne Lamott
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love

“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to... Read more

The Dragon and the Stone (The Dream Keeper Saga Book 1)

The Dream Keeper Saga

By: Kathryn Butler
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Even though she's only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world's brokenness. She's seen it in her mother's exhaustion, her grandmother's illness, and the cruelty of Adam, the bully at her school. But most tragically, she experienced it two months ago when her father died in a terrible accident.  As an artistic... Read more

Ghosted

An American Story

By: Nancy French
Narrated by: Nancy French
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Read by the author.A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--from the foothills of Appalachia all the way to the White House.New York Times bestselling ghostwriter Nancy French is coming out of the shadows to tell her own incredible story.Nancy's family hails from the foothills of the... Read more

Jesus and John Wayne

How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes du Mez
Narrated by: Suzie Althens
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

“Believe it or not Christianity and American politics were separated at one point. However in the last century Evangelical Christianity has become synonymous with conservative politics. This book walks you through the time frame of how that happened and how we are feeling that divide today. We also see how figures like John Wayne became symbols... Read more

The Amen Effect

Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous
Narrated by: Sharon Brous
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

The national bestseller

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.

In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society?

Sharon Brous—a leading American rabbi—makes the... Read more

Soul Boom

Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution

By: Rainn Wilson
Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

In this New York Times bestseller, comedic actor, producer, and writer Rainn Wilson explores the problem-solving benefits that spirituality gives us to create solutions for an increasingly challenging world. The trauma that our world experienced in recent years—as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm... Read more

The Prince and the Blight (The Dream Keeper Saga Book 2)

The Dream Keeper Saga

By: Kathryn Butler
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

It's been a month since 12-year-old Lily McKinley was whisked away to the Somnium Realm to rescue her father, and although she's overjoyed to have him home, she can't leave the magical world behind. The glowing stone pendant that transported her is now bringing strange creatures to life against her will, with her paper mâché pterodactyl and even... Read more

The Whole Language

The Power of Extravagant Tenderness

By: Gregory Boyle
Narrated by: Gregory Boyle
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir returns with a call to witness the transformative power of tenderness, rooted in his lifetime of experience counseling gang members in Los Angeles.

Over the past thirty years, Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives through his... Read more

Practicing the Way

Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

By: John Mark Comer
Narrated by: John Mark Comer
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover the path that leads to a deeper life with God.
 
“One of the most important books I have read in a decade . . . If we would all follow in this way, our lives would change and the world would change.”—Jennie Allen, author of Get Out of Your Head and... Read more

Little Pilgrim's Progress

From John Bunyan's Classic

By: Helen L. Taylor
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Fifty-five years ago, Helen L. Taylor took John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and simplified the vocabulary and concepts for young readers while keeping the storyline intact. The result was a classic in itself, which has now sold over 600,000 copies. It's both a simple adventure story and a profound allegory of the Christian journey through life,... Read more

The Lightlings

By: R. C. Sproul
Narrated by: R. C. Sproul
Length: 11 minutes

In The Lightlings, Dr. R.C. Sproul weaves an allegorical tale that captures the essence of the biblical story of redemption in a manner that will fascinate and delight children. A race of tiny beings known as lightlings are a picture of humanity as they pass through all the stages of the biblical drama – creation, fall, and redemption. In the... Read more

The Mystic Jesus

The Mind of Love

The Marianne Williamson Series

By: Marianne Williamson
Narrated by: Marianne Williamson
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Returning to the topic of her beloved classic bestseller Return to Love, spiritual guide Marianne Williamson builds on the ideas introduced in that book to lead us toward the light through the inspiring guidance of the mystic Jesus. In Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Marianne Williamson revealed how we each... Read more

The Action Bible

God's Redemptive Story

Action Bible Series

By: Doug Mauss
Narrated by: Lance Smith, Michael Beck, Paul Michael, Sarah Zimmerman, Erin Bennett, Jesse Abeel & Preston Butler
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

The Action Bible presents more than 230 fast-paced narratives in chronological order, making it easy to follow the Bible’s historical flow and building up to the thrilling climax of God’s redemptive story.
 
Plus, these spectacular updates take the action to a whole new level:
   25 new stories showcase a more extensive exploration of God’s... Read more

It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping

Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

By: Lisa-Jo Baker
Narrated by: Lisa-Jo Baker
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended

“Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review

“Important. Riveting. Unforgettable . .... Read more

Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach, PhD
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and... Read more

ESV Audio Bible, Read by Jackie Hill Perry

By: Crossway Books
Narrated by: Jackie Hill Perry
Length: 64 hours 58 minutes

The Bible is made up of 66 books that tell the magnificent story of God's redemptive work through Christ. In this audio recording of the full Bible, that story comes alive in a fresh way through the voice of poet, Bible teacher, hip-hop artist, and author Jackie Hill Perry. From Genesis to Revelation, this word-for-word reading of the ESV Bible... Read more

How to Be an Adult in Relationships

The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Shambhala

By: David Richo
Narrated by: David Richo
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

"Most people think of love as a feeling," says David Richo, "but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present." In this book, Richo offers a fresh perspective on love and relationships--one that focuses not on finding an ideal mate, but on becoming a more loving and realistic person. Drawing on the Buddhist concept of mindfulness, How... Read more

All My Knotted-Up Life

A Memoir

By: Beth Moore
Narrated by: Beth Moore
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few.

