Body, Mind, & Spirit bestsellers

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“Katherine May uses 'winter' as a metaphor for life’s darker seasons in this poetic memoir about retreating from the demands and expectations of a pressuring society. She encourages the reader to explore the quiet and restorative moments in life that help us to grow, relax, and heal from difficult times. Lyrical, reflective, and comforting; this... Read more

The Creative Act

A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin
Narrated by: Rick Rubin
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

“Legendary music producer Rick Rubin has written a book on creativity that will take its place among the best of its kind. This is like bottle inspiration for leading a creative life! Rubin's advice on creativity is inspired by eastern/Buddhist tinged philosophy and his long career mentoring some of the modern era's most influential musical... Read more

Emergent Strategy

Emergent Strategy: Book #0

By: adrienne maree brown
Narrated by: adrienne maree brown
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

“A new way to move forward in societal and personal transformation, inspired by the science-fiction of Octavia Butler, in Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown invites us to shape the future we want to see through accepting and influencing the natural state of flux of the world around us and inside us. This book feels like an ongoing... Read more

Beyond Anxiety

Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

By: Martha Beck
Narrated by: Martha Beck & Maria Shriver
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INDIE BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER

From bestselling author Martha Beck, a new path to overcoming anxiety by awakening the creativity within

We live in an epidemic of anxiety. Most of us assume that the key to overcoming it is to think our way out. And for a while it works. But there is always something that sends... Read more

Big Magic

Creative Living Beyond Fear

By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

“I love Elizabeth Gilbert’s earnestness, sincerity, and enthusiasm. Gilbert speaks about inspiration as a magical, living being, and she also instructs us to be responsible adults, to not torture ourselves or others, and to play. I like the mix of pixie dust and house dust in this book, perfect for anyone who is in a rut, doubting their creative... Read more

Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater... Read more

Rest Is Resistance

A Manifesto

Rest Is Resistance: Book #1

By: Tricia Hersey
Narrated by: Tricia Hersey
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy by connecting to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to elevate rest as a form of resistance and a divine human right.

What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too... 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

“Pollan didn’t create the local food movement, but his books brought our attention to it, catapulting the conversation to farmers markets and dinner tables everywhere. In How To Change Your Mind, Pollan has turned his eye to psychedelic drugs. What The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Food Rules did for food, this book is set to do in the fields of end of... Read more

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

A Memoir

By: Maggie Smith
Narrated by: Maggie Smith
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“What a moving book about becoming yourself after a painful divorce. The quotes that are included, the questions asked, and the vignettes of a life lived both in duress and in triumph all come together for a bittersweet study of joy and grief. A wonderful read. Read more

Inner Excellence

Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life

By: Jim Murphy
Narrated by: Jim Murphy
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Want more joy and confidence when you perform?Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best.My... Read more

The Comfort Book

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Matt Haig
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

“As a fan of Matt Haig's fiction, I added The Comfort Book to my playlist but hadn't yet listened to it. 'The right book at the right time' was never truer for me than the day I did need support and comfort, and Matt's narration of his inspiring, uplifting perspectives was perfect. I pressed 'rewind' more than once, as his words were such a balm. Read more

Aflame

Learning from Silence

By: Pico Iyer
Narrated by: Pico Iyer
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Reading Aflame may help many to lead lives of greater compassion and deeper peace of mind.” —His Holiness the Dalai Lama

From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat

Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the past three... Read more

Enchantment

Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

“This book is about finding enchantment again, but it also feels a lot like enchantment itself; the writing was beautiful, and I found myself in awe. It feels like crunching your way through the forest; that first shock of cold after diving in the water; like the comfort of a campfire and the scorching feeling of sitting too close; it reminds you... Read more

The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going

By: Austin Kleon
Narrated by: Austin Kleon
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

“Looking for some inspiration for keeping your chin up while you create your art? Austin Kleon does a fantastic job of giving you just that as he describes many processes and advice from major thinkers throughout our times. There are lots of great little tidbits about finding your tribe and sharing your work that were particularly poignant. Read more

Catching the Big Fish

Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

By: David Lynch
Narrated by: David Lynch
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

In this “unexpected delight” (The Boston Globe), visionary filmmaker, musician, and actor David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.

David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally... Read more

Jambalaya

The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals

By: Luisah Teish
Narrated by: Luisah Teish
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

A refreshed edition of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals—updated with a note from the author sharing the changes that have occurred in the 30 years since its original publication. ""A book of startling remembrances, revelations, directives, and imperatives, filled with the mysticism, wisdom, and common... Read more

Mind Magic

The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By: James R. Doty, MD
Narrated by: James R. Doty, MD
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams

For decades the practice of manifestation has been widely dismissed as self-involved, materialistic pseudoscience. But as neuroscientist and recognized compassion leader Dr. James Doty reveals, manifestation introduces us to different... Read more

This Changes Everything

A Surprisingly Funny Story About Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don't Talk About

By: Tyler Merritt
Narrated by: Tyler Merritt, Jerrie Merritt, David Tieche & Dr. Marcus Tan
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

“Tyler Merritt is a gem! He will make you laugh. Make you cry. But most importantly, fill you with HOPE, which is something we all need a little (or lot) more of right now. Read more

Breath

Wake Up to Life

By: Prem Rawat
Narrated by: Prem Rawat
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

This program is read by the author.

Bring peace into your present moment through the power of breath with Global Peace Ambassador Prem Rawat

Breath: It marks the beginning and end of life, it is the one thing shared by all human beings, and yet it is one of the most overlooked aspects of the human experience. What we take for granted actually... Read more

Mind Your Body

A Revolutionary Program to Release Chronic Pain and Anxiety

By: Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW
Narrated by: Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW & John Stracks, MD
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Learn how to free yourself from chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, and myriad debilitating conditions through the transformative process of nervous system regulation in this accessible guide from psychotherapist and leading Mindbody clinician Nicole Sachs.

At a time when chronic pain and other conditions have reached epidemic proportions, and the... Read more

Right Story, Wrong Story

How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell

By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us... Read more

Life After Doom

Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

By: Brian D. McLaren
Narrated by: Brian D. McLaren
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"His earnest, conversational tone sounds as though he's speaking directly to each individual listener" —AudioFile on Do I Stay Christian?, an Earphones Award winner

"As rich and thoughtful as all of Brian McLaren's work, but with a particular urgency!" —Bill McKibben

"Riveting. Challenging. Brave. Devastating.... Read more

On Mysticism

The Experience of Ecstasy

By: Simon Critchley
Narrated by: Simon Critchley
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Mysticism is about existential ecstasy - an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences.

Here, Simon Critchley... Read more

On Our Best Behavior

The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen
Narrated by: Elise Loehnen
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“Whether you identify as a Christian or not, you will be persuaded by Loehnen's argument that the centuries old Seven Deadly Sins continue to exert harmful power over the behavior and lives of women causing us to suppress our healthy desires for agency, autonomy and personal power. Read more

Active Hope

How to Face the Mess We’re In With Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power: Revised Edition

By: Joanna Macy, PhD & Chris Johnstone
Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power.... Read more

Signs

The Secret Language of the Universe

By: Laura Lynne Jackson
Narrated by: Laura Lynne Jackson
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side.

“A collection of incredible stories . . . that speak to the universe’s endless capacity for magical moments.”—goop

Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author... Read more

Journey of Souls

Case Studies of Life Between Lives

By: Michael Newton, Ph.D
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Now considered a classic in the field, this remarkable book was the first to fully explore the mystery of life between lives. Journey of Souls presents the first-hand accounts of twenty-nine people placed in a "superconscious" state of awareness using Dr. Michael Newton's groundbreaking techniques. This unique approach allows Dr. Newton to reach... Read more

The Paranormal Ranger

A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained

By: Stanley Milford, Jr.
Narrated by: Stanley Milford, Jr. & Duane Minard
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

“So much paranormal investigation is based on a white and christian perspective, and it is so refreshing to read a memoir rooted in another belief system. Milford Jr. blends his personal story with a retelling of the Navajo creation story, using it to demonstrate how his experiences with the paranormal are connected to his culture. While his... Read more

Witchcraft

A History in Thirteen Trials

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

“Gibson insightfully illuminates the social construct of the “witch” across several centuries. While ideas about magic have long abounded—and concern humans’ relationship with the surrounding world—the “witch” has more to do with control. Some of these trials are what you’d expect, but Gibson smartly expounds upon much lesser known incidents as... Read more

The Way of Integrity

Finding the Path to Your True Self (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Martha Beck
Narrated by: Martha Beck & Maria Shriver
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A roadmap on the journey to truth and authenticity… [The Way of Integrity] is filled with aha moments and practical exercises that can guide us as we seek enlightenment.” –Oprah Winfrey

Bestselling author, life coach, and sociologist Martha Beck explains why “integrity”—needed now... Read more

Radical Compassion

Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

By: Tara Brach
Narrated by: Tara Brach
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on... Read more

The Book of Joy

Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

By: Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu & Douglas Carlton Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Carlton Abrams, Francois Chau & Peter Francis James
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.
 