“It’s a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely... Read more

The Power of Ritual

Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

By: Casper ter Kuile
Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more

Mercy House

A Novel

By: Alena Dillon
Narrated by: Dawn Harvey, Catherine Ho, Scarlette Hayes, Eboni Flowers, Caitlin Kelly & Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

“Mercy House is a beautifully written and narrated story of a group of nuns who open a home for abused girls and women, only to have it threatened by a bishop that holds a vendetta. Alena Dillon has somehow reached straight into my soul and my anger toward the failings of the Catholic Church and all of the treacherous people it has and continues... Read more

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership 25th Anniversary

Follow Them and People Will Follow You

By: John C. Maxwell
Narrated by: John C. Maxwell & Henry O. Arnold
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

For the first time ever, hear the bestselling leadership book of all time, read in its entirety by John Maxwell himself!HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell’s New York Times bestselling book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with the publication of a revised and updated 25th anniversary... Read more

Embodied

Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say

By: Preston Sprinkle
Narrated by: Preston Sprinkle
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to transgenderism. Preston Sprinkle draws on Scripture as well as real-life stories of individuals struggling with gender dysphoria to help readers understand the complexities and emotions of this highly relevant... Read more

Loving Our Own Bones

Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole

By: Julia Watts Belser
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture

A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice

“What’s wrong with you?”

Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with... Read more

Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

By: Sam Harris
Narrated by: Sam Harris
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.

From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up is for the twenty percent of Americans who... Read more

No Cure for Being Human

(And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

By: Kate Bowler
Narrated by: Kate Bowler
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose?

“Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.”—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Untamed

It’s hard to give up on the feeling that... Read more

Kingdom of Rage

The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace

By: Elizabeth Neumann
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

A former counterterrorism official explores how modern evangelicalism and right-wing conservatism intermingled to form the combustible ideology that resulted in the January 6 attacks on the Capitol—and which threatens to destroy the American Church from within.   How did a Church that purports to follow the teachings of Jesus - the Prince of... Read more

The Half Known Life

In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer
Narrated by: Pico Iyer
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, TIME MAGAZINE & MORE

“Masterful . . . A book of inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors . . . One of his very best.” —Washington Post
 
“Dazzling.” —Time Magazine, Best Books of 2023

From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of... Read more

Between Two Trailers

A Memoir

By: J. Dana Trent
Narrated by: J. Dana Trent
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

A powerful, unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer in rural Indiana—only to find that no one can really “make it out” until they make peace with where their story began: home

Home, it turns out, is where the war is. It’s also where the healing begins.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time... Read more

As Long as You Need

Permission to Grieve

By: J. S. Park
Narrated by: J. S. Park
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Read by the author."A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.In As Long As You... Read more

How to Walk into a Room

The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman
Narrated by: Emily P. Freeman
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

New York Times BestsellerIf life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we’re in is no longer a room where we belong?What do you do when you start to feel a shift and must decide if it’s time to make a change? When it comes to navigating big decisions about when to stay and go, how can we know for sure when the... Read more

Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson
Narrated by: Rose Akroyd
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

A “thought-provoking and timely” (The Times, London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history.

This “inventive and compelling” (Times Literary Supplement) work of... Read more

Lamb

By: Christopher Moore
Narrated by: Fisher Stevens
Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah’s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in this divinely hilarious, yet heartfelt work... Read more

Unorthodox

The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

By: Deborah Feldman
Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Now a Netflix original series!

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.

As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code... Read more

Living Resistance

An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Narrated by: Kaitlin B. Curtice
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.

Curtice... Read more

I'm Still Here

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

By: Austin Channing Brown
Narrated by: Austin Channing Brown
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals.

“Austin Channing Brown introduces herself as a master memoirist. This book will break open... Read more

The Screwtape Letters

By: C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Joss Ackland
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

A Masterpiece of Satire on Hell’s Latest Novelties and Heaven’s Unanswerable AnswerC.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to “Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic,... Read more

Field Notes for the Wilderness

Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey
Narrated by: Sarah Bessey
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconnect to their faith, find inner healing, and build spiritual community—from Glennon Doyle’s “favorite faith writer” and the author of Jesus Feminist and editor of A Rhythm of Prayer

“This is the perfect guide for all those of... Read more

Giving Our Best

A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva

Shambhala

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Pema Chödrön
Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

The best-selling author and beloved Buddhist teacher shares her insights on the practice of compassion and enlightened mind (bodhichitta).

COMPASSION IS A SKILL. It’s not a special trait that we either have or don’t, but a practice that we can all nurture in our daily lives. And the benefits are vast. It liberates our hearts from a narrow sense... Read more

Judaism Is About Love

Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

By: Shai Held
Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

A profound, startling new understanding of Jewish life, illuminating the forgotten heart of Jewish theology and practice: love.

A dramatic misinterpretation of the Jewish tradition has shaped the history of the West: Christianity is the religion of love, and Judaism the religion of law. In the face of centuries of this widespread... Read more

Sacred Rest

Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

By: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
Narrated by: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Staying busy is easy. Staying well rested-now there's a challenge.

How can you keep your energy, happiness, creativity, and relationships fresh and thriving in the midst of never-ending family demands, career pressures, and the stress of everyday life? In Sacred Rest, Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified internal medicine doctor, reveals... Read more

Untangle Your Emotions

Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

By: Jennie Allen
Narrated by: Jennie Allen
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself.

“This book is worth thousands of dollars of counseling.”—Jonathan Pokluda, bestselling... Read more

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta
Narrated by: Tim Alberta
Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Instant New York Times BestsellerOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the YearAn Economist and Air Mail Best Book of the Year""Brave and absorbing."" -- New York Times“Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues.” -- Washington Post“An astonishingly... Read more

Mary Magdalene Revealed

The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

By: Meggan Watterson
Narrated by: Meggan Watterson
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. Harvard-trained theologian Meggan Watterson leads us verse by verse through Mary's gospel to illuminate the powerful teachings it contains. A gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the... Read more

White Evangelical Racism

The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures?... Read more