The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The... Read more

Ordinary Mysticism

Your Life as Sacred Ground

By: Mirabai Starr
Narrated by: Mirabai Starr
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

“This gorgeous, transformative, welcoming book is for anyone who longs to feel more present, more alive, more joyful and aware of the holiness of daily life.”—Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, WowWelcome to the temple of your regular life.So begins beloved spiritual guide Mirabai Starr’s stunning exploration of finding... Read more

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

By: Dr. Joe Dispenza
Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics,... Read more

The Wild Edge of Sorrow

Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

By: Francis Weller
Narrated by: Derek Botten
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

"It blew me away. I underlined things on nearly every page." —Anderson Cooper, All There Is

The Wild Edge of Sorrow offers hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—and a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being alive.

Introducing the 5 gates of grief, psychotherapist Francis Weller explores how we move through the waters... Read more

You Were Born for This

Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance

By: Chani Nicholas
Narrated by: Chani Nicholas
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance.Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology’s cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart—a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath—reveals your unique talents, challenges, and... Read more

Reading the Waves

A Memoir

By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: Lidia Yuknavitch
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

The frank and revealing memoir of a writer who draws from her own creativity to heal.

"I believe our bodies are carriers of experience," Lidia Yuknavitch writes in her provocative memoir Reading the Waves. "I mean to ask if there is a way to read my own past differently, using what I have learned from literature: how stories repeat and... Read more

Raising Good Humans

A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke Fields & Carla Naumburg
Narrated by: Jennifer & Gilmour
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

"A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical AcceptanceA kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from “reactive parenting” habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.Whether you’re... Read more

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

“A fascinating dive into society's relationship with three distinct and ubiquitous substances that are harvested from plants and form parts of our everyday life: opioids, caffeine, and mescaline. Michael Pollan's work is part journalism, part memoir, and wholly engaging. Read more

Into the Uncanny

By: Danny Robins
Narrated by: Danny Robins
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

‘The ghosts of today don’t live in castles or stately homes, they’re in normal houses and workplaces, witnessed by people just like you and me. But are they the dead returning from the “undiscovered country” of death, or the product of that equally mysterious location, the human mind?’

Danny Robins is on a mission to try... Read more

Fierce Self-Compassion

How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive

By: Kristin Neff
Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

The author of Self-Compassion follows up her groundbreaking book with new ideas that expand our notion of self-kindness and its capacity to transform our lives, showing women how to balance tender self-acceptance with fierce action to claim their power and change the world.

Kristin Neff changed how we talk about self-care with her enormously... Read more

Somehow

Thoughts on Love

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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Religion Books of 2024

“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... Read more

Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson
Narrated by: Jessica Simpson
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

The #1 New York Times BestsellerIncludes six new songs by Jessica Simpson, available exclusively in the Open Book audiobook.
Performed by the author featuring her music throughout.
Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming with her unique... Read more

The Places That Scare You

A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

Shambhala

By: Pema Chödrön
Narrated by: Joanna Rotte
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

We always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches,... Read more

Daring Greatly

How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

By: Brené Brown
Narrated by: Brené Brown
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestseller. 1 million copies sold!

From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have... Read more

Sage Warrior

Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory

The Revolutionary Love Project

By: Valarie Kaur
Narrated by: Valarie Kaur & Harjit "Dolly" Kaur Brar
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Profound inner wisdom for courageous action—from the author of See No Stranger and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, a “prophetic voice of our generation” (America Ferrera)

How do we find the wisdom to envision a new world and the courage to fight for it?

How do we survive seemingly apocalyptic times?

In a world on fire, how do we find... Read more

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrated by: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Find quiet reflective moments in your life—and reduce your stress levels drastically—with this classic bestselling guide updated and featuring a new introduction and afterword. When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell... Read more

The Book of Alchemy

A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

By: Suleika Jaouad
Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad
Length: TBA

A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more

“The Book of Alchemy proves on every page that a creative response can be found in every moment... Read more

The Immortality Key

The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

By: Brian C. Muraresku
Narrated by: Brian C. Muraresku & Graham Hancock
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience! From the host of Netflix’s... Read more

The Awakened Way

Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life

By: Suzanne Giesemann
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

The Awakened Way combines deep spiritual wisdom and practical tools for living a consciously connected and divinely guided life, helping readers go from an emptiness that can’t be filled to a fullness that can’t be contained.

The Awakened Way is the soul's answer to your earthly challenges.

This book invites you to live the awakened way, a path... Read more